Sentences with phrase «own emotional life»

«Fear is the oldest, deepest and least subtle part of our emotional life, and so therefore it's boring.

As a result of seeing all this carnage, doctors shut down their emotional life.

Above all, we're here to empower you to take control of your emotional life — and we're giving you the tools to do it.»

But it is an unfortunate misconception to see the emotional life as something to be smothered with the pillow of reason.

As a rational animal, man's emotional life is regulated by reason, but not in the way we might think.

Von Wedemeyer would never match the role that Bethge played in Bonhoeffer's intellectual and emotional life.

The real question, then, may be how to empower clergy to take steps to improve their own morale and break through the passivity that sometimes cripples their emotional lives and occasionally their work.

Sometimes the word connoted the seat of emotional life — «the distress of his nephesh»; (Genesis 42:21.)

While the Hebrews, however, had only a rough and ready knowledge of bodily functions, they experienced the intimate identification of mental and emotional life with them.

Or at least that seems to be the case for many men, whose emotional lives are played out on big screen TVs and twenty - four hour media coverage of everything athletic.

How does the particular culture of this crossroads hamlet concretely determine the way it attends to the personal religious life, the emotional life, the social life of the people who make up its population?

To live rightly was to dominate the emotional life by reason, and so to act by will.

I would understand features of my present emotional life as inwardly determined by that event.

As you strengthen your emotional life, slowly you will find the pull to masturbate is not so great.

And while a lot of that will involve her hustle, talent and rare ability to play characters with atypical mental and emotional lives, it's also going to involve an even brighter spotlight.

We must be prepared to invest in the spiritual, intellectual, and emotional lives of our children, as have Chinese Indonesian Christians, who benefit from the dual heritage of Christian faith and Confucian morality.

But just as her salvation gospels can not be entirely dismissed, his critique of her can not be written off merely as rooted in his personal bitterness and his misogynist jealousy of her «boundless female strength,» There is something smug in her existence on a «special plane reserved for women with a privileged emotional life and a happier, more mundane adjustment to the mysteries of life.»

A contented infant is a delight to behold, but we would be deeply distressed if its mental and emotional life did not develop beyond that infantile stage.

If you mean emotions and (let's call it) an emotional life, then, to be sure, I do have that.

The idolatry that grips the emotional lives of some people in religious matters is incredible.

It must be got into the emotional life through story, drama, and song.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image... Into this image and its formation, he places the center of gravity of his emotional life, in order to attain the peace and serenity that he can not find within the narrow confines of swirling, personal experience.

Few today would argue that the emotions of which we are conscious exhaust our emotional life or can be explained without reference to the ebb and flow of unconscious feeling.

At several points Wilson flags these omissions as indications of Lewis's repressed emotional life.

Calling the death of Lewis's mother «the catastrophe of his life,» Wilson writes that «in terms of his emotional life, the quest for his lost mother dominated his relations with women.

What Nussbaum finds most compelling in great novels is their accounts of the richness of our emotional lives.

For all the fanfare about radical breakthroughs in neuroscience, we have no scientific reason to believe that our emotional lives can now he understood in purely physical terms.

So primarily, what literature does for our Guardians is to cultivate in them a richer and more responsive emotional life: this adds vivid color to the bland landscape of Benthamite economic thought, and puts human faces to political decisions.

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.

Robert Roberts, a Presbyterian theologian, also emphasizes the need for discipline in the Christian's emotional life.

Topher, if your brain were injured, and the chemical reactions not happening, you would not be sentient, and your emotional life would be halted.

Understanding that emotions take objects and are dependent on beliefs allows us to see that we can to a large extent pattern and form our emotional lives, and that we can — and should — choose between those emotions which the world encourages and those to which the Holy Spirit leads us.

The emotional life is one of the essential bases of Christianity.

Opposing both rationalism (assent to correct beliefs) and pietism (Christianity as a matter of felt experience), these thinkers aim to show that theological integrity and a rich emotional life are connected.

All too often this has been the goal of dispassionate scholarship, all too often stunting the richness of the emotional life.

We in our human way share in the subhuman emotional life of cells; they in their subhuman way share in our emotional life.

By and large, the Gospels sidestep the issue of what we might call Jesus» psychological development; instead, they depict other kinds of variability that result from having a body and an emotional life.

In the midst of the chaos and insecurity is the crowning tragedy of what is happening in the emotional life of the children.

I could easily show you these regions if I had here a picture of the brain.1 Moreover, the diminished or exaggerated associations of what this author calls the Köperfühlshäre with the other regions, accounts, according to him, for the complexion of our emotional life, and eventually decides whether one shall be a callous brute or criminal, an unbalanced sentimentalist, or a character accessible to feeling, and yet well poised.

In this way, the emotional life could be disengaged from attachment to and involvement in the world.

Admittedly it affects the whole range of our emotional life, and not only the mind, as when we receive instruction, or our enthusiasm, as when we are presented with an ideal.»)

Deeply imbedded in our emotional lives are symbols like democracy, equality, Christianity, love, service.

Sufism, or mysticism, and particularly pantheistic mysticism, found fertile soil in Indonesian spiritual and emotional life from the very beginning because of the nature of the Indonesian mind and because of the age - old influence of Hinduism and Buddhism.

This counterpoint of our emotional life may be conjured up in a powerful way by Mahler's music, but its apparent directness may obscure its complex roots in diacritical relationships which the various musical forms bear to each other.

If our emotional life begins with «vague totality,» then the artist faces the challenge of developing emotional clarity out of a background experience which does not favor any easy clarity.

Podcasts I Enjoyed This Week — Invisibilia on the secret emotional life of clothes and This American Life on life in Greek refugee camps — part I, part II

What we are finding is that it's a sense of being in control of their emotional life.

And the behaviors that parents are inclined to do naturally — like eye contact and face - to - face interaction, speaking in «motherese» (higher - pitched and slower than normal speech), and holding — are just the ones shown to grow the right - brain regions in the baby that influence emotional life and especially emotion regulation.

At the conference this weekend, Friday night's public session at Memorial Auditorium will feature psychologist Michael Thompson, author of the New York Times bestseller «Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys,» and Chris Kelly, chief privacy officer and head of global public policy at Facebook.

I also observe that women have very complex emotional lives in that it's not just a physical act that drives them.