Sentences with phrase «conscious thought resulting»

We are talking about conscious thought resulting in a belief about a subject that has been or is being considered.

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The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

One Christian musician recently told me that thinking about what eternal conscious torment actually means resulted in him struggling with depression and other related mental health problems.

Animals have to constantly adapt to a changing environment and thus «conscious mental imagery, explicit anticipation of likely outcomes and simple thoughts about them are likely to achieve better results than thoughtless reaction» (AT 41).

For a rough picture of the world has emerged in which thought, both conscious and unconscious, is an intimate interplay of only more or less focused and engaged acts of minding that result (mirabile dictu!)

On the basis of recent insights into the characteristics of conscious and unconscious thought, we tested the hypothesis that simple choices (such as between different towels or different sets of oven mitts) indeed produce better results after conscious thought, but that choices in complex matters (such as between different houses or different cars) should be left to unconscious thought.

The problem, experts say, is that layering a conscious thought over contrary unconscious core beliefs can lead to counterproductive inner conflict (think analysis paralysis) and self - flagellation when results fail to materialise.

In retrospect, Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie has a lot to answer for — the graphic novel includes lots of images of dead bodies littering New York as a result of Ozymandias» plan, but Snyder and screenwriter David Hayter made a conscious decision to show no carnage whatsoever — because they thought showing dead bodies would be too much, after 9/11.

Though I'm obviously white, I grew up in a 98 % black community and studied African - American history in college, and I think I've become much more conscious of minority issues as a result.

In Beuys» sense, Knöller's drawing process is also an expression of material - thinking and thus the result of a very conscious act of thinking.

Even if there isn't a conscious decision to arrive at a result that you think is «right», people have a tendency to look for errors that will move the result of the calculation closer to what they expected.

Conscious thoughts only account for two to four per cent of your results and successes, while your subconscious mind accounts for a whopping 94 to 96 per cent.

We think our results stem from conscious logical thinking when in truth it comes from our older brain — our subconscious mind.