that emerge from this book on thinking and feeling, offers a Buddhist perspective on the central issues of Thinking About Feeling — the growing chasm among cognitive theories, with a focus on thoughts and appraisals, and the physiological arousal theories, with a focus on the body and feelings...
Feeling is useful in directing our attention to matters we should think about; it also can provide the enthusiasm and commitment necessary to complete arduous mental tasks. However, feeling is never a good substitute for thinking because it is notoriously unreliable. Some feelings are beneficial, ho...
In his recent book, , Rue Cromwell introduced into the lexicon of personal construct psychology. Doing so has interesting implications for the distinction between cognition and emotion. The personal construct psychology position, which challenges the division of experience into thinking and feeling, is ...
1. to have a conscious mind, capable of reasoning, remembering, and making rational decisions. 2. to employ one's mind rationally in evaluating a given situation: Think carefully. 3. to have a certain thing as the subject of one's thoughts: thinking about school. 4. to call something ...
takes to be responsive, but understanding a partner's thoughts and feelings was helpful only when listeners were also feeling more compassionate and sympathetic toward their partner. When listeners had accurate knowledge but did not feel compassionate, they tended to be less supportive and responsive....
When you understand yourself deeply, you’ll have insight into your thoughts and feelings and feel more able to take the actions you want to take. You will recognise that you have what it takes to make things happen and that you can handle whatever life throws at you along the way. ...
Disguised in late 2000s-tinged R&B, this diaristic examination covers everything from stopping to smell the roses, celebrating relationships and realising feeling small doesn’t equate to insignificance. “From a very young age, I’ve been able to look at my thoughts and...
The first thing to do is become aware of what you’re thinking. If you can catch your thoughts as they arise, you can just observe them. Author Eckhart Tolle commented in his book, “The Power of Now”, that he appeared to be two people. The one who was thinking, and the one who...
Some experiences linger in mind, spontaneously returning to our thoughts for minutes after their conclusion. Other experiences fall out of mind immediately. It remains unclear why. We hypothesize that an input is more likely to persist in our thoughts wh
book is devoted to exposing errors in thinking and showing you how to avoid them. Yet for all its shortcomings, thinking is the most reliable guide to action we humans possess. To sum up the relationship between feeling and thinking, feelings need to be tested before being trusted, and ...