Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja - in a calm thoughtful way. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

There are certain exercises that you can do to let go of the emotions you create when you play a certain role. Breathing techniques.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.

My way of coping with the day to day news cycle, which can be a lot, following every undulation of the news, I think it's really psychologically harmful, so I check in, but I check in on a slower cycle. That's my way of controlling my emotional response to fairly dark times.

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.

I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Float through life, just take it easy, not too much stress, just, float.

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.