Sentences with phrase «toward better self»

Help them set goals to improve the things they think need to change so that they can work toward better self - esteem and reinforce the positive aspects of themselves they enjoy.

Not exact matches

No matter how much better we might feel at the onset by keeping our image of a perfect self, taking the blame for our failures is a must on the path toward success.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

In becoming man, Christ made the link between matter and spirit that most of us feel to be the truth about ourselves, even the atheists among us: our spirit strives toward what is noble and good, yet finds itself mired in what is paltry and second rate when not destructive of self and others.

The exercise of patience, for instance, assumes that action directed toward the future is superior to action devoted only to the moment: it is self - restraint based upon a good that is seen as superior to the momentary self — the self - of - the - fleeting - moment.

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new like having again been moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

For almost two full seasons, the main characters were striving to make it to the Good Place, but their strivings were rooted in a legalism that kept them in a self - centered mode of thinking: This journey toward goodness is about me and my reward.

Both the predella and the triptych give visual expression to Luther's deep conviction that God, who is hidden and invisible, accommodates God's self to our finite and fallen nature by revealing God's disposition toward us through material things: in the incarnation, in the sacrament and in the Good News of scripture received, above all, through hearing (a material reality, but not visual, to be sure).

The best way to bring the sinfulness of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect of our neighbors, ugliness of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously treat other persons as mere «things.»

Here is a self fully capable of perfecting the whole person by doing the best that can be done toward the Second Good with this impoverished persona.

There is the tendency of our religiousness toward «moralism» in the bad sense, that is, toward a rigid and self - righteous judgment according to a moral standard which we assume puts us in a good light and others in a bad.

It will seem clearly realistic to judge that my actions, as well as everyone else's, are and must be guided by calculations of self - interest, looking toward some maximum excess of pleasure over pain for some segment of an expected lifetime.

The cartoon, as well as his self - taught draftsmanship, pushed Heston toward caricature and crudity, but these also implicitly advanced his materialism more compellingly than his familiar arguments.

It is also the revelation of what creates the human level of existence, sustains it in being, saves it from its self - destructive propensities and, when required conditions are present, progressively creates it toward the greatest good that man can ever attain when «greatest good» means the widest range, diversity, depth, and integration of all values.

7 To apply this definition to God's initiative and extend it, I think it would read like this: For God to love is for God to act intentionally toward each becoming occasion of experience to promote its maximal well - being, including a sympathetic / empathetic response to its self - actualization.

Yet it is open to the divine action upon it, and thanks to that action and its own creativity, it may move toward its own proper good and thus find self - fulfillment.

The best account of the dialogue between Buddhist and process views of self is Cobb, John B., Jr., Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), especially pp. 75 - 95, 104 - 110.

Traditional theological conceptions of human nature were turned inside out: each self was a «portal of the divine,» a natural repository of inborn qualities, capacities, and talents, not least of which was a disposition toward good will, kindheartedness, fair play, and so on.

Yet is the balance of American religious life slipping away from those denominations that have a historic concern for the common good toward religious groups so privatistic and self - centered that they begin to approach the consumer cafeteria model of Thomas Luckmann's invisible religion?

It not only appeals, like Christianity, to the impulse toward self - denial and self - sacrifice — an impulse which can, of course, be enlisted in a bad as well as in a good cause.

Freedom of indifference is a freedom identified with the will, with the power of self - determination — there's no longer an attraction toward the good, exercised in love and desire.

Placher detects «two unhappy forms of relativism in Foucault and Rorty, influential critics of Enlightenment liberalism: first, «a tendency toward nihilism in which nothing can be defended as good or tine,» and second, «a kind of self - satisfaction in which one retreats to the way the world looks to us,... an intellectual ghetto.»

While Sidney B. Simon at the University of Massachusetts and his colleagues claim that their values - clarification approach «does not aim to instill any particular set of values,» they certainly reveal their ideological bias toward the autonomous, bourgeois, rationalistic self when they talk about «learning a process for selecting the best and rejecting the worst elements contained in the various value systems.

