Abbi Glines Quotes

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

The moment I wake up, I have to eat. If I don't eat, I feel like my blood pressure is dropping. I get crabby if I have gone more than half an hour without eating.

Nevertheless, I tend to get offensive easily.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world - I'm just an emotional person in general.

I think that whenever you feel reactive or are being reactive as opposed to proactive, that inherently - consciously or subconsciously - creates a lot of stress.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.

Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

People handle stress in different ways.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

I get annoyed with rushing. Then I get in a bad mood - I'm so cranky. I hate being late.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.

I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very bad on my stomach. I have to be mad to be working well anyway, and then I am mad about the way things are going on the page in addition. My ulcer flourishes and I have to chew lots of pills. When my work is going well, I am usually sort of sick.

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.