Sentences with phrase «bodily feelings which»

This physiological response sets up affective tones or bodily feelings which constitute the subjective forms of the energetic processes transmitted to us from our environment.

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A feeling of gratitude can also activate the hypothalamus, which controls not only essential bodily functions such as sleeping and eating, but also metabolism and stress.

As the living person draws upon a wider bodily experience, so the conscious ego, if there should be one at a particular moment, draws upon a vast ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it.

Apparently, then, this specialized group of nerves is the material locus for a «critical node,» as Whitehead puts it, at which point bodily feelings are transmuted so that «there is an increasing development of special emphasis» (PR 477).

The first description points to a level of mental functioning in which bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement of the mental pole in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual form of bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations in the interest of greater depth of experience.

Our normal, ordinary bodily experience is like that of, say, feeling tired, which we might describe as a general feeling of tension and strain broadly diffused throughout the whole body.

As the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusted.

I hold that in feeling pain I am intuiting feelings in my bodily constituents, feelings which are not initially mine and only become mine by participation.

Finally, ascetic exercises may in rarer instances be prompted by genuine perversions of the bodily sensibility, in consequence of which normally pain - giving stimuli are actually felt as pleasures.

The existing patterns of physical feeling in my brain cells have to be deflected repeatedly by fresh novelty — now this way, now that way, in a tedious sequence of trial - and - error, before these tiny bodily societies learn the new patterns which enable them to respond to my aims to type.

But in its bodily protective role, which eternal objects the presently concrescing occasion of the supportive nexus feels as more relevant «lures for feeling» than others «is left unanswered by the category of reversion» (PR 381f).

Thus we may say that the complex comparative bodily feelings entertained by the dominant occasion (that which is presently concrescing) of the nonsocial nexus need not be reflective.

This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive» experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case — experiences which, as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull bodily sensation, in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..

Most of the pre-reflective bodily order and habitual behavior is handled by the subordinate «living persons,» but sometimes a feeling of personal dominance and reflective control occurs which requires the regnant society.

Half of them were trained to practise mindfulness, which teaches a heightened awareness of one's feelings and bodily sensations, so that they pay attention to cravings instead of suppressing them.

«If [a patient] can accept his bodily homoerotic experience while staying connected to the therapist,» he wrote in «The Paradox of Self - Acceptance,» «the sexual feeling soon transforms into something else: the recognition of deeper, pain - generated emotional needs which have nothing to do with sexuality.»

Bodily tension releases, the mind slows, which leads to an overall feeling of balance and calm.

«I remember all my collaborations with Jerry, in terms of one tactile bodily feeling, which is his hands on my shoulders,» recalled composer Leonard Bernstein at a Dramatists Guild Symposium in 1985.

Along the way, we are treated to Isabel's philosophical musings on many diverse subjects: being polite, or saying what you really feel; landscape painters taking artistic licence; the purpose of art; adoption; head lice; which bodily afflictions are too personal to talk about; sarcasm; swearing; wind turbines; jumping to conclusions; religion; children's literature; dogs dreaming; metaphors; how to end arguments and knowing who you are.

«The effect of a submarine eruption on a ship is described, by those seamen who have experienced it, to be similar to that of dragging the ship bodily along a roughly paved road; or like that violent shaking which the chain cable produces when running through the hawse; and this effect appears to have been felt in greater or less degree in the various instances now brought forward.»