First, you'll discover how mindfulness can help you face each life
experience with awareness and acceptance.
In addition to my work as a therapist, I teach mindfulness - the capacity to meet present moment
experience with awareness and acceptance.
Not exact matches
Data and research and scholarly journals are great, but people like Dale, people
with a pubic platform willing to talk openly about their
experiences, spread
awareness and create change at a much faster rate than would otherwise have been possible.
Imagine that you have identified your customer, found where he or she spends time online socially, created meaningful content to increase
awareness and engagement
with those customers, and then served up a buyable
experience at the very moment they discover a need for your product.
Whether it's the frustratingly unfulfilled promise of social media, or financially opaque ad placements, or agencies that substitute head count for
experience, or
awareness - building platforms that are disappearing like polar icecaps, or brands that are encrusted to the point of immobility
with the bad decisions of a dozen previous custodians, a CMO's day often isn't nearly as much fun as it ought to be.
Companies can become undervalued when there is a lack of investor
awareness, when an entire industry is out of favour
with investors, or when a company
experiences a short - term difficulty which, following careful analysis, we believe can be overcome.
With a more acute
awareness of our economic climate and the anticipated effects of a prolonged
experience, all governments will have budgets under tight scrutiny, and all will have to make hard decisions as we ride this out.
«Brad is one of the most
experienced individuals that I have ever worked
with when it comes to creating brand
awareness and running online marketing campaigns.
Companies can become undervalued when there is a lack of investor
awareness, when an entire industry is out of favour
with investors, or when a company
experiences a shortterm difficulty which, following careful analysis, we believe can be overcome.
Introspectively, my position is verified by the shifting nature of conscious attention,
with its structure of a central focal
awareness surrounded by an horizon of indeterminate yet always accessible oblique
experience, upon which the searchlight of attention may at any moment be turned.
Sarah Richardson writes a column for Reject Apathy about her
experience shaving her head to raise
awareness for women's rights
with Bald Solidarity.
We are allowed this latter statement because, as Bennett says, «the consciousness in question is not the objectifying «
awareness of» by means of which we attend to data, but the «
awareness with» by which much of our
experience is lived» (PS 3:42).
The goals are to help them reestablish meaningful communication, develop
awareness of the roles and interaction patterns of various family members, experiment
with modifications in roles and behavior, and, most important, to allow the family to
experience its essential unity and interdependence.
Indeed, one can argue that this early, excruciating
experience of existential anxiety and humiliated pride — Mantel's
awareness of her own inadequacy and her never - forgotten failure to discharge a responsibility laid too soon on her small shoulders, in effect, to defend the indefensible — conditions her identification, in later life,
with Thomas Cromwell.
Therefore, for Altizer, secularization is good insofar as it destroys that God who is different from man, but bad insofar as it also eliminates the religious instinct, the
awareness of the Sacred, that divine dimension of
experience which is intuited as identical
with man's own ultimate being and destiny.
And that means that though I am not unaware of this undefined
awareness and this surplusage of
experience, in order to proceed
with my inquiry,
with my problem, I have to keep it within manageable scope.»
Again Hartshorne, having conceded that, relatively speaking, molecules are mindless, denies that they (or their constituents) are totally lacking in
experience and continues: «the panpsychist... further will not admit that the lower degrees of
awareness are due to the dilution of mind by its mixture
with increasing doses of another something, matter» (BH 170).
From this perspective, the therapist can then share
with the patient an alternative subjective aim, or else an
awareness of the extent to which negative prehensions might be excluding relevant factors of the patient's
experience.
That Aristotle included in some forms of sensing
experience an
awareness of being acted upon becomes fairly obvious when we compare his account of sight
with that of touch.
The fact is that Abelard was trying to say,
with his own passionate
awareness of what love can mean in human
experience, that in Jesus, God gave us not so much an example of what we should be like but — and this is the big point in his teaching — a vivid and compelling demonstration in a concrete event in history that God does love humanity and will go to any lengths to win from them their glad and committed response.
In man the process of symbolization so transforms the whole that this prior and primordial
experience recedes to the fringes of
awareness and is only rarely and
with difficulty brought to attention.
Even when these prominent policy - makers have ignored the Christian theology behind Niebuhr's realistic
awareness, they have approached their history and
experience with new and significant insights.
Ben Meyer comments that most Jesus scholars of the day couple the liberal emphasis on the ethics
with an equally liberal «hermeneutic of empathy» In turn, a host of imaginative these were put forward in an effort to understand more fully Jesus religious
experience by tracing out the psychological development of Jesus's messianic
awareness.
- poses the possibility of
experiencing a defamiliarization of the reality structures of being - in - the - world and
with it an actualization of a new self -
awareness that is both liberated and liberating.
From my research, original Christ men and women entered into the Kingdom of God in a visual meditative state and into the Living, Objective, Visual, and Telepathic
Awareness with the Family of God Members and
Experienced Pure Love, Peace, and a Knowing They were Truly Sons and Daughters of God the Father and Mother.
That is to say, there is no person and no aspect of his life in which the
awareness of change, dependence, order, value, and imperfection, together
with their implications, may not be
experienced.
The attribute of «transcendence» was also mentioned, as referring to the
awareness of beyondness, of possibility in contrast
with actuality, involved in the fundamental religious
experiences.
