Quotes About Stress

Físicamente, la ira y el resentimiento producen un caudal constante de hormonas del estrés,

If you spend years and years dialing 4-1-1 and never practice 9-1-1, then under stress you are likely to dial 4-1-1.

We didn't train giving verbal commands, so they weren't available to us during high stress situations.

after 60 days and nights of constant combat, 98 percent of all soldiers became psychiatric casualties.

as your heart rate goes up, your tunnel vision can get narrower and your auditory exclusion can increase.)

Bilateral symmetry can have grave consequences for a police officer in a tense situation where he is holding a pistol on a suspect.

systolic blood pressure is a much better indicator of stress than heart rate.)

for law enforcement firearms training to be legally sufficient, it must incorporate realistic training, to include stress, decision making

Stress acclimatization is about measuring precise doses of stress followed by waves of recovery and then repeating these cycles very specifically. There must be time for adaptation to take place and there must be enough training, repeated over time, to help it stick as well as reinforcing the conditioning.

Thus, a simple set of skills, combined with an emphasis on actions requiring complex and gross motor muscle operations (as opposed to fine-motor control), all extensively rehearsed, allows for extraordinary performance levels under stress.

Epictetus, stated it well when he wrote, "It is not the thing itself, but the view we take of it which distresses us.

Awareness is good, but without skills and ability tied to that awareness, all you have is anxiety. —Tony Blauer

Awareness is good, but without skills and ability tied to that awareness, all you have is anxiety.

Whatever you drill for ahead of time will be there for you in combat. No more, no less. If you drill for specific verbal commands, then you dramatically increase the likelihood that at the moment of truth those commands will be available to you under stress.

Some psychiatric casualties have always been associated with war, but it was only in the twentieth century that our physical and logistical capability to sustain combat outstripped our psychological capacity to endure it.

The sense of personal effectiveness and self confidence created by realistic training is as much a stress reducer as when the muscles go on autopilot.

The reality is that Murphy doesn't visit as much, but when he does, we hardly notice his presence. When Sharon and I were broke, our heating-and-air system quit, and the repair cost $580. It was a huge, hairy deal. Recently I had a new $570 water heater installed because the old one started leaking, and I hardly noticed. I wonder if the stress relief that your Total Money Makeover provides will allow you to live longer?

literally designed to keep us trapped in a constant state of conflict, suspense, and panic: social technology.

It's been going on for days now! On and on and on for days! If I hear one more sexual-chemistry-charged and mutually misunderstood argument I'm going to shoot the pair of you!

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Worry predictions aren't based on what's likely to happen. They're based on what would be terrible if it did happen. They're not based on probability—they're based on fear.

Mental violence, whether acted out or not, still releases bile and other gastric juices, and extra adrenaline pumps through the body. The effect of our thoughts on our health remains a major unexplored territory in medicine.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.