Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.
If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.
My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.
The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
[Yoga] never calms me. Ever. But it certainly helps me prevent something.
Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.
I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.
It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.
God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.
The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.
Everyone on the grid gets nervous before a Formula 1 race. It's just how you manage it. It's impossible not to be a bit nervous before a Formula 1 start or even before a World Series start. You have nerves. The thing is, you know how to control them.
I'm really lucky that I can control my nerves; it doesn't seem to get to me.
Whenever I start freaking out and getting stressed, I have to remember that this is just the beginning.
You can't control things by being nervous.
You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.
I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.
We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.
Even a mother - Jewish or not - can't worry about everything. So it is important that we limit our worries to real as opposed to imaginary risks.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
