Quotes About Mental

Mercury in retrograde? More like I'm permanently insane no matter what the fuck Mercury does

It's just not always that easy, right? To control what you think about. Who you think about.

apply an antidote, a positive alternative to the mental habit of the afflictive emotion.

mental noting may help you. Are you agitated? Note "agitation." Are you gripped in tension? Note "tension." Do you feel your pulse beating or your heart pounding? Just note it as such.

We start to regulate an upsetting emotion the moment we become aware of it.

we are consciously aware of only a tiny portion of our perceptions and actions. To us, that small compartment appears to fill our whole mental cabinet.

But when emotions enter the picture, our mind's selective attention can be less useful: we can avoid noticing something not because it's irrelevant but because it might disturb us.

A brief act of noticing the disturbing thoughts and feelings, just an acknowledgment, like an inner nod—rather than a mental conversation with them—can sometimes suffice.

The ability to bring a lightheartedness and humor to our schemas is a powerful way to reframe these weighty thoughts.

Fortunately, even if we can't control the circumstances that lead to such thoughts, we have the ability to free our minds from their hold.

mindfulness fills much of our attention with something other than the mental tape loops that activate our schemas.

Realizing that these thoughts are just projections of the mind helps counter the disturbing emotions they provoke.

One method—mental noting, where we label familiar thoughts as such without getting pulled into them—is quite helpful in working with our schemas.

Challenge those thoughts. Remind yourself that they distort the way things really are.

Mindfulness can help you recognize your fearful thoughts so that you can see that they're simply thoughts, not reality.

schema therapy, which focuses on repairing maladaptive emotional habits.

mindfulness practice improved the ability of the meditators' brains to control their negative emotions.

Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

the real threats to our well-being are attachment, anger, and ignorance—the three fundamental deluded minds that lead to all other afflictions, both mental and physical.

[W]hen you're dealing with stress, the problem may not be the stressful situation, as much as the effort to avoid that situation and the feelings it arouses.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

Control over my body continues to grow. By now I could walk on hot coals or stick needles in my arm, if I were so inclined. However, my interest in Eastern meditation is limited to its application to physical control; no meditative trance I can attain is nearly as desirable to me as my mental state when I assemble gestalts out of elemental data.

unspeakable horrors loom all around me, scenes not of physical violence but of psychic mutilation. Mental agony and orgasm. Terror and hysterical laughter.