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Introspection is the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings. [1] In psychology, the process of introspection relies on the observation of one's mental state, while in a spiritual context it may refer to the examination of one's soul. [2]
The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable. The illusion has been examined in psychological experiments, and suggested as a basis for biases in how people compare themselves to others.
Four statues depicting omphaloskepsis. Navel-gazing is the contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation. [1] The word omphaloskepsis derives from the Ancient Greek words ὀμφᾰλός (omphalós, lit.
Prior to the 20th century, philosophers treated the phenomenon of consciousness as the "inner world [of] one's own mind", and introspection was the mind "attending to" itself, [b] an activity seemingly distinct from that of perceiving the 'outer world' and its physical phenomena.
In the terminology of Ayurveda (traditional medicine), guṇa can refer to one of twenty fundamental properties which any substance can exhibit, arranged in ten pairs of antonyms, viz. heavy/light, cold/hot, unctuous/dry, dull/sharp, stable/mobile, soft/hard, non-slimy/slimy, smooth/coarse, minute/gross, viscous/liquid.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
February brings a wave of introspection and transformation, especially when it comes to friendships and your sense of belonging in the world, Taurus. The month begins with a dreamy conjunction ...
Introspection (Greg Howe album), 1993; Introspection (Myriads album), 2002; Introspection (Thijs van Leer album), or the title song, 1972; Introspection, a 1969 album by the UK band The End; Introspection, a 2006 album by Ivo Perelman "Introspection", a song by MC Solaar from Mach 6 "Introspection", a song by MGMT from their 2013 eponymous album