Quotes from Henry Emmons

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

She began using B vitamins, magnesium, and 5-HTP twice daily, along with tryptophan and a melatonin complex at night. Sure enough, within five days she clearly began to feel better.

Resilience Training is a proven eight-week program that incorporates the latest science on diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements along with the best emotional self-care available—what I call the "psychology of mindfulness.

Surely joy is the condition of life. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

as the military has discovered, if the amount of stress is great enough, anyone can be broken down by it.

Recent surveys suggest that 25–30 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from a mental disorder, and that for most of them this is the direct effect of stress. Yet because of stigma, less than half of them seek help—

we have witnessed in the Western world an explosion of other chronic diseases that apparently are affected by the stress response. Heart disease, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, asthma, immune system diseases, and even cancer are linked to unhealthy levels of stress and the stress hormones.

Why Anxiety Hurts, and How You Can Fix It

I don't see the mind, body, and spirit as separate things—they are just different reflections of a unified whole.

What bothered her most was the ceaseless movement of her mind, so locked in activity that it allowed her no rest, not even in sleep.

what determines how well you survive chronic stress is how you react to it and whether you are able to shut it down.

Training is a step-by-step training in mental calmness and emotional wisdom, designed to help patients recover from and prevent relapse of anxiety, depression, and similar stress related problems. It has been effective even when medications are not—and in fact, many of my patients find they don't need to use traditional prescription antianxiety medication at all.

Like depression, the effects of anxiety extend beyond the body and mind to the entire being, affecting not only one's sense of well-being but also health, longevity, work productivity, relationships—the entire human condition.

The problem comes when something goes awry in an otherwise normal process—when the reaction becomes excessive or unyielding. Parts of the body-mind turn off, while other areas get locked

Genetics plays a role in determining who gets an anxiety disorder, what type it is (e.g., worry, compulsive

Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to mention the last decade. I believe this has to do partly with changes in lifestyle, diet, sleep and work patterns, and especially our relationship with stress. Our world is unquestionably complex

Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging," the report notes that while we live longer today than ever before, we are at increasing risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases. The report refers to the "Western disease cluster

Much of the problem, though, lies not with how things have changed outside of us but with our lack of a skillful means for dealing with a challenging world.

This book focuses on ways to create innate health and resilience as a key to resolving anxiety in everyday life

In just a few decades, dramatic changes have occurred in our relationship to stress. There are many illnesses that are now associated with stress—and they have become epidemic in scope.

while life has always been stressful, there is something different about how it affects us

Anxiety disorders are easily the most common mental illnesses, affecting nearly one in five adult Americans in any given year and 30 percent of people

Every day, we wake up empty and scared." So start by accepting that it's okay to suffer or to feel depressed at times. And then learn to distinguish between the pain that is unavoidable and the suffering that we create for ourselves.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. —RAINER MARIA RILKE