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Andrew J. Bernstein Quotes
Andrew J. Bernstein
American
Writer
Emotions
Life
Stress
Thoughts
Truth
You
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The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Truth
Health
Thoughts
Challenges
Truth Is
Stress
Other
Circumstances
Kids
About
Boss
Come
Spouse
Traffic
Your
Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Life
Thoughts
Remember
Stress
About
Come
Going
Your
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Life
Success
Family
Nature
Parenting
Balance
Conflict
Money
Complicated
Stress
Become
Relationships
Our
Ancient
Response
Able
More
Environment
Economy
Been
Traffic
Up
Disease
Human
Far
Human Life
Exponentially
Keep
Number
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
Andrew J. Bernstein
You
Yourself
Goals
Stress
Setting
Setting Goals
Dramatically
Distinguish
Ability
Having
Pushing
Perform
Between
Deadlines
Reduce
Stimulating
Stimulation
Anxious
Upset
Which
Frustrated
Capacity
Your
Need
To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Life
You
Emotions
Events
Overcome
Wife
Job
Husband
Parents
Believe
Think
Kids
Out
Responsible
Vital
Something
Boss
Miss
Partly
Contend
Bullets
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Body
Your
Even
Stressful
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Life
You
Stress
Spice
Bored
More
Feel
Without
Than
Any
When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Situation
Sick
See
She
Friend
Offer
Want
Wants
Much
Help
What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Life
You
Events
Stress
Mind
Own
Only
Simpler
Taking
Between
Involved
Parties
Than
Transaction
Place
Much
Your
Actually
Two
Stressful
You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
Andrew J. Bernstein
You
Change
Yourself
Better
Stress
Tell
Head
Feel
Learn
How
Still
Create
Produced
Your
Need
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Experience
Stress
Think
Other
More
Also
Because
Than
Just
Just Because
Much
Reason
Species
Differently
Humans
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Life
You
Emotions
Stress
Negative
Own
Statements
Look
Identify
Always
Built
Closer
Your
People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Reality
People
World
Word
Stress
Power
Nothing
Complain
Everyday
About
Lay
Throughout
Because
Around
Up
Provoke
Literature
Inherent
Professional
Shows
Now
Why
Why Not
Thing
You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Truth
Thoughts
You
Mind
Will
Value
Power
Shifting
Think
Setting
Easy
Perceived
Through
Place
Might
Held
Choice
Your
Stressful
Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Experience
People
World
Stress
Believe
Out
Given
Emotional
Never
Divorced
Up
Get
Move
Depending
Pack
Who
Toll
The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Health
You
Balance
Worry
Hormones
More
Delicate
Delicate Balance
Throw
Off
Required
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Truth
Truth Is
World
Light
Nothing
Elusive
Physical
Physical World
Simply
Sound
Move
Molecules
Appear
Things
Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.
Andrew J. Bernstein
You
World
Challenge
Stress
Subconscious
Believe
Think
Must
See
About
Something
True
Learn
Because
Them
Choose
Beliefs
Differently
Eliminate
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