Sentences with phrase «working on our consciousness»

If we go within without working on our consciousness and without forgiveness work, we bring a lot of junk to our meditation and it becomes emphasized.

Not exact matches

One of the most influential works on that list is «Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind,» originally published by a Canadian psychiatrist in 1901.

It also impacts how people view you, which can lead to heightened levels of self - consciousness (which can detract from focus on work - related tasks).

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

If the socialist movement writes off the new productive forces of the consciousness industry and relegates work on the media to a subculture, then we have a vicious circle.

This is not to say that practices ascetics engage in can not be entered into as tactics or methods: fasting, silence, vegetarianism, chanting, formal meditations, and celibacy, if freely entered into as methods (never as «good works» — for they are not such), may prove helpful for some people bent on self - purification or the unleashing of altered states of consciousness.

But the succeeding acts of the drama must take place on another level; they must occur in a new world into which, at this moment, we are being born: a world in which each thinking unit upon earth will only act (if he agrees to act) in the consciousness, become natural and instinctive to all, of furthering a work of total personalization.

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

Working with Colin McGinn's ideas on consciousness Charlton illustrates the inconsistencies of philosophers who view mind as explainable by science, while suggesting himself that «the presence of mind in nature is not something invisible and hidden except to introspection, but the most palpable thing there is.

But this was based on the particular, not the general, and consciousness of this drove James always, in effect, to say, «If another cosmology works better for you, then you treat that as true instead.»

In Psychopathic persons, mortifications may be entered on irrationally, by a sort of obsession or fixed idea which comes as a challenge and must be worked off, because only thus does the subject get his interior consciousness feeling right again.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

Among philosophers working on the mind / body problem, the word «qualia» stands for all those features of consciousness that give awareness its specific identity as a particular kind of experience: the redness of red, the sadness of depression, the piquancy of papaya juice, the irksomeness of traffic jams, the crankiness that comes from insomnia, the hurt feelings arising from playground taunts, and so forth.

«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.

A late chapter comparing Voegelin's work with the Catholic theology of Bernard Lonergan - whose ambitions in responding to the modern crisis matched Voegelin's and whose work, like his, takes its stand on a foundational account of consciousness - helps Morrissey to bring Voegelin's thought into what he calls a «theological community of discourse» and sharpens his final chapter's presentation of Voegelin's «reconstruction» of Christian theology.

In a short piece on novelist James Kelman's latest work, Giles Harvey reflects on the tension between consciousness and plot in the modern novel.

The phenomenon of growing consciousness on earth, in short, is directly due to the increasingly advanced organisation of more and more complicated elements, successively created by the working of chemistry and of Life.

A fully satisfactory theory of consciousness is not worked out until the chapter on «The Higher Phases of Experience» (PR III.5 H).

Depending on athletes to admit to experiencing concussion symptoms doesn't work due to chronic under - reporting.1 Likewise, studies show that coaches and athletic trainers can't be counted on to reliably identify athletes exhibiting signs of possible concussion for screening on the sports sidelines, especially since only 5 to 10 % of concussions involve a loss of consciousness and the onset of concussions symptoms is often delayed, especially in younger athletes.

She also brought a feminist consciousness to the topic and asked «WHY» breast feeding was supposed to be a feminist activity when in many cases it puts additional strain on a working mother.

I combine many methods, drawing upon hypnosis - centered techniques, such as guided imagery and breath work, as well as the latest research in Pre and Perinatal Psychology, focusing on pre-birth bonding and understanding the consciousness of the little one inside.

«Over the years I have tried to use images and ideas to cut through complacency and apathy while trying to raise consciousness about an array of social issues from discrimination and human rights, to health and the environment» notes Chaz Maviyane - Davies on his work.

However, whatever the relative importance of various intellectual influences, the party's initial electoral success was reliant on mass working - class consciousness and solidarity amongst its core voting block.

Let us applaud the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness and work hard to get animals the protection they deserve.

