Sensations Thoughts and Emotions Quotes

“Most of our learning is done by association, metaphor, and emotion. This allows for creativity.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“You cannot say, see, or think of something outside your existing repertoire of statements, sights, or thoughts unless you have some mental space that is unoccupied. The mind “space” is not a place or a thing, it’s a construction. Novelty requires unoccupied thoughts. This either follows from expanding one’s awareness or removing preconceptions.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“We put together what we see, similar to the way we put together what we say. If you can’t verbalize something, then you can’t say it. And if you can’t imagine something, then you can’t see it.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“Anger is only weakly intentional. It is a combination of fear, anxiety, sorrow, and vulnerability. We justify these with logical explanations, but, upon examination, our explanations are neither logical nor powerful. They’re excuses. Until these clients are ready to examine the roots of their emotions, no one can help them gain control.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“Neuroscience is segmented into areas of specialization. The most active areas are those where new observations are being made. Importance is directed to the new machines that are creating new images. We like pictures, especially when we have nothing else. Researchers are creating lots of pictures that conclude nothing but generate a lot of interest. This is more about making bets and designing machines than it is about understanding the brain.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“Will we plant trees or build spaceships? Fund research or house the elderly? Should we even be spending money at all? Shouldn’t we be talking about what happens when we create money from nothing?”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“But we are easily misled when these tools are skillfully used and the results endorsed by our peers. The alternative is to reject the consensus and be an outsider. A person trained in group manipulation will marginalize a solitary stand to preserve the group's crafted uniformity.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“Magic can be any act that causes change through unconscious effects. This includes using your unconscious to facilitate change in yourself. Saying that magic acts through the unconscious doesn't mean that it exists only in the mind, or that it is imaginary. Magical displays are common and are events the causes of which we are not aware. We see as magic any outcome that has no cause.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“how smart are you? Most of us answer that question by deferring to authority to judge our success. But success is more of a reflection of the environment in which you operate than an indication of the depth or breadth of your skill.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“What “one” thing do you think is most important? For me, it is this: that our identities are a complete fabrication. There is no reality to who you think you are. It is entirely of your construction, and it is entirely unnecessary in its details. At”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“you think you can think your way to a greater understanding of yourself and others, using thought alone, you’re fooling yourself.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“Neural changes are not the cause of your memories, thoughts, and personality, they result from them. Changes in neural structure correspond to changes in behavior, but this is not thought. Classical conditioning is conjectured to explain memory, but it is only a small part of it. This is important: neural connections do not make thoughts they support thoughts.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“The attraction of logical puzzles is the illusion that we experience a logical world. That’s a comfortable illusion, similar to what religion offers. “Spiritual bypassing” is the phrase used to describe the substitution of dogma for judgment, which results in a disabled-follower mentality.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“Thinking is largely an involuntary act.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“With too much stress, any of our systems become traumatized. Some aspect of ourselves has been distorted and will not return to normal by itself. This could be mental, muscular, or metabolic.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“Few doctors are fighting for this right, and those who are fighting are the doctors who are establishing new protocols. Most other doctors, in my experience, are reluctant to entertain anything outside of the protocol their administrators tell them to follow. They do not use clinical experience and, as has been noted in medical education, they are increasingly encouraged not”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“You can’t presume healing is automatic. You have to learn how to heal, and each illness is different. One of the first lessons is being discerning about what advice to follow.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023

“I’m perfectly happy using logic in physics and mathematics, but the psychosomatic world is not connected in this way.”
― Lincoln Stoller, Sensations Thoughts and Emotions: Essays on Reality and Mental Health, 2013-2023