n â SelbstgefÃ¤lligkeit f; (over sbâs misfortune or failure) â Schadenfreude f; it wasnât pleasant to listen to their gloating â es war kein VergnÃ¼gen, ihren selbstgefÃ¤lligen Reden/schadenfrohen Bemerkungen zuzuhÃ¶ren; their gloating over their own success â ihre selbstgefÃ¤llige Freude Ã¼ber ihren Erfolg.
The mind is definitely stronger than the body. The mind is a very powerful thing, it controls your emotions, reactions, and it attracts negative or positive things to your life, depending on your attitude towards life, If you're a positive person, positive things are more than likely to happen to you.
These two ideas â the body-mind duality and the âclean-slateâ mind - have been the strong roots of the western psychology for many decades. Only in the twentieth century western psychologists, especially Jung, Maslow and others, were able to break free from this limiting concepts.