Gemma Whelan Quotes

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.

I just love to disconnect from everything sometimes.

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

Even if you're meditating, practicing yoga, reading a book, or taking a bath - It's so important for our wellbeing to just take some time away from social media.

Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

If I'm on my phone and I'm feeling quite negative, maybe I need to not be on my phone so much.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

And whenever I do step away from the Internet or the music too long, it's like I have to slowly get back into myself to get back into the groove.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.