Sentences with phrase «in feelings of power»

Previous research has suggested that such essays cause a short - term bump or drop in feelings of power and capability, Fast says.

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Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

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Tony Robbins once said, «The power of positive thinking is the ability to generate a feeling of certainty in yourself when nothing in the environment supports you.»

Published in Psychological Science, the group concluded that «high - power posers experienced elevations in testosterone, decreases in cortisol, and increased feelings of power and tolerance for risk.»

For anyone who is feeling uncertain about the upcoming transfer of power, writer and illustrator Christopher Noxon has turned his recent tour of the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis into a motivational text that links lessons learned in the 1950s and «60s with today's strange times.

Clearly stating how you intend to feel today instead of wishing that you felt better puts the power of change in your own hands.

«We clearly see a fade amongst the 13 - to 18 - year - olds in usage of Facebook, and I think most people would probably intuitively feel that that's happening,» Mark Mahaney, lead internet analyst at RBC, told CNBC's «Power Lunch» Monday.

The subcommittee's chairman, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, said in his opening statement that «when one party is attacked, all of us should feel attacked... when a foreign power interferes in our election, it doesn't matter who they targeted.

Striking a high - power pose in your interviewer's office could come off as offensive, presumptive, and rude, regardless of how it makes you feel, Cuddy says.

If a girl lacks exposure to people like herself in positions of power, she'll feel less confident and less ambitious.

Despite the progress Europe has made in overcoming its recent period of crisis, many in Europe feel the continent is an «old» power in a new world lacking confidence, direction and unity.

While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control.

ESPN may feel as though it holds all the cards now that it has cut ties to Grantland founder Bill Simmons, but the balance of power in media has shifted.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

And now that Donald Trump and a GOP Congress hostile to the law control the levers of power in Washington, some other insurers are feeling free to follow suit.

I believe that the president can not allow too sharp a contraction in credit growth until he feels fully secure politically, and for me the pace at which credit is brought under control is, to a large extent, an indication of the pace of the process of power consolidation.

So from this point forward, we should go — if we had $ 135 as our assumption for recycling, take that down to $ 115 for 2Q through the remainder of the year, which is about $ 0.08 of incremental headwind and you feel that given the power of the first quarter, and it was a great quarter in garbage, that you can make that up?

They both feel justified in using power to control the lives of others, whether it be through political or physical violence.

When men, who have agency and voice, are silent against the sexual predation of women, they not only contribute to the shame that victims feel, they empower the predators who use wealth and power to continue their assault on our sisters created in the image of God.

... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?

Fact is many men who are in leadership or positions of power in Church, business, entertainment, sports, etc., feel it is their unilateral right to have access to sluts, regardless of what the Bible says or any other moral teachings.

They also remembered the spiritual power of the [civil rights] meetings,» especially the singing, with a passion and feeling rooted in the black church.

I've had it with worshipers and feel we need to keep them out of positions of power in general.

Jeremy it just hit me like a bolt of lightning i am so excited about this thought that salvation has nothing to do with eternal life but is speaking of losing the ability to be an overcomer in Christ.Having been there as a carnal christian i always believed in Jesus but i felt i did nt have the power to live a christian life so i felt like a hippocrite i was still subject to sin and sinful desires.So in that sense i had never received salvation because i had never been an overcomer in the first place.So i can see how a christian could lose there salvation having once walked by faith but that does nt effect there eternal life in Christ.Just so others know i am now walking by faith and am an overcomer i know what it is like to experience the power of the holy spirit and to not be overcome by my old nature that is what Jesus wants us all to experience rather than being a victim of the enemy.Whether we are an overcomer or not does nt effect our eternal life.brentnz

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...

He found himself in a church one morning, felt the power of God during the altar call — was shaking under that power and ready to commit....

Beyond these basic forms, however, one must consider the power of the whole pattern to evoke analogous experience in the reader, to affect his thoughts and feelings.

t is increasingly felt that the power of the TNCs are not and can not be sufficiently controlled by the parlimentary democracies in the West, and the behaviors of the TNCs in the third world countries are like an unbridled horse.

You have been conditioned to believe that what you say, think, and feel counts for nothing — yet, because you have been threatened and warned and cautioned to shut up, you suspect that there is some kind of deadly power in your truth.

From this perspective, there is much we can learn from the household codes about confronting our own privilege, keeping whatever power we may have in check, responding to our feelings of powerlessness, practicing mutual submission in our marriages, and imitating Christ in all of our interpersonal relationships.

By identifying the dialectical element that he recognizes in the process of concrescence with feeling rather than with logic, Whitehead is able to preserve the integrity of logic, and to avoid what I take to be the Hegelian dual fallacy of both overestimating the power of so - called «reason,» and at the same time encumbering logic with psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical elements that have no proper place in it.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

Personally i think those specific prayers are a distraction most of the times we pray these prayers because its what we think we need and often thats not the case.The better way is to just trust the holy spirit let him lead i think we miss the awesomeness of doing it Gods way its easy not difficult.The struggle is difficult when we are walking by the flesh and trying to do it our way.When i got to the point where i said to the God i am not going to do it my way anymore and i submit to you because know whats best for me.Change me and when i feel the wrong desires or temptation to walk by the flesh i just say Lord you know i am weak and i can not live a christian life without you help me.As soon as i do that it is effortless theres no struggle thats how we should grow.I am excited with what God is doing in my life he has opened his word i am seeing the fruit of his life impacting mine and i am changing day by day.I am walking by faith and not slipping back into my old desires i know what it means to be an overcomer sin does not have dominion over me anymore.In myself i can not boast because it is the power of God at work in my life and i give all the praise back to God.brentnz

But I have a feeling that if my generation can learn to make this one, vital distinction — the distinction between the power - hungry kingdoms of the world and the humble, grassroots kingdom of God — we will finally get a taste of what it really means to live counter-culturally in all the right ways.

His rejection of independently existing substance in favor of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out of the feelings of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic form of order is aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process of reality, are all examples of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.

A nation which operated by relational power would be one which actively attempted to be sensitive to the feelings of persons in other nations, to the needs, fears, hopes, angers, and goals of other nations (as well as of its own citizens), and which allowed those to influence its policies.

Jeremiah, pouring out before God everything he felt, poured out his vindictiveness: «Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction»; (Jeremiah 17:18) «Deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle....

We feel entitled to have our morals enshrined in law, to being the dominant religion of our culture, to having power to set the nation's agenda.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

But even more attractive, in my view, than these plausible reasons for Abraham's silent acquiescence in the horrible request are the following: (1) Abraham had learned, in the episode over Sodom, that the pursuit of righteousness may require sacrificing your own; (2) he felt and feared both the awesome power of God and also His righteousness; and, especially, (3) he had understood immediately the meaning of the test, namely, that he was being asked to show what was first in his soul: Was it the love of his own (and of the promise and the covenant) or was it the fear - awe - reverence for God?

This transition... is the origination of the present in conformity with the «power» of the past» (Process 210), or again, a «feeling — i.e., a positive prehension — is essentially a transition effecting a concrescence» (Process 221).

Whereas ancient man felt himself to be at the mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny largely depend.

Some criticisms of post-modern electronic culture reflect the threat being felt by people whose power base lies in the differently ordered literate societies.

Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

«I definitely feel the presence and continue to feel the presence of a higher power that I'm connected to in faith,» he said.

I get a little queasy at the line, «I definitely feel the presence and continue to feel the presence of a higher power that I'm connected to in faith,» he said.

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.