“When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!”

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.

Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.

You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.

Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we’re focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.