During initial development of the PAR program 83% of 255 volunteer physicians reported that their MSF feedback data stimulated contemplation of change, and 66% reported initiation of change in at least one aspect of their practice [ 4].
In the form of a framed picture, Oriental roll picture, print, or book illustration, such an iconographic tableau contains religious information, mediates, and stimulates contemplation and devotion.
In her view, it should stimulate meditation or contemplation or an emotion, reflecting the viewer's inner life, not the external world.
The monks and laity are able to engage the passionless part of their souls only through the passionate part, and so they require a visible trigger the symbol to stimulate their intelligible contemplation.
Dutch still life paintings depicting oysters, herrings, crabs, bread, butter, beer, wine, excite the appetite and are objectionable for the exact same reasons as erotic paintings and sculptures, which excite sexual appetite, are objectionable: they stimulate the will and as such put an end to any aesthetic contemplation of the object.
CUA professor Julio Bermudez and a team of researchers from the University of Utah compiled "fMRI Study of Architecturally-Induced Contemplative studys," a sthat that sought to explore whether or not a building designed for contemplation -- be it a museum, a church or a library -- can stimulate brain activity similar to that of meditation.
They stimulate defections.
Their feeling was, stimulate, stimulate, stimulate to keep the viewer.
However, objects can be resistant to aesthetic contemplation in two main ways: either they may be stimulating to the bodily appetites or they may be hostile in some way to the human will to life.
The trains of thought stirred up by the film's contemplation of what is here and what is there — and where you are — are endless and stimulating.
