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The Makeup of mind: Personality. (Continued from previous blog).
Piece by piece, the picture is emerging of a self that is physical, neural, psychological, social, moral, aesthetic and – as future blogs will be at pains to show – spiritual. To live under any circumstances or conditions we require … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Emotion and Motivation. (Continued on directly from previous blog).
Nor – as already stated above – can we separate and in that sense distinguish emotion entirely from cognition (or feeling from thinking) since both are so evidently linked and bound up inextricably with physical and physiological as well as … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind. Emotion & Motivation. (Continued from previous blog).
We, all of us, have emotions and, at different times and for widely differing reasons, can experience feelings of happiness; at other times, sadness, relaxation, tension etc. We love and we hate; can sometimes sympathize or empathize with those about … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Cognition. (Cont’d from previous blog).
In posting this particular blog, I am well aware that its contents may very well possess only limited interest and in consequence may not be to your own personal and particular ‘taste’. However, I have decided to include what I … Continue reading
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Thinking your way out of trouble. (Cont’d from prev.)
I am writing this letter with the intention of, at this stage, no more than informally introducing a nevertheless exciting and – in the right hands and subject to appropriate guidance – readily applied approach in the pursuit of psychological … Continue reading
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Parts of the whole. (continued from previous blog.)
The power to visualize then, is the ability to harness the creative and therapeutic power of the imagination. This we do whenever we employ and further develop such already on-board skills, in order to ‘paint’ or portray a relaxing and … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Perception. (cont’d from previous blog).
Up to this point in time, we have acknowledged how it is that both the corporate and the individual concept of mind rely heavily on memory and language. It is this that makes communication with the self and with others … Continue reading
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Parts of the Whole. (continuation of previous blog0.
So much then for what I have referred to in my most recent posting; i.e. as a ‘potted history’ of relaxation training: progressive or otherwise. Of course – and since my writings published here are based upon my own somewhat … Continue reading
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The Makeup of Mind: Language/Information transmission.
A powerful facilitator of and stimulus to memory is, of course, language and it is via this capacity to assimilate and deploy words that man differs so markedly from other members of the animal kingdom. Indeed, one might – with … Continue reading
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“Touch: simple physical Act or Healing art?” (Cont’d from prev)..)
In recent times, massage has taken on something of an art form for developing and maintaining good health via its capacity to stimulate, invigorate and relax mind and body. Massage stimulates blood circulation, assists with lymphatic (waste) drainage, as well … Continue reading
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