Opening the Mind's Eye: How Images and Language Teach Us How to See Book

Ian Robertson has always been fascinated by how the mind makes images, an awesome power that directly and deeply affects our lives. All of us 'visualize' the world differently, and how we do so dictates the way we feel, remember, and think-and therefore our health, memory, and creativity. In this lively, accessible, and fascinating book, Robertson explains that most of us employ language as a basis for visualization. In effect, we think in words more than in images. The result is an imbalance between the logical and the intuitive, be-tween imagery-based thought and language-based thought. Opening the Mind's Eye is both an enlightening and stimu-lating explanation of how we 'see,' and a compelling argu-ment for extending the mind's powers to improve the quality of our lives. Like Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, it combines insight and application.Read More