Sentences with phrase «conscious feelings of»

«Neither am I suggesting that animal research is irrelevant to understanding human conscious feelings of fear.

Much of the current confusion in neuroscience research on fear stems from the conflation of two separate phenomena that are both labeled «fear»: behavioral and physiological fear responses elicited by threats, such as a snake or a mugger, and conscious feelings of fear, which occur in the same situation but are controlled by a different brain system.

«On the contrary, I think that we need to come to terms with fear because the conscious feeling of fear is a key part of human experience and an important factor in psychopathology.

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This sounds nice but really it just «reminds me of the fact that in many other cases I won't be the best speaker, so now I feel nervous and self - conscious,» he continues.

«It's right at their feet, and they can use it whenever they want without feeling self - conscious in front of their co-workers,» says Carr.

«Business looks are more fitted, but not to the point of making one feel body - conscious,» says Mario Bisio, owner of luxury apparel store Mario's.

«I'm really conscious of how I feel at any given time but especially when I'm training,» he said.

Or when we have to run to the grocery store but feel self - conscious the whole time because we're wearing ratty jeans and an old t - shirt and we haven't showered and everyone in the place is staring at us and jeez, can we just get out of here already.

Often, we're barely even conscious of this, or pay it little heed; but sometimes it feels, if not that time has slowed down, then that time is somehow beside the point.

If you are aware and conscious of your own feelings, you will be better able to manage them.

One of the hardest parts of the whole process was being bald, but everyone was very supportive and I never felt self conscious while attending class.

P&G already owns popular deodorant brand Secret, but must have felt that Native could be a leader amongst consumers who are conscious of ingredients.

Seattle - based Starbucks says all of its company - owned retail stores and its corporate offices will be closed the afternoon of May 29 for «a training program designed to address implicit bias, promote conscious inclusion, prevent discrimination and ensure everyone inside a Starbucks store feels safe and welcome.»

Socially conscious investors also made their feelings known in the areas of human rights (9 percent) and diversity of boards and in the workplace (11 percent).

I have always been self - conscious about my body, finding I often compared myself to other people, but within one week of starting Pure Barre, I could both see and feel my body changing.

In a world that feels complacent and desensitized to many of the risks that we remain conscious of, perhaps it is enough to simply anticipate a change and be prepared.

Although I believe guilt plays a role in our lives by making us conscious of our higher calling, I also believe that if we get caught up in feeling bad about minor things, we are wasting our time.

Barth gathers the questionings of his friends into one gigantic interrogation point, and flings down to ethical theory the demand that it base itself not upon the conscious will of man but on the uncertainly, though actually, felt will of God.

Have been mulling this over quite a bit of late — realizing how deep such feelings continue to run in me, despite my conscious and sincere beliefs in God's grace, goodness, forgiveness, and redemptive power...

Once differentiated, propositional feelings are merely components of conscious feelings, and hence themselves unconscious, as Whitehead clearly announces in the first paragraph to that chapter (PR 256/391), a later insertion.

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.

Social order within these feelings explains, as one example, a string of associations following on the conscious perception of some important object in the environment.

There one feels the controlling sense of the misfortune of man's self - conscious existence, its endless transmigrations, vain illusions, and insatiable desires.

There are many besides myself who know that when we allow ourselves to be used by a purpose much greater than we are, we become conscious of fitting into a pattern with a feeling of permanence, a pattern only incompletely outlined in the here - and - now.

There are many days when the believer, trying to become conscious of God's presence within, feels nothing at all, sees nothing at all.

Although «experience» and «feeling» are not necessarily conscious events in Whitehead's philosophy, the use of «private experiences,» «percept,» and especially the fact that the man reports his experience, all make it seem evident that the experiences and feelings mentioned in the above passage are conscious.

These examples indicate a general feature of all conscious life: feelings and qualities do not exist in discrete juxtaposition, but rather intermingle and penetrate each other.

