Brent Sexton Quotes

I have really focused on mindfulness. That helps me make better choices both physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

We think too much and feel too little.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

I live my life as healthy and consciously as I can.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.