Sentences with phrase «own bodily feelings»

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).

Feelings are largely bodily feelings.

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).

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.

All are organisms acting on the environment, with the concomitant bodily feelings (TOSA 2 - 3).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

What can be generalized most plausibly are unconscious bodily feelings charged with emotion and purpose.

When people are woken from deep sleep, they typically recall experiencing nothing or, at best, only some vague bodily feeling; this experience contrasts with the highly emotional narratives our brains weave during rapid - eye - movement (REM) sleep.

«I remember all my collaborations with Jerry, in terms of one tactile bodily feeling, which is his hands on my shoulders,» recalled composer Leonard Bernstein at a Dramatists Guild Symposium in 1985.

I was an abstract painter when I left Yale, and I was really aware, partially because minimalist artists had helped me articulate this, how standing in front of a painting or sculpture felt different depending on whether it's symmetrical or asymmetrical, if it towers over you, or it's smaller than your head how all of those things affect bodily feeling.

Instead, body parts and the primitive brain stem get «stuck» repeating bodily feelings from the past trauma events.

Not exact matches

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.

But even when we do feel justified in criticizing those within the church, Paul is not providing a license for us to do them bodily harm, or even to slander them to others.

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.

All pain to all creatures is felt immediately and bodily by God: one does not suffer alone.

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.

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.

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.

I hold that in feeling pain I am intuiting feelings in my bodily constituents, feelings which are not initially mine and only become mine by participation.

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.

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.

That is why I had to leave the church — I had to learn to dance, feel, love, and get in touch with my bodily wisdom.

«But why,» you may ask, «do our feelings influence the bodily cells?»

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).

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.