I attempted to tie the necessary relaxation into the arousal mechanism, but I am a medic, not a surgeon; I do not know if I was successful.
Should arousalnot relax those muscles sufficiently to permit penetration, you will have to do so consciously.
There is a concreteness of emotional content in some musical compositions--an arousal of terror and longing and despair and joy--infinitely richer than any abstract forms of feeling.
If, indeed, music were just a means for the arousal of feelings, it would not be a fine art, but an orgy.
Differentiate them, and try to give them names; mark the sentences which call them forth; try to determine if their nature and arousal correspond with the writer’s intention.
It is a tradition in psychology that the comparison of present with past experience implies the arousal of an image; we revive or reproduce the old, and then set its mental picture alongside the new.
Except by a fairly obvious fallacy of retrospection we cannot regard this phenomenon as a mere arousal of so-called latent or implicit desires.
