Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.