Several women's groups turned from primary concern
with the institutional church to community projects, as a result of the «new flavor» developed in the groups through interpersonal deepening.20 It has been my
experience that many larger church meetings, including worship services, can be enlivened by incorporating small group communication and
awareness experiences into the proceedings.
In its actuality salvation is enjoyment; at its acme it is ecstasy — the unrestrained joy
experienced on the occasion of an acute
awareness of the harmonious union of life
with its surrounding community and its ultimate ground.
What Christians actually
experience in their encounter
with Jesus Christ, according to Schleiermacher, is a heightened
awareness of God, which is symbolized and celebrated in the joy of Christmastime: they are drawn under the sway of Jesus» uniquely powerful sense of God.
It means that an
awareness of the cause of a perception — in the mode of causal efficacy — must be copresent
with the
experience of the effect — in the mode of presentational immediacy.
My empiricism is a liberal one in that I accept reflective observation or introspection as a form of immediate
experience on a par
with the outward looking form of sense -
awareness which I describe.
First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of
experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of
experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental
awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our
experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7
With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80,
With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal
awareness it asserts together
with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80,
with the former revisionary type is «the
awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).
On the basis of such a distinction, it is open to one to understand the structure of
experience in the following way:
With respect to the immediate relation of awareness to its data, experience is to be understood as an asymmetrical relation of dependence of the noetic upon the ontic pole, whereas, with respect to the mediated relation of cognition and its data, experience is to be understood as the asymmetrical relation of dependence of the ontic on the noetic p
With respect to the immediate relation of
awareness to its data,
experience is to be understood as an asymmetrical relation of dependence of the noetic upon the ontic pole, whereas,
with respect to the mediated relation of cognition and its data, experience is to be understood as the asymmetrical relation of dependence of the ontic on the noetic p
with respect to the mediated relation of cognition and its data,
experience is to be understood as the asymmetrical relation of dependence of the ontic on the noetic pole.
These and other social changes have provided a society in which many parents
experience heightened anxieties together
with diminished
awareness and self - confidence.
Have you had the
experience of being brave enough
with other people around — then frightened at the
awareness of being alone in a big, dark house?
Transfer is not involved because the act of prayer takes place solely within human
experiences in which the person is confronted immediately (i.e., without mediation)
with the reality of his own existence and of his world on the deepest levels of
awareness (change, dependence, etc.).
Here, as in the Book of Job, the problem of evil is left an intellectual mystery but
with a triumphant soul transcending it and carrying off a victory in the face of it through the inward
awareness of a divine fellowship and the
experience of an unconquerable hope.
While the basic
experience of conversion is the same, the
awareness of an encounter
with God revealed in Christ, the concrete occasion of this
experience and the actual shape of the same differs in terms of our personal situation.
Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks not so much to the conscious attention of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously
experienced areas of human life where men live in terms of feeling - tone, of unutterable emotion, and of profound subconscious relationships,
with an almost intuitive
awareness of the «more» which is deep down in the structure of reality.
Even in dreams, as Bergson has shown, once and for all so far as I am concerned, two further realities are involved: some aspects of the subject's own past
experiences (memory) and (sensory
awareness) of the subject's bodily state, in whatever sense it has a body, and
with the last, to some extent, the state of the environment, as well.
This temporal spread in sense -
awareness is connected
with what Whitehead sees as our primitive
experience of the «passage of nature» — that something is going on.
The use of one of the above communication tools can enhance your
awareness of the wealth of shared
experiences in the past and your ability to mold the future of your marriage
with an increasing degree of intentionality.
If so, can this be correlated
with the undifferentiated
experience of the
awareness of oneness?
Thus in the course of a game decisions have to be constantly referred to higher echelons
with more degrees of freedom, and each shift upward is accompanied by a heightening of
awareness and the
experience of making a free choice.
Second, growth counseling involves a variety of growth - stimulating methods to help people use more of their potentialities by (1) developing better communication
with self, others, nature, and God — the four basic relationships within which all growth occurs; (2) developing new skills of relating in mutually - affirming, mutually - fulfilling ways; (3) growing by making constructive decisions and taking responsible action; (4) using the growth possibilities inherent in each life stage; (5) learning to use the pain and problems of unexpected crises as growth opportunities; (6) learning better methods of spiritual growth — the maturing of one's personal faith, working values, sense of purpose, peak
experiences, and
awareness of really belonging in the universe.
By its stress on event and on patterning and integration, by its insistence that relationships constitute an entity, by its concern for an
awareness of the depths of human
experience (motivations, desires, drives, and «emotional intensity,» for example), as well as by its recognition that we are part of the world and continuous
with what has gone before us and even now surrounds and affects us, process thought not only has been in agreement
with the newer scientific emphasis on «wholeness,» but has also contributed a perspective which can give that emphasis a meaningful setting and a context in the structure of things in a dynamic universe.
In a vital religious
experience the ontological loneliness of feeling oneself to be a spiritual orphan is overcome by the
awareness of one's unity
with all of life.
«The Catholic Church's
experience with this has raised public
awareness, which probably helps to explain the swift reaction in this case,» says Francis X. Rocca, who covers the Vatican for the Religion News Service.
However this may be, we are in all areas of
experience confronted
with the practical inexhaustibility of existence and
with the
awareness of imperfection and incompleteness in all that we achieve.