It may be that, by adjusting our conception of our well-being, and by altering our attitudes, we can reduce or eliminate the threat death poses us.
The directors make a plausible transition from quantum mechanics to cognitive therapy, suggesting that, just as quantum mechanics states that phenomena are always transformed by observation, so can our perception of reality be changed by altering our ingrained attitudes about ourselves and our lives.
It also means you need to fundamentally alter your attitude to families, believes Nigel Richardson, who retired from his position as director of children's services at Leeds city council last month.
Hang in there, slowly alter your attitude, and break those bad habits you might be trying to overcome.
But as most great thinkers of the past have understood, and as so many psychologists of the present confirm, you can alter your attitudes and feelings and habitual patterns of thought through deliberate practice.
Doubleday; 832 pages; $40How American civil-rights activists managed to alter the attitude of big corporations and the Reagan administration towards South Africa's obstinate white government.
Biased and misleading statistics and issues that were designed to alter the attitude of the population toward a political agenda in an effort to form a consensus to a standard set of belief patterns.
Advocates of the concept assume that it can alter the attitude and behaviour of human actors with respect to nature.
Moreover, historically we have learned from the behavior of the Islamic Republic that human rights dialogue alone does not alter their attitude unless it is substituted with international pressure.
