Sentences with phrase «of bodily feelings»

(29) A person with diminished awareness of bodily feeling becomes

It is true that ideas can be derived from other ideas, but in each process mentality originates by a conceptual reproduction of a bodily feeling.

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A feeling of gratitude can also activate the hypothalamus, which controls not only essential bodily functions such as sleeping and eating, but also metabolism and stress.

While we tend to think that smarts equals IQ, Harvard research shows there are actually six other types of intelligence, including everything from the «bodily kinesthetic intelligence» of gifted athletes and dancers to the «intrapersonal intelligence» that gives us the self - knowledge to understand and manage our own feelings, preferences, and quirks.

These target and reduce bodily responses to stress, such as feelings of butterflies in the stomach or chest tightness.

The near future will apparently see the rise of electronic things being inserted into our bodies, so that we can know everything our bodies are doing and feeling and thereby improve our bodily functions.

They felt this was unacceptable because of the possibility of bodily contact between male and female clerics.

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

As the living person draws upon a wider bodily experience, so the conscious ego, if there should be one at a particular moment, draws upon a vast ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it.

The evil occurs in and to God's body; the pain that those parts of creation affected by evil feel God also feels and feels bodily.

Apparently, then, this specialized group of nerves is the material locus for a «critical node,» as Whitehead puts it, at which point bodily feelings are transmuted so that «there is an increasing development of special emphasis» (PR 477).

The first description points to a level of mental functioning in which bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement of the mental pole in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual form of bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations in the interest of greater depth of experience.

If the divine is now used to give the view a supposedly greater philosophical coherence, then I inevitably reach the sort of conclusion implied by Hartshorne's bodily cells with their «little experiences or feelings.»

I know that I am «the same person» now as the person who started writing this paper; and I also know that I have undergone a complex variety of changes in sensation, feeling, emotion, ideas, bodily processes and so on between then and now.

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

The problem is the much more complex one of relating religious language to empirical categories, to bodily feelings, and to concrete social energies and relations.

Rather it is occurring in bodily feelings, the feeling of breathing, for example.

In the case of sight, Whitehead states, the bodily feeling is virtually absent; in touch, however, the feeling in the hand is dominant (PR 181).

Our normal, ordinary bodily experience is like that of, say, feeling tired, which we might describe as a general feeling of tension and strain broadly diffused throughout the whole body.

Indeed he went to great lengths, grappled with the formidable problem of the nature of light, made incredibly subtle distinctions between various types of change, all to explain the fact that in sight consciousness is consciousness of an object, pure and simple, apart from any feelings of bodily involvement.

What else, indeed, could have led him to speculate that sight involves no bodily disturbance — at least none of any ordinary type — except the fact that he did not feel any.

Continued auto - erotic practices also reflect both inability to give oneself in a complementary way to others and a habit of seeking compensation in one's own bodily feelings for the frustrations of interpersonal associations.

It is not true of despair, as it is of bodily sickness, that the feeling of indisposition is the sickness.

Presentational immediacy, on the other hand, can be considered as a propositional feeling with its speculation centered on the presented duration, derived from bodily efficacy; and it involves the kind of propositional feeling called «perceptive,» for the most part, but not exclusively.

So vivid and so powerful was this recovery of the kind of interchange with one another that they had had when Jesus was alive with them that it produced the feeling of his actual presence with them in bodily form.

As the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusted.

In such cases the sensory datum complete with the feeling of bodily efficacy is present.

Therefore, the feeling of bodily efficacy, since it can be delusive, provides no certain knowledge about the operation of a causal nexus in nature.

This physiological response sets up affective tones or bodily feelings which constitute the subjective forms of the energetic processes transmitted to us from our environment.

Moralism results in strong feelings of guilt and inhibition concerning bodily drives and hostile feelings.

Finally, ascetic exercises may in rarer instances be prompted by genuine perversions of the bodily sensibility, in consequence of which normally pain - giving stimuli are actually felt as pleasures.

All processes (or processes of appropriation) exemplify two basic kinds of feelings: physical or bodily feelings and conceptual feelings (mentality).

The existing patterns of physical feeling in my brain cells have to be deflected repeatedly by fresh novelty — now this way, now that way, in a tedious sequence of trial - and - error, before these tiny bodily societies learn the new patterns which enable them to respond to my aims to type.

We have been saying that parent - child intimacy develops in the process of teaching the child to prize his own body and bodily experiences, his own senses and sensations, his own feelings, both good and bad.

But in its bodily protective role, which eternal objects the presently concrescing occasion of the supportive nexus feels as more relevant «lures for feeling» than others «is left unanswered by the category of reversion» (PR 381f).

Thus we may say that the complex comparative bodily feelings entertained by the dominant occasion (that which is presently concrescing) of the nonsocial nexus need not be reflective.

This can also by all means be regarded as ensuing in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being, as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive» experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case — experiences which, as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull bodily sensation, in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..

Most of the pre-reflective bodily order and habitual behavior is handled by the subordinate «living persons,» but sometimes a feeling of personal dominance and reflective control occurs which requires the regnant society.

Thus, in the immediate subject, the presentational immediacy is to be conceived as originated in a late phase, by the synthesis of the feeling of bodily efficacity with other feelings» (PR 312/475).

9 There are striking parallels between Merleau - Ponty's account of expression and Whitehead's in MT. See especially MT32, where Whitehead discusses the relationship of feeling to expression, considering both of them in terms of the natural functioning of the bodily system.

Many feel the same about strokes and fear mental impairment, loss of bodily control and simple dignity.

Crying in the first three months of life is about regulating bodily needs, wiring up the nervous system, and feeling close to and safe with a caregiver.

I was once an occupational therapist so, a) bodily fluids don't frighten me, and b) I am used to - and feel honored to - be a transitory part of people's lives during BIG times.

One more thing - some people feel like it's not allowing kids to be kids - I just see it as a different method of handling bodily waste.

How would I feel if I was a small person in a big world, a world where large beings were constantly jabbering at me in a language I barely understood, a world where everything was a challenge, from climbing out of a chair to learning to control my bodily functions, a world where every day, all day long, I was confronted with new things to taste, new things to explore, new things to discover.

The whole point of potty training is to get them to get in touch with their bodily functions and recognize what it feels like to have to go potty.

Remember that as your child becomes more and more mature and in control of her bodily functions, she will feel much more comfortable at deciding that she can risk trying to go to sleep without a diaper.

You can't seem to make it out of the house without someone else's bodily fluids on your pants and remembering to feed the dog feels like a huge success.

By trying to make yourself feel better, you will think you can control the bodily functions of your child.

Half of them were trained to practise mindfulness, which teaches a heightened awareness of one's feelings and bodily sensations, so that they pay attention to cravings instead of suppressing them.