Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Messages from Water

Hi, here again, i was reading Mariza and Ramon's blog and it reminded me of an article about water.
as we know now, that we are made up with small articles that vibrates, so the water, sounds and colors are all particles with waves, since our bodies are covered with water 70 o 80% water, we are affected by all these waves....

Here's scientific experiments on water:

Miraculous
How water structure reflects our consciousness

Finally ...

Thank you for all of my classmates and all of the participants of the projects and also who watch it with envy as well.

Thank you for the professor for opening my mind and mental plan to the different level.

Thank you to MCKS and pranic healers.

Thank you Thank you.
Namaste to you all.

Processo y Analysis

Inputs:
Games of hula hoops at school.
Hula hoops – children’s’ game move your hips around with hula
School-- a space of Not Play, “mental faculty” rather than the body level.

Obstacles:
1.Weather -- May in PR is pretty hot, especially this year. And court yard of the school is cement. The reflection of the light makes the people blind.

2.Period of time -- this was during the final exams of the school and it was lunch time, they rather eat and relax, than play in the sun.

3.Familiarity of game – surprisingly, some people didn’t know how to play game, or never played before. Or they haven’t played for a while, had resistance, since it was a public place, so anyone can watch them playing badly.

4.Authority – people from office or professors didn’t want to participate. Some told me that it is their shape is not for the hoops.

5.Limitation of use of equipment of school property – camera, in the beginning, I could rent it only for one day, because the class was ending for the day time students, but I talked with Miguel who was in charge of equipment, that we, night students still have classes, so he gave me the permission to use video camera until end of the semester.

6.Limitation of my knowledge on recording and editing video – I learned very quickly but only basic stuffs to manage cut my first film!




And Energy moved on..

I changed time of the day, and different areas, and asked for help of my friend, to make people more involved.

Changing of the space more familiar with help was indeed great impact. Boosting of my confidence and we got to enjoy all together.

Night time, the temperature dropped has also great effect on people.
Some of them were tired, but through the move, fun, they were getting more energy .

Since this game is reminder of the childhood, made some of them easily transform to the childlike state of mind.
Most of them had fun memory with this game, rather than traumatic bad experience, this put them in a good mood as well.

Laughing, and involvement of playing it, transmuting, not only make you smart, they know that it will make them look good, or in the process.


Outputs: while changing the movement of the energy of the performance first outcome became an input for the second try.


Interaction:
Interaction between different public places doing the same performance makes totally different project.

Each time, there is different out comings, and from the previous project outcome, I approaches it differently as well.

Interactions between the people who are playing at makes, the space different, could be individual, group.

The chemical of the group changes when the actions were interrupting their previous settings of space. Therefore it generates different energy flow as outcome.

Contemplation:

While the action is oriented from the body movements, it invokes them to move their body not so familiar way, not everyday life movements, it also forces them, especially for adults, to break their mind set even to start to move the body.

Even though it is their childhood game and everyone knows, so it is easier to get involved than any other child like action in anytime, one needs break their mental frame first. Game helps to transform that easier. Some might not need to think first at all.

Through the practice, of body and mind and thoughts, in and out of different mental frames, we will all get more FLEXIBLE!!!! Not so rigid this can easily break.

All these yoga parishioners are practicing it for them to be more conductive to the energy, so that energy, especially the divine energy, can flow through their body, which is the instrument of the soul, and ultimately we can all connect to the soul, ourselves.

Recent science of Physics claims that all of the matters, in sub atomic level, are constantly oscillating, like a coil or strings.
Which, the spirals, and circles have been appearing on my drawings dominantly.
When one do, in my case, draws with unconscious status of mind, it takes to the place my mind cannot comprehend but to the truth.


Feedbacks:
Fun
Fun
Fun!!!!
Some of the students in art school asked me what is motivation of this action:
I explain them simple, very essential answer, that this exercise will make them more creative, also I am invading the spaces that are not so fun, with games to break the ice.

