It seems that every kind of intervention should face these implicit processes that do not reach
a conscious level of elaboration.
Focus: Group Psychotherapy
The conscious level of groups.
These areas are thought to be associated with negative emotion processing (Heller et al., 2003), and the right fusiform gyrus is considered to be critical in processing cues that are above
conscious level of perception (supraliminal cues).
For growth and change to take place, a couple needs to move into
a conscious level of functioning.
Because behavior problems originate at the level of a dog's emotions and obedience training reflects a more superficial,
conscious level of behaviors.
In respect to the way these potentialities or «abstract entities» are actualized, Collingwood, however, makes a distinction between actualization on
the conscious level of thought and on the non-conscious level of material reality.
Process suggests that most of the relations that we experience are much deeper than
the conscious levels of our being.
It is not true that liturgical worship entirely fails to speak to the strictly
conscious levels of human experience; it does indeed speak to these, but it has richer connotations and implications; and it is these which do most of the «work» in liturgical as distinguished from didactic or other types of Christian worship.
Not exact matches
«Despite the injunction, we made the
conscious decision to raise pay across the board to exceed the threshold for some
of our managers,» Adam Shapiro, another Shake Shack spokesperson, wrote in an email, adding that managers already earning above that
level were given raises as well, to avoid so - called wage compression.
Being
conscious regarding resources and spending habits is very sensible and can be a lot
of fun, but
of course there is a certain savings
level where it does not make any sense to decrease spendings even further.
It has been
conscious that a balance needs to be struck between the benefits
of monetary stimulus and the medium - term risks associated with rising
levels of debt relative to our incomes.
Conscious awareness, memory, and learning depend on a minimal
level of electrical activity in the cerebral cortex.
As a result
of the brief, violent moment
of crisis in which it became
conscious at once
of its creative power and
of its critical faculties, humanity has quite legitimately become hard to move: no stimulus at the
level of mere instinct or blind economic necessity will suffice for long to goad it into moving onwards.
There is much empirical evidence for mental operations
of high complexity below the
level of conscious attention.
A typical case is
of a middle - aged business executive who, on a
conscious level, desires to stop drinking.
Where before in the unconscious
level, time was gathered without being consciously grasped, now there is a
conscious gathering
of time, so that the past is able to coexist with the present reduplicatively.
It is also entirely consistent with the patterns we notice in cosmic emergence for us to maintain that the human sphere
of mentality is now being invited by the «forces
of evolution» to leave itself open to an informing and patterning by a yet higher and more «
conscious»
level.
Not a little
of the everlasting new curriculums that are issued from the boards
of Christian education is, at some
level not clearly
conscious, aimed at qualifying the motherly - person image in the direction
of masculinity and the intellect — without getting rid
of Mom altogether.
But this much is clear: those factors found on the most basic
level of conscious experience are precisely those that he attributes to the world at large.
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.
However, he does hold that the goal towards which physical processes are directing the behavior
of an animal finds
conscious expression at the
level of spirit by its intuition
of the goal's essence under the form
of the good.
In this, as Lincoln discovered in the tragic days
of the Civil War, we find a
level of experience which does the seemingly impossible
of making us firm in the right, «as God gives us to see the right,» but also humble because we are
conscious that «the Almighty has his own purposes.»
In fact, and although it operates successively on two different
levels (that
of the purely organic functioning
of the mother, and that
of her
conscious action applied to another consciousness) what takes place is one and the same process pursued externally from one end
of the chain to the other.
In every present moment we are «aiming» — at the human
level with a genuine degree
of conscious awareness — at a future.
To become fully human, man has to achieve, on a self -
conscious level, a process that operates on a non-
conscious level, in all living things, namely, the synthesis
of individuation and interaction, or
of independence and interdependence... Accordingly, God as the power that makes for salvation is the cosmic process
of organicity, which, in sub-human creatures, synthesizes individuation and interaction on an unconscious
level, and in man, on a
conscious level.
This process happens not just on a
conscious level, but rather is the fundamental nature
of reality.
I sympathize with your outburst and you indeed are correct at an «etiquette -
conscious», neutral
level, unless one decides to give this area
of inquiry some serious thought.
