Stress Response Quotes

#1. although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

Linda Lantieri

#2. Evolution has geared the human stress response to last about thirty seconds. It's enough time to facilitate fight or flight. Evolution has not adapted our brains or bodies to handle weeks or months of prolonged stress.

David Amerland

#3. 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

#4. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state. When people say, 'Exercise is good for stress,' that is for realsie real.

Emily Nagoski

#5. When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Kelly McGonigal

#6. Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#7. Emotions can even affect whether certain genes are turned "on" or "off" - altering, for example, our bodies' response to stress.

Mario Beauregard

#8. Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Anthony Marais

#9. I always prefer shooting on locations, because when I'm at home, it's harder to sort of get lost in the world of whatever you're making. It does, it does force this bond and community amongst a group.

Max Minghella

#10. Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

Matt Ridley

#11. It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response.

David Yeung

#12. Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm. I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night

Rumi

#14. There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.

Jeff Ross

#15. If you response to every demand, you will be in despair.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Something strange started to rage inside me, hearing you inhale sharply as I tried to kiss those scars away or etch them deeper into your skin, wanting to mark you in an entirely different way.

D.S. Wrights

#17. A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.

Hans Selye

#19. My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Susan Isaacs

#20. You will do the greatest services to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

Epictetus

#21. I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

Peter Jennings

#22. In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past

Alan Moore

#23. The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.

Dillon Burroughs

#24. The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress ... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

Herbert Benson

#25. Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Edward Abbey