The framework proposed here consists of six statuses:
Imagining, i Nforming, Choosing, Obtaining, Maintaining, and Exiting, the initials of which form the acronym INCOME (Beveridge et al., 2002).
An asthmatic boy calmed himself while getting his medicine during nighttime asthma attacks by
imagining that one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pictured on his bedsheets had flown away to fetch the doctor.
Now I calm my nerves before surgery by
imagining myself an acolyte, purified, undergoing a necessary ritual.
Imagining Grace uses a self-referential approach which combines elements of Marxist and Black Aesthetic liberation theologies while arguing for the inclusion of nonreligious theological perspectives in the consideration of slave narratives.
This "common denominator" was the "Heimat idea", the
imagining of the nation via local idioms which "transform[ed] the nation into an everyday life experience"(xii).
Furthermore, for the study of marginal, satiric, and grotesque writings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - written, at times quite wittily, in lucid and accessible prose -
Imagining Rabelais provides original and definitive information for early modern scholars of any discipline.
On the one hand, Currie argues that personal
imagining occupies a marginal and limited position in our experience of film.
Although
Imagining the Middle East certainly grants the reader fresh insights into the areas of the "mythical frontier" and shifting Western representations of the Orient over past centuries, Hentsch cannot justifiably disregard Orientalism's influence upon all subsequent studies of Western perceptions of the Middle East, including
Imagining the Middle East.
This, I decided, was because victimization, as a state, as an identity, was, in the black male psyche, feminized to such a degree that
imagining "the male victim" became a near impossibility.
This should involve identifying the irrational belief, seeking evidence proving or disputing the belief,
imagining the worst and thinking of positive results one can achieve even if the worst does indeed happen.
According to the results, simply
imagining a posture may have effects that are similar to actually assuming the pose.
Volunteers spontaneously sniffed only when
imagining smells, the researchers report in the November Nature Neuro-science.