Sentence examples for mental control from inspiring English sources

Verstappen did not do that, which suggests he had a semblance of mental control and was not over-driving and attacking too much.

Goneril and Regan and Edmund and Edgar have sent their fathers away—into "the storm," which, in Shakespeare's play, symbolizes the chaotic loss of physical and mental control that comes with old age and the approach of mortality.

"You have to maintain extreme physical and mental control.

And stressful situations, Dr. Wegner said, make the struggle for mental control even harder.

It would certainly take discipline and require physical and mental control and focus".

"People cannot sustain that level of mental control for long periods of time," he says.

Suppression is one of various mental control techniques that people may use to manage unwanted thoughts.

So, if automatic piloting were in fact enhanced by exertion of mental control, the volunteers would always perform better in the highly structured and predictable task.

As Daniel Goleman writes in Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, a fascinating new book he'll publish this fall: "Overloading attention shrinks mental control.

In a suicide note the family released, Mr. Sachs said, "The loss of mental control over my life was an undignified condition which I decided to counter decisively".

The late, brilliant social psychologist Dan Wegner described this as the great irony of mental control: in order to insure that you aren't thinking about an unwanted idea, you have to continually turn your mind to that very idea.