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.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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.
Friday, September 21, 2007
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.
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.
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