Eminent physicist John Wheeler says he has only enough time left to work on one idea: that human consciousness shapes not only the present but the past as well

Would Scarlett Johansson be trying to work out how neutrinos travel faster than photons, or is Angelina Jolie working on the hard problem of consciousness?

The work could help doctors figure out which brain trauma patients are the most likely to recover — and even shed light on the nature of consciousness.

My whole plan was to work on some real research and then come back to consciousness.

A straightforward guide to the way in which language works, it's worth a read before tackling some of the tough questions on language and consciousness, or the evolution of language, that writers such as Steve Pinker raise.

In fact, it is as if our consciousness is out on the golf course like the CEO of a big company while all the underlings are working.

This implies a lack of consciousness that their individual situation impacts on everything they do, including their research work.

As a result, Pepperberg's work has won accolades for its persuasiveness from the likes of Oxford animal behaviorist Marian Stamp Dawkins, an authority on animal consciousness and a skeptic about many studies in the field.

Data analysis work concentrates on methods to analyze large - scale neurophysiological datasets to demonstrate the footprints of such critical balancing during wakefulness and its absence during loss of consciousness, anesthesia, epilepsy, and normal sleep.

Through private one - on - ones, corporate groups, parties, speaking engagements, and pop - ups in museums and art galleries, Biet is bringing this big work into the world and helping raise consciousness from the outside in.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment.

With over ten years in the health and fitness industry, Guy has also explored many facets of health including what's deemed «alternative» and the measured effects on the body; from using meditation and neuroscience to create altered states of consciousness, shamanic rituals, cold exposure and breath work to name a few.

In her spare time, she works as an editor of texts on consciousness and spirituality.

I can not see the point of working them out every day if the posture is kept on track, other than as a «body consciousness» exercise, or to learn to use them at will, eg when the body is in a position where they don't automatically engage.

Salad bar at work, green / white tea with sweetner, hummus with pine nuts, pecans, cashews, walnuts, goat milk product, yougart, cottage cheese, ice cream, Eggs, peanut butter, jam, corn on the cob with butter, cornbread / pinto beans, sprouted tofu, Raw Agave and honey, gulten free breads, gulten free mass consciousness desserts.

I enrolled in a course called Avatar which is about exploring consciousness and discovering any limiting beliefs which hold us back in our lives and I began working on being the best person, friend, and partner I could be.

The blog let them see my small moments; what I was wearing, the things at work I was tackling, and the random person I would run into in a coffee shop that would set me off on a stream of consciousness rambling about life.

I am also working on removing layers of self consciousness and doubt that are by - products of the fast approaching warmer seasons.

I enrolled in a course called avatar which is about exploring consciousness and discovering any limiting beliefs which hold us back in our lives and i began working on being the best person, friend and partner i could be.

I love how, in the opening moments of Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World — his stream - of - consciousness documentary look at the Internet, what it hath wrought, and what it may yet bring — he chooses to describe as «repulsive» the university corridor that leads to the room where the very first computer on the Internet still stands today.

And, after a title card that proudly thumps its chest in a declaration that there are no rules in politics, deciding to put in a consciousness in the middle of the on - screen chaos is huge risk... that doesn't quite work because the satire isn't in firm place.

Sleepaway Camp may be a crude instrument for consciousness - raising, yet it works on that level just the same — and that makes it ambitious in a way that films this artless seldom are.

Viewed as a stream - of - consciousness reaction to a rich, established, older man's fear that he might lose everything he has worked his entire life to attain, however, the film takes on a more illuminating meaning.

Our mandate is to recognize, support and raise consciousness about women working in the film industry — in front of and behind the cameras, and writing about film and the film industry — through coverage on our Web site at www.awfj.org, the presentation of awards for outstanding achievements, and through outreach programs.

This time, it works, and the new consciousness, which he had nicknamed Ultron (James Spader), has a plan for peace on Earth.

The phrase was propelled onto the editorial pages and into public consciousness by the 1988 reports of the William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Work, Family, and Citizenship.