David Pollak > David's Quotes

“Mindfulness is like entering a darkened room and turning on the lights of perception.”
― David Pollak, Mindfulness Maze: Miracles of the Mind

“When you rely on others for how you feel, you have to keep going back to them to feel differently. You become more effective when you go to yourself to regulate affectivity.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Emotion is the bridge between thinking and sensation.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Suppressing emotion is like holding a basketball under the water.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“You see, emotions are everywhere because everywhere you are emotions are right there with you.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Like parables of meaningful relationships, your inner relationship demands you awaken to yourself.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Emotions become a wonder of your world once you have goals to channel your passion into.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Suppressing emotions is like suppressing energy because the energy is still there when it is suppressed. Avoidance always requires something to avoid – something to first focus on. It’s that ‘something’ that stands out.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Unconditional acceptance allows you to use the energy of emotions, rather than feeling bad by suppressing and rejecting the emotional you.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Know you are perfect, just as you are, and that what you consider to be imperfections help make you the unique individual you are.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Emotion is a human-made concept.”
― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You

“Life can be a challenge but by not judging it that way it is more like being challenged than an actual challenge; for me as a Psychologist and a Trainer/Author I am yet to meet someone who is not challenged because every challenge if that's really what it is in some way serves to help a person by creating strengths in other areas. All of my own challenges are no weakness. My weakness helps me to have strength, and so I am blessed, sort of, yep, it gives me an edge.”
― David Pollak, Mindfulness Maze: Miracles of the Mind

“The human soul of a mirror network can be imagined as a doorway.”
― David Pollak, Mindfulness Maze: Miracles of the Mind