Thinking in images. Figurative thinking: how to develop? Development of abstract-logical thinking

rev. dated 03/11/2016 (slightly supplemented)

One of the facets of figurative thinking is sensory knowledge or, in the language of parapsychologists, empathic perception. The criterion for a person to return to figurative thinking is the ability to think by the method of insight. This is a method of mental immersion in the problem, in which the answer comes instantly, like an insight. He just comes, shoots from the subconscious. An inner state of joy arises - here it is, now everything is clear. The answer comes by itself. For example, the same Mendeleev opened the table of elements in exactly this way. What about people who can instantly multiply any number? In such cases, imaginative thinking works, which is usually accompanied by a feeling of emotional intensity. A person internally does some work, he plunges into the problem, and then shoots out the answer. It is also called the immersion method.

It turns out that a person who reveals imaginative thinking in himself begins to solve the tasks assigned to him in a different way. Problem-solving mechanisms can also evolve or degrade as a person grows or declines.

Older people probably remember that at school they did not memorize the addition table. They understood the principle of how to put them together. Now in schools they teach not only multiplication tables, but also addition tables. They just memorize ready-made answers. Of course, this is a sign of degradation.

And yet, linguists are well aware that English language absolutely empty. It does not cause images in the mind of a person. It is sometimes called artificial or sign language. It's just a reflection of the material in a sound that comes from nowhere, where the sound is far from what it reflects. Let's take the sound meaning of eating, in Russian: food, food, grub, havchik, zhor, there are other sound designations for this process. And in English? One word food. Or: I love you, I love you, yes I love you! And in English: I love you. Everything, nothing else and nothing else! Only a sign, no figurative-temporal fullness. Therefore, honest scientists from Israel directly stated that the Russian language develops not only the left hemisphere of the brain, but also the right one. Because it creates images, and other European languages \u200b\u200bare not capable of this. The most backward of the European languages is English. The only thing he is able to develop is memory and the left hemisphere of the brain. This is the answer why the most primitive of European languages is being so rapidly imposed on the whole world. But this is so, speaking of linguistics.

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that our ancestors had more mechanisms for solving the tasks. Let's say a person was looking for an answer to a question. He plunged into the matter. In fact, he combined two images: the image of himself at the moment, and the image of the situation in which he found himself. And then, synthesizing these two images on a sensual level, the answer of the most optimal solution came to him by the method of insight. Or a person was engaged in choosing the right action from a fan of possible solutions. He took the image of himself, the image of the situation and further the image of a possible solution. Having synthesized these three images, he received the answer of what it would lead to. That is, what will happen if a person makes such a choice. And now many people do this, especially those who have a less developed left hemisphere (structural-logical thinking, abstract) compared to the right hemisphere (sensory-emotional, intuitive, connection with the information field of the Universe). There is a reading in the way of modeling events, in the way of choosing the vector of further movement.

It is worth noting that the left hemisphere and right hemisphere work are not opposed to each other at all. A common judgment says that the left hemisphere is responsible for structural-logical thinking, for logical-mathematical analysis, and the right hemisphere for figurative-sensory. Modern system Education claims that it is aimed at hypertrophy of the left hemisphere and at the same time somehow limit the right hemisphere. But we see that for modern people elementary logical constructions are no longer available.

Figurative work is activated when both hemispheres are in harmony in a person. We see the trinity again. And it's easy enough to justify it. How is the immersion method enabled? We begin to think and look for logical relationships with the object under study. We turn on the left hemisphere. But further, in the process of this work, there is a certain attunement with the image of the task. And thanks to this attunement, our right hemisphere is activated. We begin to feel this image at the level of extrasensory perception empathy. Logic still works, but at the same time we are already looking for an answer, feeling the task. That's when the mental image of the answer shoots.

Another way of figurative thinking, but of a lower order, is colloquial speech. Have you ever wondered how words appear in your head? By and large, they arise spontaneously. We form in our head the image of the thought that we want to convey, and it pours out in the form of a sentence. If we thought about every word, we would not be able to speak so quickly. As soon as we begin to choose words, speech becomes interrupted. On this basis, a science appeared that studies the psychology of a person by his speech. Or, for example, an image of a zebra appears in the head, and we immediately understand that this is a striped artiodactyl. If the word is unknown, nothing arises. We can say that this is memory, but not a single modern computer can so quickly pick up the description that arises like an insight in our head. And where can all this fit in? We are not looking for an answer, we get it right away. Think about it.

A simple exercise will help you understand which hemisphere you have developed more. Fold, without hesitation, your fingers into the lock. Depending on which finger of which hand is on top, then the opposite hemisphere is more developed in you. If the finger of the left hand is on top, then the right hemisphere is more developed. Now fold your fingers so that the finger of the other hand is on top. The more inconvenient this procedure is for you, the greater the difference in the development of the cerebral hemispheres. In this case, you need to pull the lagging hemisphere to the more developed one, and not vice versa.

The harmonious development of both hemispheres is important. That is why in the old days people knew how to write with both hands, and warriors knew how to fight with two swords at once. If your child is left-handed, do not rush to retrain him to be right-handed. It's much more important to just teach him how to write or how to hold a hammer. right hand as well as the left. Then you will get a harmonious personality, and not a person with suppressed intuition.

