There comes a point in the development of nervous energy which is productive of sterility.
Fertility, broadly speaking, varies in inverse proportion to the degree of nervous energy or what we may call vitality.
He finds that the all-important factor which determines fertility is the amount of nervous energy of the organism, and that nervous energy is produced or modified by three specially influential factors, viz.
Vigour is an expression of nervous energy, and is generated by the brain.
If nervous energy is a complex form of electrical energy, then the brain in which this is stored is an electrical dynamo.
But now, this large amount of nervous energy, instead of being allowed to expend itself in producing an equivalent amount of the new thoughts and emotions which were nascent, is suddenly checked in its flow.
Just as soon as the inhibition of nervous energy, due to worry and over-attention to their sensations, stopped, then the natural force of the body was sufficient to remove the sources of complaint.
Waves of nervous energytravel at a different rate of speed from electrical waves, and there are other notable differences.
The constant renewal of effort to keep one train of thought from interfering with another is itself a waste of nervous energy.
If the sole of the foot be repeatedly bruised or crushed by a stone, shock may be produced; if the stone be only lightly applied, then the consequent sensation of tickling causes a discharge of nervous energy.
When a barefoot boy steps on a sharp stone there is an immediate discharge of nervous energy in his effort to escape from the wounding stone.
It is quite clear that in each of these cases the altered function and form of the brain-cells are due to an *excessive discharge of nervous energy.
From what was learned above regarding the relation of nervous energy to active attention, it is evident that the ability to attend to a problem at any given time will depend in part upon the physical condition of the organism.
A fourth characteristic to be noted regarding nervous matter is that a nervous impulse, or current, as it is transmitted through the system, encounters resistance, or consumes an amount of nervous energy.
It is evident from the foregoing, that the forming of new ideas or of new modes of action tends to use up a large share of nervous energy.
Hence we may distinguish what are called mental forces from the other expressions of nervous energy as phronetic energy.
Ostwald has, in his Natural Philosophy, lately emphasized the fact that all the manifestations of mental life, not only sensation and will, but even thought and consciousness, can be reduced to nervous energy.
However, I have endeavored to prove, in the tenth chapter of the Riddle, that consciousness itself is only a special form of nervous energy, and Ostwald has lately developed the theory in his Natural Philosophy.
Hence modern energism is perfectly justified in regarding mental energy (in all its forms) from the same point of view as all other forms of nervous energy, and in fact all manifestations of energy in organic or inorganic nature.
The child depleted of nervous energy, for whatever reason, will usually be slower than his fellows in performing the various activities of home or school.
Work of this character involves particularly the higher co-ordinating areas of the brain, those controlling the more precise and elaborate adjustments of the body, and this work makes large demands upon one's nervous energy.
The essential fact is the impracticable silliness of these little divisions, the waste of men, the waste of nervous energy, the waste of administrative energy they involve.
Another citizen may have all this man's desires and impulses, checked and sterilized by a lack of nervous energy, by an abject fear of the policeman and of the consequences of the disapproval of his more prosperous fellow-citizens.
The suppression of distracting influences not only enables the mind to be given fully to the work in hand, but actually prevents waste of nervous energy.
Much of the needless waste of nervous energy, including that of worrying over trivial matters, may be prevented through the exercise of self-control.
This condition is in some instances inherited, but is in most cases due to the wasteful expenditure of nervous energy or to the action of some drug upon the body.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nervous energy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
