Mental Reset Quotes

When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.

Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

The majority of my life is 'Guardians,' but being able to clean my brain a little bit by doing something totally different like 'Belko' was incredibly helpful to the creative process.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.

I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I'm alone in my apartment again, it's like this recalibrating thing that happens.

I felt as a human being I needed to take a pause and reflect on a lot of stuff that's happened. That was really good for me. And to get some of the ringing out of my years from all the amps on stage.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I think I needed to hit the reset button and figure out how I want to play football. I want to play football at a smooth, calm level.

It's great having time to just sit back and work through things in my mind. It helps put life into perspective.

A few moments of inner peace and quiet allows the brain to reset itself. You become more centered as this happens, since the brain is clearing out distractions and too much "cross talk."

I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.

The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly from one to another, often to unrelated thoughts, without you controlling where they go. This brain state acts as a neural reset button, allowing us to come back to our work with a refreshed perspective. Different people find they enter this mode in different ways: reading, a walk in nature, looking at art, meditating, and napping. A 15-minute nap can produce the equivalent of a 10-point boost in IQ.

I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.