It takes courage to be in the moment and not default into habitual ways of relating, to take responsibility for honest communication and to expect reciprocal respect.
It was her sense of a visually ordered universe — where everyone had ten fingers and toes, where bodies and faces were capable of expressing hope and love and failure in all the habitual ways — that Diane Arbus turned from in horror.
Moments like these are what we love in Janacek: the way he presents the ordinary world, burbling on in its habitual way, as the site of sudden, barely containable emotions breaking free.
"Ups and downs," the cook said, referring to the fluctuations of the market in the habitual way of someone unaccustomed to the possibility of a new paradigm.
As usual, continuous (resp. symmetric/homogeneous) means are defined in the habitual way.
Be compassionate when explaining your choice to stay elsewhere; remember that they're probably so stuck in the habitual way that things play out whenever you visit that this is likely to come as both a shock and possibly feel like somewhat of an insult.
Cognitive behaviour therapy, in which patients are taught to break habitual ways of seeing problems by thinking positively, has been shown to be effective.
In analysis, the relationship between therapist and patient serves as a kind of petri dish, in which the patient re-enacts her habitual ways of relating with others, enabling them to be better understood.
My sense of self is a product of habitual ways of thinking, feeling and acting.