They wanted try at home as well of course!
So far, no injuries, no complaints I received.



Disciplines involved:

Yoga, Exercise, Toys and Games, Self-healing, Psychology and Art.


Video as a record of performance:
More or less I recorded entire happenings for less than 2 hours, and I cut them to 2 and half minute video in movie format to play in Quick time player.

Happenings that happened

First happenings, were held in School of arte plastica, different parts of the old school through out the daytime to the evening within the students. -- May 21, 2007. Monday. ( Recorded in video-camera )

It was around noon hot summer, in the middle of May in Puerto Rico.
Escuela de Arte Plastica, which currently I am studying at night there, has 2 different building, in Old San Juan.
First attempt was in new building next to Ballaja, museum of art, entered the court yard, it was lunch time and the week of the finals for the daytime students.

In the middle of lunching and walking around, I put the hoops in the middle of the yard, which was really bright and hot, I was sweating, after for a while, I moved them to shade, to see anyone is interested, some were asking, but didn’t play with them. I finally suggested some of the staffs of the offices, to play after lunch.
Not so successful.

I moved on to the old building which located in front of the El Morrow, old Spanish fort. There, I asked my friend to help me to get people involved, and started from parking lot, before even entering the school, guards, and students.

Without worry about the sweating or getting hot, they were so involved in playing with them.

Moved on to the inside building which it was cooler, at the entrance of the stairs, many participated, even the movement required the individual spaces not to collide each other, but they would invent all kinds of movement to connect each other as well.

One round, parking lot to inside, inside and outside, now, the pedestrians were interested, so again I made to parking lot, through the side door of the sculpture department, which made me a big loop, hoop.

That evening, when the weather was more cooperative, came with hoops on my neck again, and placed next to the cafeteria, so that students and teachers at night classes can see them.

Since they know me, they immediately started to play with them, and having fun, and some made nice show for me.

Most interesting part was they were creating their own movements using different parts of the body. Here the body becomes part of the game instrument.
Cooperating, coordinating, becomes one.

Second, at the work place in an office -- may 22, 2007. Tuesday
Where I work, for the parents who have children could bring the children at the office during the vacation time of school in the afternoon.
There were several children of all ages in the afternoon, so I brought the hoops at the office for them to play, and hoped some of the colleagues will join them too.
But they didn’t even after encouragements..

Some of the children were too young to play, so she invented some other way to enjoy them. Genius.



Third, in the class room of Trans-disciplinary.
With students and a professor. -- may 23, 2007. Wednesday

After first performance, I got so familiar with my hoops around my body to carry, like big necklaces…
I brought them to the class, my classmates were the most creative performers.

They did it with love and desire to go to that “T” of ours.
Ms. Santana is the Only Professor participated!!!!
I think we laughed so much and they were overcoming the difficulties and involved more and more, kept going.
I am going to ask them how they felt, for my feedback.



Fourth, outside park area at night in old san Juan
Mostly children -- may 23, 2007. Wednesday


Later on that night, end of the class, we moved to another building, and came back afterwards, in the outside of Ballaja’s building, there is fountain and small park area with benches, and all of sudden those children got my attention, and they asked me why I carry the hoops around, and if they can buy them. I told them they can play with them not for sale. We were all so excited, both parties, them and me.

Sorry, my classmates, but they were the experts you can ask for!!!
For an hour, without getting tired, every girl on the park got to play and play.
With the sound of fountain, children’s screams with joy, and beautiful dim lights, I was in the other world. (I like children generally)

They said thank you and told it was really fun very politely.
And we bid good night.

Jung and Freud

Today Jung and Freud rule two very different empires of the mind, so to speak, which the respective proponents of these empires like to stress, downplaying the influence these men had on each other in the formative years of their lives. But in 1906 psychoanalysis as an institution was still in its early developmental stages. Jung, who had become interested in psychiatry as a student by reading Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard Krafft-Ebing, professor in Vienna, now worked as a doctor under the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in the Burghölzli and became familiar with Freud's idea of the unconscious through Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and was a proponent of the new "psycho-analysis". At the time, Freud needed collaborators and pupils to validate and spread his ideas. The Burghölzli was a renowned psychiatric clinic in Zürich at which Jung was an up-and-coming young doctor.