-- although that's a good idea, too — but, «How can I boost my connection with my higher self so kindness and sensitivity toward my children naturally flows?»

She runs a very comprehensive educational website chocked full of parenting advice focused solely toward helping parents raise capable, well behaved children with high self esteem.

A renewed conviction that continued nursing is for the best, combined with a little self - care, may go a long way toward soothing a frazzled soul and body.

They work together toward a common goal of raising capable, confident, empathetic, thoughtful, critical - thinking, and well - behaved children with strong self - esteem.

The families of minimum wage workers will be much better off as a result, better able to move toward self - support, and the economy will benefit from increased consumer spending.

«This work is the first step toward a better understanding of the autobiographical self in the internet era where the virtual externalization of personal memories has become commonplace,» the study said.

When neuroscientists find out what kind of message it is, they will make real progress — perhaps toward fighting pain, and definitely toward getting a better look at our secret selves.

They found that measures of self - efficacy — a personality trait that underlies how much you believe in your own abilities to accomplish a goal (as well as deal with the stresses that accompany working toward that goal)-- were predictive of how risky a climber was willing to get.

To better understand my inner voice and its inclination toward self - doubt, I approach Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

«The standard serves as an accurate and robust cost - of - living benchmark that supports good career planning and allows us to measure the extent to which our programs help customers progress toward economic self - sufficiency,» said Marléna Sessions, the council's chief executive officer.

Mommy - time constraints, for better or worse, have led me toward the quick cardio - fixes and my rough jock - side self keeps me engaged in rigorous activities more than the gentler ones.

If the word alone makes you cringe, it's time to check your attitude toward self - stimulation and educate yourself on the positive possibilities the practice holds for your overall well - being.

I wish I could go back and tell my younger self how good she was, exactly as she was, because no matter what goals she was working toward she never felt content.

Naturopathic medicine centers on the philosophy that the best medicine promotes the body's natural tendency toward health and self - healing.

She offers vegan recipes that are a modern twist on traditional Jewish meals to support an intuitive turning toward greater health, as well as inspiring resources to support women as they engage in Jewish life and foster self - connection.

In the following post I address why living a self sufficient life should be something we are all striving toward as well as when and where to start!

This increases the chances that I'll feel good about my time online, making me less likely to fall prey to the ugly side of social media with all its unhealthy comparisons and pull toward self - sabotage.

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Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self - esteem and better psychological adjustment than non-believers.

These lists are always best when they're composed by my subconscious; the overly considered lists are too self - aware and compel me to second - guess myself, as I err toward critical consensus or provocative contrarianism.

The Hunger Games film series culminates in Part 2 as one woman's journey — a journey of love, sacrifice, adversity, perseverance, and hope — toward finding her voice and becoming her best possible self.

Listening to this film with your heart may lead you to get in touch with your younger self as well, and the steps you took toward molding your own adult identity.

But thematically, it's as personal as any of Baumbach's films, with his recurrent preoccupation with lifestage - related paralysis and fear of creative impotence as well as his tendency toward intense self - analysis forming the impetus of the plot.

Craft trades and ministries point toward a middle way that, though less prestigious than medicine, could actually enhance the profession by better reflecting the work teachers do instead of arrogating to itself a status that strikes many noneducators as presumptuous and self - serving.

Over the course of this grant, FOI: (1) is producing professional development materials to help staff representing multiple state agencies better understand the basic science of child development generally and the promotion of executive function and self - regulation skills more specifically; (2) is supporting the creation of small learning communities, building on existing relationships at the site and policy level and connecting to other learning communities across North America; (3) is supporting the Washington cross-agency working group to sustain its current gains and momentum during the upcoming executive branch transition in January and to share lessons learned with the broader national FOI community of states and Canadian provinces; and (4) is beginning conversations with stakeholders at the community level to explore mutual interests and is beginning to chart a path toward enhanced collaboration within the state.

Groups that spent decades urging the country toward higher academic standards worry about returning to empty talk of self - esteem, accepting low achievement as long as students feel good.