When we soothe our agitated minds with self-compassion, we're better able to notice what's right as well as what's wrong, so that we can orient ourselves toward that which gives us joy.
Each of these offers us a way to find refuge from our roiling guts and our agitated minds.
To our agitated minds, "rationing" means that we will likely lose the diagnostic tests which we hope will clear away threatening uncertainties, the treatments that may restore us to health, and the doctors whom we have literally trusted with our lives.
This couplet by John Clare, a 19th-century English poet, runs through the agitated mind of Erik Davidsen, the lonely, introspective narrator of "The Sorrows of an American", just before he takes a pill and enters a fitful sleep.
Like the French director Bruno Dumont's recent masterpiece, "Humanite," which was an obvious influence, "The Pledge" sinks into the agitated mind of a police investigator obsessed with the rape and murder of a young girl.
It calms the agitated mind.
Rather than merely exercising, followers, she says, must learn how to still the agitated mind.
Where KuBO cultivates the meditative bravado to "create something uncertain," for his part Herberg manifests humanity's agitated mind through his own disruptive hand, because, as he says, "You have to add confusion or it doesn't look right".
Apart from alternatives for a murder plot as causes for Amy Robsart's death, his correspondence with Thomas Blount and William Cecil in the days following has been cited as proofs of his innocence; the letters, which show signs of an agitated mind, making clear his bewilderment and unpreparedness.
Even before fossil evidence confirmed the reptilian ancestry of birds the thought must have crossed the minds of many that there was a hint of dinosaur about the cormorant: wing feathers like scales, startling emerald eyes, agitated head movements, and the confident demeanour of a consummate predator.
An agitated, fragmented mind cannot look on the world with lucidity.
