Sentences with phrase «directing conscious thought»

No longer is the brain or body obsessed with finding and directing conscious thought to search for good fuel or the nutrients in key food choices.

When you learn to direct your conscious thoughts, you will discover your true leverage.

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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.

Or perhaps the latter: given the total qualitative difference between the active, directed mental «intentionality» exhibited in conscious cognition (that is to say, the «aboutness» of thought and perception, the «meaningfulness» of reality as apprehended under finite phenomenal, conceptual, and semiotic aspects) and the passive, undirected indeterminacy of any reality that might exist independent of mental acts.

In sum, parents observe their children through a filter of conscious and unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes, and these filters direct the way they perceive their children's actions.