Magazines make you crazy to be a stick insect size 2, to be the most fit, to be a winner like Richard Branson. We can’t have it all, and all of us have a tipping point but we’re not aware of it so we keep pushing. This is seen as ambition and a great thing to have until we burn out or go crazy. By the way I wouldn’t say Richard Branson is mentally adjusted or Bill Gates who I once interviewed. He was like a block of cement with dandruff. We have no brakes only breakdowns. But don’t be hard on yourself, all of us have this problem. Evolution did not prepare us for the 21st century, we just don’t have the bandwidth - and that’s why I started to study mindfulness.
Don’t get me wrong: Cortisol and adrenaline are what you need to move ahead in this world or you’d never get out of bed, but the problem is we have no way of turning them off because these days there will always be another email, always another disaster, always something you want and can’t get. We never feel satisfied because there’s 20,000 miles of mall tempting you to get more. We can’t stop striving and trying to keep up with the next guy.
Magazines make you crazy to be a stick insect size 2, to be the most fit, to be a winner like Richard Branson. We can’t have it all, and all of us have a tipping point but we’re not aware of it so we keep pushing. This is seen as ambition and a great thing to have until we burn out or go crazy. By the way I wouldn’t say Richard Branson is mentally adjusted or Bill Gates who I once interviewed. He was like a block of cement with dandruff. We have no brakes only breakdowns. But don’t be hard on yourself, all of us have this problem. Evolution did not prepare us for the 21st century, we just don’t have the bandwidth - and that’s why I started to study mindfulness.
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Jane Stanton
20/8/2013 04:42:51 am
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Cait Lynch
20/8/2013 04:43:27 am
Hi Ruby, I loved your book. I bought 3 extra copies and gave them to my sister, niece and daughter-in-law as presents. They all loved it also.
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Cait lynch
20/8/2013 04:44:12 am
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Judy
20/8/2013 10:09:57 am
I love you Ruby.. love your interviews.. and am lining up to obtain your book, legally .. ha ha .. Work is slow .. but .. there are worse things..
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20/8/2013 09:05:29 pm
Hi Ruby its hardly likely that youll read this,but in the chance that you do i want to tell you that you inspire me so much,luckily i dont suffer from any kind of illness apart from thinking that im gonna live forever and often eat loads of shit food thinking that thats ok...and other such things that i wont mention but indeed mindfulness is the way to go...of what you say, of what you eat, of what you do, of how you do it, just being more conscious,the problem for me is consistency, im fecking brillant at waking up and having a day of do all the things that are good for me and maybe the next day but by day 3 its like, ok damien your gonna die healthy... lay back have a glass wine and a bag of chips and just let those negative thoughts consume you...so i wish you consistency Mrs Wax, you deserve so much for what you have given, ive nearly pissed meself laughing, and one time a little came out, at your comedy. THANKYOU.
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David
20/8/2013 11:18:51 pm
Thank you Ms. Wax so much. Sane New World has helped me so much. I'm a student at university, and have suffered from anxiety for the past three years- ranging from the little niggles of daily life (did I remember to? etc.) to all out panic over my future. I can't say that I don't worry, but through applying the mindfulness principles you espoused, I have managed to maintain a certain plateau level and prevent the feeling of apocalypse that haunted me for the past years. I really can't thank you enough, you're an inspiration to me.
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Theresa Weston
12/7/2014 05:45:40 am
I heard you on
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