stress

There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don__ let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson.

Success becomes worthwhile if it fills your heart with happiness and not with stress.

Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.

For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated...We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is a constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom (p228)....I see conflict and I run away or prepare for battle. (p246)

The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Empathy plays a crucial role in the reduction of stress from the moment of birth.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.

Everyone is tied down in some way. Work, family, medical problems. It's what you make of it. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with the things that make you happy. If you have a bad day at work but get to come home to a woman you love or your favorite hobby, the rest doesn't matter as much.

When you're a passenger on an airplane, you are told that in the event of a change in cabin pressure, you should put your mask on first and then assist your children. You can't help them if you are unconscious. A similar principle applies with your day to day health. Mothers tend to put others first. While this is admirable in one sense, it is not a good practice in the long run. You cannot strike a balance between your needs and the needs of your family if you are constantly run down. Stop abusing your body.

Fatigue is an excellent gauge of well-being because it is a very hard symptom to mask. The only way to get rid of fatigue is to treat the underlying causes. Fatigue has many faces, but they all say the same thing - the mental and physical load are too great.

Fatigue is epidemic among women in general, and mothers in particular. Mothers talk about sleep the way someone who is starving talks about food. Fatigue can overshadow your life, making everything seem like too much trouble.

No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to spend the bulk of their time studying subjects most of them hate. When skilled workers are put out of a job by technical advances and have to undergo __etraining,_ no one asks whether it is humiliating for them to be pushed around in this way. It is simply taken for granted that everyone must bow to technical necessity, and for good reason: If human needs were put before technical necessity there would be economic problems, unemployment, shortages or worse. The concept of __ental health_ in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.