All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
Stress is not...a badge of courage
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
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.
People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.
There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.
Unbeknownst to most fun-loving bipeds, not all stress is bad. Indeed, the New Rich don't aim to eliminate all stress. Not in the least.
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.
Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.
Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.
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.
I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different
Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.
No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
Some people feel pressure; some people don't.
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.
I am not afraid of the word tension.
There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.
Stress never feels as natural as peace does
