Posts Tagged ‘Introspection’
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 the shower, when I (more…)
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Ageing, Biology, Body, Books, Capture, Children, Consciousness, 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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I have been experiencing some knee problems lately, so I got myself some exercises to work out the affected area on my own (I try to avoid doctors as much as I can because there is usually (more…)
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Tags: Body, Exercises, Films, Focus, Habits, Helplessness, Introspection, Learning, Mind, Personal productivity, Planning, Tasks, Thinking, Time Management, Workflow
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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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Bud Hennekes recently posted about his intention to eliminate curses from his vocabulary, for which he has announced that he will hold a “30 day trial” and invites other people to join him.
I didn’t exactly get if such trial intends (more…)
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Tags: Blogging, Children, Communication, Conflict solving, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Exercises, Experience, Experiments, Fear, Goal setting, Habits, Introspection, Language, Learning, Personal development, Personal relations, Social conditioning, Subliminal, Tips, Violence
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Humor was once defined as “distance that approaches”. It is one of the best existing relieves for our tortured and overwhelmed left brain (it is (more…)
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Tags: Brain, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Focus, Games, Growth, Habits, Humor, Introspection, Language, Love, Motivation, Perception, Personal relations, Primitive mind, Thinking, Transcendence
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It happened the other day. I was having the habitual fast-paced walk that is currently my sport of choice (remind me to recover my skates one of these days), when my way got obstructed by a family group. (more…)
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Tags: Beauty, Books, Brain, Children, Daniel Goleman, Daydreaming, Education, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Fatherhood, Growth, Hurry, Introspection, Learning, Nature, Perception, Personal relations, Poetry, Social conditioning, Walking
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