Sentences with phrase «psychological reality of»

Payoff understands that, and built tools to directly confront the psychological reality of paying off credit card debt.

The exhibition offers a compelling overview of her work, exploring the physical and psychological reality of human existence and the importance of the painted image.

It has nothing to hide, but rather seeks to confront the emotional and psychological reality of its four characters with a minimum of artifice and exaggeration.

The complicated psychological realities of army personnel require a tougher directorial treatment than the maudlin melodrama presented here.

She considers her source images to be political in their contemporaneity, showing the psychological realities of the era in which they were taken.

Not exact matches

«Virtual reality allows researchers to experience physical and psychological challenges by deceiving the sense of sight and touch.

Neurotransmitters & Lucid Dreaming There are lot of mental and psychological methods to induce lucid dreams (e.g. reality checks, the Wake Back To Bed Method) but there isn't a whole lot of information on the neurochemical approach.

In a twist of great irony, the reason so many of us embrace the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is because from a psychological standpoint, it preserves our immediate to short - term feeling of well - being by disassociating ourselves from reality and encouraging inaction, even though from a long - term perspective, it is very likely to destroy our self - preservation abilities.

I guess the aggrieved individual or pack may suspect that the questioner has raised some valid issues and without any basis other than someone expressed a doubt or belief that threatened to take them outside of their psychological comfort zone, the complaint would not be taken seriously by the offending honest lover / seeker after reality / truth.

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

two other people arguing will need to work that out not you so if you stay out of it it usually works out... god is psychological security for those who need it... nothing wrong with that but reality will soon come calling... usually on a death bed when people for the first time really see they are alone... or you can beleieve a delusion... whatever makes you feel better.

They are aware of their own physical and psychological realities.

Some youth (and adults) use drugs to deaden terrible psychological pain or to opt out of grim external reality — ghettoes, war, pollution, overpopulation.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

This psychological reality is the reason why so many comedians at all levels of the hilarious hierarchy can be heard hitting out at Christianity and heralding its demise.

By far the larger part of the experiences to which men appeal can be explained from a psychological viewpoint without recourse to the hypothesis of God's reality.

M. Scott Peck has written that for psychological and spiritual health, we must be dedicated to reality, and he offers a helpful image: «The less clearly we see the reality of the world — the more our minds are befuddled by falsehood, misperceptions, and illusions — the less able we will be to determine correct courses of action and make wise decisions.

The Bible speaks about the transformation of selves by the acts of God: thus the psychological realities coming to expression in the biblical texts may be either descriptions of the imprisonment of the self needing release, or those of the liberated, transformed person.

At the surface level of the texts they have bequeathed to us, we search in vain for psychological insights or any attempts to correlate theological or ethical assertions with human realities which we label psychological.

This emphasis on the psychological and emotional effects of relation is one that is utterly foreign to Buber, for it tends to remove reality away from the relation back into the individual himself.

To such writers as C. G. Jung and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy the myth is an embodiment in different forms and cultures of a perennial reality, the spiritual process whereby the one becomes the many and the many returns unto the one or the psychological process whereby integration of the personality is achieved and the divine Self realized within the unconscious.

Buber's and Trüb's understanding of guilt as a primal reality sets them in marked contrast to the predominant modern trend toward explaining it away as the product of social and psychological conditioning.

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

The structure of modern society makes true dialogue difficult, and the tremendous force of social and psychological conditioning often brings society close to that deterministic and organic social structure that many accept as reality.

A church as a psychological reality is not just a collection of groups any more than a family is only a collection of individuals.

Though he transposed dreams from religious to psychological realities, Freud nonetheless utilized a rabbinic - midrashic interpretive method, which involved a patient probing of multi-layered meanings and the inscrutable, enigmatic dimensions of life.

He worked to put dream interpretation on a scientific footing, transposing the religious dimension of dreams into a psychological reality.

Dream interpretation, so Jewish in its imaginative attentiveness, pertains to psychological matters and the reality of repression.

In reality they're a kind of Stealth bomber, specially designed to evade your psychological defenses, [squirming their way] inside our mind in spite of every barricade we may seek to erect, and then dropping a highly explosive charge targeted at the most vulnerable point of our spiritual [laziness].

For Bergson, each tension yields a problem that is also the mark of apparently irreconcilable views of what is vital to the place of human beings in the world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in reality, because it is qualitative, felt, and immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness of deeper, dynamic layers of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner consciousness and an independent world apart from inner consciousness.

In the traditional psychological formulations, psychosis refers to a loss of contact with reality» think, catatonic schizophrenic or the man who insists he is Jesus Christ.

Berne's second major concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»

The recovering alcoholic must find nonalcoholic means of satisfying the needs he formerly satisfied or attempted to satisfy through drinking — reduction of anxiety, closeness to others, psychological «vacations» from painful reality, a sense of adequacy, experiences of transcendence, and euphoria.

In reality, then, the real horror of waterboarding is almost entirely psychological.

Describing his constructive theory as «modal - psychological,» he takes some cues from St. Augustine and suggests that the temporal dimension of reality may be «best conceived as the memory - creativity structure of experience as such.

This requires the mastery and use of the disciplines of the biblical scholar and the historian and the study of psychological, social, and cultural realities.

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.

Perhaps in recognition of the realities of psychological reinforcement, broadcasters have developed services for their viewers which previously were considered appropriate only to a local church.

Consistent with this principle we are now maintaining that no magical, extraordinary interruption of physico - chemical, biological, psychological or interpersonal transactions is required for us to accept the reality of a transcendent ground of emergent order.

The church is primarily concerned with making the life of abundance — of full psychological and physical need satisfaction — a reality in the lives of men.

As to healing, yes, there is a known benefit to believing in supernatural control, but it is a weaker form of psychological regeneration because it substi - tutes a (potentially) imaginary answer for a firm grasp of reality.

Canalization in Attachment Theory: A demonstration to dramatize why attachment styles are relatively stable and illustrate the broader psychological theme that our way of construing reality impacts reality.

Joe Soll in his book Adoption Healing likens adoption grief to psychological death, which is a very different reality from a physical death because there is no closure - no support for the feelings of loss, no grieving and mourning period.

Of course, this ideal does not always match reality,» say psychological scientists John Paul Wilson and Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto, co-authors on the studOf course, this ideal does not always match reality,» say psychological scientists John Paul Wilson and Nicholas Rule of the University of Toronto, co-authors on the studof the University of Toronto, co-authors on the studof Toronto, co-authors on the study.

«If you're going to have a new boss at work, or if you have to start a new diet for medical reasons, or if you're about to have a new baby — the message is that your «psychological immune system» will likely kick in and make you feel better about any unpleasant aspect of these new realities once they actually take hold,» Laurin concludes.

There is also the added spice that simulations can not provide — danger and the reality of being unable to escape in the event of any physical or psychological emergency.

This is fiction that challenges, that takes risks, that dares to bring dollops of strangeness into an ostensibly everyday narrative, that forces the reader to re-evaluate his or her perception of «reality», to question values and beliefs whether scientific, religious, philosophical, psychological, sociological or whatever.

Strap on a headset, immerse yourself in an alternate reality and cure your pain — that's the idea of a recent study in Psychological Science.

* The problems we think of as «psychosis» — hearing voices, believing things that others find strange, or appearing out of touch with reality — can be understood in the same way as other psychological problems such as anxiety or shyness.

They are a reality check on our psychological theories and our theories of artificial intelligence.