One of the tasks that the ancient priests were able to do was the ability to simultaneously write texts on two topics with both hands in two notebooks. This is what was reflected in the legends about Caesar in that he was able to simultaneously solve several problems. Hence the Vedic notion of the twice-born. Yes, and a man and a woman, in fact, are halves of something united, although located on a different plane of the universe. Everything is in the image and likeness, as above, so below.

Therefore, imaginative thinking is thinking by the method of insight. Usually immersion occurs through the left hemisphere. We comprehend, think, try to logically identify patterns. Further, through concentration, the right hemisphere is activated, the person begins to feel the task. And when they align, insight occurs, a ready mental image of the answer is fired, which we simply read. This can be compared with the initial letter Izhei, with the image of the stream. The person enters, as it were, into a stream. A stream appears between the hemispheres, which is read by the mind. Stream-entry is an effect and a pleasure side effect alignment of the proportional ratio of activation of the cerebral hemispheres. Now it is clear why consciousness is compared with the flow, and life with movement?

When we work with syllables in a drop cap, what happens? We take a syllable, there is one initial letter with its own image, there is another with its own image. Then begins the logical work of immersion in the synthesis of these two images, and their sensual awareness. We take two particulars and give out a synthesized mental image of the general. In other words, we take a step with the left hemisphere, then a step with the right, we align and the stream of the general mental image shoots out. In fact, we are engaged in reconciliation, as opposed to development, synthesis as opposed to analysis. Hence the concept of vita - life. Now look at how the genetic code works. Don't you think they are identical?

And further. Figurative thinking includes the process of unzipping compressed information from the Navi energy information field, and images are the keys or principles for extracting information from the past experience of the universe. This experience is called the Akashic records and the Navi energy-informational field.

The path of development is necessary in order to find the unique, the unrepeatable in something in common. And the path of reconciliation is necessary in order to find something in common in unique things. In other words, self-improvement occurs through the knowledge of the unknown in oneself. Now think about the essence of the figurative "confrontation" of Belobog and Chernobog.

EPILOGUE

Let's look at one example feedback figurative thinking and mathematics. We mentioned when describing the Initial Letter that one facet of the image of the Initial Letter I(Izhei) is identical to the strength of the current. Essentially a force vector. In addition, we know that I=U/R, Where, U- voltage, vector of aspiration of electrons, force per unit of space, R- resistance or inertia, equal to the mass per unit time, I- current strength, the number of electrons per unit of time.

What initial letter can be correlated with aspiration and approaching the goal? initial letter UK, the limit of which is the letter Ok. Now we remember - to turn on the flow, what needs to be stopped, what resists this? That's right - thought, the thought process of our brain. We get a drop cap Thinking. What have we come to? I=U/M. And if we substitute the numerical values of the initial letters, we get: 10=400/40 . Coincidence? Okay, let's find the power - Р=U·I or Y I \u003d ҂ D(4000) - strengthening the flow of wills generates an action of a higher order. And the flow itself can be obtained by strengthening being ( Eat) knowledge ( Come on) - I=B E.

Of course, the logician will say: I=M/D, I=S/K, I=F/N etc., etc. Let's remember what division by x "Aryan arithmetic means: the ratio of spheres of influence or the ratio of what is above to what is below. And in this case, this ratio generates a flow. Then M/D- the ratio of thoughts and deeds generates a stream of divine light. S/K- the ratio of the voiced thought and the connection (filling) of several systems (volume) again generates a force vector. F/N- the ratio of the significance of the essence and the embodied image. All results of these arithmetic operations generate different kinds movement.

If you are still in doubt, you can go even further, arguing that when dealing with electric current, we are, in fact, dealing with the mechanical aspects of electricity and magnetism, and the phenomenon of current can be described by the same mathematical equations that apply to ordinary movement. in space. T e come to the equation v=s/t, where v - speed, s - space, t - time. The law of similarity in action.

Here it is already appropriate to quote the famous alternative physicist Bruce DePalm:
“Time, as a manifestation of a deeper and more basic force, is what concerns us. Point of contact - the inertia of objects is related to the energy of time flowing through them”.

Recalling the quantum theory and equating space and time to one, we can come to the unit of speed of reading the flow of insight in the material world. What do you think it equals? Consciousness is a flow, flow is an electric current, electric current is the speed of nerve impulses, nerve impulses are the basis of the brain. What is their basis? Light! Consequently, the natural unit of speed in the Explicit or material world is equal to the speed of light, i.e. 2.9989 x 10 10 cm/sec. Rounding up, we get 3 ( verbs) - movement, outflow, direction, transfer of knowledge from the source. Although without rounding - quite an interesting number. And through the frequency of light we go to physical quantities units of space and time.

The magnitude of the current is measured by the number of electrons (units of space) per unit of time. A unit of space per unit of time is the definition of speed, so electric current is speed, i.e. movement. From a mathematical point of view, it does not matter whether the mass moves in space or whether space moves in the mass. It remains only to understand what kind of movement is at the base. Think about it in terms and images of the evolution and development of the Universe.

Understanding all this purely logically is a waste of time. It can only be felt. This is the whole essence of imaginative thinking.

Psychologists continue to argue about which cognitive mechanisms underlie the imaginative thinking of a person.. When we say or hear the words "elephant", "street" or "friend's face", the images pop up in our minds thanks to visual memory. And what helps us to construct images of such concepts as “speed”, “contact, “kindness”? After all, there is no concrete picture behind these words. But if we try to “draw” the meaning of this word, then, although everyone will have their own drawings, nevertheless, such a task can be coped with.

Imaginative thinking helps us:

to expand our associative range,
"see" the problem or task as a picture,
complete its missing elements,
transform the picture according to the changed conditions or our ideas.

In a word, imaginative thinking is a tool that gives us additional opportunities for solving problems and tasks.

Such vivid mental images

Are there any differences between the images that we build in our brain and the real objects that these same images have generated? A question that interests not only scientists, but also, say, investigators questioning witnesses of the incident. Remembering, we add to our images something of our own, superfluous, but, on the contrary, we miss something. If you try to specifically revive the images in your mind, you can understand how strong your imaginative thinking is.

Try this simple exercise: Consistently imagine the following figurative pictures and evaluate their brightness on a 10-point scale (1 - very weak image, 2 - weak image, 3 - bright image, 4 - very bright image):

A car parked in a supermarket.
The same car moving along a mountain serpentine.
The same car moving forward.
The same car, but turned upside down.
The same car, returned to its normal position.
The same car overtaking another car.
He is on the seashore.
This car, receding and gradually disappearing from view.
He is running at high speed.
He, the same cautiously riding in the dark with headlights on.

If all the images were bright, then in total you should get 40 points. If you got less than 20 points, then you should think about how to develop imaginative thinking.

What is your image of "Champagne" associated with?

In children, figurative thinking develops very actively, thanks to role-playing games and children's fantasies. Is it possible to develop imaginative thinking in adults? Is it too late to talk about brain training for people aged 20 and over? The answer is positive, because during this period and up to 50-60 years old, adults develop the so-called fluid intelligence, which allows the brain to flexibly rebuild itself to new structures and images.

Here is one useful exercise. For this exercise, you need to imagine yourself ... in different professional roles. Professionals investigate any phenomenon depending on their professional interest. So, try exploring from different perspectives, like "Champagne":

You are a sommelier, and you are primarily interested in the taste and aroma of this drink. Imagine the flavors of the different varieties of Champagne that you have tasted. Consider their scents. Compare, find differences.
You are engaged in advertising and promotion of Champagne. Imagine what his bottles look like, the labels on them, the description on these stickers. Compare, find differences.
You are an artist who wants to paint champagne splashing and sparkling in a beautiful glass. How would this picture look like? New Year's table? And in the cellar of champagne producers? And at the tasting, at the wine fair?
And finally, perhaps the most difficult task. You create champagne from different components by mixing several different types of wine. Imagine how you draw from different sources and mix these ingredients, and how a blend is born before your eyes - a prototype of the future drink.

Similar exercises can be done with different objects, both simple (a sprout that has made its way out of the ground) and more complicated (a ship). Each time you change position, you construct the image differently. The subject remains the same, but its images, born in your brain, are different. Useful workout brain!

Experiments in the field of cognitive psychology have shown that interconnected images are best reproduced (and, therefore, stored in memory longer and easier to remember). That's why advice from mnemonics is so popular, like, "Do you want to remember to put down a letter when you pass by a mailbox? Connect the box and the letter in your memory, imagine a vivid picture of how you lower the letter into the box. And your brain will finish all the work: when you see the box, your brain will remind you of the letter.

Therefore, using pictures that develop figurative thinking, adults train not only the ability to construct images, but also figurative memory.

Exercises for the development of associative imagery were used, for example, in psychoanalysis. The psychoanalyst offered the client to read any word in the book and then, passively following his unconscious, describe the emerging images.

Try and run a free associative series from time to time. Starting from whatever image (the face of a passerby, a word in a book, a flower scent, or the sound of music), let your brain generate visual images and patterns as it sees fit. Follow this sequence passively, making the pleasant images brighter and the unpleasant ones muted.

Gradually intervene in the process and manipulate the images at your discretion -

increase and decrease
approach and move away
color and reshape...

Such an exercise with fantasies will serve as a useful training for the brain.

At the service of creative thought

Figurative thinking is a tool that allows us to mentally construct a non-existent reality or, in other words, to be creative, creative individuals. Therefore, the answer to the question of how to develop imaginative thinking in adults is also the answer to the question of the development of creative abilities. Our brain willingly produces stereotypes - this way it is much easier for it to perceive the world. As a result, we surround ourselves with stereotypes. And since childhood. See, for example, how children draw a house or a Christmas tree. Even they use stamps instead of live images. And adults even more prefer to operate with template images. How to develop and maintain in these conditions Creative skills and their basis - figurative thinking?

One of the methods of creativity is agglutination technique - mental connection together of parts borrowed from different images . This is how the Serpent Gorynych (the body of a snake + the wings of a bird) and the hut on chicken legs once appeared. Today this principle has gone beyond science fiction and is used, in particular, in bionics, the science that creates technical devices based on principles borrowed from nature (for example, the idea of a submarine was “prompted” by dolphins).

One of the projective tests can be used to develop agglutination skills. Here is his task: "Draw a picture of a non-existent animal." Try this task. After a while, come back to it and make a completely different drawing. Try to increase the number of images of animals each time. From which you "borrow" certain parts: the wings of an eagle, the paws of a frog, the ears and trunk of an elephant, the scales of a fish ...

Unless, of course, you are interested in developing and training your creative thinking.

According to the degree of deployment, they distinguish:

Discursive thinking is analytical thinking based on the logic of reasoning.

Intuitive thinking is based on direct sensory perceptions and direct reflection of the effects of objects and phenomena of the surrounding world.

By nature, they distinguish:

Theoretical thinking - thinking on the basis of theoretical reasoning and conclusions, this is the knowledge of laws and rules.

practical thinking- this is reasoning in solving practical problems, its goal is the development of means for the practical transformation of reality: setting a goal, creating a plan, project, scheme.

theoretical thinking, in turn is divided into conceptual and figurative.

Conceptual thinking is the kind of thinking that uses certain concepts. Conceptual thinking provides the most accurate and generalized reflection of reality, but this reflection is abstract.

Creative thinking is a type of thought process that uses images. These images are retrieved directly from memory or recreated by the imagination. Figurative thinking allows you to get a specific subjective reflection of the reality surrounding us.

Distinguish according to form such types of thinking as visual-effective, visual-figurative and abstract-logical (verbal-logical), these types of thinking can also be considered as levels of development.

Visual-effective (pre-conceptual) thinking- this is a special kind of thinking, the essence of which lies in the fact that the solution of the problem is carried out with the help of practical transformative activity carried out with real objects. This form of thinking is dominant in early childhood.

Visual-figurative thinking- this is a type of thinking in which the solution of a problem is carried out with the help of operations with images that arise in an immediate situation. The necessary images are presented in short-term and operative memory. This form of thinking is dominant in children of preschool and primary school age.

Verbal-logical thinking is a type of thinking in which the solution of a problem is carried out with the help of operations with concepts. It is dominant from adolescence.

abstract-logical– more complex view thinking, based on the allocation of essential properties and relationships of the subject and abstraction from non-essential.

Each of these types of thinking develops independently. Theoretical thinking is considered more perfect than practical, and conceptual is more high level development than figurative.

According to the degree of novelty and originality, they distinguish:

Reproductive thinking is based on the assimilation and operation of ready-made concepts, judgments, patterns and their application in a certain situation.

Productive thinking is thinking that creates something new for the subject. The process of thinking consists in finding means of solving the problem, taking into account the existing conditions. It lies at the heart of creativity.

Functions are distinguished:

Critical thinking - is aimed at identifying flaws in judgments.

Creative - associated with the discovery of fundamentally new knowledge.

Basic forms of thinking

1. Concept is a reflection of the general and essential properties of objects or phenomena. Types of concepts:

q General concepts- cover a whole class of homogeneous objects or phenomena that bear the same name. For example, the concepts of “chair”, “building”, “disease”, “person”, etc. The general concepts reflect the features that are characteristic of all objects that are united by the corresponding concept.

q Singular concepts- refers to one thing. For example, "Yenisei", "Venus", "Saratov", etc. Single concepts represent a body of knowledge about a single subject, but at the same time reflect properties that can be covered by another, more general concept. For example, the concept of "Yenisei" includes the fact that it is a river that flows through the territory of Russia.

2. Judgment- this is a form of thinking, in the process of which the connections between the objects of reality are affirmed or denied. For example, "This table is brown", "Metals expand when heated" - expresses the relationship between temperature changes and the volume of metals.

Judgments can be true(objectively true) and false(does not correspond to objective reality); common(when something is stated about all the subjects of the group, for example: "All students take exams during the session"), private(for example: “Some students are excellent students”) and single(e.g. "This student did not prepare well for the seminar.")

Judgment is based on the subject's understanding of the diversity of connections of a particular object or phenomenon with other objects or phenomena. Understanding is the ability to comprehend the meaning and significance of something. The concepts of "judgment" and "understanding" are not completely identical, but they are closely related to each other. If understanding is a faculty, then judgment is the result of that faculty.

3. Inference is the highest form of thinking and represents the derivation of a new judgment from one or more judgments. The initial judgments from which the conclusion is drawn are called parcels.

Inferences can be:

q Inductive- reasoning goes from single factors to a general conclusion.

q deductive- the reasoning goes from general factors to particular conclusions.

q by analogy- the conclusion is made on the basis of partial similarities between phenomena. For example: during the day it is light, and at night it is dark.

Inference as a form of thinking is based on concepts and judgments and is most often used in the processes of theoretical thinking.

Word " intelligence” comes from the Latin intellectus, translated into Russian meaning “understanding”, “understanding”, “comprehension”. There are two main interpretations of intelligence today: a broader one and a narrower one. In a broader sense, intelligence is a global integral biopsychic feature of a person that characterizes his ability to adapt. Another interpretation of intelligence, narrower, combines in this concept a generalized characteristic of a person's mental abilities.

The main types of mental operations

The main types of mental operations include: comparison, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretization, induction and deduction.

Analysis- this is a mental dismemberment of something into parts or a mental selection of individual properties of an object.

The essence of this operation is that, perceiving an object or phenomenon, we can mentally select one part from another in it, and then select the next part, etc. Thus, we can find out what parts it consists of, what we perceive. Therefore, analysis allows us to decompose the whole into parts, that is, allows us to understand the structure of what we perceive.

Synthesis- this is a mental combination of parts of objects or phenomena into a single whole, as well as a mental combination of their individual properties.

Being inherently opposite operations, analysis and synthesis are in fact closely related. They are involved in every complex thought process. For example, when you, knowing English poorly, hear a conversation in this language, you first of all try to highlight familiar words in the sounded phrase, and only then perceive less familiar words and then try to comprehend them. This is the function of analysis. However, at the same time, you are trying to put together the meaning of the words you heard and make a meaningful phrase. In this case, you use another mental operation - synthesis.

Abstraction- this is a mental distraction from any parts or properties of an object in order to highlight its essential features. Abstraction is widely used by us in the formation and assimilation of new concepts, since the concepts reflect only the essential features common to a whole class of objects. For example, when we say "table", we represent a certain image of a whole class of objects. This concept combines our ideas about different tables. In order to form this concept, we had to abstract from a number of particular properties and features that are characteristic only for a particular object or a separate group of objects, which are determined by the concept we have formed.

Generalization It is a grouping of similar objects according to their common features. Any concept that people use is a generalization.

Specification- a process opposite to abstraction, this is the representation of something single, which corresponds to a particular concept or general position. Essentially, concretization always acts as an example or as an illustration of something in common.

Comparison- the operation of establishing similarities and differences between objects and phenomena of the real world. Recognition of the similarity or difference between objects depends on what properties of the compared objects are essential for us. The success of the comparison depends on how correctly the indicators for comparison are chosen.

Classification - this is a derivative of comparison, this is a more complex operation of establishing the similarity and difference between the main and secondary features of objects and phenomena. Thanks to this, it is possible further, based on the similarity of the main features, to combine objects into related groups: species, genera, classes, etc.

Induction- this is a conclusion, which is a transition from special cases to a general position.

Deduction- this is a conclusion, which is a transition from the general to the particular.

Solving complex mental problems and creative thinking

The process of thinking begins with a problematic situation that needs to be solved, and, therefore, with the formulation of a question that arises every time we do not understand something.

To solve a complex mental problem, it is necessary to skillfully choose ways to solve the problem. In some cases, we do not experience difficulty in solving a particular mental problem or practical problem. But it often happens that we do not have the necessary knowledge or information to answer the question. Therefore, in order to solve a complex mental problem, a person must be able to find the necessary information, without which it is impossible to solve the main task or problem. In this case, a person, using the possibilities of his thinking, first answers intermediate questions and only then decides main question. Gradually replenishing the missing information, we come to the solution of the main problem or question of interest to us.

When we don't have the information we need to solve a problem, we usually make a guess. An assumption is a conclusion that is based on indirect information and our guesses, when we do not have all the knowledge or sufficient information necessary to correctly solve a mental problem.

Practice is the most objective proof of the truth of inferences. A significant role in solving complex intellectual problems is played by the skillful use of various techniques. So, when solving problems, we often use visual images. Another example is the use of typical techniques in solving typical problems.

In a detailed thought process, several stages or phases can be distinguished:

1. Awareness of the problem situation.

2. Separation of what is known and what is not known. As a result, the problem turns into a task.

3. Limitation of the search area.

4. Constructing a hypothesis as an assumption about how to solve problems.

5. Implementation of the hypothesis.

6. Testing the hypothesis. If the test confirms the hypothesis, the solution is implemented.

However, there are cases when a person with highly developed thinking tries to solve problems that are not similar to any of the known ones, that do not have a ready-made solution. To solve such problems, we must turn to the capabilities of our creative thinking.

One of the first who attempted to answer the question of what creative thinking is, was J. Gilford. In works devoted to creativity (creative thinking), he outlined his concept, according to which the level of development of creativity is determined by the dominance of four features in thinking. First, this originality and uniqueness expressed ideas, the desire for intellectual novelty. A person capable of creativity almost always and everywhere strives to find his own solution.

Secondly, a creative person is distinguished semantic flexibility, i.e., the ability to see an object from a new angle of view, the ability to discover the possibility of a new use of this object.

Thirdly, in creative thinking there is always such a feature as shaped adaptive flexibility, i.e., the ability to change the perception of an object in such a way as to see its new, hidden sides.

Fourth, a person with creative thinking is different from other people. the ability to produce a variety of ideas in an uncertain situation, in particular, in one that does not contain prerequisites for the formation of new ideas. This ability of creative thinking was called by J. Gilford semantic spontaneous flexibility.

