MEMORY AND IMAGINATION
I can move back, forth and within without my legs carrying my body even while seated with my legs crossed because I can travel back to the past; not with my legs but of course with my head! This helps me to understand the present. And because I can always have a trip to the future in the present, this gives me an edge over confusion an anxiety it also merits me an edge over my contemporaries this advantage causes me to sit down and learn when others are running aimlessly and purposely when others sit void of purpose. In my head, I see myself as a link connecting the past and the future. God makes use of these tools: Memory and Imagination God breathes through my memory impacting crucial information about the past even long before I was born. God employs my imagination revealing vital information about my future. In the main stream of challenges, I do switch on the eye of imagination seeing where I am going even when the situation persists. This imparts the vigor to keep moving even when things are not moving! Seeing through the eye of imagination makes available the inner peace even when there is crisis. If your Memory and Imagination are functioning well your mouth will always speak above your age; if not your mouth jabbers! Maturity is never a function of your age but your ability to travel through the past and the future holding in your hands valuable information about life. Without memory, we could not compare a past object or idea with a present one. Memory allows us to enhance past objective observations with present sensory perceptions. Because we have an imperfect memory, that is, we cannot remember every detail, we beautify. We give a past idea or object an identity alone from the external world because we perceive and imagine it differently than our initial sensory reaction. We change our original reaction with our imagination. Consequently, creative people experience life more vividly. In the process of consciousness, we first remember something imperfectly, and then qualify it with other beautiful thoughts. The act of thought, then, is not consciousness. Thought is the comparison of one object to another. We are not conscious because we notice a difference between two things. Once, we beautify the relationship, we create an internal reality that is an imperfect copy of our true sensory reaction. We possess consciousness when we discern our personal, dynamic reality from the outside world. Thus, consciousness of multiple realities creates a sense of self. We are conscious individuals because our senses do not limit our perception of the external reality. It is undeniably ours because we use our imagination to alter it. Therefore, consciousness is the awareness that our created internal reality differs from the external reality. Let me state right here that you are exercising your imagination all the time during all your waking hours. You imagine thousands of things every day. Everything you do, every person you go to meet, everything you say these are all in the imagination before they become realities. Your imagination has much exercise, but it is not the right kind of exercise. The mental pictures are not clear and intense in color. How can you make them so? Find it yourself. Get a good, lively novel, something full of action, and as near as possible to the here and the now. Make yourself comfortable and begin to read. When you come to the end of the first paragraph, stop and image before your mind a clear picture of what was expressed or described. Was it a scene? See it, mountains, sea, farmhouse, city residence, cold, warm, rainy, bright. Try to make it as vivid as it would be where you actually gazing on the scene. During the next paragraph the scene is changed; something is added to the picture. See this. Take much time; it is an exercise. Then comes a person, say a man See him. Is he tall, short, dark, light, prepossessing or repellent? How is he dressed? Force yourself to imagine every detail. And so on; by this time you will have had enough for once; but if you have acted conscientiously in accordance with my hints, you will feel an understanding, an interest, and sympathy. For developing the power of auditory imagination the following methods are useful. Recall minding the words and melody of some familiar song as rendered by a good singer, and imagine how it sounds. Hear the words; note the quality of the voice and accompaniment. Three or four songs or three or four repetitions of the same song are enough for once. Call up in your memory one at a time the various sounds of the country and hear them in imagination-- the hum of bees, the sound of the wind, the rustling leaves, the cries of the various birds, the lowing of cattle, and other noises peculiar to the life of the country. By Ganiyu Fashola www.continentalarticles.com
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Article Added on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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