The meaning
of history is the creation
of the human
level of existence when human
level means that
level where there can be indefinite increase in range and depth
of values appreciated and evils distinguished; indefinite increase in range and depth
of what can be known and controlled; indefinite increase in the depth and complexity
of man's subjectivity, both
conscious and unconscious.
And because consciousness is not a simple phenomenon but admits
of differences,
of «
levels»
of consciousness,
of more or less complex supplemental phases, our
conscious experience can be more or less temporal.
The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case
of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets
of containing societies within which there are social
levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's
levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread
of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part
of the brain, is the seat
of conscious direction
of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.
This reflection process need not be at explicitly
conscious levels for its effectiveness; it is enough that one has absorbed the institutional purpose to whatever degree into the internal structures
of one's identity, and then, in the naturalness
of a relational world, woven that purpose into the projections
of one's own influence upon others.
Socialism replaces bourgeois society's objectified, rationalistic view
of humanity with a new appreciation
of the human being in terms
of a spiritual and vital «center,» lying beneath the
level of the
conscious mind.
Basically, his solution takes the form
of distinguishing two different
levels of human experience, or
of more or less
conscious thinking about experience, on only the deeper
of which is there an experience
of God that is both direct and universal.
On the one hand, he claims that our concept
of «know» comes partly from «some dim but direct awareness
of deity,» which may often be driven below the
level of conscious thought, even if it is never wholly absent there; in a word, we have a feeling
of God as distinct from thinking or knowing God (1970a, 155; cf. 1962, 110).
The distinction Hartshorne insists on making here as applied to our present question can be expressed by saying that, whereas mere experience or feeling
of God can be not only direct but immediate, high -
level thought or cognition
of God, being mediated, as it is, by the
conscious judgment or interpretation
of such feeling, is
of necessity mediate.
made us
conscious of our need to grow, to move from the more - or-less satisfying but static
level... a helpful start to deeper
levels of communication.
And since the world has a radical freedom, being in fact the realm
of choice, such as we know at the human
level in
conscious decision but which in differing mode is present at every
level, this may be not only a «natural» recalcitrance but a quite definitely elected refusal to move.
In the organic responses
of the adverbial
level, selective processes operate according to what is relevant to the fulfilment
of the organism as a whole.12 At the same time, although some selectivity may occur, adverbial responses tend to take the character
of «total assertions»
of the whole organism about the whole object it confronts.13 At the accusative
level, or
level of conscious symbolization, whole masses
of irrelevant detail are excluded according to some principle
of relevance operating in consciousness at the time.
Millions
of persons suffer from severe guilt feelings which are below the
conscious level.
Unless he accepts it at a heart as well as at a head
level, he will convey a judgmental attitude in spite
of his
conscious intentions.
When biology snaps out
of this restriction it will become the basic science because it will be studying those individual entities where feelings exist at the
conscious level.
Feelings don't have to be
conscious, Consciousness enters only at the highest
levels of organization
of the living organism.
Why is it better to talk about a probability that is an actual state
of a body (which in the sleeping state is presumably not the same as waking), than to talk about the dynamics
of a telic being which, at the personal
level, is to be understood in terms
of activity - potentials by which it maintains itself at
conscious, unconscious, and self -
conscious levels?
In consequence we have a description
of the world that allows room for decisions made by particular «occasions» or moments — and these decisions, whether at the
conscious level in man or at lower or nonconscious
levels elsewhere, make a difference.
Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies
of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem
level, and, finally
conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations
of transcendence.
Monad's were for Leibniz just as real on the subhuman, even subanimal,
levels, as on the human
level; they were merely much less capable
of thought and definite
conscious recollections and perceptions, more limited to simple feeling and extremely short - run memory
of what has just happened.
The chiasm enacted through physical feelings not only remains beneath the
level of conscious experience, but also below that
of clear, sharp sensory perception in feelings
of presentational immediacy.
At a human
level, creativity is the «prius»
of all our feeling, acting, thinking, and hoping,
of our reality as language - speakers and as
conscious deciders.
As the
level of transcendent meaning attempts to gather our human consciousness into its embrace it becomes enfleshed in forms that are familiar to us in our
conscious experience.
At a deeper
level the lack
of interest in critical reflective reason may be a form
of anti-intellectualism but the
conscious irrationalism
of groups such as the «romantic German youth movement is quite missing.