The Gift in You: Discovering New Life Through Gifts Hidden in Your Mind by Caroline Leaf Page B
Authors: Caroline Leaf
Tags: Religión, General, Personal Growth, Christian Life, Self-actualization (Psychology), Religion & Science, Thought and Thinking
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while learning and concentrating.
You may not have fared that well in traditional schools in the past. Luckily for you, though, conventional educational environments have begun using more visual and spatial elements in learning. It remains true, though, that ordinary classroom situations are not ideal learning environments for you. You may find looking at someone while concentrating and learning very distracting, so you can't learn optimally just by sitting still and listening to an educator or lecturer. Your instinctive way of thinking almost literally abandons language and enters into abstract modes of thought. It involves various related skills, such as visual discrimination, recognition, projection, mental imagery, spatial reasoning and image manipulation.
Only about 30% of adults and 40% of children are Visual/Spatial dominant. It is therefore not accurate to say that everything we see in our heads is in pictures. When visual learning dominates in both children and adults, visual strategies should always be a part of the learning process as they encourage mental operations not usually performed in a verbal mode.
You enhance your Visual/Spatial type of thinking when you:
Read and create your own cartoons.
Examine advertisements and billboards.
Use poster displays in your office or class to help you think and express ideas.
Work with flow charts.
Use mnemonic systems, such as the Roman Room technique, body parts, numbers and rhyme systems to remember, plan and make up linked stories.
Draw pictures or doodle when thinking.
Practice differentiating between colors.
Take an art course.
Practice developing your visual memory by doing the da Vinci exercise, that is, stare at a complex object, memorize it, then close your eyes and try to recall it in as much detail as possible.
Play imaginative games.
Build complex Lego structures.
Take a robotics course.
Use the 5 Step Switch On Your Brain™ Learning Process.
Clearly, as you work with and strengthen your dominant form of thinking, you will begin to appreciate that all seven types of thinking do exist in all of us, in our gifts, on every level and in every culture. The gift may be dormant, but it is there, waiting to come alive. Your gift will awaken when you discover it.
Now that you better understand the structure of your gift, in Part Three we'll look at what might be standing in the way of your greatest potential - your greatest purpose.
PART THREE: Choosing to Live Out Your Gift
INTRODUCTION
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end" (Ecclesiastes 3:11 AMP).
I hope that you are filled with expectancy and excitement because you are starting to understand how you make decisions, how you learn and how your gift is structured. Along the way, you have probably also learned more about your spouse, your children, your friends and neighbors, and maybe even your boss!
Now when you wonder, "Does anyone out there understand me?" you can see in Scripture that God does - He created you with care. Now you can better understand yourself - how you were created with intention, a purpose and greatness.
In Part Three, we will take the structure of your gift one step further and explore what may be keeping you from your potential, from your true self, the person God created you to be.
Although our perfect God has designed us in perfection, we live in a fallen world. What was meant for good can easily turn toxic, through toxic thoughts, toxic words and toxic actions.
Life happens. People hurt us, and sometimes we hurt other people.
Toxic seeds, even little seeds, can start to grow gift-blockers, which can block your gift.
When you have a gift-blocker - or more likely gift-blockers - in action, attitude is affected.
You may not have fared that well in traditional schools in the past. Luckily for you, though, conventional educational environments have begun using more visual and spatial elements in learning. It remains true, though, that ordinary classroom situations are not ideal learning environments for you. You may find looking at someone while concentrating and learning very distracting, so you can't learn optimally just by sitting still and listening to an educator or lecturer. Your instinctive way of thinking almost literally abandons language and enters into abstract modes of thought. It involves various related skills, such as visual discrimination, recognition, projection, mental imagery, spatial reasoning and image manipulation.
Only about 30% of adults and 40% of children are Visual/Spatial dominant. It is therefore not accurate to say that everything we see in our heads is in pictures. When visual learning dominates in both children and adults, visual strategies should always be a part of the learning process as they encourage mental operations not usually performed in a verbal mode.
You enhance your Visual/Spatial type of thinking when you:
Read and create your own cartoons.
Examine advertisements and billboards.
Use poster displays in your office or class to help you think and express ideas.
Work with flow charts.
Use mnemonic systems, such as the Roman Room technique, body parts, numbers and rhyme systems to remember, plan and make up linked stories.
Draw pictures or doodle when thinking.
Practice differentiating between colors.
Take an art course.
Practice developing your visual memory by doing the da Vinci exercise, that is, stare at a complex object, memorize it, then close your eyes and try to recall it in as much detail as possible.
Play imaginative games.
Build complex Lego structures.
Take a robotics course.
Use the 5 Step Switch On Your Brain™ Learning Process.
Clearly, as you work with and strengthen your dominant form of thinking, you will begin to appreciate that all seven types of thinking do exist in all of us, in our gifts, on every level and in every culture. The gift may be dormant, but it is there, waiting to come alive. Your gift will awaken when you discover it.
Now that you better understand the structure of your gift, in Part Three we'll look at what might be standing in the way of your greatest potential - your greatest purpose.
PART THREE: Choosing to Live Out Your Gift
INTRODUCTION
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end" (Ecclesiastes 3:11 AMP).
I hope that you are filled with expectancy and excitement because you are starting to understand how you make decisions, how you learn and how your gift is structured. Along the way, you have probably also learned more about your spouse, your children, your friends and neighbors, and maybe even your boss!
Now when you wonder, "Does anyone out there understand me?" you can see in Scripture that God does - He created you with care. Now you can better understand yourself - how you were created with intention, a purpose and greatness.
In Part Three, we will take the structure of your gift one step further and explore what may be keeping you from your potential, from your true self, the person God created you to be.
Although our perfect God has designed us in perfection, we live in a fallen world. What was meant for good can easily turn toxic, through toxic thoughts, toxic words and toxic actions.
Life happens. People hurt us, and sometimes we hurt other people.
Toxic seeds, even little seeds, can start to grow gift-blockers, which can block your gift.
When you have a gift-blocker - or more likely gift-blockers - in action, attitude is affected.
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