This is http://www.essayz.com/a9208271.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %THINK IMAGE IMAGINATION PICTURE WORD VISION WORDS 920827 We think many of our thoughts in terms of images and pictures which draw upon our previous experiences; we literally try to image, imagine, or picture what would happen in circumstances if . . . . Our thinking is often in terms of visual images and pictures as we try to visualize in a vision how things would turn out if . . . . Often, but not always, we think in terms of word pictures which describe what we may anticipate would happen if . . . . In each case of images, pictures, vision, or verbal description there is usually associated an emotional ambience which carries much weight in the nature of how we respond to our tentative visions. The emotional ambience often grows out of the emotional tone associated with the origins of our images, pictures, visions and verbal messages---in our previous experiences as children, adolescents and adults. Our "thinking" is a combination of bringing together and inter-connecting in our imagination new combinations of the images, pictures, visions and verbal descriptions (with their various emotional tones) upon which we can draw in our efforts to anticipate the consequences of making choices about possible alternatives. We anticipate the future in terms of our memories of the past; memories which are recorded in images, pictures, visions, verbal descriptions and emotional tones. As we consider these elements of our "thoughts" we may hear/feel in our memory how people have spoken in various circumstances in the past, and see/feel in our imagination how their faces looked in those circumstances. In each such consideration we are likely to feel in memory the emotional tones of the former situations we consider. What we think and how we think depends greatly upon the elements of the visual, auditory, verbal and emotional pictures in terms of which we "think". Not all of our "thinking" is in terms of statements constructed out of strings of words. Some of our "thinking" may be in terms of our memories of dramatic scenes of real life or dramatic stage, of real or imaginary affective occasions and expressions, of musical expressions and events, or of literary and artistic pictures and images of life. Our thinking is influenced by and draws upon all kinds of ways of giving expression to and remembering aspects of being alive as emotional beings, participating in all kinds of personal and impersonal relationships with other persons and things. In planning for and anticipating future events and efforts we think in terms of many differing ways of giving expression to and remembering the various aspects of being alive as emotional beings. The connections between our emotions and our images play very important roles. In our thinking it is rare that we think in terms of images, pictures, visions, and expressions which do not invoke emotional responses; thus it is rare that we truly think objectively with emotional detachment which is in keeping with scientists' paradigm for clear thinking. Would we think more wisely if we were more emotionally detached; or if we were more emotionally inter-connected with both personal and communal integrity? Will we be wiser if we openly engage in honest dialogue regarding the emotional connections between our images, pictures and visions; or if we carefully avoid thinking about them and avoid engaging in honest conversations about them? What kinds of people are best qualified to help us to be wise in this regards? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================