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“Your brain is paying attention to how you treat yourself.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“A balanced, inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves othersâ€� approval nor rejects othersâ€� presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants. It has compassion for the inevitable weaknesses of the human condition. It has nothing to gain from othersâ€� approval. It is not self-seeking. It is not needy, grabbing or manipulative. It embodies gracious respect for everything beautiful including other human souls. It has a lively freedom, a happy composure, a quick and engaging wit, and an intelligent, interested, and interesting mental attitude.”
― Donna Goddard, Love, Devotion, and Longing

“Either way, whether your anxiety is self-generated or externally-generated or both, your brain still needs to sound the alarm â€� and thank goodness it does! It’s essentially telling you: ‘Warning, something is sabotaging or might sabotage your goals, health, happiness and survival â€� find it, fix it!â€� to which your mental response should be, ‘Gee, thanks, I’m on it!”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Anxiety is just our brain’s way of trying to keep us alive and
well; it is simply, and fortunately, one of our many in-built survival
mechanisms. Just as we feel pain when we burn our skin which
tells us to move away from the cause of the pain, we experience
anxiety when the brain perceives a threat to our well-being and is
telling us to prevent or extinguish the threat/danger.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Anxiety is our friend, not our
enemy. Even when anxiety is severe and out of control, it’s still
our friend because it’s telling us something seriously needs
addressing in order for us to survive and thrive, even if that severe
anxiety is a sign that our alerting system is unnecessarily working
overtime or even ‘malfunctioningâ€� of sorts.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Anxiety is just our brain’s way of trying to keep us alive and well; it is simply, and fortunately, one of our many in-built survival mechanisms. Just as we feel pain when we burn our skin which tells us to move away from the cause of the pain, we experience anxiety when the brain perceives a threat to our well-being and is telling us to prevent or extinguish the threat/danger.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Don’t choose to live with anxiety any more than you would choose to live with a bleeding arm.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Anxiety is not intended for us to live with it. You use anxiety to your advantage to protect your mental and physical well-being and survival from a threat or danger.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Rumination doesn’t solve anything, reflection and introspection can solve all.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“It’s weird how much just one sentence uttered to yourself about the thing that you are doing, as you are doing it, can noticeably alter your behaviour right there and then. Just start watching how your thoughts play out.”
― Sam Owen

“Don’t let some people’s blase attitude towards human relationships in the modern world fool you into thinking that humans are dispensable, that family and friends are dispensable, that marriages are dispensable. They are not and they never will be. Good people are your key to sanity. Good people are your survival.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Always being busy is not the sign of a winner, it’s the sign of your life being out of balance.”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“Just because we can achieve so much in little pockets of time doesn’t mean we should. Just because we can, doesn’t mean it’s good for us. Everything in moderation, right?”
― Sam Owen, Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm

“The real ‘Youâ€� is like a lake as smooth as glass but the world has conditioned you to identify with the things that disturb your peace.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace