Do you go through a mental list of possibilities or do you just know what will bring your readers a laugh?
Yet today we give people skills without ever preparing them for that mental awareness of possibility, or even worse without believing it is possible ourselves.
At a time when the prospect of a longer life is shadowed by the fear of mental decline, the possibility that the aging can have some control over their mental fitness is an idea even William Osler would support.
As older persons are often treated for several conditions besides mental disorders, the possibility for unwanted drug interactions is increased in this age group.
For any screening programme these issues would need to be considered, weighing up the benefits of increased awareness of mental health and possibility of early intervention against the costs of providing screening and services to those who need it.
Although explicit partitioning mechanisms and processes may appear to be superfluous in the mental lexicon, the possibility remains that such mechanisms or representational schemes might be useful at other levels of language processing (e.g., syntax, semantics, etc).
Bettina, according to Bell Gale Chevigny, one of Fuller's best biographers, "lived at the fulcrum of two myths: the idolatrous worship of the Master" (Bettina's master was Goethe, and so was Fuller's), "and the utopian possibility of reciprocal mental and spiritual nurture possible between women".
It is easier to exploit the possibilities of mental death than to meet the demands of creative life.
The endless big-sky landscapes were a metaphor for the limitless possibilities of mental and physical adventure, and your classless ragtag band of fellow travellers were the portals to a brave new liberated world.
Nature offers its users the possibilities for mental development by acquiring knowledge about themselves, about nature and surroundings, their contained elements and people (Gibson 1979; Stigsdotter & Grahn 2002; Stigsdotter and Grahn 2011, Wilson 1993).
Once troops leave that regimented environment and enter one with seemingly endless options and possibilities, the mental fatigue starts to set in.
