Sentences with phrase «by heightening their awareness»

He suddenly found himself overwhelmed by a heightened awareness of the tangled stems and roots, a forest in microcosm, a transfigured world of ants and beetles and even — though he wouldn't have known the details at the time — of soil bacteria by the billions, silently and invisibly shoring up the economy of the micro-world.

Is it merely a series of totally self - contained, self - explanatory forms of expression (like Abstract Expressionism), enlivened only by a heightened awareness of the process involved (as in Pollock's action painting - brilliantly captured by the photography of Hans Namuth)?

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The 2016 U.S. presidential election heightened public awareness of a concept known as the «filter bubble,» coined by Upworthy co-founder Eli Pariser and explored in his 2011 book The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think.

With that goes a heightened awareness that monetary policy actions and utterances by the Bank are being shadowed more closely by the markets, the media and others than is the case with the Treasury.

Awareness about how social media companies are using personal information has been heightened by the scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.

In doing so it will bring «her» to a place of heightened awareness of the world by living through this and getting past this suffering and build within «her» greater inner strength.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

* psychic numbing as a diminished capacity for feeling death quilt felt by survivors death imprint as heightened vulnerability fascination with scenes of death a turning inward of anger in death / disaster renewal emerging from awareness of threats

By practicing the physical aspects of the discipline, we develop an acute awareness of the natural state of our bodies, increased focus and heightened self - control (Galatians 5:22).

Thus in the course of a game decisions have to be constantly referred to higher echelons with more degrees of freedom, and each shift upward is accompanied by a heightening of awareness and the experience of making a free choice.

Every birth, everywhere, ought to be recognised by doctors and midwives as the birth of a totally aware human being, with the heightened sense of awareness in the first few hours after birth equal to that of a much older child.

A mechanical engineer by training who is now a biology professor at Stanford University, Schneider, 55, says his advocacy began with the heightened environmental awareness that bloomed around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

We know from research by Robert Sapolsky that acute stress prepares the body for resistance (physiological readiness, increased immune response, and heightened awareness) but that chronic stress slowly beats down the body.

The time is right to strengthen this relationship by increasing participation in standardization activities and heightening the awareness of the importance of standards in higher education venues, among consumers, and throughout the scientific community.

«By working together with these esteemed organizations, we hope to heighten awareness about prediabetes and help more Americans learn their risk.»

In the event our ancestors were being chased by an animal or were confronted with danger of any sort, this stress response mechanism would kick in, heightening their senses and awareness so they could respond appropriately.

That heightened capacity for awareness acts as an anchor to the present moment in which the judgement and worry generated by past and future rumination do not — can not — exist.

This diet was developed by Dr. Barry Sears to keep you in «the zone», a sports related term used to describe a heightened awareness where athletes perform at their best with ease.

Our mission is to heighten public awareness about Cystic Fibrosis and improve the quality of life for the families it affects by providing education, life skills, inspiration, and positive support.

Beyond the flow of combos and timely parries, Raiden can enter a heightened state of awareness known as blade mode by siphoning electrolytes from his enemies.

Streep towers over her castmates in screen presence, an effect that appears to be by design, and heightens the drama, as she confesses awareness of these dark secrets others have been trying to hide from her.

It would be unfair to ask any other film to mix insight with carnage but again the Diablo Cody pedigree is built upon such knowing play with conventions; Jennifer's Body has the necessary structure to outdo not only Scream with the genre self - awareness but also Heathers with a look at the «scorched earth» dynamics of high school existence heightened by a string of murders.

By inducing emotions, it also creates a heightened condition of awareness and mental acuity.

It could be a number of things: it could be better recording processes by the jurisdictions, could be them being able to finally ask the question and encourage people to identify, and probably I think the most positive aspect is it could be because of heightened awareness around the issue by MATSITI of cultural safety — it could be that some of those teachers felt more comfortable in identifying by 2015 than they did in 2012.

In my opinion advancing inclusion requires us to heighten our awareness of who we are, how we show up, and how we are received by others.

But below the surface appearance was a dramatically heightened awareness of student learning — nurtured by the planning sessions, research reviews, philosophical discussions, and development of the improvement plan.

