What colors are important to you? Why are they important to you?
How do you communicate what is important to you?
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020
Life is a Synonym
If you had to communicate
who you are...
what is important to you...
What would you “say”? How would you “say” it?
How do we know, what we do not know? The truth is, "it" can be very difficult to figure out until someone else relates the experience to us. Even if we do not have words for an experience, that does not mean the experience is any less relatable or real. Sometimes we aren’t even aware we are experiencing something, until someone else summarizes the experience into a single word for us.
If you are not sure what I mean, here is a personal example. Have you ever heard of the term, Hygge? Hygge in itself was a paradigm to me. Hygge is a Danish term defined as, “a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being”. My favorite definition of Hygge however, is the PRONUNCIATION of the word, “Hygge”. If you are American like me, trying to figure out how to pronounce those letters is not clear. It is pronounced as the noise you make when you experience “Hygge”; the visceral exhale once you have achieved satisfying comfort. *Inhale* *Hoo-guhhh*.
As soon as I started looking into Hygge, I realized that it was something that deeply resonated with me, yet I never acknowledged it for I never had a term for it. It was simply just who I was. Now that I have a word for this experience, I can better communicate it with others around me.
That is the power of communication. That is the power of knowing ourselves, so we can communicate it with others. It takes experience, it takes honor for the truth, it takes searching all avenues that align with our purpose. In doing so, we find more pathways to communicate our experience to others. In doing so we enrich our experience of Life. Every word I have used in this post, in this website, is intentional. If you are unsure about a word, a context, etc. I implore you to search further… If you see something and do not understand it, that is your queue to investigate.
So what is the purpose of all of this? To encourage you to be innovative in how you communicate. Maybe the way that best explains your experience still has yet to be invented. Do not stop searching until you find what makes your soul, as the Quakers would say, “quake”. Find your truth, and then SPEAK your truth. As the Greeks would say, cultivate Eudaimonia.
I want to make a point that communication does not have to rely on language. I think there is a very profound correlation that needs to be made relating to the purpose of this post. The Enlightenment. One of the most amazing lessons to me was during an AP Euro class (that I did not pass). The only thing I took away from that class was the Artistic Revolution that occurred during the Enlightenment. This “revolution” was the explosion of perspective in paintings. Prior to the Renaissance, most if not all of the printed artwork was “two-dimensional”. Yes, there was shading and an understanding of depth. It is not that people pre-enlightenment did not see “depth”. It was during the Renaissance that perspective became prevalent in art. The following video is an example of the “Perspective” found in Renaissance art.
Spiritual Fusion: A Relational Paradigm
Thursday, December 10, 2020
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