Quotes About Balance

So one extreme is chaos, where there's a total lack of control. The other extreme is rigidity, where there's too much control, leading to a lack of flexibility and adaptability.

zigzagging back and forth between the two.

mental health as our ability to remain in a "river of well-being.

We all move back and forth between these two banks as we go through our days—especially as we're trying to survive parenting. When we're closest to the banks of chaos or rigidity, we're farthest from mental and emotional health. The longer we can avoid either bank, the more time we spend enjoying the river of well-being.

synthesizing the quantitative rigor of scientific discoveries with the subtlety of our subjective lives. When

The right side of our brain processes our emotions and autobiographical memories, but our left side is what makes sense of these feelings and recollections. Healing from

resiliencia consiste también en saber recuperarse, en pasar rápidamente de la zona roja o de la azul a la verde: en abandonar el caos o la inflexibilidad para recuperar la armonía dentro de la ventana de tolerancia.

at these moments, logic isn't our primary vehicle for bringing some sort of

La serenidad no implica estar siempre calmado: implica haber aprendido a manejar las olas de las emociones con habilidad y agilidad.

develop the ability to live with balance, to face adversity with resilience, to

understand themselves, and to care for others. Balance. Resilience. Insight. Empathy.

We want to intentionally respond to a situation in a way that considers what works best for our child and for our family, even if that means making an exception to our normal rules and expectations.

Si no podemos afrontar adecuadamente una situación que nos abruma, la elevación de los niveles de cortisol puede hacerse crónica.

Hallar una manera de calmar un sistema límbico demasiado reactivo es esencial para reequilibrar las emociones y reducir los efectos perjudiciales del estrés crónico.

Denial of our emotions isn't the only danger we face when we rely too heavily on our left brain. We can also become too literal, leaving us without a sense of perspective, where we miss the meaning that comes from putting things in context (a specialty of the right brain).

Sometimes we need to name it to tame it, to look head-on into the plateaus and peaks of life and loosen their rigid hold as we soften the peaks, broaden our plateaus and relax back into

a stable relationship requires that good interactions outnumber bad interactions by at least 5 to 1.

You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding.

frequency of lovemaking minus frequency of quarrels

I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.

I always viewed life in a different way. For example, when I was flooded with offers and I was on radio, on television or giving music in films, I had so much work that I didn't know when morning came and when night came.

My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.

I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.

It matters that we have balance and facts and push people when they need to be pushed so that we can give the accurate, fair, balanced piece to the viewer, and then it's up to the viewer to be the judge.