Subsequently, other attempts were made to reveal the nature of creativity. In the course of these studies, conditions conducive to the manifestation of creative thinking were identified. For example, when faced with a new task, a person seeks first of all to use the method or method that was most successful in previous experience. Another equally significant conclusion that was made in the course of research on creative thinking is the conclusion that the more effort was spent on finding a new way to solve a problem, the higher the likelihood that this method will be applied to solve another, new mental problem. . At the same time, this pattern can lead to the emergence of a stereotype of thinking that prevents a person from using new, more appropriate ways to solve a problem. Therefore, in order to overcome the stereotypical thinking, a person must generally give up trying to solve the problem, and then after a while return to it, but with the firm intention of solving it in a new way.

In the course of the study of creative thinking, another interesting pattern was revealed. Frequent failures in solving mental problems lead to the fact that a person begins to be afraid of meeting with each new task, and when faced with a problem, his intellectual abilities are not able to manifest themselves, as they are under the yoke of a person’s disbelief in their own abilities. own forces. For the manifestation of the intellectual abilities of people, a sense of success and a sense of the correctness of performing a particular task is necessary.

A number of studies have found that efficiency in solving mental problems is achieved in the presence of appropriate motivation and a certain level of emotional arousal. Moreover, this level for each person is purely individual.

"How strange dreams look when they become reality"

One of the facets of figurative thinking is sensory knowledge or, in the language of parapsychologists, empathic perception*. The criterion for a person to return to figurative thinking is the ability to think by the method of insight. This is a method of mental immersion in the problem, in which the answer comes instantly, like an insight. He just comes shoots from the subconscious. An inner state of joy arises - here it is, now everything is clear. The answer comes by itself. For example, the same Mendeleev opened the table of elements in exactly this way. What about people who can instantly multiply any number? In such cases, imaginative thinking works, which is usually accompanied by a feeling of emotional intensity. A person internally does some work, he plunges into the problem, and then shoots out the answer. It is also called the immersion method.

/*Empathic understanding is not the result of intellectual effort. Many experts consider empathy innate property which is genetically determined. The life experience of the individual can only strengthen or weaken it. Empathy depends on the availability and richness of life experience, the accuracy of perception, the ability to tune in, listening to the interlocutor, on the same emotional wave with him.

Older people probably remember that at school they did not memorize the addition table. They understood the principle of how to put them together. Now in schools they teach not only multiplication tables, but also addition tables. They just memorize ready-made answers. Of course, this is a sign of degradation.

And further, linguists are well aware that the English language is completely empty. It does not cause images in the mind of a person. It is sometimes called artificial or sign language. It's just a reflection of the material in a sound that comes from nowhere, where the sound is far from what it reflects. Let's take the sound meaning of eating, in Russian: food, food, grub, havchik, zhor, there are other sound designations for this process. And in English? One word food. Or: I love you, I love you, yes I love you! And in English: I love you. Everything, nothing else and nothing else. Only a sign, no figurative-temporal fullness.

Therefore, honest scientists from Israel directly stated that the Russian language develops not only the left hemisphere of the brain, but also the right one. Because it creates images, and other European languages \u200b\u200bare not capable of this.

The most backward of the European languages is English. The only thing he is able to develop is memory and the left hemisphere of the brain. This is the answer why the most primitive of European languages is being so rapidly imposed on the whole world. But this is so, speaking of linguistics.

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that our ancestors had more mechanisms for solving the tasks. Let's say a person was looking for an answer to a question. He plunged into the matter. In fact, he combined two images: the image of himself at the moment, and the image of the situation in which he found himself. And then, synthesizing these two images on a sensual level, the answer of the most optimal solution came to him by the method of insight. Or a person was engaged in choosing the right action from a fan of possible solutions. He took image of oneself, image of the situation and further image of a possible solution. Having synthesized these three images, he received the answer of what it would lead to. That is, what will happen if a person makes such a choice. And now many people do this, especially those who are not so strongly developed in the left hemisphere (structural-logical thinking, abstract) in comparison with the right hemisphere (sensory-emotional, intuitive, connection with the information field of the Universe). There is a reading in the way of modeling events, in the way of choosing the vector of further movement.

*The modern education system claims to be aimed at hypertrophy of the left hemisphere and at the same time somehow limit the right hemisphere. But we see that elementary logical constructions are no longer available to modern people.

Figurative work is activated when both hemispheres are in harmony in a person. We see trinity again. And it's easy enough to justify it. How is the immersion method enabled? We begin to think and look for logical relationships with the object under study. We turn on the left hemisphere. But further, in the process of this work, there is a certain attunement with the image of the task. And thanks to this attunement, our right hemisphere is activated. We begin to feel this image at the level of extrasensory perception empathy. Logic still works, but at the same time we are already looking for an answer, feeling the task. That's when the mental image of the answer shoots.

Another way of figurative thinking, but of a lower order, is colloquial speech.

Have you ever wondered how words appear in your head? By and large, they arise spontaneously. We form in our head the image of the thought that we want to convey, and it pours out in the form of a sentence. If we thought about every word, we would not be able to speak so quickly. As soon as we begin to choose words, speech becomes interrupted. On this basis, science was born, studying the psychology of a person by his speech. Or, for example, an image of a zebra appears in the head, and we immediately understand that this is a striped artiodactyl. If the word is unknown, nothing arises. We can say that this is memory, but not a single modern computer can so quickly pick up the description that arises like an insight in our head. And where can all this fit in? We are not looking for an answer, we get it right away. Think about it.

