A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled Quotes

“Here’s what I don’t understand: if something called neuroplasticity is a hard, cold fact, why haven’t we, the masses, heard much about it? Why are we left sitting here with a measly fourteen shades of grey, when, if we’re talking about the brain, there are a trillion possible shades.”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

“Addiction Let’s make one thing clear: we’re not just addicted to drugs, sex or alcohol, we can also get addicted to our thoughts and feelings of panic, anxiety and despair. Just to get another hit, we might hunt for people who create those feelings we’re addicted to; we always find the perfect perpetrator. Some people can’t tell if they have a relationship with someone because they like them or just because this person keeps the chemicals they’re addicted to bubbling in their veins.”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

“We can only pay attention to something for, on average, about 1.2 seconds and then our eye, driven by our mind, flits to something else. Our minds aren’t built to linger; we keep flitting: it’s the mission statement of every cell in our bodies to keep checking our surroundings for possible danger, otherwise we wouldn’t be here, we would have been on some kebab millions of years ago. Remember: our brain has no idea the caveman days are over so, God bless it, it’s still vigilant for predators.”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

“Epicurus said that there are only three important ingredients to happiness: friendship, freedom (not to be owned by anyone), and an analysed life. The more you lack these three things, the more you’ll want power and money, and they always lead to unhappiness.”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

“Being on automatic pilot, multitasking and using past or future thinking are all techniques for ensuring survival, but they can also be at the heart of our unhappiness.”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

“When our computers overload we know to switch them off and boot them up again a bit later. Why can’t we do that to ourselves without feeling like a failure?”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

“This triple-decker reflects our evolutionary development from the earliest model (single-celled bacteria) to the latest (George Clooney). Each”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled

“Raising a teenager makes the terrible twos seem like a holiday in Hawaii.”
― Ruby Wax, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled