It is possible that the child's experience of trying of new foods in the modelling situation is positively reinforced by the pleasant
physical feelings experienced when they eat the healthy foods that are being modelled for them, making them more likely to try new foods again in the future.
Not exact matches
When you read a highly negative comment about your business (or about yourself), you not only
feel angry but
experience a very real
physical reaction.
During or after an ongoing endurance event like the Tour de France, athletes might
experience other
physical effects, like shaking or «dead legs» that
feel heavy or fatigued, Milton said.
In a recent survey of U.S. adults who
experience symptoms of stress and burnout, 25 percent said they
feel run down and drained of
physical and emotional energy.
The
experience was so illuminating — «I
felt so grateful to work at a place that offered these opportunities,» she says — that she started thinking of other ways the firm could connect
physical and mental wellness with community improvement.
You will
experience a
physical change to your body that you can see, and confidence you can
feel.
Pleasure - anxiety in the individual is that which makes him
feel guilty and anxious when he is
experiencing pleasure, especially
physical pleasure.
Experiences during this process include
feelings of unreality and shock,
physical distress, preoccupation with the image and memory of the lost one, pouring out of grief, idealization of the deceased, guilt
feelings, anger, loss of interest in usual activities, the unlearning of thousands of automatic responses involving the deceased, relearning of other responses, resumption of normal patterns of living, and the establishment of substitute relationships.
The desire for peace is most acutely
felt where peace as a «
physical» and
experienced reality exists in an emaciated form.
What we normally take as
physical reality is composed of a continuous, dynamic process of occasions of
experience inheriting one another through a mode of activity that can best be called «
feeling.»
Broadly differentiated initial data are capable of yielding connections, discriminations, and contrasts which provide an extensive relatedness for
physical feeling at the causal level and for subsequent integration in the higher phases of
experience.
Our immediate
experience of relationships, derivative, actual, and effective, is founded on
physical feelings.
The significance of the vectorial quality of
physical feeling is that it gives the objective sense of others as entering into our
experience.
The actualities and relationships which constitute human
experience are
felt in a context of relativity which is ultimately rooted in
physical relationships.
Concern with the deepest reaches of relational
physical feelings combined with the widest range of conceptual generality in the unity of an act of
experience is characteristic of Whitehead's value theory as a whole.
Instead, he implies that it is conceptual thought which carries the sensitivity to formal relationships in
experience, while
physical feelings, on the other hand, contribute a sensitivity to the particularities of process.
I am concerned here only with the general structural character of the subjective forms of the
physical feelings in which religious
experience is grounded.
The distinguishing mark of religious
experience as opposed to descriptive generalization or conceptual insight is the inclusive generality of relationships embedded in the particular
physical feelings associated with religious
experience.
Once abstracted from their
physical roots, conceptual
feelings may be generalized beyond the range of the
physical experience of the individual to include possible extensions to which the
physical feelings may apply.
Their subjective forms indicate the qualitative ways in which the subject
experiences the energy of
physical feelings.
Religious
experience, on the other hand, has to do with
physical feelings of such extensiveness and depth as to convey sense of what is involved in any particular.
But the conceptual characterization of community is an extension of the concrete
experience of
physical community, just as the common eternal object used to characterize the nexus is derived from the
physical feeling of entities - requiring - each - other.
Religious
experience has an organic structure which can be analyzed in terms of the
physical and conceptual
feelings correlative to the generality of values perceived, and the subjective forms appropriate to each
feeling element.
The
physical feelings with which religious
experience is primarily concerned are: (a) the simple causal
feelings of the conformal phase of concrescence, (b) the transmuted
physical feelings, and (c) what I will call the «
feelings of subjectivity» or processive immediacy.
The fusion of
physical and conceptual
feelings may lead to a conceptual generality which outruns what one is able to
experience physically.
This stress on the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations means that, in considering the morphological structure of religious
experience, attention must be directed to its origin in the
physical feelings which comprise the primary mode of human
experience.
The fusion of
physical and conceptual
feelings in religious
experience both presupposes a range and depth of relationships in the data of the
feelings and also effects a greater intensity or relational extensionality in the
physical feelings of the individual.
In its empirical dimension, religious
experience is rooted in the sensitivity of these
physical feelings with their appropriate subjective forms.
