Why Teach Self-expression?
Self expression is vital to our happiness, yet it is not taught. We are expected to just know how to capture in words what we are feeling and thinking. Why we assume that just by learning to talk we can automatically know the complex process of self-expression is beyond me. We, who in a split second, are able to make associations with something that we experienced in the past or anticipate might happen in the future but that got triggered by something that’s happening in the present, are not simple to describe. We live in three time periods: past, present and future. We have three dimensions: thoughts, feelings and imaginings, and we operate on at least three levels: the conscious, unconscious and sub-conscious. Yet, we speak and hear only one word at a time. We are a body and a spirit and experience life through the body informed by and informing the spirit. We are, by nature, paradoxical, and we are forever trying to reconcile wanting and not wanting to say or do something. Add to th
