Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
Some stimulus is not a bad thing.
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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