Sentences with phrase «of emotional»

I'm convinced the kind of emotional distance she described is not in our best interest.

It is my impression that economic issues do not for them involve the kind of emotional commitment that they express in the other three areas.

At the end of the last lecture we saw this permanence to be true of the general paramountcy of the higher insight, even though in the ebbs of emotional excitement meaner motives might temporarily prevail and backsliding might occur.

The direct perception whereby the datum in the immediate subject is inherited from the past can thus, under an abstraction, be conceived as the transference of throbs of emotional energy, clothed in the specific forms provided by sensa.

To make matters more complicated, friendships and family ties rarely function with predictable tidiness; rather, they inject an irrationality into life which flows from the haphazard nature of emotional commitments.

Sometimes this is explicit, in the exchange of harsh words; at other times it is implicit, evident not so much in what is said as in what is left unsaid --- for example, in the loss of those earlier notes of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual intimacy with his beloved sister Jemima.

To assert that homosexuality is not a mental disorder does not mean that all gay and lesbian people are free of emotional problems or mental illness.

I reply at once that where the character, as something distinguished from the intellect, is concerned, the causes of human diversity lie chiefly in our differing susceptibilities of emotional excitement, and in the different impulses and inhibitions which these bring in their train.

These engage a whole different awareness of likes and dislikes, what brings joy, what brings sadness, and whole myriad of emotional states we don't even have names for.

And placing a context upon «love» that lies outside of our emotional understanding diminishes Christ's loving sacrifice....

Meanwhile, Luther was ill and in an increasing state of emotional turmoil.

After a careful social, psychiatric, and physical evaluation, the man is put on Antabuse, given psychiatric help and «religious counseling» to deal with some of his emotional problems as he begins to work and attempt to reestablish relationships in the community.

A hangover period following a binge may present a «little bottom» — i.e., a state of emotional receptivity during which the alcoholic's defenses against recognizing his need for help are temporarily cracked by the physical and emotional pain of the experience.

I was living in Los Angeles and under the impression that I had «arrived» in terms of emotional growth and balance.

Because so often in one - hour counselling sessions, a therapist can only get so far before it's time to finish, and a woman who has been brought close to the root of her emotional pain then has to leave the room and go back to her everyday life: it is deeply unsettling and can draw the process out for years.

A considerable degree of emotional maturity is required to maintain a close relationship in spite of deep differences.

There is a recurring fear of emotional manipulation in worship music.

Touted for promoting chastity, the books in fact offer a combo of emotional titillation and steamy sexual near - misses, all bound together with a steady undercurrent of rape fantasy, that is deadly for women.

Just read my post «Why I Wouldn't Attend Pastor Steepek's Church» and you will see from the 190 + comments that the overwhelming majority of people are in favor of the application of emotional violence to achieve a good end.

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

Reality: Women can guard their own hearts, make their own decisions, and suffer the highs and lows of emotional intimacy just like the rest of us (if not better than the rest of us).

Effective parental / executive leadership and authority to nurture, protect, and socialize Organizational stability, with clarity, consistency and predictability Adaptability and flexibility — to better meet stresses and change Open communication characterized by clarity of rules and expectations, positive interactions, and a range of emotional expression and empathic responsiveness Effective problem - solving and conflict - resolution processes A shared belief system that enables trust, and promotes ethical values and concern for the larger human community Adequate resources for security and psychosocial support

The drive for justice always has many types of emotional charge.

The entertainment, including television entertainment, of emotional incontinence is just that, entertainment.

This places the clergyman in an important position in that if he can recognize the existence of an emotional crisis in one who is communicating to him, he can often take the initiative and begin his work of crisis intervention early in the developing crisis and often forestall serious suicidal behavior.

The group's chairman, Don E. Saliers, professor of theology at Emory, has for many years investigated the philosophical as well as theological nature of emotional experience; many of his views on the topic appear in his book The Soul in Paraphrase: Prayer and the Religious Affections (Seabury, 1980).

Having temporarily lost the ability to deal with the conditions of his life and to cope with the stress that he was facing, he was in a state of emotional crisis.

So, what you have experienced is purely of an emotional nature, right?

This capacity for vicarious arousal plays a vital role in the development and modification of emotional reactivity.

Unless your argument is so weak you resort to using children as some sort of emotional black mail.

The affluence and power that permeate River Oaks bring with them expected problems of emotional breakdowns, divorce, substance abuse, and a high teen suicide rate.

To identify Christianity with one form of the messianic delusion and of the philosophy of power, while rejecting another, is to be guilty of emotional and wishful thinking.

Moreover, he corrects Plato, who said that love is the search for supreme beauty, and declares that love simply is the supreme beauty.39 In addition, he avers that the whole range of emotional and aesthetic experiences in whatever sensory form can be interpreted most illuminatingly as the manifestations and self - enjoyment of love.40

If we compare stoic with Christian ejaculations we see much more than a difference of doctrine; rather is it a difference of emotional mood that parts them.

His own church's understanding of emotional illness will have a direct effect upon his efforts and how he functions pastorally.

This matter of emotional distance was one of the areas which they felt was open for further exploration.

The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.

In recent years, authors like Daniel Goleman and Travis Bradberry have awakened millions to the benefits of emotional maturity, connecting it to everything from healthy relationships to success in the workplace.

In an act of adoration, one with the gift, calling and anointing of celibacy (and that is important) throws himself or herself on the presence of God our Creator as being sole source of emotional support.

Brought by Albert Snyder, the father of the deceased soldier, the case accused Phelps and other WBC members with invasion of privacy and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.

They say that NPD households are one of the least researched because there's usually a code of silence in the family as a result of emotional manipulation.

But the lawyer for the fallen Marine's father argued those protests were an invasion of privacy and an intentional infliction of emotional distress.

So, something traumatic happens to you and instead of grieving that and going through that process, you stuff all those feelings in, you hide behind the mask of emotional strength, you keep taking care of everybody else, you keep working, and then you start engaging in self - medicating behaviors: you start binge - eating, you put a lot of focus on your physical appearance, you do a lot of makeup, hair, clothing, compulsive shopping, you start picking up these other health problems associated with these behaviors.

While I don't believe that we all need to take such drastic action as Esther did, I do feel we need to be more aware of the emotional impact chasing after «Likes», and spending energy on being noticed on social media has on us.

In our own time, the dominance of facticity characteristic of a technological age has tended to submerge the normal channels of emotional life, often producing abnormal and unhealthy emotionalism when they do surface.

The over-all goal [of therapy based on differentiation] is to help individual family members to rise up out of the emotional togetherness that binds us all.

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

produces percepta which are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion: it produces the sense of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future; a sense of emotional feeling, belonging to oneself in the past, passing into oneself in the present, and passing from oneself in the present towards oneself in the future, a sense of influx of influence from other vaguer presences in the past, localized and yet evading local definition....

Simpson explained in his book The Meaning of Evolution that «there are some beliefs still current, labeled as religious and involved with religious emotions, that conflict with evolution and are therefore intellectually untenable in spite of their emotional appeal.»

Through the very awareness of their emotional instability the mentally ill are often more in touch with their real selves than are many well - adjusted persons.