Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression Quotes

“​The right self-talk wires your brain to focus on finding solutions, taking action, creating more self-confidence, and giving you more peace of mind––exactly the mental states that help you get rid of stress.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“​Imagine, then, what happens when your over-active amygdala teams up with your overly-negative self-talk. When it does, all bets are off. Suddenly, it’s mental chaos! The alarm bells are clanging and your self-talk goes into total negative and makes everything triple-worse. You are no longer in control. Even good things look bad. Promise and hope fly out the window. The only thing left in the room is tension and panic––and your stress level goes through the roof!”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“​Before we can solve the problem of stress and anxiety, we have to look at one final actor––and the critical role it plays in setting you up for stress. It’s your hidden alarm system; it’s called the amygdala.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“People who have trained their brains to think in the positive, actually wire more neural networks into the left prefrontal cortex of their brain.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“Most of our stress is the result of mental programs that tell us what we cannot overcome.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“Together, those inaccurate messages, through lifelong repetition, have created every negative belief you have about yourself today. Your self-doubts, your imagined inadequacies, most of your fears, and everything you believe incorrectly about who you are today, are the result of the repetition of inaccurate messages to your brain.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“If enough of your programs are negative, your self-talk will also be negative. This is because your present self-talk is the result of the programs you already have that are the strongest. The rule is: Negative programs equal negative self-talk.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“But that’s not the answer. The person who receives better, healthier, more positive programs will, over time, virtually always do better than the person who receives unhealthy, negative programs.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression

“​The result of that kind of programming is that we end up where we are today, with our brains improperly wired, or often wired to work against us.”
― Shad Helmstetter, Self-Talk for Stress, Anxiety and Depression