Quotes About Mental

The body is important, but the mind is all-important. And the most important thing about your mind is what it is fixed upon.

the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed. Meditation gurus achieved similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described Nirvana as a never-ending spiritual orgasm.

For years I've studied the ancients' claims of man's awesome mental power, and now science is showing us that accessing that power is an actual physical process. Our brains, if used correctly, can call forth powers that are quite literally superhuman.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist

I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor. But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.

If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn't a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how taxing it can be. To have one in your head is enough to make you comatose.

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Emotional aptitude is a meta-ability , determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have , including raw inellect .

Tightly focused attention gets fatigued—much like an overworked muscle—when we push to the point of cognitive exhaustion. The signs of mental fatigue, such as a drop in effectiveness and a rise in distractedness and irritability, signify that the mental effort needed to sustain focus has depleted the glucose that feeds neural energy.

In fact, people who are extremely adept at mental tasks that demand cognitive control and a roaring working memory—like solving complex math problems—can struggle with creative insights if they have trouble switching off their fully concentrated focus.5

La magnitud de las preocupaciones que tiene la gente mientras está haciendo un examen es proporcional a la pobreza de su ejecución,17 porque los recursos mentales invertidos en una determinada tarea cognitiva –la preocupación– reducen los recursos disponibles para procesar otro tipo de información.

Como el músculo sometido a un sobreesfuerzo, la atención intensamente focalizada también se fatiga, llegando incluso al punto del agotamiento cognitivo. Los signos de fatiga mental afectan a la eficacia y aumentan la distracción y la irritabilidad, lo que significa que el esfuerzo mental necesario para mantener el foco ha agotado la glucosa que precisa la energía neuronal.

anxiety's damaging effect on mental performance of all kind. Worry, of course, is in one sense a useful response gone awry—an overly zealous mental preparation for an anticipated threat. But such mental rehearsal is disastrous cognitive static when it becomes trapped in a stale routine that captures attention

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El bombardeo continuo de correos electrónicos, escritos y facturas –la "catástrofe completa" de la vida– nos arroja a un estado cerebral antitético

A atenção plena permite-nos quebrar o fluxo de pensamentos que poderiam, caso contrário, levar-nos a ficar prisioneiros da infelicidade, transformando a nossa relação com o próprio pensamento. Em vez de sermos arrastados por esse fluxo, conseguimos parar e ver que isto são apenas pensamentos – e escolher agir ou não de acordo com eles.

The more everyday mindfulness, the greater the subjective boost in well-being.

A surprise: mindfulness also improved working memory—the holding in mind of information so it can transfer into long-term memory. Attention is crucial for working memory; if we aren't paying attention, those digits won't register in the first place.

Think of attention as a mental muscle that we can strengthen by a workout. Memorization works that muscle, as does concentration. The mental analog of lifting a free weight over and over is noticing when our mind wanders and bringing it back to target.

all meditation methods at their root are practices in strengthening attention

Sobrecarregar a atenção diminui o domínio mental. É no momento em que estamos mais tensos que esquecemos os nomes das pessoas que conhecemos bem, já para não falar nas datas dos seus aniversários, dos nossos aniversários de casamento e de outros dados socialmente cruciais.

When people feel good, they work at their best. Feeling good lubricates mental efficiency, making people better at understanding information and using decision rules in complex judgments, as well as more flexible in their thinking.38

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

Wilson showed that the cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot smoking.