List of Andrew Bernstein Quotes

Find The Beliefs That Are Strangling Your Feelings, Challenge Them For Your Sake As Well As Theirs, And See How It Feels To Love Someone Without A Thought About The Future, Simply For Who They Are Today.

During The Financial Crisis, I Worked With Hundreds Of Executives Who Struggled As A Result Of Their Thoughts About Job Security. When Their Beliefs Changed, So Did Their Emotional Experience - And They Were Then Able To Focus On The Task At Hand More Effectively.

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.

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.

The Elusive Truth Is That There Is Nothing Stress-producing In The Physical World. Things Simply Are. Molecules Move. Light And Sound Appear.

The Less You Think Counterfactually, The Less You Experience Stress. Stress, In This Light, Isn't A Bad Thing. It's Simply A Warning System Telling You That Your Mind Has Lost Touch With What's Real.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Hero Holds Purposes Appropriate To Man And Is, Therefore, A Thinker.