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Transform. I Create: Powerpoint 1.5 “Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.” – Albert Einstein. REVIEW. REVIEW. Inability to tell difference between internal and external stimuli?. PSYCHOSIS. Pathway? Neurotransmitter?.

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  1. Transform I Create: Powerpoint 1.5 “Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.” – Albert Einstein

  2. REVIEW

  3. REVIEW

  4. Inability to tell difference between internal and external stimuli? PSYCHOSIS

  5. Pathway? Neurotransmitter? Reward pathway! Dopamine 

  6. Mirror Neurons

  7. The power of Visualizations – sports, relaxing environment, healing The power of Role play – “what ifs?”, stepping in someone else’s shoes, empathy Brainstorming with senses, not words

  8. TRANSFORM

  9. COMPONENTS • Self-centered thought: introspection • Negative feeling thoughts • Dissatisfaction

  10. INTROSPECTION“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle

  11. INTROSPECTION The examination of one’s own emotional and mental processes “Who in the world am I? Ah. That is the great question.” - Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland

  12. “Me” Center

  13. Withdrawal From Environment “Your visions will only become clear when you look inside your own heart. Those who look outside, dreams; those who look inside, awakens.” - Carl Jung, psychologist

  14. Behavioral Activation System • activates when purposefully engaged with environment…pull yourself out of the negative state • Sounds like which brainset?

  15. NEGATIVE FEELING THOUGHTS

  16. WHAT ARE FEELINGS?

  17. 1. Stream of Affect • Made by David Watson Lee Ann Clark • Low-level background state 2. MOODS • Mood: anxious, self-conscious, contented, “blue” – long duration, occupy more of your conscious attention

  18. 3. EMOTIONS • Specific characteristics, short duration, response to a particular trigger, very intense: facial expressions, thoughts, physiological changes, subjective feelings • “action tendencies” i.e. fear is “fight or flight’ response, anger is aggression

  19. 3. EMOTIONS • When emotions fully take over it is called “emotional hijacking”: violent rage (extreme anger), suicide attempt (extreme despair), panic attack (extreme fear), mania (extreme happiness)

  20. GROW EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/fanart/important-emotions-02.gif

  21. STRONG EMOTIONS LIMBIC SYSTEM (main focus: amygdala)

  22. History of creativity and emotion • Early Greeks: Aristotle first associated poets and playwrights with melancholia – “no great genius was without a mixture of insanity” • creative genius  eccentricity and even madness • Plato: creative poetry is “divine madness”

  23. HISTORY • “The Man of Genius” by Cesare Lombroso (1889) • Samuel Johnson needed to touch every lamppost he touched • Robert Schumann believed his musical compositions were dictated to him by Beethoven and Mendelssohn • Believed criminals and creative geniuses had the same gene

  24. Emily Dickinson “There’s a Certain Slant of Light”  depression on a winter’s afternoon

  25. “The Scream” Edvard Munch High anxiety

  26. “The Scream” Edvard Munch High anxiety

  27. Blues Music

  28. Tchaikovsky Symphony #6 in B minor “Pathetique”

  29. Psychosis? • Hyperconnectivity • Inability to tell the difference between internal and outer stimuli • Spontaneous • Dopamine – mesolimbic pathway *D2 receptors • Amphetamines, cocaine

  30. William Blake Spirits/ghosts presented poems and paintings

  31. Nicola Tesla Infatuation with pigeons (columbiphilia) and the number three Engineer, scientist

  32. John Forbes Nash • Brilliant mathematician • Aliens

  33. Charles Dickens OHMYGAWD SEA URCHINS?!!!

  34. Alcoholism and Creativity • 5/8 American winners of the Nobel Prize of literature have been alcoholics • ELIZABETH GILBERT • “My heart is both drunk and a kid” • Ludwig reported that a mean level of alcoholism in artists, musicians, fiction writers, and poets at between 19% and 41%, but low rates (1-2%) among natural scientists • Biographies from Hemingway, Poe, Fitzgerald have shown how detrimental alcoholism can be

  35. Bipolar • Cycling into a manic state (hypomania is the time to be highly motivated and perform goal-directed activity)

  36. Bipolar • Arist/poet group was six times more likely to have been treated for manic depression than members of the general public…But then think about. Only 9% of the artists and poets had manic depression, and that over 90% had no such affliction….Howard Hughes, Pablo Picasso, Michael Jackson

  37. WAYS TO EXPRESS “I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.” — Sarah Kay, spoken word artist Write lists Art Chefs, make a video game, make something else, florists, compose, etc. KEY TERM: SUBLIMINATION

  38. WAYS TO EXPRESS

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