{"quotes":[{"text":"You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["amyloid-beta","anxiety","art-of-living","art-of-sleeping","body-scan","body-scan-relaxation","csf","enemies-of-sleep","focus-on-breath","focus-on-breathing","insomnia","issue","meditation","mindfulness","sleeping-at-will","sleeping-brain","sleeping-habits","sleeping-techniques","sleeping-well","sleeplessness","stress","tension","trouble","waking-brain","work-stress","work-tension"],"id":7399,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with spikes of purple here and there. But when I do this. . . .”He rested a hand on my hip, and my whole body tensed up. That hand moved around my hip, slipping under my shirt to rest on the small of my back. My skin burned where he touched me, and the places that were untouched longed for that heat.. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?” He used that hand on me to pull me closer. “Why do you react that way if I don’t mean anything to you?” There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.","author":"Richelle Mead","tags":["adrian-ivashkov","angst","attraction","aura","denial-of-feelings","feelings","love","sydney-sage","tension"],"id":17431,"author_id":"Richelle+Mead"},{"text":"Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything he could feel, at least - was like a tightly coiled spring.","author":"Lyn Ducoty","tags":["desire","restraint","tension"],"id":20013,"author_id":"Lyn+Ducoty"},{"text":"She inched closer to him. 'I intrigue you?'You know you do,' he replied boldly, his eyes burning into hers. Wow-things were suddenly heating up fast. He wondered if they would have sex right there on her desk.Somebody better move that stapler.With a coy look, Taylor stood up to whisper in Jason's ear.'then I think you're going to find this next part really intriging,' she said breathlessly.He gazed down at her-he like the sound of that-and raised one eybrow expectantly as taylor grinned wickedly and-Slammed the office door right in his face.For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed against the cold wood of her door. After a few seconds, he knocked politely.Taylor whipped open the door, unamused.Jason grinned at her. 'I just gotta ask: where did you get the whole 'all the cute girls run around naked' thing?","author":"Julie James","tags":["humor","romance","tension"],"id":26517,"author_id":"Julie+James"},{"text":"Ron seems to be enjoying the celebrations.” said Hermione. “Don’t pretend you didn’t see him. He wasn’t exactly hiding it, was — ?”The door behind them burst open. To Harry’s horror, Ron came in, laughing, pulling Lavender by the hand. “Oh,” he said, drawing up short at the sight of Harry and Hermione.“Oops!” said Lavender, and she backed out of the room, giggling.There was a horrible, swelling, billowing silence. Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her. She walked very slowly and erectly toward the door. Harry glanced at Ron, who was looking relieved that nothing worse had hap.","author":"J.K. Rowling","tags":["anger","birds","hermione","ron-weasley","tension"],"id":28840,"author_id":"J.K.+Rowling"},{"text":"Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.","author":"Charlotte Joko Beck","tags":["happiness","joy","letting-go","tension"],"id":40689,"author_id":"Charlotte+Joko+Beck"},{"text":"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.","author":"Joshua Loth Liebman","tags":["life","maturity","tension"],"id":54973,"author_id":"Joshua+Loth+Liebman"},{"text":"The wife's list, no matter how long or short, communicates to the husband, 'I don't like you. I don't accept you. But if you perform the way I think you should, then I will like and accept you.' And no matter how long the husband's list may be, it says in like manner to his wife, 'I don't like you either. But if you stop caring about things so much, if you stop feeling the way you feel and noticing the things you notice, then I will accept and like you.","author":"Jeff VanVonderen","tags":["marriage","tension"],"id":63468,"author_id":"Jeff+VanVonderen"},{"text":"Relaxing the shoulders is vital for relaxation in general. However, owing to the effects of gravity, relaxation is problematic unless we let the shoulders remain in their natural place. Let the shoulders drop, or settle in harmony with gravity, into their most comfortable position. It isn’t too difficult to do this for a moment, but to sustain this condition unconsciously in our lives is another matter. We raise our shoulders unnaturally when we lean on a desk or hold the telephone between our shoulders and ears, when we are shocked by a loud noise, and who knows how many other times throughout the day. And the unsettling of the shoulders doesn’t have to be large to produce anxiety, stiff necks, and headaches. Just slightly raising them will create tension, and this tension throws the nervous system out of balance.When do we raise the shoulders in daily life? What are we feeling at that moment and leading up to that moment? Remembering that the body reflects the mind, and that the raising of the shoulders not only creates tension but also is a physical manifestation of psychological tension itself, what are the roots of this tension? Bringing the mind into the moment, let’s observe ourselves in a state free of preconceived ideas or beliefs. Don’t guess at these questions. Observe yourself in relationship to others and the universe.","author":"H.E. Davey","tags":["ki","meditation","nakamura-tempu","relaxation","shin-shin-toitsu-do","shoulders","tension","yoga"],"id":71326,"author_id":"H.E.+Davey"},{"text":"(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotion pervade the books, sometimes almost unbearably, yet when you look at the writing, at the actual words, there's nothing to show that the scene is emotional at all. I think it is because Dunnett layers her novels, meaning that each event is informed by what has come before (and what came before that, and what came before that) but Dunnett doesn't signpost in the text that this is happening, leaving it to the reader to bring the relevant information to the table.","author":"C.S. Pacat","tags":["dorothy-dunnett","tension","writing-process"],"id":72067,"author_id":"C.S.+Pacat"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":84,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}