As a fusion of
physical and conceptual
feelings, religious
experience represents an emergent factor in human life.
It is the generality of both the
physical and the conceptual
feelings involved in religious
experience which establishes the common basis for the kind of integration in which emotional
experience illustrates a conceptual justification, and conceptual
experience finds an emotional justification.
The depth dimension of religious
experience grows out of a perception of the generality of concrete relationships given in
physical feelings.
The hybrid
physical feeling of God, which is (on the traditional Whiteheadian account) the subjective aim for any particular occasion of the young woman s
experience, is also a prehension of the past from which she inherits — it is, after all, a
physical feeling.
In the language of physics, the simplest «
physical feelings» are units of energy transference; or, rather, the physicist's idea that energy is transmitted according to quantum conditions is an abstraction from the concrete facts of the universe, which are individual occasions of
experience connected by their «
physical feelings.»
Nor is this contention weakened by Whitehead's statement that God's
experience originates from conceptual
feelings while the
experience of finite occasions originates from
physical feelings.
This continuuum appears to begin with
physical feelings dominating the occasion's
experience and may well exhibit a continuous increase in the role of conceptual
feelings in the self's
experience.
Finally, the id mode of the self, where reality is
experienced as causally efficacious, correlates with the stage of fore - contact and the phase of
physical feelings.
It is correct that we can not
experience as ours wholly unthinking, unmediated
physical feelings; it is only by abstraction that we can talk about the mere
feeling aspect.
The primitive form of
physical experience is emotional — blind emotion — received as
felt elsewhere in another occasion and conformably appropriated as a subjective passion.
When one says that being gay is just about what body parts arouse you, I do not
feel so much that I can count myself in that description, and yet that is likely an accurate description of someone else's
experience, that except for
physical arousal they would be gay instead of straight or straight instead of gay.
This distinction between initial,
physical, conformal
feelings and supplemental, conceptual
feelings can be significantly applied to the divine
experience.
It is a spectacular ride through the cosmos as a thinking,
feeling,
physical experience, creating and retaining memories, loves, hopes and dreams.
But Whitehead has also shown that there is a more basic dimension of all
experience, what he calls perception in the mode of causal efficacy or
physical feeling.
Much of Whitehead's writing consists in a detailed account of how conceptual and
physical feelings are integrated in human
experience.
The chiasm enacted through
physical feelings not only remains beneath the level of conscious
experience, but also below that of clear, sharp sensory perception in
feelings of presentational immediacy.
Only by a process of
physical and conceptual «prehensions,» «
feelings» and «
experiences» — through several levels of increasing awareness — do we arrive at a final resolution in acts of self - cognition and conscious purpose.13 In other words, Whitehead believed that conscious and purposive acts are the tip of a «prehensive» iceberg that remains below the level of consciousness, yet participates in every moment of concrescence, resulting in novelty and creativity in an evolving universe.
For example, when a parent structures his perceptual field by being attuned to a possible cry from a new - born child, the infant is the source of the
physical, causally efficacious
feelings of the parent's
experience.
But can we give any content to concepts like «primitive
experience (PR 247), «basic prehensions» (AI 183), «the basic elements of all
physical feelings» (PR 248) and similar ideas which appear repeatedly in Whitehead's writings?
As for the first type, every actual entity (not just those of God) must prehend all the determination made by God just prior to the initiation of that moment of
experience: All influences are causal, either as pure
physical or hybrid
physical feelings (see Section 6).
I am a stone carver — I affect the stone, and the stone affects me — it is a continuity with the stone — The stone also affects others, and their environment — I am not the stone, and the stone is not me — the stones already have stories, which are not my story in life — It is different
experience, than
physical and mental, it is a continuity of oneness — without which, I am no longer the stone carver — I animate the stone, and the stone animates me, in my environment — I
feel this way about my environment — it animates me, and i in turn animate it — it is my continuity with my environment — These thoughts and thinkings, and knowledges of my soul, my continuities, become my perception of my environment — My environment gives me life, and I give life to my environment --
The death of his mother when he was six and of his father when he was 16 pushed Merton into an intense
experience of the vulnerability
felt by so many between the wars, and led to a cosmic sense of loss and nearly to a breakdown, both
physical and mental — a vulnerability he described as «living on the doorsill of the Apocalypse» (ibid.).