Sentences with phrase «more habitual responses»

That's where the striatal system in the brain, which can be a source of more habitual responses, may be a detriment.

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The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

If you are interested in learning what these habitual relationships mean for you, personally, I ask that you consider removing addictive consumptions from your life — alcohol, coffee, sugar, wheat, dairy — so that you can quiet reward pathways, silence inflammatory alarm responses, and eat more informationally dense foods.

By developing our ability to be mindful, and by learning how to apply mindfulness to more healthy methods of coping with stress, we may become able to change our habitual and unhelpful responses to anxiety.»

Therefore, the response of small breeds to blows, pulls of their hair or ears and other habitual actions of children, will be by norm more aggressive or defensive than from dogs of a greater size.

Congruent with previous research (Caldwell & Shaver, 2012) and adult attachment theory more generally, these findings indicate that people scoring high in attachment - related avoidance have developed a tendency to deactivate their attachment system in response to a history of insecure relationships, partly through habitual suppression of unwanted thoughts.