Quotes About Mindfulness

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.

People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments.

Running fills the cup that has to pour out for others. Running feeds the soul that has a responsibility to nourish. Running sets the anchor that limits the drift of the day. Running clears the mind that has a myriad of challenges to solve. Running tends to the self so that selfishness can subside.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

I avoid tea and especially coffee as it tends to give me anxiety.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

Sometimes you are physically tired at night, but your brain is functioning too much to go to sleep. If you can have software that helps you understand how you can shift from such a tense situation to being more relaxed, then that would help.

Even if I do miss a shot, I found something to keep me calm and not get myself rattled. Once I missed one, I'd tense up and I'd miss the next one, too. So I found a peace within myself.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.

I have no tension. I only play to give my best.