Quotes About Psychology

mind is the brain in action),

When you string a succession of thoughts and feelings together so that they ultimately become habituated or automatic, they form an attitude.

Beliefs are also more permanent than attitudes; they can last for months or even years. And because they last longer, they become more programmed within you.

I want to point out that feelings and emotions are the end products of past experiences.

By the same means, if you were to change how you feel, could you become more suggestible to a new stream of thoughts? Absolutely! By feeling an elevated emotion and allowing a whole new set of thoughts to be driven by that new feeling, you'd increase your level of suggestibility to what you were feeling and then thinking.

Only about 5 to 10 percent of the population are considered very susceptible to hypnosis. In

Can we teach people to accomplish the same thing by teaching them how the placebo really works?

Thinking creates feeling, and then feeling creates thinking, in a continuous cycle. This

It's your frontal lobe that changes your mind—that is, it makes the brain work in different sequences, patterns, and combinations.

The new thought that the leaf wouldn't hurt them overrode their memory and belief that they were allergic to it, rendering real poison ivy harmless. And the reverse was true in the second part of the experiment: A harmless leaf was made toxic by thought alone. In both cases, it seemed as if the children's bodies instantaneously responded to a new mind.

Porque los pensamientos son el lenguaje del cerebro, y los sentimientos el lenguaje del cuerpo.

In both situations—bringing on the asthma symptoms and then dramatically reversing them—the patients were responding to suggestion alone, the thought planted in their minds by the researchers, which played out exactly as they expected. They were harmed when they thought they'd inhaled something harmful, and they got better when they thought they were receiving medicine—and these thoughts were greater than their environment, greater than reality.

What we're conditioned to believe about ourselves, and what we're programmed to think other people think about us, affects our performance, including how successful we are. It's the same with placebos: What we're conditioned to believe will happen when we take a pill, and what we think that everyone around us (including our doctors) expects will happen when we do, affects how our bodies respond to the pill.

emotional addictions

Strong emotional experiences create long-term memories. So this new internal experience creates new long-term memories that override our past long-term memories, thus the choice becomes an experience that we never forget.

including Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and You Are the Placebo).

It's the same with placebos: What we're conditioned to believe will happen when we take a pill, and what we think that everyone around us (including our doctors) expects will happen when we do, affects how our bodies respond to the pill.

An experience creates an emotional reaction, which then can turn into a mood, then into a temperament, and finally into a personality trait.

heterosexuality is considered an emotional dysfunction. Relatively easy to cure.

There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it's always for their own personal psychological reasons.

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he'd have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.

Arson is almost as good as Prozac.

maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.