"Conscious control" refers to the ability to intentionally and actively regulate one's thoughts, actions, or behaviors based on awareness and intention, rather than simply reacting instinctively or impulsively. It involves being aware of and intentionally directing one's own actions or decisions.
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By definition, the fight or flight response is a physiological reaction (not
under conscious control) that occurs when an animal or human feels threatened.
The notion that we have free will — the ability to exercise
conscious control over our actions and decisions — is deeply embedded in human experience.
The transition to potty independence as they gain
more conscious control of their bodies is pretty much automatic.
On the other hand, a society in
which conscious control of economic processes is undertaken for the common good encourages the growth of moral personalities.
We wouldn't expect our minds to prioritize brand over quality, but that just shows how
little conscious control we have over our decisions.
This is an in - built survival mechanism that gradually comes under
conscious control through years of growth in a safe and supportive environment.
At 18 months, some toddlers are capable of
proper conscious control - although most reach their second birthday (and a few their third) without being ready.
The actions required to send him to first base are too complex and unfold too quickly for our comparatively
slow conscious control to handle.
The child may only have
conscious control over their response to that memory if they have developed an adequate level of executive function.
Plus,
conscious control of energy in and out allows the accuracy, which is vital for muscle maintenance during fat loss (too low calories result in muscle loss and slower metabolism).
Moran remains constantly alert to the unconscious opportunities of chance and time, which she tempers
with conscious control, skill and knowledge to make paintings that are intensely and richly powerful.
The prospects
for conscious control of human biological evolution posed by recombinant DNA research raise directly and sharply certain questions about the future not only of our own culture but also of the human species itself.
Executive skills come from a part of the brain called the frontal lobes, which is up here way behind your eyes and is actually the control switches for the brain in the sense that if we
take conscious control of our thinking, our planning, controlling our own impulses, and basically behaving in socially acceptable ways, your frontal lobes are involved in all of those.
Even when the subject has given consent to undergo any of these tests, the test results by themselves can not be admitted as evidence because the subject does not
exercise conscious control over the responses during the administration of the test.
While European surrealists from 1920s used automatic techniques, they were still creating
within conscious control (although they aimed to awaken unconscious associations in the viewer).
While their basic movement is under
conscious control from our brain (with many other actions taking place we're not always aware of), you can also influence skeletal muscles significantly through exercise, diet, hormones, and therapies.
Surrealist artists, many of them refugees from Europe living in New York during the war years, brought with them an interest in primitive and archetypal subject matter, together with the technique of automatism, in which the artist, by
relinquishing conscious control over pencil or brush, creates marks which may trigger visual or conceptual associations.
The second branch of artists — represented by Pollock, Masson and Noguchi — created more spontaneous, abstract forms through automatic writing, an attempt to forgo
conscious control in order to reveal the subconscious mind.
This shift in its turn further strengthened the rational consciousness, and finally man was able, from this new seat of existence, to
assert conscious control over the whole of consciousness.
Or it could be that these actions represent the outcome of hard - fought battles
pitting conscious control against selfish core impulses — victories for virtue, yes, but ones that require continuous effort and are likely to be surrendered as soon as people are unable or unwilling to continue overriding their selfish impulses.
Science has shown that
conscious controlled breathing can also elevate your mood, create relaxation and shield you from the effects of stress, aid in pain control, and alleviate a wide range of symptoms like headaches or indigestion.
The child in the New York Times story does not appear to be exerting
conscious control when responding to the teacher defiantly.
While suggesting lack of control, there is indeed complete and
conscious control at play: in comedy, the performer can rewire failure as success.
This liberated action is simultaneously creative and destructive, a tussle
between conscious control and freely surrendered art making.
Similar to responsive design you see on the web today, where the user interface adapts to the screen, with Fluent Design, Microsoft is also
adding Conscious Controls, which are controls that adapt and respond to the environment and to what you're trying to do.
You can try bits of
Conscious Controls now on Windows 10 in applications such as the Windows Store, Settings, People, Groove Music, and other apps.
AMCDKlaus Kertess has written, «Cecily Brown's paintings swing precariously from improvisation to
more conscious control, from abstraction to figuration — avoiding closure, reveling in ability and surprise.»
Moran's intensely and richly powerful works are clearly executed
with conscious control, skill and knowledge of painting techniques.
Like other abstract expressionists and the Surrealists before them, Stillman experimented with «automatic» drawing techniques in which the line was allowed to roam freely
without conscious control.
Masson's other contribution to surrealist automatism dates from 1927 and involved a series of sand paintings (cf. sand art) made using chance as a substitute
for conscious control.
With an ethic of stewardship and keen awareness of our effects on the planet, we might find that our awareness of our ability to warm the planet turns out to be one more tool we use to
take conscious control of the Anthropocene as we certainly must do if our numbers continue to expand.
It teaches women to cope with labor pain by learning to
exercise conscious control over posture and movement and by re-educating the body to replace poor postural positions that may be leading to tension with those of release.
Motherwell drew many rich parallels between Joyce's technique to his own automatist style, as they both attempt to
relinquish conscious control in the act of expression.
The study showed that fMRI could be used not only as a diagnostic, but as the means to therapy itself, and that people can
exert conscious control over specific brain regions much as it is known that some people can consciously alter their heart rate.
Discipline and
conscious control over emotional state are the two factors that determine forex winners from losers.
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