Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living

Choosing not to exercise the options that can make our lives easier is, in itself, a choice that we make, perhaps because we have other priorities. This preference does not deny the fact that there are options nonetheless.

The intensity of your fear is directly proportional to how dangerous that future moment is as compared to your present,

Nuisances attack you from outside of you, and they may come in tens

To reduce stress, you can either reduce the force applied or increase the area on which the force is applied.

We treat ourselves the way they treated us despite how much what they did to us hurt us and how little the criticism benefited us.

That thought then takes hold of you—day in, day out. It grows and grows, despite its invalidity, starting from nothing but our insecurities and vivid imaginations. With no real threat in front of us and instead of directing our efforts to deal with our imaginary demon, we sit in a corner and bring up the thought over and over again. Over time, we

A lot of little stressors, regardless of how small, eventually add up to an unbearable weight.

Accept that life, sooner or later, is bound to send a trauma-triggering event your way.

They drain us, irritate us, without us even noticing that they are not real events