A simple exercise will help you understand which hemisphere you have developed more. Fold, without hesitation, your fingers into the lock. Depending on which finger of which hand is on top, then the opposite hemisphere is more developed in you. If the finger of the left hand is on top, then the right hemisphere is more developed.
Now fold your fingers so that the finger of the other hand is on top. The more inconvenient this procedure is for you, the greater the difference in the development of the cerebral hemispheres. In this case, you need to pull the lagging hemisphere to the more developed one, and not vice versa.

Harmonious development of both hemispheres is important. That is why in the old days people knew how to write with both hands, and warriors knew how to fight with two swords at once. If your child is left handed do not rush to retrain him to right-handedness. It is much more important to simply teach him to write or hold a hammer with his right hand as well as with his left. Then you will get a harmonious personality, and not a person with suppressed intuition.

Yes, and a man and a woman, in fact, are halves of something united, although located on a different plane of the universe. Everything is in the image and likeness, as above, so below.

Therefore, figurative thinking is thinking by the method of insight.. Usually immersion occurs through the left hemisphere. We comprehend, think, try to logically identify patterns. Further, through concentration, the right hemisphere is activated, the person begins to feel the task. And when they align, insight occurs, a ready mental image of the answer is fired, which we simply read. This can be compared with the initial letter Izhei, with the image of the stream. The person enters, as it were, into a stream. A stream appears between the hemispheres, which is read by the mind. Entering the flow is a consequence and a pleasant side effect of equalizing the proportional ratio of activation of the cerebral hemispheres. Now it is clear why consciousness is compared with the flow, and life with movement?

And further. Figurative thinking includes the process of unzipping compressed information from the energy-informational field of Navi, (Noosphere) and images are the keys or principles for extracting information from the past experience of the universe. This experience is called the Akashic Records and the Navi energy-informational field.

The path of development is necessary in order to find the unique, the unrepeatable in something in common. And the path of reconciliation is necessary in order to find something in common in unique things. In other words, self-improvement occurs through the knowledge of the unknown in oneself. Now think about what the essence of figurative "opposition" of Belobog and Chernobog.

EPILOGUE

Let's look at one example of the feedback between imaginative thinking and mathematics. We mentioned when describing the initial letter that one facet of the image of the initial letter I (Izhei) is identical to the strength of the current. Essentially a force vector. In addition, we know that I \u003d U / R, where, U - voltage, electron aspiration vector, force per unit of space, R - resistance or inertia equal to mass per unit time, I - current strength, the number of electrons per unit time.

What initial letter can be correlated with aspiration and approaching the goal? The initial letter Uk, the limit of which is the initial letter Ouk. Now we remember - to turn on the flow, what needs to be stopped, what resists this? That's right - thought, the thought process of our brain. We get the initial letter Thought. What have we come to? I=U/M. And if we substitute the numerical values of the initial letters, we get: 10=400/40. Coincidence? Well, let's find the power - Р=U·I or У·I=҂Д (4000) - strengthening the flow of wills generates an action of a higher order. And the flow itself can be obtained by strengthening the being (Is) with knowledge (Vdi) - I=В·Е.

Of course, the logician will say: I \u003d M / D, I \u003d C / K, I \u003d F / N, etc., etc. Let's remember what division by x "Aryan arithmetic means: the ratio of spheres of influence or the ratio of that "What is above to what is below. And in this case, this relationship generates a flow. Then M / D - the ratio of thoughts and deeds generates a stream of divine light. S / K - the ratio of voiced thoughts and the connection (filling) of several systems (volume) again generates a force vector F/N - the ratio of the significance of the essence and the embodied image All the results of these arithmetic operations generate different types of movement.

If you are still in doubt, you can go even further, arguing that when dealing with electric current, we are, in fact, dealing with the mechanical aspects of electricity and magnetism, and the phenomenon of current can be described by the same mathematical equations that apply to ordinary movement. in space. T e come to the equation v=s/t, where v is speed, s is space, t is time. The law of similarity in action.

Here it is already appropriate to quote the famous alternative physicist Bruce DePalm:

“Time, as a manifestation of a deeper and more basic force, is what concerns us. The point of contact - the inertia of objects is related to the energy of time flowing through them.

Recalling the quantum theory and equating space and time to one, we can come to the unit of speed of reading the flow of insight in the material world. What do you think it equals? Consciousness is a flow, flow is an electric current, electric current is the speed of nerve impulses, nerve impulses are the basis of the brain. What is their basis? Light! Therefore, the natural unit of speed in the Explicit or material world is equal to the speed of light, i.e. 2.9989 x 1010 cm/sec. Rounding up, we get 3 (Verbs) - movement, expiration, direction, transfer of knowledge from the source. Although without rounding - quite an interesting number. And through the frequency of light we come to the physical quantities of units of space and time.

Understanding all this purely logically is a waste of time. It can only be felt. This is the whole essence of imaginative thinking.