But the error in this view becomes obvious, for Bergson believes, like James, that upon introspection of our conscious lives we find the components of consciousness related internally; we find a penetration of the felt past and the anticipated future in the present.

Propositions are not primarily for judgments of truth or falsity, but for feeling (PR 283), Propositions are lures for feeling in that they involve an actual entity's (not necessarily conscious) decision for or against the value of some predicative pattern.

They are «dimly conscious» in two senses: (1) as experiences, they do not normally rise to the stature of conscious centers competing for control of the organism, but they have appetitions and aversions in their own right so that it seems appropriate to label them «dimly conscious»; (2) they are perceived only dimly by the members of the regnant society, i.e., the regnant society has these particular occasions as dim, vaguely felt, negative «scars» on the data of what is clearly perceived in full consciousness.

By this distinction of two modes of passivity — of receiving forms - Aristotle sets off the world of conscious experience from the world of nature, but in such a way that not only the objects but the very workings of nature are included as part of what is felt.

Though it has been done, it is philosophical stupidity to deny either that we experience spatially extended objects or that we experience ourselves as active conscious centers of feeling, experience, thought, intention, attention, volition, desire, emotion, satisfaction, etc..

Such actual entities are organisms that undergo growth; they are subjects and have feelings with more or less subjective intensity; they engage in a self - creation that is an integration; they make decisions; they have aims; they may or may not accept persuasions; they may entertain propositions; they form societies; they enjoy satisfactions; and some of them are even conscious.

More precisely, from a Whiteheadian standpoint, we should say that, if God is loving, then we all feel this, at some level, all the time, so that the only extraordinary feature of mystical experiences is that in them this feeling of the holy rises to the level of conscious awareness.

Even in meditation this subjective change is occurring, though not in the form of rapidly shifting thoughts and conscious feelings.

It pertains to our own conscious experience both of the external world and our own inner feelings, and by extension to the conscious experience of others.

The content of a temporal occasion is its antecedent world synthesized and somewhat transformed by a new mode of feeling; the consequent nature of God consists of the temporal occasions transformed by an inclusive mode of feeling derived from his all - embracing primordial nature, so as to be united in a conscious, infinitely wide harmony of feeling which grows without any fading of its members.

A self - conscious occasion unifies the contrasts found in the conscious occasion — that is, of what is and what might be — by means of a subjective form characterized by the feeling of mineness, so that the occasion is aware that it is prehending these contrasts.

This vivid feeling of mineness emerges in the self - conscious occasion because of the high degree of integrating activity of its subject - superject.

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

I can understand this feeling on the part of people who have been brought up to accept the conventional notion that heaven will be a place of meeting with those who have died and who wish to have assurance that continuing conscious personal existence after death is guaranteed to us humans.

The recreation of this proposal in the conscious, definite, and intellectual awareness of the beholder is called a «propositional feeling,» and it is this feeling which is aesthetic experience.

By psychic phenomena I understand all immediately «given» conscious experiences, that is to say, sensations, mental images, feelings, thoughts and processes of volition.

The Awakenings in America, for instance, couldn't have happened apart from the fact that great numbers of people, theretofore conscious of themselves as Christians in some sense, suddenly felt that the depth of their «certitude» had been disgracefully shallow.

Few today would argue that the emotions of which we are conscious exhaust our emotional life or can be explained without reference to the ebb and flow of unconscious feeling.

Consciousness raising, then, is simply the bringing into conscious awareness of those influences which cause us to feel and behave as we do.

But they included also the whole welter of conscious and unconscious emotions and feelings from the past as well as the cumulative results of previous psychic activity.

Reading over your names, looking at your faces, knowing the extent of your churchmanship and conscious of the devotion which you have always shown for the Successor of Peter, I must tell you that I do not feel a stranger in your midst.

If we understood the laws of nature fully, we would see that such destruction and the suffering conscious beings feel... are inevitable consequences of a universe like this.»

So may his stress on a background of «visceral feeling» of an external world of presences against which our sensations offer a fleeting conscious foreground.