31/10/2008 by Tina.

I’ve decided my new favourite season is autumn.

Having taken a walk across the sports fields near to where I work on a bright, crisp day surrounded by the most vibrant reds and golds and yellows, I was instantly lifted.

Whilst it’s lovely to see the greens of summer, the striking bareness of winter and the emerging buds of spring, surely you can’t beat the beauty of the fall.

Perhaps it has something to do with the colours themselves, after all, red reportedly:

“… boosts our circulation, raises blood pressure & gets our heart pumping faster. It raises our libido, increases determination & gives us the will to move forward. It pushes us to break free from the past & demands that we live in the here & now.”

And orange/gold is supposed to enliven and cheer.

Certainly did the trick for me!

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10/10/2008 by Tina.

I was talking to a colleague today about perception, and just how wrong people can be when they view things with their own “personal perception” tinted glasses on.

Wikipedia describes perception as:

“…the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information”.

This suggests a simple process of seeing/feeling/smelling/touching/hearing which leads to understanding.

But then it also states:

“The processes of perception routinely alter what humans see. When people view something with a preconceived idea about it, they tend to take those preconceived ideas and see them whether or not they are there. This problem stems from the fact that humans are unable to understand new information, without the inherent bias of their previous knowledge. The extent of a person’s knowledge creates their reality as much as the truth, because the human mind can only contemplate that which it has been exposed to.”

So no wonder people perceive things the wrong way sometimes, and I guess that’s why people with limited views are called small minded - they literally have little in there to create a reality with.

 Moral of the tale - have lots of experiences and gain lots of knowledge so you can be a big minded person when it comes to understanding your sensory information!

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