Anxiety Relaxation

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask, if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering, that is familiar.

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you, if you realized how seldom they do.

You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.