The Knicks needed a victory on Friday more for the mental lift it would give them than for the effect it would have on their slipping position in the playoff chase.
"I am glad I pushed it at every opportunity, but in the time limit it was really hard and [just] having got this far gives me a mental lift going into the race," she says.
To have these ordinary aspects of her life repackaged as pleasurable gives her a kind of mental lift; and as Nigella Lawson has discovered, selling the pleasure concept to over-committed women is big business.
Cycling is Kammel's favorite race event, and he gets a mental lift when he approaches a hill during a race and able-bodied cyclists are walking their bikes.
Drink black tea in the morning for the extra mental lift from the caffeine and switch to green or oolong tea in the afternoon, aiming for about 5 teacups per day.
Together, these create an easy reading experience, in which the mental heavy lifting of conceptualization, categorization, and analysis is completed well in advance of actual consumption — a bit like sipping green juice instead of munching on a bundle of kale.
It takes a deliberate act of mental weight lifting to remember that "Pastor Rick" is the reasonable one, the one who's not Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps, or Torquemada.
"There's been a lot of big matches where I didn't come out on top, so it was a big mental weight lifted".
