Quotes About Mental

First, we contend that conscious or mental phenomena are dynamic, emergent, pattern (or configurational) properties of the living brain in action—

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.

Fenómeno raro, artificial y tardío, el amor sólo puede nacer en condiciones mentales especiales, que pocas veces se reúnen, y que son de todo punto opuestas a la libertad de costumbres que caracteriza la época moderna.

Il sut immédiatement que cet univers ralenti, marqué par la honte, où les êtres se croisent dans un vide sidéral, sans qu'aucun rapport entre eux n'apparaisse jamais possible, correspondait exactement à son univers mental.

What you're telling yourself about yourself is having a powerful effect on your life and your health.

It is true that clutter cleaning helps us release mental energy that makes us feel better. But decluttering also has a positive impact on the quality of the space. (Chapter 4)

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

the person's ego needs to feel threatened by some event which causes a psychological imbalance. The psychological gain he receives from the murder is the restoration of the mental homeostasis, and of course most of them also experience sexual gratification.

every human being passes through five psychosexual developmental phases. They are the oral phase, anal phase, Oedipus or phallic phase, latency phase and the genital phase. A person can fixate in any of these phases and failure to resolve the fixation would be cause for pathology. A layman's term for a fixation would be a mental short-circuit. It is an individualistic reaction to being exposed to too much or too little of something.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name!

El matrimonio es un experimento… psicológico; la paternidad lo es… patológico.

In reality, to achieve such an ordered mental condition is not as easy as it sounds. Contrary to what we tend to assume, the normal state of the mind is chaos. Without

We have seen that experience depends on the way we invest psychic energy—on the structure of attention. This, in turn, is related to goals and intentions. These processes are connected to each other by the self, or the dynamic mental representation we have of the entire system of our goals. These are the pieces that must be maneuvered if we wish to improve things.

Changing external conditions might seem to work at first, but if a person is not in control of his consciousness, the old fears or desires will soon return, reviving previous anxieties. One

Being in control of the mind means that literally anything that happens can be a source of joy.

Learning to use time alone, instead of escaping from it, is especially important in our early years. Teenagers who can't bear solitude disqualify themselves from later carrying out adult tasks that require serious mental preparation.

a yogi disciplines his mind to ignore pain that ordinary people would have no choice but to let into their awareness; similarly he can ignore the insistent claims of hunger or sexual arousal that most people would be helpless to resist. The same effect can be achieved in different ways, either through perfecting a severe mental discipline as in Yoga or through cultivating constant spontaneity as in Zen.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus

when attention is not focused on a goal, the mind typically begins to be filled with disjointed and depressing thoughts.

This fact brings us to the second condition that affects whether an optimal experience will occur or not: an individual's ability to restructure consciousness so as to make flow possible.

To most people, the sheer wall of El Capitan in Yosemite valley is just a huge chunk of featureless rock. But to the climber it is an arena offering an endlessly complex symphony of mental and physical challenges.

Athletes know well that to improve performance beyond a certain point they must learn to discipline their minds.