Posts Tagged ‘Introspection’
Ah, the inner world of thoughts, the endless maze of haze for the intro-verted… Here’s one of those adventures in the art of what I like to call brain fu. (more…)
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Tags: Books, Brain-fu, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Focus, Introspection, Learning, Thought
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It’s happened all my life, so along time I’ve managed to figure out its working, its pattern. It comes on occasions, when I fall asleep. It can be during (more…)
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Tags: Consciousness, Daydreaming, Dreams, Ideas, Imagination, Introspection, Learning, Planning, Positivity, Sleep, Stories, Time, Transcendence, Visualization
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If you have been round here for a while, you’ll know that individual consciousness, and its relations with the mob, is a recurrent issue in this blog. I consider it key to our current situation as a community. Well, the other day I had an insight about this and my first thought, of course, (more…)
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Behaviorism, Biology, Body, Carl Gustav Jung, Communication, Compassion, Competition, Consciousness, Creative thinking, Creativity, Difference, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Empathy, Ethic, Evolution, Fear, Growth, Imitation, Instincts, Interdependence, Introspection, Originality, Person, Primitive mind, Social conditioning, Thinking, Unconscious, Violence, Walking
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Friday, October 15th, 2010
Tags: Brain, Consciousness, Happiness, Humor, Inspiration, Introspection, Meditation, Metaphor, Perception, Poetry, Specialisation, Stories, Transcendence, Words
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I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after shower, when I (more…)
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Ageing, Biology, Body, Books, Capture, Children, Consciousness, David Allen, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Fear, GTD, Helplessness, Humor, Introspection, Intuition, Labeling, Language, Learning, Life, Mental block, Mind, Motivation, Nature, Notebooks, Organizing, Pain, Perception, Personal development, Personal productivity, Positivity, Primitive mind, Rejection, Sickness, Social conditioning, Society
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As it was mentioned in previous adventures (for example here or here), I love walking. I love walking even in quite a hostile an environment as a big city. I find it necessary, not only for the body, but as mental hygiene. And by walking (more…)
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Body, Creative thinking, Exercises, Experience, Experiments, Focus, Fun, Games, Gratification, Habits, Hurry, Ideas, Introspection, Learning, Leisure, Nature, Nicanor Parra, Perception, Personal development, Proactive, Serendipity, Social conditioning, Thinking, Thoreau, Time, Walking
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I used to think of photography as a minor art. In comparison to music or literature, my all-time beloved ones, it appeared to me that photography granted a lower degree of choice to the artist, and was, thus, not that praiseworthy. It made me think of the old joke of the (more…)
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Ageing, Art, Beauty, Cliché, Creative thinking, Creativity, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Family, Growth, Introspection, Learning, Life, Love, Perception, Personal relations, Photography, Primitive mind, Repression, Stories, Subliminal, Time, Unconscious, Visualization, Writing
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During his interview with Solomon Shang, the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung tells a very revealing story about two patients of him.
The man was of the extroverted type, and the girl was introverted, “so, naturally, (more…)
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Biology, Carl Gustav Jung, Daydreaming, Dreams, Evolution, Experiments, Games, Introspection, Intuition, Memory, Mind, Nature, Perception, Personal relations, Primitive mind, Psychoanalysis, Science, Thinking, Unconscious, Words
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Yes, we read a lot more than before. But is it quality reading? The spirit of each age modifies our habits and perceptions, and (more…)
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Albert Camus, Art, Beauty, Blogging, Books, Communication, Consumerism, Education, Focus, Globalization, Goethe, Gratitude, Growth, Habits, Hurry, Imitation, Information, Introspection, Language, Learning, Music, Reading strategies, Social conditioning, Stories, Subliminal, Thinking, Tips
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I wonder if we ever notice how different children are from an adults. At least, when it comes down to space, it is easier to notice the difference: children’s body proportions, with their big heads and shorter limbs, are different to ours, so it is easy to conclude that their experience of space in a different from ours (let alone their different sleep and energy consumption patterns… it is the age of discovery).
But such difference is more subtle when it comes down to time. Time for a child (more…)
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Tags: Children, Cliché, Education, Emotions, Experience, Family, Fatherhood, Fear, Fun, Games, Growth, Introspection, Learning, Love, Perception, Poetry, Time, Transcendence, Writing
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