The ExpandED Schools demonstration is being evaluated by Policy Studies Associates (PSA) and is rolling out at a time when there is heightened awareness among educators, researchers and youth development experts about the importance of cultivating student mindsets that are precursors to academic performance.

Through the integration of challenging academics and innovative affective programming this project seeks to improve students» school performance by: (a) developing requisite skills for optimal school performance, (b) increasing self - esteem and sense of self - efficacy in mastering academic tasks, (c) improving educational engagement, (d) strengthening bonding to school and peers, (e) increasing knowledge and awareness of college as a viable option, (f) and heightening educational aspirations.

I'm still in control and have to stay alert, but the heightened awareness added by LSS + is like a non-vocal backseat driver.

You can also heighten awareness by creating a «View Inside» widget, or using a QR code.

Also, as they tend to possess a heightened state of awareness, you can be well assured that anything unusual will easily be detected by these psychics.

By sponsoring The Fast & The Furriest ®, your business can heighten its corporate image, show community support, and increase brand awareness while reaching concerned and committed participants from the Greater Rochester area.

The Gili Eco Trust set up in 2001 by the seven dive shops and a local organisation gather funds and resources to heighten marine awareness and conservation of the three Gili islands — Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno and Gili Air.

The exhibition, on view Nov 17 — Dec 16, 2012, features 15 artists «united through a heightened sense of awareness to their immediate surroundings seen through the lens of the American landscape; a landscape shaped by unseen socio - political forces, constantly shifting cultural paradigms, and the on - going flux of construction and destruction.»

Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or by playing with light through the use of reflective, translucent, or transparent materials, these artists each created situations capable of stimulating heightened sensory awareness in the receptive viewer.»

Sometimes removing the thing that seems primary in a work allows for it to be even more present, for example works that have the potential for sound but also heighten the awareness to its absence by remaining silent.

His desire to heighten our awareness is called for by the entropy of contemporary life.

Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or playing with light through the use of reflective, translucent, or transparent materials, each of these artists created situations capable of stimulating heightened sensory awareness in the receptive viewer.

Her works can act like triggers, encouraging heightened visual awareness by exposing or revealing the transitory conditions of particular situations and a slowing down of perception.

The artists also bring heightened awareness to the clips they use by revealing the edges of one scene transitioning to another.

The pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Southern California, Irwin's work draws focus to ambient environmental conditions, making them tangible by heightening the viewer's awareness in the context of the work.

In addition to a more relaxed aura — contiguous to the work in the current collaborative exhibition with the Loretta Howard Gallery — one may further detect a heightened chromatic and tonal awareness accompanied by a fortuity of formal means.

Nick Mansfield has created an environment where sensory inputs produce the same kinds of emotions, anxiety, heightened sensitivity, and general stress that is felt by those living with PTSD, offering the viewer a unique look into a world often unexplored and misunderstood by the general public, raising awareness of what the world behind the curtain of PTSD looks and feels like

Her work is underpinned by a desire to examine and capture in material form the moments of intensity that can define our encounters with the objects around us; inexplicable and unsettling moments that leave us with a heightened awareness of what it means to be alive.

Each artist featured takes acute notice of the physical world at a time of heightened awareness of the landscape, informed by today's concerns including climate change, environmental health, conservation and the green movement.

Since music is a process by which we listen to ourselves listening with heightened awareness of the relationships between sounds and subjects, Waterman's musical compositional process concerns listening to listening, where «listening» is a way of being in tune and present with others.

The pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Southern California, Robert Irwin's work draws focus to ambient environmental conditions, making them palpable by heightening the viewer's awareness in the context of the work.

The pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Southern California, Irwin's work draws focus to ambient environmental conditions, making them palpable by heightening the viewer's awareness in the context of the work.

Taking vast, remote landscapes and the ephemeral conditions of nature as their sculptural canvas, these and other artists staged their own protest by rejecting traditional sculptural forms and practices, rigid modernist theory and the commercial confines of the museum - and - gallery system to create frequently massive land art works that heightened awareness of our relationship with the earth and challenged accepted definitions of art.

Isabel Nolan's work is underpinned by a desire to examine and capture in material form the moments of intensity that can define our encounters with the objects around us; inexplicable and unsettling moments that leave us with a heightened awareness of what is means to be alive.