When you can dream up an idea like the Pensieve, a basin to hold one's excess thoughts until they can be dealt with at leisure, or a household clock that indicates family members' whereabouts ("home," "work," "traveling," "prison," "mortal peril") instead of the mere time, there's no excuse for falling back on the humdrum.
Can you imagine trying to channel your energy and dispelling all excess thought when you're strung out about your job, your relationship, or what someone said today at school?
This production, staged by Kevin McKenzie and Susan Jones, "after" (in ballet parlance this means loosely based on) Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky, is a completely standard one, which means that no excess of thought has been wasted on dramatic or choreographic coherence.
Its purpose is to foster equanimity, to tame excesses of thought and emotion.
It is precisely this kind of excess in capitalist thought that has brought the storm of protest at the international conferences of the industrialized nations regarding trade and globalization.
In straightforward Miata-like fashion, we could get all that done without a second thought or excess fiddling.
Lewis, who studies pygmy hunter-gatherer societies in Africa, will discuss how humans evolved to live in these kinds of societies, whose richest members share their excess without a second thought.
The only medication currently approved by the FDA for the treatment of moderate to severe AD is memantine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor inhibitor, which blocks excess release of glutamate thought to be associated with cholinergic damage.
A meditation practice trains our minds to quiet the excess chatter running through -- thoughts of anxiety, fear, and self-doubt.
This was supported by the fact that one study in our systematic review did find an association between an item pertaining to severe symptoms of depression (i.e., history of suicidal thoughts or attempts) and excess GWG [ 45].
Only one of the six studies examining depression [ 45], found a significant association and this was between a severe measure of depression 'suicidal thoughts and attempts' and excess GWG (among 'black' adolescents; OR 5.0; 95% CI 1.28 to 19.57).
