Quotes About Mental

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

When are you going to trust me Max?" asked Fang. "When I go completely bonkers," I laughed.

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

psychological factors

Alcohol does not make a smarter individual.

If you want to control your emotions, you have to control your thoughts.

This is a touch game. There are times when you've got to play hurt when you've got to block out the pain.

You simply notice which part of your void-triggered bum-out is emotional body sensation, which part is mental images, and which part is mental talk. Keep those clearly delineated.

The medicine for that is to remember that the main goal in meditation is not to get to certain good states, but rather to eliminate what gets in the way of those good states. If you do that, those good states will be available any time you wish.

Is meditation really that valuable? Yes it is, because a person's base level of concentration is, in a sense, the most valuable thing that they have. Anything a person may want will be more easily attained if they are functioning from a high level of effortless focus. The entire range of human endeavors relies on concentration, and if your base level of concentration is elevated through practice, it means that you can function from a continuous state of extraordinary focus every day.

Loss aversion kicks in when it comes to savings. … Mentally and emotionally and intuitively, [I] frame savings as a loss because I have to cut my spending.

Thought is just a secretion from our brain.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

You know how to rest physically. You do not know how to rest mentally.

The creation of the mental domain of phantasm has a complete counterpart in the establishment of "reservations" and "nature-parks."... The "reservation" is to maintain the old condition of things which has been regretfully sacrificed to necessity everywhere else; there everything make grow and spread as it pleases, including what is it useless and even what is harmful. The mental realm of phantasm is also such a reservation reclaimed from the encroachment of the reality-principle.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The new psychoanalytic method [is]… somewhat subtle but irreplaceable, so fruitful has it proved to be in explaining obscure unconscious mental processes.

Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.

Our concepts or ideas form the mental housing in which we live. We may end up proud of the structures we have built. Or we may believe that they need dismantling and starting afresh. But first, we have to know what they are.

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?