Do not litter, children, speak Native, with the verb and adverbs of a foreign language.
In the hearts only the words Native ones live, and other voices are dead for the Soul.

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“I think, therefore I exist” (lat. Cogito ergo sum) is Descartes’ philosophical reflection on the awareness of one’s thinking as an argument for discovering oneself existing.

Every person is endowed with the ability to think. Human thinking, including ideas and images, is not only an indicator of the mindset (reason, wisdom) and intellect (IQ), but also, depending on the type, type, form of thinking, an indicator of his feelings, emotions and behavior, and therefore a life program fate, if you like...

Today on the psychological site http://site, you, dear visitors, will learn about such types, types and forms of human thinking as abstract, visual, effective, figurative, verbal-logical, scientific thinking, etc., and about how it affects our life and destiny.

So, what are the types, types and forms of human thinking

As I think, so I live (or exist). The whole scheme: How I think (think, imagine) in this or that situation (with this or that life event), this is how I feel myself ... and how I feel (emotions), I behave (actions, behavior, physiology) .
In general, all this forms learned, automatic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving in similar situations, i.e. lucky, banal or unfortunate (the latter is comic, dramatic or tragic) scenario of life. Solution: Change your thinking and you will change your life

There are many types, types and forms of human thinking, through which our psyche perceives, processes and transforms all information read by the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste) coming from the outside world.

We will consider the main types, types and forms of thinking: visual, figurative, objective, effective, verbal-logical, abstract, professional and scientific, as well as thinking errors that lead a person to psychological, emotional and life problems.

Visual and figurative thinking

Visual-figurative thinking - the work of the right hemisphere of the brain - is mainly a visual (visual) processing of information, although it can also be auditory (auditory). This type of thinking is inherent in animals (they do not have a second signaling system - they cannot think in words) and small children.

In adult life, visual-figurative thinking (it is also called an artistic view) is characteristic of people with a leading right hemisphere, creative professions, for example, artists, actors ...

People with imaginative thinking often think in pictures, like to imagine situations in an image, fantasize, dream ... and even daydream ...

Practical or objective, actionable thinking

Operating objects, interacting with them: examining, feeling, listening, maybe even sniffing and tasting - is object-effective thinking. It is characteristic of small children, who learn the world in this way, gaining some life experience, and animals.

An adult also manifests objective and effective thinking - this type of practical, concrete thinking is used not only by people of practical professions, where objects need to be constantly manipulated, but also in ordinary, everyday life, for example, when a person puts all objects in their places and knows where what is located (in contrast to the creative type of thinking - such people are characterized by a "creative mess" and a constant search for something new).

Verbal-logical thinking

With development and maturation, a person learns to speak and think logically. Pictures and images, direct perception (see, hear, feel, smell, taste) are replaced by verbal designations and logical chains of reasoning leading to certain conclusions.

For many, the left hemisphere begins to work more, people perceive and interpret the world: life situations and various phenomena in words, trying to logically comprehend what is happening around.

The right hemisphere (figurative, emotional thinking) also does not go away, and everything that was perceived visually-figuratively and objectively-effectively, along with emotional coloring, is stored in the human subconscious. However, most people do not remember their childhood and especially childhood experiences, because. as an adult, a person thinks logically, in words, and not in images and pictures, as in childhood.

And for example, if someone was frightened by a dog in childhood, as an adult, he can continue to be afraid of them in a panic, not at all understanding why ... because he does not remember the moment of fright, because. then he thought in images and objects, and now in words and logic ...
And in order for a person to get rid of cynophobia, one needs to “turn off” (weaken) the left, verbal-logical hemisphere for a while ... go to the right, emotional-figurative, remember and relive the situation with the “terrible” dog in fantasies, thereby working out this fear.

Abstract thinking

Abstraction, distraction from what can be perceived directly, seen, felt ..., thinking in generalized concepts, is an abstract thinking characteristic of older students and adults who have already developed verbal-logical thinking.
For example, the concept of “Happiness” is an abstraction, i.e. it generalizes many different human benefits, it cannot be touched and seen, plus everything - everyone understands in his own way what happiness is for him ...

For example, it often happens that due to too abstract thinking, a person generalizes every situation in life, instead of looking at it in detail, objectively and practically. Those. if someone strives for something abstract, not concrete - for the same happiness - then he will never achieve success.

Professional and scientific thinking

In adulthood, a person receives a profession, he begins to think in professional terms, and perceives the world and what is happening around.

For example, if you say the word "Root" out loud, what do you think people of such professions as a dentist, a teacher of literature, a gardener (botanist) and a mathematician will think?

Professional thinking intersects with the subject, and scientific - with creative, because. any scientist, researcher, constantly in search of new discoveries.

However, all these people are not alien to verbal-logical, abstract, and visual-figurative thinking. Another thing is when people often make - usually unconsciously, as if according to a program - a lot of mental errors. Those. they subconsciously confuse when and how to think in order to achieve success in life, and the same notorious happiness ...

Thinking errors that lead a person to failure and collapse

Our thinking (words, pictures and images) largely depends on internal global, often generalized beliefs stored in the depths of the psyche (laid there from the outside, in the process of education, cultivation and primary socialization) (