Sentences with phrase «irrational feelings of»

Quite literally the irrational feelings of affection despite being taken on the biggest ride of your life in which you have absolutely no say in where the team is going (being held captive) is the literal definition of the illness.

The first clue that envy is lurking may be irrational feelings of hostility towards the object of our envy.

Not exact matches

I come to these conversations based on what I read from the author and only contribute my own voice to counter what I feel is a diatribe of irrational and fantasy charmed people with letters after their names who have no idea of what they write about.

But it takes religion to make people have irrational fears and hate for other groups of people when they probably wouldn't have those feelings in the first place.

Some may let the proselytizing go unchallenged, but I feel a societal obligation to curb the onslaught of irrational thinking.

What I was trying to say is that believers and their beliefs, primarily Christians in the US, have an impact on lives of everyone in this country and that is why many non-believer feel not just a right but often a duty to challange what they see a irrational thinking.

This difficulty is particularly strong in connection with those unusual events where men feel the presence of the demonic and the irrational, events that arouse terror, threaten security, and disturb faith.

The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who experiences himself as a unique individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of life the most precious chance he has.

Of course, irrational feelings in the open can do the same thing.

(It would be irrational not to feel grief upon hearing of the Oklahoma City bombing.)

So accustomed are all of us to conceive the church as an assortment of either consciously planned programs or irrational religious feelings that illustrations of symbolic interaction are necessary to warm us to the notion that congregations have cultures as well as activities, policies, and emotions.

If guilt feelings do not respond to the normal process of confession - reconciliation it may be because they are neurotic (or irrational) feelings (see Chap.

When Rudolf Otto describes the sense of the «numinous» or holy as an irrational experience both fascinating and awe inspiring, in which the content can only be felt and not spoken about, he is making a similar point.

It does this by creating a climate of acceptance — of feelings and impulses (around which irrational guilt often forms)-- and by confronting the young person with the need to change irresponsible, self - other hurting behavior (the source of appropriate guilt).

You're right that I believe that God created the beginning of the universe but I don't feel that is irrational.

It encourages people to feel that irrational events and the suffering of life have meaning and obey a superior logic in which Good will always win.

This irrational terror lasted into my adulthood, until at one point a therapist suggested that I walk into dark rooms and then just stand there and lean into the feeling of fear, letting it move through me until it transformed into something new.

Thinking errors, simply put, are patterns of thinking that are inaccurate or irrational; they influence our feelings and behavior, often in negative ways.

I had irrational fears about what it would be like at work, felt completely helpless on multiple occasions, and had a very hard time letting my son out of my sight even to run to the bathroom (when my husband was home).

No mom wants to look at another mom and feel angry or jealous of her for simply having her baby here on Earth, but it happens, as irrational as it feels when it does.

Learning there are a lot of moms out there doing extended BF makes me feel I'm doing a great job despite hearing nasty comments and irrational judgments about it.

If we are irrational, perhaps one of the reasons people bristle at you is they feel their nature is under attack.

You know that time of the month when you're irritable, angry, irrational, and feel a little out of control?

Taking 3 to 4g of EFAs (Omega 3, 6, 9) has been clinically proven to treat depression as, like deep breathing, it restores normative function to your brain, particularly in the areas where irrational thoughts / feelings can overwhelm you.

For example, I've never felt the urge to keep every item on my desk in perfect symmetry, and I have no irrational fears that myself or a loved one are in imminent danger of some horrific accident.

I also have days where I am tired of feeling bad and am irrational.

Consider talking to your partner about these feelings of mistrust — if they're worthy of you, they won't be bothered by a few irrational fears, especially if they know those feelings are simply a nasty by - product of being hurt in the past.

it actually feels a bit like irrational man, a story of romance, but with some dark themes hidden underneath it.

The concern is especially deeply felt among those of us whose jobs require helping children to process the irrational actions of adults in a world that seems to inch closer to the edge every day.

But what about another crisis, you ask — well sorry, where's the leverage, the ballooning bank balance sheets, the pervasive feeling of irrational exuberance... we're still climbing a wall of worry!]

Because of Mr. Garay's irrational reaction, Ms. Farner and the coordinator felt certain that it was in Arnold's best interest to be transferred to the other, more permanent foster home.

These games need to encapsulate the feeling of being a true man in all of its facial hair, steroid infused, irrational glory.

Surrealism, magic realism, the scientific principles of light and an inchoate sense of longing informed the dreamlike photographs, especially the large - scale camera obscura works, which invited the rational and the irrational to exist in the same room — juxtaposed images that felt like artifacts from the land of dreams and memory.

He acknowledges emotion in the process of storytelling, and exposes ways in which irrational feelings or inaccurate memories might even affect larger political and social interactions.

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In the exhibition essay, she is quoted as saying «it may well be a kind of irrational joy I feel when compared to historically significant art» after being compared to Masaccio, Giacometti, and Michael Heizer.

Even if I am fully aware of the conflicts inherent in the irrational arguments for things like God, Country, or finding a «soul mate,» I feel like any good faith investigation into these beliefs must acknowledge that the vast majority of humanity really does believe, or at least wants to believe, in romance and myths.

So even though many might not feel compassion for them, because of their «distance» from us and their «irrational» behavior, some of those starving, desperate people can still make it very uncomfortable for us.

What strikes me as irrational is that an intelligent person like Dr. Lewis, who has devoted his professional life to science, would either pay no heed to, or dismiss, the mountains of scientific evidence, from neuroscience and psychology and economics and sociology, that demonstrates beyond any serious question that the way we perceive risk is affective... Our fears are a combination of the facts and how those facts feel.

And this appears to be what the AHU leaders think, too, else why would they invite this individual to speak and why would they feel the need to obtain the services of «republicans are irrational» Chirs Mooney so as to «help communicate?»

I hope you're right about the wittling away, but I can't help feeling that the irrational nature of our current intellectual and political élite may yet surprise us.

Whilst on the face of it, a costs argument does not appear completely irrational, increasing state pension age on its own does feel redolent of taking a blunt instrument to the wider problem of an aging population.

The peremptory challenge is one tool by which the accused can feel that he or she has some minimal control over the make up of the jury and can eliminate persons for whatever reason, no matter how illogical or irrational, he or she does not wish to try the case.

Unlike proper civil litigation, domestic relations cases often involve uncontrollably irrational and volatile clients, many of whom are so consumed with feelings of anger and rejection that they frequently are seen as being incapable of making the sound business decisions which a negotiated settlement requires.

It feels more of a short - term irrational mania to me.»

That's because love, while making us feel all giddy and high as if we had just snorted a shoebox full of cocaine, makes us highly irrational.

Feeling jealous of an ex-spouse is difficult to control because it's caused by irrational anxieties and fear of loss.

It also reduces the tendency of children in care to idealize the absent parents or develop irrational fears and feelings towards their parents; even sporadic contact provides children with an opportunity to maintain a realistic picture of their parents» strengths and limitations (Littner, 1975; Palmer, 1995) Involving family members in the treatment process provides to the child «concrete evidence that staff and family are openly working together, decreasing the risks of manipulation and secrets» (Noble and Gibson, 1994, p. 317).

In spite of being an irrational feeling, feeling jealous of an ex-spouse happens all the time, especially when he or she begins dating, gets engaged, introduces his or her new love to the children, or gets married and starts a new family.