Not a mop, but a ship's mast. All about my happy childhood
Stormy fantasy completely separates him from reality. On the other hand, teachers repeat how useful it is to develop a child's imagination, imaginative thinking, and creativity. So what to do, in fact, an emphasis on reality or fantasy? Are there controversies or concerns?
A dreamer, an inventor, a dreamer, he can hang in the clouds all day. All his toys are certainly talking, all dolls are princesses, all horses are unicorns. They say that such a child is too naive, too trusting, too kind. They say that it will be difficult for him in life.
Stormy fantasy completely separates him from reality. There are many who want to take advantage of his naivety for their own selfish purposes. Disappointment in people will not keep you waiting. It’s better to immediately understand that you cannot ride a rainbow and fly an umbrella, that people can be scoundrels, and children are evil and cruel. Let him be ready for this. Isn't that what pragmatic adult realists often think?
On the other hand, teachers repeat how useful it is to develop a child's imagination, imaginative thinking, and creativity. So what to do, in fact, an emphasis on reality or fantasy? Are there controversies or concerns?
Visual children
Fantasy is a property of the human psyche with a visual vector. Congenital, but like any other property, it can only be developed in childhood, until the end of puberty.
The ability to think in images, pictures, paints gives the young viewer the opportunity to clearly imagine himself in the place of a hero of a literary work, a hero of a theatrical performance, a character in a film or cartoon.
Such a child can live every event of a fictional story, feel every emotion of the protagonist, completely immerse himself in the atmosphere of what is happening. It is these children who often invent an imaginary friend for themselves, with whom they communicate, play, take care of him, considering him as real as they themselves. Especially when in real life there is a lack of emotional connection with parents.
In addition, the riot of imagination of a visual child is due to an unusually wide range of emotional amplitude - from universal sadness to unrestrained delight. And the ability to switch between emotions in a split second. Laughter and tears are almost at the same time quite an observable state for the viewer.
Consciousness and sensuality
Man is a conscious and sensual form of life. The sensual life form develops through imagination. When we develop imagery, we develop sensuality.
When a child with a visual vector reads a book, he perceives every word as a picture, since it is he who is endowed by nature with special thinking - figurative. The stream of his thoughts is like a film strip, where he imagines every single frame in every detail. And this very ability to form in his head a holistic image of a character, a plot of a work, an action develops in a visual child through reading. Movies, cartoons, audiokazki, computer development can not give such an effect, as they give a ready-made image, invented by someone else.
The most effective means for the development of sensuality is literature. But not any literature, but the correct one - the classic children's literature, aimed at compassion, empathy for the heroes of the work. It is during the reading that the intensive development of fantasy takes place. The child imagines in detail the characters, events, plot, worries about them, feels every emotion, imagines himself in the role of characters, sees himself as a brave knight, a beautiful princess, a brave traveler, a kind sorceress.
Developing surrounded by good books, a child grows up in a wonderful world of noble qualities: courage, loyalty, kindness, justice, love and compassion, adopting them for himself, even if they are not found in the surrounding reality.
In addition, living with the heroes of the books all the vicissitudes of their life path, sharing their sorrows and tragedies, hardships and hardships, the child learns compassion. This means that there is a powerful development of the baby's sensory sphere. He develops the skill to understand and express his feelings in relation to another person.
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
In 2002, about one hundred writers representing fifty-four countries of the world were invited to the Norwegian Nobel Institute. They were to identify one hundred of the most outstanding literary works. More than half of the writers voted for Cervantes' Don Quixote, which became the best book of all time. And for good reason. After all, if humanity suddenly decided to move to another planet and could take only one book with them, then it would be worth choosing Don Quixote.
This book teaches us to see the world in such a way that it would be pleasant for us to live in this world. Remember that weird Don Quixote? He also seems to be slightly in the clouds and does not notice many not the most disingenuous, albeit real things. Don Quixote saw in everything the beauty that he imagined. He was the happiest of all people because he lived in an amazing and wonderful world - the world of his fantasy. In every cowgirl he saw a beautiful lady, in every vagabond - a brave knight: imagination made him happy.
All our sensations largely depend on our states, on the skills to perceive the world around us. We look at the same thing, but sensually perceive what we see in different ways. People with an anal vector in a state of frustration, for example, see disgusting, because they perceive the world through their own suffering, and someone sees beauty, because this is how his worldview is arranged. And our quality of life, the ability to rejoice depends on this.
In fact, the opportunity to see something magical in the gray world, in the simple beautiful is a guarantee of happiness. We receive ninety percent of information from the outside world through sight. It is the developed imagination, the ability to think in images that becomes the basis for creativity, creativity, non-standard solutions, resourcefulness.
Of course, now someone will say that it is about not noticing the ugly around and being content with little, but this is not so. It's about the development of imagery and fantasy. With these qualities, the adult spectator can create a collective reality for everyone else. Noticing the beauty in the surrounding reality, drawing the attention of other people to it, he makes it more significant for others. To see the mast of a ship in a mop is quite normal for an observer, and even more so for a visual child who is developing intensively.
This is how every person should see. This is laid down in childhood. This does not make the child naive and in the clouds. Imagination does not take us away from reality, but allows us to see its beauty. And this does not prevent the child from protecting himself where necessary. In fact, it is a survival tool.
The development of the properties of the visual vector consists not in limiting the fantasy or "landing" of the child hovering in the clouds, but in the direction and formation of his imagination in the right direction.
So, looking at the same situation, different spectators can see different things. One will notice crumpled clothes and crumpled hair, and the other will see a burning look and a slight smile of inspiration on the face of a person who is passionate about his work.
The ability to see beauty in everything is the ability to find pleasure from every moment of your life. After all, it is not for nothing that they say that a bee will find a fragrant flower even in a dump, and a fly among a flowering meadow will find its heap. The ability to “find a flower” in everything is the art of being a happy person.