In 1908, Jung became editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research. The following year, Jung traveled with Freud and Sandor Ferenczi to the U.S. to spread the news of psychoanalysis and in 1910, Jung became chairman for life of the International Psychoanalytical Association. While Jung worked on his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Symbols of Transformation), tensions grew between Freud and himself, due in a large part to their disagreements over the nature of libido and religion. In 1912 these tensions came to a peak because Jung felt severely slighted after Freud visited his colleague Ludwig Binswanger in Kreuzlingen without paying him a visit in nearby Zürich, an incident Jung referred to as the Kreuzlingen gesture. Shortly thereafter, Jung again traveled to the U.S.A. and gave the Fordham lectures, which were published as The Theory of Psychoanalysis, and while they contain some remarks on Jung's dissenting view on the nature of libido, they represent largely a "psychoanalytical Jung" and not the theory Jung became famous for in the following decades.

In November 1912, Jung and Freud met in Munich for a meeting among prominent colleagues to discuss psychoanalytical journals.[11]. At a talk about a new psychoanalytic essay on Amenhotep IV, Jung expressed his views on how it related to actual conflicts in the psychoanalytic movement. While Jung spoke, Freud suddenly fainted and Jung carried him to a couch.

Jung and Freud personally met for the last time in September 1913 for the Fourth International Psychoanalytical Congress, also in Munich. Jung gave a talk on psychological types, the introverted and the extroverted type, in analytical psychology. This constituted the introduction of some of the key concepts which came to distinguish Jung's work from Freud's in the next half century.

In the following years Jung experienced considerable isolation in his professional life, exacerbated through World War I. His Seven Sermons to the Dead (1917) reprinted in his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections (see bibliography) can also be read as expression of the psychological conflicts which beset Jung around the age of forty after the break with Freud.

Jung's primary disagreement with Freud stemmed from their differing concepts of the unconscious. Jung saw Freud's theory of the unconscious as incomplete and unnecessarily negative. According to Jung (though not according to Freud), Freud conceived the unconscious solely as a repository of repressed emotions and desires. Jung believed that the unconscious also had a creative capacity, that the collective unconscious of archetypes and images which made up the human psyche was processed and renewed within the unconscious (one might find similarity with the ideas of French philosopher Felix Guattari, who wrote several books with Gilles Deleuze and once stated 'The unconscious is a factory, not a theatre.')

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

interesting things about HULA

1.little history about Hula Hoop

You may think that the Hula Hoop was a fad born in the 1950s, but in fact people were doing much the same thing with circular hoops made from grape vines and stiff grasses all over the ancient world. More than three thousand years ago, children in Egypt played with large hoops of dried grapevines. The toy was propelled along the ground with a stick or swung around at the waist.


2.some fun and nice performer's site.

Hooping has changed and enriched my life in many wonderful ways. Along with increased physical, mental, and spiritual awareness, hoop dance has brought me the gifts of joyous health, fun fitness, and lovely community. Over the years I've seen the hoop bring these gifts to many others as well, constantly affirming its positive, healing power.

Whimsical toy, symbolic dance partner, spiritual tool and circular portal to increased somatic and spiritual connection; as the evocative shape might suggest to you, a hoop is a holistic tool as the many benefits of hooping (or hoop dance) affect Body, Mind and Spirit.

Read more about the many benefits of hooping here

Friday, May 25, 2007

Elegant Universe

Hi, Guys
just to show you guys the link again, just click on the link below:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program_t.html

Gracias a todos companeros de clase y profesora por participar mi projecto!!!!

p.s. I was jottling down some words when i was watching this entire series.
look at my notes:
all forces
all matters
energy

Vibrating
wiggling
oscillating
jittering

strings
particles...