Sunday, May 6, 2007
Giving children emotional stimulation
Anjan Wrote: Hi Ratnesh
While riding back home, was just pondering about 'emotional stimulation'(ES), as to how would I go through the same?
It is not impossible, and not too easy too as ES does not happen
till you are in that situation, or have marvelous power of imagination or unless you are a professional actor.
I do not underestimate children but am sure they are not exposed to such hardcore realities (ex:the blind school today).
So as to say, to transport them to an emotional level?????.....
Anjana
While riding back home, was just pondering about 'emotional stimulation'(ES), as to how would I go through the same?
It is not impossible, and not too easy too as ES does not happen
till you are in that situation, or have marvelous power of imagination or unless you are a professional actor.
I do not underestimate children but am sure they are not exposed to such hardcore realities (ex:the blind school today).
So as to say, to transport them to an emotional level?????.....
Anjana
My Reply:
I can make children experience sensitivity, make them experience alienation, make them experience anxiety over unknown and so on
I need not put the children in the SAME situation - I only need to put the children or myself into a situation which would evoke SIMILAR feelings
thats the KEY
all GOOD ACTORS, as you have rightly identified - do that
I have seen some not so effective directors saying to actors, "put or show sad emotion or scared emotion"
I have also luckily seen some great directors say to actors "remember the last time something happened and you were sad - relive that experience right now!
The later obviously works much better - because this is experiential (that is RELATING also)
hope you get what I am saying - EQ is such an amazing area - its not difficult
its just that you can't intellectualize over it and hence many of us think its difficult or even impossible
since we can't intellectualize over it children at times have ADVANTAGE over us
have you seen adults carrying a negative emotion or a grudge or a hatred over years - while have you seen children "patch" up soooooooon
people say children are innocent - but what I think is
that children by nature are JUST MORE AWARE .... but as they grow older .. they lose touch with their awareness - as we adults start IMPOSING our rights or wrongs
the other day a child came to geniekids and said to his father he wants his badge to read as "sonu" rather than "arya" his real (school name).
father asked why -
he said I hate "arya"
father said, "no you don't, you can't H-A-T-E anything"
i guess the father is far removed from his own emotions ......... otherwise he would have realised that he himself was right now hating "hate" :-)
Q.E.D
ratnesh
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