Posts Tagged ‘Subliminal’
Children are like pure water before it gets stained by our ‘civilized’ procedures (in fact, it is more than a metaphor: it seems the water percentage in a child’s body is higher than the regular adult 60-70%). So, even though nowadays they usually lose their innocence really soon (they better do), it is still possible to (more…)
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Admiration, Ageing, Beauty, Bioenergetics, Biology, Body, Children, Creative thinking, Education, Experience, Experiments, Family, Fun, Growth, Happiness, Inspiration, Intuition, Learning, Nature, Pain, Sickness, Social conditioning, Society, Subliminal
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Recently, as the issue arose at a forum, I had to explain, making it clear to myself at the same time, that my geekery level is nowadays round 3/10. Anyways, I have my gratifications now and then, like the other day, when I was trying to (more…)
Friday, September 10th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Computers, Focus, Geek, Growth, Learning, Mental block, Motivation, Perception, Polymath, Positivity, Proactive, Procrastination, Reminders, Serendipity, Shyness, Social conditioning, Stories, Subliminal
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Let’s put the authority argument first, for they still seem to keep some value in this age of mobs taking the power. The poet Paul Valéry, refined human being and one of my literary heroes, affirmed in his diaries
that museums seemed to him disgusting (more…)
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Art, Beauty, Books, Consumerism, Creativity, Daydreaming, Leisure, Paul Valéry, Social conditioning, Subliminal
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The house has been on fire ever since it was built. Maybe even while it was being built. It has become a tradition to think of the house in connection with flames, just like one cannot conceive a piano without keys or (more…)
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Analogy, Blogging, Compassion, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Ethic, Globalization, History, Interdependence, Internet, Learning, Media, Poetry, Social conditioning, Society, Stories, Subliminal
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Gender is one of those issues that has been so shitted that it is difficult to know how to tackle. I came the other day across this test for films, which makes for a great start. (more…)
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Blogging, Creative thinking, Difference, Education, Exercises, Experience, Films, Gender, Ideas, Inspiration, Learning, Social conditioning, Society, Stories, Subliminal, Tips
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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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It is round the minute no. 50 of the concert, when everybody is feeling more friendly, and there is no distinct separation between musician, audience and music played, and those persons who yearned to kiss each other for so long (more…)
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Tags: Art, Beauty, Bioenergetics, Body, Communication, Conflict solving, Creativity, Dancing, Embrace, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Evolution, Experience, Fun, Gratification, Gratitude, Growth, Imitation, Inspiration, Interdependence, Learning, Leisure, Love, Motivation, Music, Perception, Person, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Repression, Shyness, Society, Subliminal, Teamwork, Television, Transcendence, Violence
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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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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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The success (by my current standards) of my previous post on our need of freaks made me think that I am not alone in thinking that this society lacks variety. Better said: it is not that it lacks variety: it (more…)
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Tags: Beauty, Books, Creative thinking, Education, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Fascism, Freak, Growth, Inspiration, John Calvin, Learning, Nature, Originality, Paul Valéry, Perception, Personal relations, Poetry, Social conditioning, Stefan Zweig, Subliminal, Unconscious, Violence
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