Quotes About Perception

being more open and letting go of judgment and anticipation expands our awareness of all the vicissitudes of life.

self and mind may be deeply interrelated, with self being constructed from the experience of mind.

El izquierdo se centra en el texto; el derecho tiene que ver con el contexto.

La objetividad impide que nos veamos arrastrados por nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos. Utiliza la capacidad de la mente para ser consciente de que sus actividades presentes, como los pensamientos, sentimientos, recuerdos, creencias e intenciones, son pasajeras y no forman la totalidad de quienes somos.

La apertura se refiere a ser receptivos a todo lo que se presenta ante nuestra conciencia y a no apegarnos a ideas preconcebidas sobre cómo «deberían» ser las cosas.

even though entire libraries have been written discussing mental illness, mental health is rarely defined.

La observación es la capacidad de percibirnos a nosotros mismos mientras vivimos un suceso.

Learning this skill of distinguishing awareness from that which you are aware of will enable you to expand the container of consciousness and empower you to "taste" so much more than just a salty glass of water.

We don't simply react to their external actions, we tune in to the mind behind the behavior.

this posterior firing of maps of the body represents a primary cortical representation and may involve the parietal lobe—a region that may turn out to play an important role in self-awareness and a sense of identity (for further

prefrontally mediated, in which we attribute these shifts to what we've seen in the other person. Naturally, such a complex pathway can be bogged down by rigid valenced plateaus of probability, which skew accurate interpretations of the meaning of sensations.

The experiential, subjective side of reality is non-objective in that you couldn't weigh it, hold it in your hand, or capture the subjective nature of such inner experiences with a camera—not even with a functional brain-imaging scanner. This

Given that the limbic area shapes how we appraise the meaning of events, knowing the hand model and seeing the limbic area's distinct location from the higher areas of the cortex can help us realize that sometimes a "feeling" is indeed not a fact.

The brain has one hundred billion neurons, each with an average of ten thousand connections to other neurons. The ways in which particular circuits in the brain are activated determines the nature of our mental activity, ranging from perceiving sights or sounds to more abstract thought and reasoning. When neurons fire together, they grow new connections between them. Over time, the connections that result from firing lead to "rewiring" in the brain.

hipocampo, un grupo de neuronas con forma de caballito de mar que realiza una importante función de «ensamblaje» conectando áreas del cerebro muy separadas, que van desde las regiones dedicadas a la percepción hasta la memoria y los centros del lenguaje.

Después de conectar, redirigimos. En cuanto hayan sentido esta conexión con nosotros, los niños estarán más preparados para aprender, por lo que podremos redirigirlos con eficacia y hablar con ellos acerca de su conducta. ¿Qué esperamos conseguir cuando redirigimos y fijamos límites? Queremos que los niños adquieran percepción de sí mismos, empatía hacia los demás y capacidad para solventar las cosas tras haber cometido un error.

We don't choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don't think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score and governs what we learn from living, and it is the one that makes decisions. What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self.

The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.

If a satisfactory answer to a hard question is not found quickly, System 1 will find a related question that is easier and will answer it. I call the operation of answering one question in place of another substitution.