Quotes About Stress

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Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn't a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how taxing it can be. To have one in your head is enough to make you comatose.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

Thus fear of danger is often thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about;

Stress makes people stupid." On

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La magnitud de las preocupaciones que tiene la gente mientras está haciendo un examen es proporcional a la pobreza de su ejecución,17 porque los recursos mentales invertidos en una determinada tarea cognitiva –la preocupación– reducen los recursos disponibles para procesar otro tipo de información.

las personas parecen concentrarse mejor cuando se les pide algo más que lo corriente, en cuyo caso son capaces de ir más allá de lo normal. Si la demanda es muy inferior a su capacidad, la persona se aburre y si, por el contrario, es excesiva, termina angustiándose.

alteran la función neuroendocrina y provocan desequilibrios de los sistemas inmunitario y nervioso, de modo que somos más propensos a sufrir enfermedades y nos cuesta pensar con claridad. El ritmo circadiano se trastorna y dormimos mal.

it seems likely that the states we practice in meditation gradually spill over into daily life to mold our traits—at least when it comes to handling stress.

There can be a downside to the achievement drive: some people become workaholics, completely focused on their work goals and neglecting to live a full life. You can see this in students who are "grinds," driven to get the highest grades at the sacrifice of everything else in their lives, just as you see it in those successful executives who work 18-hour days all through the week – and in anyone who has perfectionistic standards.

el estrés atonta a la gente».

El bombardeo continuo de correos electrónicos, escritos y facturas –la "catástrofe completa" de la vida– nos arroja a un estado cerebral antitético

las emociones perturbadoras y las relaciones tóxicas han sido identificadas como factores de riesgo que favorecen la aparición de algunas enfermedades.

todos los tipos de estrés provocan una excitación adrenocortical que contribuye a bajar el umbral de la irritabilidad. De este modo, después de un duro día del trabajo, una persona se sentirá especialmente predispuesta a enfadarse en casa por las razones más insignificantes –el ruido o el desorden de los niños, por ejemplo–, razones que en otras circunstancias no tendrían el poder suficiente para desencadenar un secuestro emocional.

The first three or four years of life are a period when the toddler's brain grows to about two thirds its full size, and evolves in complexity at a greater rate than it ever will again. During this period key kinds of learning take place more readily than later in life—emotional learning foremost among them. During this time severe stress can impair the brain's learning centers.

Sobrecarregar a atenção diminui o domínio mental. É no momento em que estamos mais tensos que esquecemos os nomes das pessoas que conhecemos bem, já para não falar nas datas dos seus aniversários, dos nossos aniversários de casamento e de outros dados socialmente cruciais.

A sobrecarga cognitiva crónica que caracteriza tantas das nossas vidas parece diminuir o nosso nível de domínio de nós mesmos. Quanto maiores as exigências sobre a nossa atenção, ao que parece, mais fracos somos a resistir às tentações.

Neuroscientists have discovered that unproductivity and loss of drive can result from decision overload.

he kept telling me to rilax and that gets me skared because it always means its gonna hert.

The evolution of society is substantially a process of mental adaptation on the part of individuals under the stress of circumstances which will no longer tolerate habits of thought formed under and conforming to a different set of circumstances in the past.

Uncertainly always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.