Camille Kostek Quotes

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

I don't have life rage anymore.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

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

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

I'm always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That's not a manufactured thing; it's just the way I live.

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

Gael Clichy who was at the club does a lot of meditation and he recommend it to me because I was such an all-action guy.

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.