Anxiety Reduction Quotes

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

Denial is not always a bad thing. Without it, you couldn't function. For instance, if you were hyperaware and hypervigilant regarding all the dangers in the world - from driving your car to crossing the street to eating food that might have contaminants in it to taking medications that have many side effects, etc. - you would become frozen.

Physical exercise is a great way to discharge stressful feelings that accumulate during the day.

With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.

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

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.

I think it's really important to not stress out about anything.

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.