Classroom 16!

The Classroom of Mr. Stathis

Mare Island Health and Fitness Academy

Visualization Lesson

 

What was this all about?  

 

 

A Lesson in Visualization

 

The ability to VISUALIZE something, something "in your head" closing one's eyes and picturing something is an amazing ability that humans have and it can be quite a powerful process.

 

Mr. Stathis drew this quick sketch on the board. The Class talked about their ideas on what they thought it meant. Then Mr. Stathis asked questions like, "Have you done this before? Why? Can you affect your feelings by taking time to sit, close your eyes, and visualize something?"

 

There was a lot that kids thought about and expressed. Some talked about feelings that they could have when trying to visualize something.

 

What the person on the board was visualizing was a simple picture, but one where he or she is wanting to visualize then have the feelings about the beauty of a sunrise and all that starting a new day can mean. Kids talked about beautiful things, things from nature, animals, etc. Kids talked about visualizing someone they loved. Some talked about visualizing someone they loved who had died. "Yes, responded Mr. Stathis, and in this way we prove that the person we loved does indeed live within us still!"

 

"When we do ART," he said, "We begin with an idea or something we are really seeing, or something we 'want to being to life' by creating it on paper. This is a kind of visualization too."

 

"AND....," he expressed, "when we are reading a story, we are doing all kinds of visualization! That really gets one into the story! Acting it out and drawing and coloring illustrations on special parts of a story too, make a story come alive too!"

  • Link to the visualization of the tale of The Cavemen and The First Spoken Words! OOPS! NOT YET READY! Check Back Soon!

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  • Link to the visualization of The Mountain of Greatness!

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