"Conflict between urges and self-control.
It was like a constant battle between my sexual urges and my self-control.
Heraclitus urges moderation and self-control in a somewhat conventional way (B85, B43).
Cravings or urges, decreases in self-control, and a compulsive engagement in unhealthy behaviors each characterize patients with addiction (Dallman et al. 2005; Kalivas and Volkow 2005; Koob et al. 2004; Sinha 2001).
When you feel the urge to lose your self-control, immediately think of something else you could be doing.
In other words, our wellspring of desires and urges are separate from self-control and restraint.
During withdrawal, smokers experience intensified emotional reactions to other environmental events as well, consistent with the findings by Vohs and colleagues that self-control intensifies urges and feelings more generally.
Though that whitehead or blackhead might prove irresistible to pop (I've been there myself), please, summon all your self-control and fight the urge.
In a visit to a West Bank army base, he also urged Israeli civilians to "show restraint and self-control, even in these difficult hours".
Both an inability to control urges and desires and an excessive degree of self-control are characteristic.
The location of the grey matter correlation with expressive emotion suppression is in line with our predictions based on previous functional neuroimaging research relating the dmPFC to self-control of actions and more complex urges [9] [12].
