கதைகள்: 2013

Psychologist vs Teaching Story

Robert Ornstein has been professing that the teaching story develops thinking skills and perceptions. These stories are designed to embody—in their characters, plots and imagery—patterns and relationships that nurture a part of the mind that is unreachable in more direct ways, thus increasing our understanding and breadth of vision, in addition to fostering our ability to think critically. He adds: “Psychologists have found that reading teaching stories activates the right side of the brain much more than does reading normal prose. The right side of the brain provides ‘context’, the essential function of putting together the different components of experience. The left side provides the ‘text’, or the pieces themselves.”

STORY WATER

STORY WATER
A story is like water
that you heat for your bath.
It takes messages between the fire
and your skin. It lets them meet,
and it cleans you!
Very few can sit down
in the middle of the fire itself
like a salamander or Abraham.
We need intermediaries.
A feeling of fullness comes,
but usually it takes some bread
to bring it.
Beauty surrounds us,
but usually we need to be walking
in a garden to know it.
The body itself is a screen
to shield and partially reveal
the light that’s blazing
inside your presence.
Water, stories, the body,
all the things we do, are mediums
that hide and show what’s hidden.
Study them,
and enjoy this being washed
with a secret we sometimes know,
and then not.

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Karpagavalli in Kalaignar TV