Imagine your inner child waking up one day after a long time. You open your eyes after dark nine months. You are not used to light or sond. It's cold. Than giant two hands take you to a warm place with a heart beat sound. It's cosy. You just remebered you heard that sound before. You are at peace. A slightest sound upsets you, but comforting smell of skin calms you down. The world you first saw through shapes is starting to have colors and dimensions. Your eyes and hans are starting to explore.
Your senses are at at your fullest. The world is incredibly big and you feel the urge to explore. The excitment is overflowing your body. The bliss of eccstasy makes your first moves, feeling it from your very top to the last toe. Your body is owerfloaded with your heart beat when you see that colorful object. A need to feel it is growing. You're exploring it with your touch, smell, shape and size. Your focus is extremely sharp and your heart if full of joy, excitment and love. Just as you grabed it you feelt texture and material. You feel every smoothnes and warmth of the object. Just as ...
The view of the painting brings to mind the all the senses. Smell is the first to come to mind as the smoke from the candle billows up, the burning smell reaches the noise as well as the burning cigar. The fruity smell overshadows that of the smell of chicken and peas. The noise of a dropped tray and the breaking of glass as it hits the floor makes everyone turn to the right. People talking over each other to be heard. All of the senses are realized as the painting is viewed.
Not only is human connection vital to live a happy and joyful life, but it is necessary to create a legacy, and thus live on through others. But in order to do this, one must first overcome their ego and their sense of self. Once all of the “I” thoughts are gone, one can relate, but fully understand, the higher powers as well as other human beings around us. However, it is important to accept that we may never fully understand the driving force of this universe. While it can be experienced, and we can briefly get an idea of what it is, it is impossible to define these concepts in words, because we don’t have a language that transcends what we can understand. And though many recognize that these concepts could never be fully understood by the human brain, determined minds continue to ask questions that will never have an answer, “pushing their minds to the limits of what we can know” (Armstrong,
concludes that the possible must be conceivable by the imagination but that the imagination's capacity to visualize extends beyond the mere possible (White 179-183).
The human mind is the greatest tool, which is able to give humans ideas, thoughts and the ability to form speech. Yet, there is still something out there that the human mind cannot fathom, something that is bigger than anything humans want to know. The mind can be compared to a cage, in that sense of being limited to knowledge and finding out what else is out there. Once the mind is released and is open to new ideas, humans can understand what is real and what is not real. This concept was shown in The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave which shows the theme of Alice In Wonderland , that reality is not always what it seems and the concept of choices.
It was just one regular day. Chitter chatter coming from the wave of children. Soccer moms picking up their kids from practice. The brightly shining gray color of the mini vans lined up. The husband's picking up hours at work. The usual day. Except for one large gap in the Earth's sky. Hovering at us. Staring us in the eye daily. Confusion rose upon us. Questioning what that thing in the sky was. We never knew it would be capable of such yet; until it held that power and used it.
I make my way through the woods; I am familiar with my path that I don’t even mind that the towering trees have blocked out the sunlight from seeping in. I know exactly where I am going. The trees are endless and lost in the sky above. An outsider would have been lost here for days. I walk on through until the towering trees stop being menacing and the sunlight becomes more and more apparent with each step. The sky above is no longer shards of indecipherable green leaves but the soft and inviting blue of the cloudless sky. I am now in the light completely, the sunbeams washing over me. I just need to walk another mile to reach my destination.
1. Memories from my childhood are scarce and cloudy at best. Everything is distorted and it always seems like everyone is bigger than you, in more ways than one. From what I do remember, a major player in my development as a child was the overwhelming feeling of confusion. More times than not, I was confused by at least one of many things (authority, my own identity, physical, mental and emotional changes, etc). A child's confusion is due to the massive series of contradictions that is childhood itself. In Lewis Carroll's novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass , the meaning of childhood and what it is to be a child and literally live in a child's world takes on an entirely different meaning than ever before. Similarly, the computer game based on the novels, American McGee's Alice , gives an interesting perspective on the concept of childhood and the struggle to maturity.
the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at the posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization” (Einstein 47). Einstein, as per usual, sums up the phenomenon succinctly although one can find fault with his mention of science being a “century old endeavour” (Einstein), because all humans engage in science sometime in their life. This usually occurs as small children and is often times called playing but many times a child is testing the world, seeing how things work. This process of testing one’s ideas about the world is as intrinsic to human development and human civilization that there is only one other segment of human life that is as fundamental to us, religion.
In this week’s reading, Rivkin (2014) wrote about the spiritual development of young children and the ties to nature and time spent in nature. She outlines leading researchers and their theories of the development of a higher consciousness and awareness as a broad definition of spiritual development. In my opinion, it was challenging to understand what was exactly meant as spiritual development and as I read, I realized it was not what I was thinking. This topic reminds me greatly of mindfulness which is growing in popularity in our school district. The practices of being in nature and becoming part of nature are extremely powerful and serve as a great reminder that we are not just getting kids outside because it is healthier, we are doing it because being part of the environment is good for their souls and their growth as children.
Our conceptions of the “world” and “nature” are not absolute realities, but perceptual and individual representations
Not many children’s movies show children how the brain develops, stores memories and works in day to day life, but Inside Out does just that. Within this hour and a half movie the psychology topics of long term memory, short term memory, emotions, and development is all include. Although it is very clear Inside Out indulges on these psychological topics throughout the movie, memory and emotions take the spotlight. Developmental psychology may not be as obvious, but is still in several of the scenes in Inside Out.
The unheard sounds came through, and each melodic line existed of itself, stood out clearly from all the rest, said its piece, and waited patiently for the other voices to speak. That night I found myself hearing not only in time, but in space as well. I not only entered the music, but descended, like Dante, into its depths (Ellison 7).2
Later when we go back to our hotel realize just how big our world is.But it is also scary, as we are just a tiny dot in our big world.But even scarier that we are just one small, not small even smaller than a small dot in our huge
The first thing I try to do in the morning is thank the man upstairs for my health and protection. Being in good health and eating healthy is very important to me. Growing up as a child with five other siblings, we didn’t have the latest and greatest of things. What we had was what mom and dad could afford. Unfortunately, our food choices were also limited to only what we could afford. With five children to provide for, I believe it’s safe to say that eating clean/organic was pretty much out of the question.
We had sent the first man to the moon just a few months before. This told every child that if we could imagine it, nothing was impossible. During the next two years, there were a dozen roads and cul-de-sacs, with many homes. In two years, it doubled again. I watched the subdivision grow as the roads at the back of the subdivision would stop only to expand again. In a similar fashion, it seemed that my horizons were as well.