One of my personal methods of coping with daily stress is reading and then thinking about an inspirational quote.

I am an auditory learner. I learn best through hearing things. My learning is enhanced by verbal explanations, dialogue, talking things through and listening attentively. I think in words, not in pictures. I am very aware of audible signals, tone, pitch and speed of voice. They very much influence the way I interpret what I hear. So words have always been important to me, even before I understood why.

Whether spoken or written, words have the power to influence your thoughts, and they have the power to transform your life. Words can inspire you to find the best within you. Words create a psychological connection within your mind, and can inspire you or demotivate you. The right words can produce inspiring thought, and get you to take massive action. The wrong words can totally deflate you.

So, words can be uplifting or damaging.

‘Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill’. Buddha.

When words are used against us in a negative way, whether by somebody else or our own self talk, they can cause great damage. Negative words can kill enthusiasm, reduce self-esteem, lower expectations, they can even make you cry. When someone says something negative to us, a sarcastic remark, a discouraging word, or something that puts us down, it hurts so bad, and forms a hidden wound that is hard to heal. You are hurt by what a loved one says in a fit of fury. When we hear somebody say something about us that is discouraging or sarcastic we take it to heart. Hurtful words can make us lose our common sense, twist our thinking and change our behaviour. Positive and encouraging words lift you up, raise your spirits, motivate you, awaken your expectations, create dynamic visions, feed your mind, inspire thinking and make you feel great. Words have a massive influence over your thoughts and actions. They impact and affect everything you do.



One of my personal methods of coping with daily stress is reading and then thinking about an inspirational quote. Of course just reading a quote won’t make stressful situations just disappear, but by letting their insight absorb your mind, you will feel more relaxed, more positive, and you will find your ability to handle pressure vastly improved.

When you are down in the dumps, struggling with situations in your life, what do you do to lift your emotional state? At these times, what is it that you use to bring you inspiration, understanding, or solutions? By just reading an inspirational quote and then pondering it, you will create positive thoughts, encouraging you to find solutions. Inspirational quotes have massive power through their capacity to inspire and motivate you to take action.



When we are troubled, facing difficult circumstances, instead of focusing on solutions, we let our mind wander through the debris of life, seeing the worst case scenarios, expecting doom and gloom. Your mind spinning out of control building things up to an exaggerated state. You imagine all kinds of terrible outcomes.More often than not, we find the worst case scenario that we think about for so long don’t actually turn out as bad as we have been imagining. Most of the terrible outcomes you think about don’t come to fruition. In reality, the worst that happens is usually not that hard to handle. In fact the worst part of it is the time you have wasted fretting, troubling yourself with the fears of what may come to pass.It is a fact that our ability to handle pressure is determined by our attitude toward it. Getting our thinking right will help us to deal far better with things at difficult times. Find yourself an inspirational quote which you can use to get your thinking into perspective, that will also bring you inner calm. A great quote can instantly transform your thoughts, putting you into a better frame of mind. Use quotes as the off switch to your inner chatter. Turn off your fears and stress, and focus on the words and their meaning instead. Let them inspire you. Let them bring your mind to a peak state, full of positivity, and excitement about what you can to, be or have.

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