TransformI Create: Powerpoint 1.5

“Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all

human endeavor and human creations.” – Albert Einstein

REVIEWABSORB CONNECT ENVISION

1. Open Mind2. Curiosity3. Non-judgment4. Internal &

External Awareness

1. Defocused attention

2. Divergent3. Connections/

metaphors4. Dose of

happiness

1. Can operate in both deliberate and spontaneous

2. Engage five senses

3. Mental Imagery4. Hypothetical

thinking

REVIEWABSORB CONNECT ENVISION

Spontaneous Both (right prefrontal cortex activated)

Both (right prefrontal cortex activated)

Inability to tell difference between internal and external stimuli?

PSYCHOSIS

Pathway? Neurotransmitter?

Reward pathway! Dopamine

Mirror Neurons

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

TRANSFORM

COMPONENTS1. Self-centered thought: introspection 2. Negative feeling thoughts3. Dissatisfaction

INTROSPECTION

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all

wisdom.” - Aristotle

INTROSPECTIONThe 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

“Me” Center

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

Behavioral Activation System

• activates when purposefully engaged with environment…pull yourself out of the negative state

• Sounds like which brainset?

NEGATIVE FEELING

THOUGHTS

WHAT ARE FEELINGS?

1. Stream of Affect• Made by David Watson Lee Ann Clark• Low-level background state

2. MOODSMood: anxious, self-conscious, contented,

“blue” – long duration, occupy more of your conscious attention

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

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)

GROW EMOTIONAL

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STRONG EMOTIONS

LIMBIC SYSTEM (main focus: amygdala)

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”

• “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

HISTORY

Emily Dickinson

“There’s a Certain Slant of Light” depression on a winter’s afternoon

“The Scream”

Edvard MunchHigh anxiety

“The Scream”

Edvard MunchHigh anxiety

Blues Music

Tchaikovsky

Symphony #6 in B minor“Pathetique”

Psychosis? • Hyperconnectivity• Inability to tell the

difference between internal and outer stimuli

• Spontaneous• Dopamine – mesolimbic

pathway *D2 receptors• Amphetamines, cocaine

William Blake

Spirits/ghosts presented poems and paintings

Nicola Tesla

Infatuation with pigeons (columbiphilia) and the number three

Engineer, scientist

John Forbes Nash

• Brilliant mathematician• Aliens

Charles Dickens

OHMYGAWD SEA URCHINS?!!!

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

Bipolar• Cycling into a manic state (hypomania is the

time to be highly motivated and perform goal-directed activity)

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

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 listsArtChefs, make a video game, make something else,

florists, compose, etc.KEY TERM: SUBLIMINATION

WAYS TO EXPRESS

Art“Art is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic inherent in the human situation.” –Graham Greene

WRITE LISTS

DISSATISFACTION

DISSATISTFACTION• Contentment not good…more like pleasant

surprise, mild euphoria, pride, positive expectation, or joy

• Dissatisfaction with the current state of things• One reason we are encountering an increase in

the rate of depression worldwide is that our ability to endure suffering has diminished with the availability of quick fixes that promise the rapid end to all negative feeling states

THE FEAR OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS?

COMPONENTS1. Self-centered thought: introspection 2. Negative feeling thoughts3. Dissatisfaction