Sentences with phrase «own defense mechanisms»

Luckily, blockchain has built - in defense mechanisms to protect against cyber attacks and data manipulation.

It is virtually impossible to bring down a network when all of the gates and defense mechanisms are hosted across a number of self - governed processors.

Do not smile at people as a defense mechanism to cover up your discomfort or to seem pleasing.

That's partly a safety and defense mechanism that we use to keep from engaging with threats.

But in the following hours and days, the body's self - defense mechanisms backfire: White blood cells come in to clean up dead tissue, which causes massive inflammation, which in turn triggers healthy cells in the surrounding tissue to self - destruct in a process called apoptosis.

So rather than learning from our mistakes, we tend to double down and get further entrenched in our position as a defense mechanism.

«That's that great self - defense mechanism.

As a social media spectator, I'll admit, I loved seeing Twitter's reaction to Piers Morgan's childish defense mechanism and blustering.

«We have a deep set of defense mechanisms that make us careful around people in authority positions,» James Detert, a professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management who specializes in transparent workplace communication, told Harvard Business Review.

While there is no such thing as a 100 % foolproof strategy to protect you against fraud (although divvying your portfolio up into 30 - 40 stocks worth 2.5 % to 3.33 % of your overall wealth seems like a damn good defense mechanism), putting most of your money into stocks with records of growing dividends seems like an intelligent way to guard against corporate fraud, particularly if you have limited familiarity with reading 10 - Ks, annual reports, and other financial statements.

Saying «I am not selling anything» is the fastest way to set off your prospect's defense mechanisms — they immediately will become suspicious of your motives and start raising objections before you even have a chance to speak your piece.

Purchasing exact match domains as a defense mechanism — Many «brands» undergo the practice of pursuing and grabbing attractive exact match domains as defense mechanisms for their rankings.

This is now exploited as a joke - which is defense mechanism in full force.

You do this because you don't want to believe God is there, and your defense mechanism is to deny what they said was obvious, all of them... much like I'm telling you now, God exists.

I'm a mess of distorted beliefs, defense mechanisms, and insecurities.

Circular religious logic will still never fully justify the fact that religion asks for special rights and protections, which it gets, and then turns those rights and protections on other groups as a defense mechanism for when they are accused of discriminating... i.e. «We can choose who we accept and who we don't because of our beliefs... wait, what... how can you say you will not accept our religious organization, that's religious discrimination!»

Your brain's inner narrative is a fictional self - defense mechanism which is trying to justify your self - aggrandizing, your feelings of misguided moral righteousness, and your hatred of others.

And you only mock us because we have pointed out your own ignorance, and that is an understandable self - defense mechanism.

Unwilling to assume responsibility for the sin that had caused the nation's downfall, they found their defense mechanism in ascribing the guilt to their ancestors.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.

I think that kind of reaction is a defense mechanism... that people that hate on others beliefs only do so because they lack confidence in their own beliefs... and have to put others down to feel better about themselves.

Belief in God is the defense mechanism that some brains use when they just can't comprehend something.

When a germ is found within your body, the body's defense mechanism will immediately begin its warfare against it.

And so even though a defense of «poets» runs right through Simon and Garfunkel's lyrical oeuvre, in «I Am a Rock,» it looks as if this fellow's love of poetry can be reduced to a mere defense mechanism.

I've found its more of a defense mechanism, sort of.

Most important to me was Freud — not his diagnosis of religious belief as an infantile longing but his list of defense mechanisms (sublimation, projection, reaction formation among them).

These symptoms are described by psychologists as the root of the disorientation many people face today in their lives, although people manage to cover over and obscure them as a part of their elaborate defense mechanisms.

It is a defense mechanism, a means of survival.

It is a defense mechanism of the brain taken to extremes and used by those who desire the manipulation of others.

It is a defense mechanism (often an escape mechanism) and does - not embrace and guide the life as a whole.

When it comes to my relationship with God and with other Christians, I'm as quick as anyone else to try and protect myself from honest dialog by hiding behind flowery, unhelpful language (or, my favorite defense mechanism: to intellectualize everything so that it can't hurt me).

Now at a superficial glance all primitive religions are no more than a natural defense mechanism against man's ignorance, fear and insecurity.

Well, neither do I, and with one aspect of what you say I agree: faith in God is used by many as a psychological defense mechanism, a lovely make - believe world to which sentimentally they retreat when they do not want to face life's stern realities.

The book's introduction speaks of «the natural defense mechanisms of the patient, which are the indispensable agents of recovery,» and concludes:

As a defense mechanism, we tend to elevate our own lifestyles as God's will for all women everywhere.

Because of the strong dynamic of defense mechanisms, the major effect of religious television programs will be one of reinforcement of existing attitudes that most viewers would hold in harmony with the broadcaster.

Though defense mechanisms act to protect functional attitudes against threat and change, these defense mechanisms are not absolute.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

As long as they believe only their version of god is true, and only their version of god gave us free will... can you really not see what kind of convenient defense mechanism that affords them in an actual debate about their beliefs?

It opened up my mind again, which had locked itself in as a defense mechanism against a predictably cruel world, to appreciate, embrace and praise the Mystery.

Students veer into other disciplines, and our culture as a whole adopts an ironic tone, a defense mechanism we may regret but which is entirely understandable in an intellectual environment of unmasking and critique.

One very important thing to remember before cooking with quinoa is to wash the seeds, as they contain a naturally occurring outer coating called saponin, a defense mechanism of the seed that is toxic to humans.

Another study found that maltodextrin impairs cellular antibacterial responses and suppresses intestinal antimicrobial defense mechanisms, leading to inflammatory bowel disease and other GI conditions that arise from an inappropriate immune response to bacteria.

In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.

Your body steps up its defense mechanisms by instantaneously inflating liquid - filled balloons of sorts inside your oral cavity.

He was convulsed by a full - body shiver but wisely realized that it was his body's defense mechanism, so he didn't try to stop shaking.

Truthfully, having been a Phillies fan starting in the late 1950s, and having witnessed 1964, and following Philly sports ever since, it's more than a defense mechanism.

I felt it but some emotional self - defense mechanism held me back until about the 5 minute mark of last night's game.

Foster's defense mechanism is to pretend he has no rules.

Later these children tend to become controlling and aggressive, and dissociation remains a preferred defense mechanism.