stress relief quotes

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.