Mental attitude

The following should be meditated upon from the viewpoint that what is described therein refers to a self-arising state of consciousness rather than to a constructed mental attitude. ... 

The placebo effect manifests itself in many ways, revealing that a host of bodily reactions can be influenced by mental attitude and by what an individual believes should happen. One widely noted Japanese study reported monumental effects on the allergic reactions of thirteen volunteers who were highly susceptible to poison ivy. An investigator rubbed one arm of each volunteer with a harmless green leaf, which he identified as poison ivy. He touched the volunteer s other arm with an authentic leaf of poison ivy, which he said was harmless. Despite the subjects known susceptibility, only two of them showed an allergic reaction to the really poisonous leaf. All thirteen subjects, however, developed a rash where they had been rubbed with the misidentified leaf that was actually harmless. 

One must adopt the mental attitude and procedure of an optimist.. . . The optimist... is satisfied with approximate solutions of the wave equation. If they favor, say, tetrahedral and plane hexagonal models of methane and benzene, respectively, or a certain sequence among activation energies, or a paramagnetic molecule, he is content that these properties will be possessed by more accurate solutions. He appeals freely to experiment to determine constants, the direct calculation of which would be too difficult. 149... 

In seeking the answer to the riddle of human behavior, Dr. Freud found (or thought he did) that most character traits or mental attitudes in patients could be explained if only he probed far enough back into the patient s past, back to earliest childhood. He decided that the human psyche at the time of birth was like a blank slate, on which various designs were registered as the growing child adapted himself and his few primitive instincts to his circumstances to his parents, his relatives and the rules and characteristics of the household and the society. 

No scientist should be so rash as to deny that the Freudian point of view has some validity. On the basis of the evidence which we have set forth in this book, however, one would not be at all rash to point out emphatically that there are two additional places to look for the origin of character traits and mental attitudes which have not yet been explored. One is in brain morphology which probably is, as we have indicated, highly distinctive for each individual (p. 48) the other is in the area of biochemical individuality and distinctiveness in metabolism. 

All the classic self-improvement books say a positive mental attitude is the key to success. As general and ambiguous as that statement is, the trait of Optimism comes closest to capturing the essence of this skill. If you have a sample of handwriting written on unlined paper, you can quickly determine how optimistic someone really is. The more the entire baseline is tilted up and to the right, the more positive this writer is. This "slanting uphill" is an easy trait to remember and accept, because both our body language and our... 

Because of experimental results such as these, vitamin E has been conjectured to restore potency or to preserve fertility, sexual interest, and endurance in humans. No evidence supports these contentions, but because sexual performance is often influenced by mental attitude, a person who believes vitamin E may improve sexual prowess may actually find improvement. The only established therapeutic use for vitamin E is for the prevention or treatment of vitamin E deficiency, a condition that is rare in humans. 

The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. 

As we can see, organic codes can be discovered only if we are looking for them, and we can look for them only if we believe that they can exist. In order to build a semantic biology, therefore, the first step is a new mental attitude towards nature, even if this will probably be possible only with a new generation of molecular biologists. 

Third, many physical disorders also affect mental attitudes and behavior. Hyperthyroidism as well as overdoses of thyroid hormone can increase anxiety, irritability, and other emotions that the individual would not ordinarily experience and that can lead to behavioral abnormalities. There are, of course, many similar examples involving hormones such as testosterone and cortisone. More to the point, accidental brain injury to the frontal lobes and surgical lobotomy usually impair judgment, ethical restraint, and self-reflection. The character of the injured individual is often viewed as changed and worsened. 

Finally let me give notice that I am concerned here mainly with beliefs and values that enter into the determinants of action - that are in some sense and to some degree sincerely held, not just professed for the sake of appearance. Although Marx occasionally denounces an opponent for his conscious hypocrisy, this belongs to a different domain altogether. To profess a belief for the sake of outward appearance is an action, not a mental attitude that enters into the determinants of action. 

Mindset refers to the mental attitude people have about the process of disposal and the state of the system during processing. In the incidents studied, people behaved at times as if they assumed that an ACAMS alarm was false, that contaminated waste was less hazardous than raw agent, or that parts coming through a furnace were automatically 5X mate-rial.- During its review of incidents, the committee... 

The nurse should portray a nonjudg-mental attitude when discussing treatments and medications or herbs the client has used to treat any health problem. The nurse should assess what else the client has tried for weight loss. 

A useful discussion of the following topics (1) mental attitudes (2) joint and sponsored research (3) exchange schemes (4) the role of government (5) the special situation of the small firm. Discussion of each topic is followed by conclusions and recommendations. 

While much of this book is very practical and informational in nature, some early sections discuss the issue of one s mental attitude about safety, which may seem more philosophical in nature at first. But, in reality, adopting a positive attitude about safety is the most important, practical step you can take to be safe. With this mindset, all other actions in a laboratory are performed only after stopping to think about hazards and risks and the means by which you can stay safe in the lab. 

MORT can be equally useful and even more valuable, however, as an analytical tool to reduce or eliminate potential sources of accidents. Such uses have been frequent, but not widespread moreover, their application to criticality safety problems, with certain exceptions, has been neglected. Yet criticality safety requires the kind of thorou, highly disciplined, and carefuUy documented analysis that can be greatly strengthened by the use of MORT techniques. In addition, the author believes that training criticality safety professionals in the use of MORT early in their careers would not. only speed up their ability to use their formal training effectively, but would induce, at an early st in their career, those mental attitudes and disciplines prerequisite to effective performance. 

Would induce, at an early stage in their career, those mental attitudes and disciplines prerequisite to effective performance. 

For the record, it has been reliably reported upon examining various environmental issues that the world is not only livable but healthy [158]. According to Melvin A. Bemarde and others, Mobilization of the public from the fixed helplessness cultivated by media hysteria and development of an accountability on the part of speakers and writers who shape public opinion can be the real threat and damage to our health, including our mental attitude. It is essential to recognize that there is always hope and a way to resolve manmade problems. 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. 

Our mental attitude has changed considerably since Galileo s time. Now many of us trust blindly in the results of experiment. However, probably we have not touched the ceiling of our methodology for discovery and surely there are still some possibilities for improvement. 

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