7th chunck : the inner world of feelings

looking on our feelings why cant we control our own feelings

6th Chunck : thinking drft 1

you limit your own thinking to your own interest not knowing or caring about other things. you tend to focus or apply yourself to things that have you are more stronger at and careless about the things that come harder to you. As we grow we are taught a certain way which affect the way we think. As we practiced the thinking strategies in class, two main qoutes were stated by my fellow classmates. one said "i was taught to do it this way" and another said " i follow a sequence that i was taught". this is interesting how two different kids have a similar interpretation on how they think. during this class unit we have tested several riddles in which we had to right down our process of how we would find the answer and if we didnt find the answer how we would demonstrate this. one particular puzzle that interested me the most was the Cocaine Addict Puzzle. in this puzzle we had to try and connect nine dots by only using 4 lines and u cannot retrace the same line twice. first thing i did was think about how i would atack this problem. then i started trying several steps inwhich i could carry out this puzzle. the i started to back track my steps and see if their were other ways to d this

I do agree with R.D. Laing, because we can get so caught up in our own self interest that it might effects us. I have tried in almost every grade in school to apply myself to become a good academic thinker, but outside of school I try to think as little as possible to relax myself. I feel that my mind only works effectively when I force it. in fact i might be a good academic thinker, those thoughts are in a sense programmed into us, and it is artificial thought rather than intellectual thinking. The only reason that school education is significant for us that people aren’t allowed to be happy in a society where money means everything. Supposedly if we work hard and get into a good college we will get good grades and that is a good life, but there is no enjoyment out of working daily, no body does what they truly want to do. Would doctors rather go into work every day and, making $200,000 dollars a year, or would they rather be a singer, or a musician or an artist where money made no difference. But in living the dream most people would end up poor if they did not recieve the proper education needed in which in the ideal world is unexceptable. The fact is that people work only for their own benefit, and not because they enjoy doing it.
"Our Capacity to think is pitifully limited", I think Lianing is trying to say that we think like robots. When we think its usually an automatic response like an computer and not a real process. We usually go with what is the first thing that comes to mind. I would have to say on this point I agree with laning. I believe that thinking might be automatic at times just to make time go faster. For example when you do a multiplication problem you do it off memorization and rules of multiplication for the most part. You usually do not see the problem. Sometimes one forgets the true meaning of multiplication. When Andy gave us the multiplication in class, I did it right off the back no problem because I memorized my multiplication tables. However, when he aced how do you multiply and what does it mean only a few including me were able to answer. Others were explaining the problem threw memorization and I was explaining it as a picture process. I saw it as if I was adding more groups. For example 2 + 2=4 yes I did that off of memorization to save the time but if I felt like there was nothing else to be done I would picture something like 5 M&M's and adding another group of 5 M&M's to get 10. Most people do not think like that no more.

4th Chunck: Childhood and what it means

in R.D laing's article normal alienation from experience, he states "as adults, we have forgotten most of our childhood, not only its contents, buts its flavour. he is saying as we get older we begin to forgot the full content of our own childhood and become alienated from our ownselves. In a way i agree because as i look back on my childhood i cant feel or have the same falvor as it had when i firsted experienced it.but itis not all true because i can remember things that have mainly impacted my childhood and the important things that have occured.
when i was six years old on a hot summerday, myfather was exterminating a beehive and specifically told me not to go by the beehive. but iwas so anixous to see my mother when shecame home from work i ran to her and the swarm of bees attacked me and i was rushed to the hospital, andever sincethen i been alergic to bees. this is just one example of my memories of my childhood.
when our class went to observe the children in their own classroom environment, i began to remember my experience as i was young at that very age. i began to compare how the the students were acting as we would have acted at that time period. i noticed that the kids had more freedom in their class and were still able to get the required work done. i remember at that age the teachers had more control over students and enforced more rules to follow. certain activities and smells refreshed my own memory about my childhood.

3rd Chunck: sensory awareness excercise STAND take1/take2

on my first take of the sensory awareness excercise, i was standing in a straight up forward position in which i notcied i was gettin tired of standing. my leg muscles took the pressure because all my weight was being held by my legs and feet. i felt very tired and wanted to sit down. i think while i was standing i began to noticed how it felt to actually have legs. on the second take while standing i noticed i had alot of other important things on my mind that was totally distracting. my mind was wondering off into things that matter to me most. i noticed how my legs were shaking while standing but i only noticed it when i thought about it mainly.

sensory awareness

When I was taking part in the various sensory awareness exercises, my attention was brought to many new experiences.In my life I feel that I am physically aware of some things, such as pain, fatigue, and even how a body part might feel at one moment.We as people do not listen to our bodies and we go through life missing everything that should be “normal”. i noticed that only at a given time i would notcied anything is hurting or bothering me only when it hurts, not actually taking time out for myself to she how exactly i feel at every moment in my life. For example, during the exercise in which we had to find our way back to the class blindfolded (upstaris), I noticed how many other senses became stronger when we lost our eyesight. My hearing became one of my main sources of information. I also had to use my memories as a main sense in order to move around since my eyesight was gone. I was more aware of things around me just because I was afraid I might walk into something. i was really trying to do the blind fold and experince it for what its worth. i really thought it was intersting and it wasnt as easy as i thought it was going to be, to walk up the stairs and get in the class room with out any vision.

1st Chunck: summary of article

In this article the "normal man", experience determines or completes them. Once the experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. the author R.D. Liang states how the society highly values its normal man. in the ideal man, we act the the way we experience things. our own experience determines our behaviors. what we encounter gives us an outlook on the way we live or should live our lives. in this article the normal is alienated.
In life our purpose is to experience reality, but this is impossible because we only experience part of it. People are only fragments of what they can potentially be. As adults we have forgotten much of our childhood and acknowledge little else of our existence. “Our capacity to think” is “pitifully limited”, and our capacity to acknowledge the senses is also limited. Many people are unaware that we forget being awake similarly to us forgetting dreams, which limits our experience. The people who are considered “normal” or sane are “pretty much the same as every one else”, and people who are outside of the normal alienation are seen as mad. What is considered normal is to be unconscious or unaware. To be truly un alienated one must be aware. The way that we act is a product of what we experience. If our experience is destroyed then our behavior is destructive. If we don’t control or be aware our behavior we will destroy ourselves. We know too much, we love too little, so we are less than we can be. We are the ones who must take the initiative.