Sentence examples for mentally distance from inspiring English sources

What's better, to physically numb yourself into a performance drone or to mentally distance yourself by conjuring images of Dick Cheney in a Speedo?

Mind you, the incessant turbulence and hatchet-faced sourness of one or two of the cabin crew at least made it easy for me to mentally distance myself and drift off into recollection of our 12 days in south Florida... and how they impacted on our finances.

If you're crushing on someone you can't physically avoid: Mentally distance yourself instead.

Bramsen et al. [ 82] made a more detailed distinction: problem-focussed coping according to a preceding plan, psychological distancing and avoiding (i.e. mentally creating distance between oneself and the environment), and seeking social support [ 82].

Subjects tend to take longer to "mentally scan" over a distance marked as representing 80 miles than over a distance marked as 20 miles, even though the actual distances depicted on the map (which they have learned and are supposedly imagining) are the same (Richman, Mitchell, & Reznick, 1979a,b; see also Mitchell & Richman, 1980; Goldston et al., 1985; Reed, Hock & Lockhead, 1983).

The report goes on to state that the respondents "appeared to distance themselves mentally from people living with HIV through a process of 'othering' them: imagining they are very different from themselves.

If there's a negative person in your life whom you can't avoid, like a boss, co-worker, or close family member, work on distancing yourself mentally and emotionally rather than physically.

Absolutely the distance is greater mentally, than physically".

Individuals with a high power distance orientation are mentally dependent on their leaders.

However, desire for social distance from the mentally ill was low in the general population when examined in the National Mental Health Survey of Sri Lanka using qualitative methodology [ 28].

The students do not need to translate these problems to a different language to solve them, says Dehaene; instead, they appear to represent numbers mentally as if they were distances along a line--so that two units plus two units look about like four units.