overtension

His early faculties were intensified and refined, and in the overtension of his nerves through suffering his perceptions broadened, and he gained new ideas of things.

Guy de Maupassant, a study 2003

His early faculties were intensified and refined, and in the overtension of his nerves through suffering his perceptions broadened, and he gained new ideas of things.

Une Vie 2003

William James said, in his essay “The Gospel of Relaxation”: “The American overtension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression … are bad habits, nothing more or less.”

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job Dale Carnegie 1970

William James said, in his essay “The Gospel of Relaxation”: “The American overtension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression … are bad habits, nothing more or less.”

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job Dale Carnegie 1970

William James said, in his essay “The Gospel of Relaxation”: “The American overtension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression … are bad habits, nothing more or less.”

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job Dale Carnegie 1970

But there is no evidence to show that suicides, generally, are caused by seasonal overtension and subsequent collapse.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

William James said, in his essay “The Gospel of Relaxation”: “The American overtension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression . . . are bad habits, nothing more or less.”

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Dale Carnegie 1944

The late Professor William James of Harvard makes the following pertinent remark concerning the overtension of Americans: --

Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business 1910

The possibility of developing the power of relaxation by means of special training is being taken advantage of in teaching acts of skill, in all forms of mental therapeutics, and in numerous other instances where overtension hinders the acquisition or accomplishment of a useful act.

Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business 1910

(_Arabian Nights_, vol. v, p. 76), much studied by Moslems, as also by Hindoos, who, on this account, during the orgasm seek to avoid overtension of muscles and to preoccupy the brain.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899