Sentences with phrase «of a sense of self in»

Neurologist Damasio, curious about how we cross the «threshold that separates being from knowing,» delineates the nature of consciousness and the biological source of our sense of self in this involving, paradigm - shifting combination of riveting case studies and inspired interpretation.

Not exact matches

In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even seIn fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sein person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sein the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sein brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.

However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

«Working with narcissists can be very difficult, as their sense of self - worth is rooted in trauma and shame,» Weiss says.

Most concerning is the 4.1 % decline in same - store sales in the U.S. Higher prices and more intense competition are hurting the chain, not to mention that sense of shame and self - loathing many consumers experience at McDonald's.

The researchers believe that this dichotomy might be a classic case of the «licensing effect,» whereby people give themselves permission to behave badly after a noble move (or vice versa)-- in a sense, balancing out of their good and bad self - image.

In other words, it's a heightened sense of self - awareness.

It makes a poetic kind of sense that some of the earliest self - storage facilities in the world opened in L.A. under the Hollywood sign in the 1920s.

The other line, of course, is that robots gain a sense of self, or consciousness, thereby approximating the human - eye or in this case the robot - eye.

According to a new scientific study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, subjects who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray - matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

But it is also — in an admittedly self - serving sense — the «best» of times, because Ford's abysmal leadership serves as an object lesson in how not to lead, and reminds everyone of just how important leadership really is.

It began with founder and chairman Chip Wilson's sense of a market that even after 12 years defies explanation in an elevator pitch: clothing that is functional but also fashionable, designed for athletic use but often worn for other purposes, appealing to a New Age, anti-consumer aesthetic while occupying pricey real estate in shopping meccas, and all the while pushing a potpourri of empowering self - help messages.

Her «perceived sense of entitlement and self - appointed role as family spokesperson» in the documentary upset Buffett beyond reproach.

Ideas around the non-monetary aspects of employment in providing a self - image for people, giving them standing in the community, a sense of personal worth, a role as family provider, a network of peers, and way of life are not part of the economics curriculum, so can be assumed not to matter.

For the most part, it's a lazy, sycophantic, uninspired, biased, occasionally self - interested (in a conflict - of - interest sense) and worse yet, boring business.

And I warned at a number of junctures in 1999 before the Internet bubble, and again in the winter of 2007, that the main thing we had to fear was the lack of fear itself, precisely because a sense that everything is stable is a self - denying prophecy, because if there is a sense that everything is stable, -LSB-...] people will take on more risk and that will then create the conditions for future instability.

Under the idea of self - management, employees are trusted to use their common sense in matters ranging from working schedules to travelling expenses.

In 2000, as the tech bubble was peaking, Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani observed that the late stages of a bubble can be «rational» in a certain sense, provided that investors are inclined to self - reinforcing behavioIn 2000, as the tech bubble was peaking, Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani observed that the late stages of a bubble can be «rational» in a certain sense, provided that investors are inclined to self - reinforcing behavioin a certain sense, provided that investors are inclined to self - reinforcing behavior.

The wisdom of that decision is unclear, but that decision process no doubt solidified a sense of self in the team.

If you have explored all the self - funding, equity funding and non-collateral options and none of those are viable means to fund your business then using the equity in your home makes sense.

Paying off debt can result in stress reduction, relief from fear, a sense of accomplishment, a boost in self - esteem and better physical health.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

For example, if you tend to engage in negative self - talk, you notice that you may be hindering your own sense of confidence.

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

Cutting off an entire part of life makes little sense and comes about due to DNA (spiritually challenged people actually can not sense anything outside of self) or choice which is often based on pride (even those who hate God because of some physical or emotional abuse overcompensate in a pridefull unforgiving resentment).

This set - apart identity gives bishops and priests a remarkable capacity to sustain their sense of self - importance independent of trends in culture (something liberal Catholics often find exasperating).

It makes sense to call for greater self - reliance at this time because some of what needs to be done can not, in the nature of the case, be undertaken by government.

Also most Atheists read religious article because the topic is usually of great interest to some like my self, who loves theology in a cultural sense but can see the bad logic involved and doesn't believe any of it happened.

Virtue — or the appearance of virtue — is pursued because in some sense it finally serves one's self - interest.

In refusing to impose the details of justice from afar the liberal political cultures would not be abandoning principles, for «self - determination» in the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracIn refusing to impose the details of justice from afar the liberal political cultures would not be abandoning principles, for «self - determination» in the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracin the political sense is not just a principle of modern democracy.

By lumping all persons who act out of a sense of duty and obligation derived from membership in a reference group together in their normocentric orientation, the authors fail to distinguish those who act from the standpoint of a reflective and self - chosen set of commitments (i.e., in accord with a reasoning approach) from those whose membership is a matter of fate and socialization (i.e., out of a fear of group exclusion, disappointment, or exclusion).

God as we know it was definitely black but not in any physical human sense God was Zero the absence of ligh (Hence black) matter and self.

People are too conceited to want to believe that when they die, they cease to exist, so viola, in their pea brains God exists to satisfy their own sense of self importance through an afterlife and continued existence beyond life.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

They will probably spend their lives trying to develop the sense of self - worth and confidence that will allow them to succeed in the modern world.

These have been formulated in different ways, but a typical list would cite life (including health, safety, and procreation); knowledge (including appreciation of beauty); holiness or religion (in the sense of harmony with ultimate reality); self - integration, justice, friendship (including marriage); and the kind of exercise of skill in work or play that enriches human life.

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

The general sense of experience in our age, the most common bond among our separated selves, is the sense of a derangement, and Percy (among others) finds this an effect of the Cartesian displacement of consciousness.

We agree that alcoholism is not in any conventional sense a «disease»: That white lie gained ground in early Alcoholics Anonymous because it helped unburden the alcoholic of guilt and self - hatred at the outset of recovery, enabling him to perceive that his own sense of powerlessness was not the last word.

In some cases this appeal to inner intuition might take the form of the claim that each of us has a «non-sensuous experience of the self» which is «both prior to our interpretation of our sense - knowledge and more important as source for the more fundamental questions of the meaning of our human experience as human selves» (BRO 75).

There is, of course, no gainsaying the common - sense psychological wisdom contained in a program to enhance one's self - image, to develop and utilize our highest potential for creativity, for mental and physical health.

In the Whiteheadian system, God directs the development of an actual entity in the sense of luring it towards a form of self - realization productive of the greatest possible future intensity of feelinIn the Whiteheadian system, God directs the development of an actual entity in the sense of luring it towards a form of self - realization productive of the greatest possible future intensity of feelinin the sense of luring it towards a form of self - realization productive of the greatest possible future intensity of feeling.

So that the delusional people in each parish can find a sense of relief when the CC comes a runnin» with an exorcist to cast out their self - created demons??? Having an exorcist in each parish will just help to add more delusion to the faithful (which would of course benefit the CC as a whole as a means of psychologically wrestling their believers further under their proverbial thumb).

In any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happinesIn any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happinesin a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happinesIn speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happiness.

Creativity, then, makes an adjustment to its immediate past in the sense that the nature and character of each new instance of self - creativity undergo modification in conformity with the nature and character of the past.

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessednesIn summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessednesin a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

This will include a strong sense of personal sin, not as the mere breaking of some arbitrary laws but as as a sort of self - mutilation in the disfigurement of our true, originally sinless humanity.

There is no sense of self - righteousness or vindictiveness in Christ's command to correct an erring brother.

Churchian regimens reinforce the internal schism we all naturally sense between the aspect of our selves that want love and goodness and the aspect in which there seems to be «no good thing» according to Paul.