The phrase "activate thoughts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of stimulating or encouraging mental activity or reflection.
Example: "To foster creativity in the team, we need to activate thoughts through brainstorming sessions."
Alternatives: "stimulate ideas" or "spark thinking".
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The study was designed to examine: (a) if activating thoughts about control affects anxiety and food intake and (b) if those effects are moderated by dietary restraint.
We theorize that people's need to restore their view of themselves as moral activates thoughts of a high-density personal social network.
Although explicit VCMs are often effortful, and thereby require deliberative thought, an implicit VCM may also be quite effortful and activate analytical thought processes.
Working with scientists at Albert Einstein Medical College and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, she is analyzing which parts of the brain are activated by thoughts of the beloved.
This notion of "activating" unconscious thought sounded like something out of "The Manchurian Candidate" ("Raymond, why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"), and I asked Lakoff if he was suggesting that Americans voted for conservatives because they had been brainwashed.
"Kids aren't sad just because," she says about the scene that activates every thought that goes through the minds of the self-conscious when they look in the mirror.
Since thought cannot activate itself as thinking, Deleuze says it must suffer violence if it is to awaken and move.
With breathing engaged, a positive feeling activated, and reframed thoughts emerging, the fourth step is to re-engage with a new attitude and behaviors and perhaps a different course of action.
Perhaps, for example, visualizing one alternative brings to light previously unrecognized properties of that alternative, or perhaps attention to one option activates previously dormant thoughts of yearning or disgust.
