Contemplation

Blessed with the task of educating the faithful, catechists are challenged to invite others into a relationship with Christ. Over time, theologians have developed varying pedagogies meant to direct the catechist in his or her ministry, though it is important that these methods be in conformity to the Divine Pedagogy. Groome’s Shared Christian Praxis and Cavalletti’s Catechesis of the Good Shepherd draw upon the Pedagogy of God through the role of the catechist and through the means by which one…

perception contribute to the novel, as they establish an intimate relationship with the reader. These descriptions can evoke pleasure and delight from readers, as they can appeal to the reader’s sensual enjoyment, past experiences, and personal contemplations. Plot development and setting description share a unique and foundational relationship in A Hero of Our Time by Alexander Lermontov and Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. As frequent as the insertion of landscape is in these novels,…

(Patel, Feucht, and Reid, 2010). The stages of Transtheoretical Theory are the following: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. (Patel, Feucht, and Reid, 2010). Recognizing what stage a person is in will help specify the material, resources, and tactics used in a health program. For example, quitting smoking is a personal choice. If a person is in the pre-contemplation stage, he or she is not even thinking about quitting in the near future. Recognizing this…

So far, I personally consider the fine art photographs as those with great compositions, the mixture of light and color, the magical quality, as well as the meaningful contemplation, and I would like to appreciatively describe one fine art photograph—Winter, Fifth Avenue given by Alfred Stieglitz. Accompanied by pure photography style, Stieglitz was instrumental in helping make photography the fine art, and this eye-catching image, Winter, Fifth Avenue, is one of his best known works captured in…

model, The protective motivation theory, and the theory of planned behavior.(Ogden, J. (2017)) The stages of change model "..the processes involved in eliciting and maintaining change"(Ogden, J. (2017)). It includes the following steps; Pre-contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation. Action, Maintenance.These can appear in any order, and don't follow a definite timeline. The health belief model is says that behavior is developed from core beliefs of the individual (Ogden, J. (2017). These beliefs…

virtuous. If a person wants to achieve his high standard of virtue, it is their responsibility to exercise their brain and drive themselves to obtain wisdom that benefits their lives. Aristotle believes that humans should strive to live a life of contemplation and seek wisdom or knowledge, and it is through their striving that they achieve excellence or virtue. “The virtue or excellence of man, too, will be a characteristic which makes him a good man, and which causes him to perform his won…

Playwright, William Shakespeare, in his tragedy, Hamlet, utilizes the main character Hamlet to vocalize his contemplations between life and death. His purpose is to argue that suicide is feasible, although it is viewed as immoral and those who attempt are considered libertines. Shakespeare emphasizes the thorough examination that Hamlet does in regards to his painful life while at the same time being indecisive and fearing the afterlife that would come once he committed suicide. He adopts a…

Thanatos is the motivation or desire to escape and therefore this completion of oblivion seems to conclude the poem. Further the ‘tempest’ brought Thomas a vision of nature of both life and death as it ‘tells me [him]’ and gives him a glimpse of death, which is at once a ‘bleak’ sense of consolidation. The epiphany that Thomas experiences gives this sense of awareness of mortality and the value of life. The oblivion of death is contrasted with the gift of life as Thomas describes himself as…

condition is based on MJN PNI in2action motivational interviewing kit. In pre-contemplation stage a patient feels fine about current lifestyle and does not care to change. At this point a physician needs to ask questions and determine why the person does not want to change. The health care provider needs to inform the patient about potential health problems associated with the existing condition. During contemplation stage a patient understands that they are not following their physician’s…

mindfulness without adding any contemplative mindfulness practices such as meditationlearning, amind/body connection is a critical feature which helps the individual become more aware and more involved in the present moment but this is not meditation or contemplation (Langer, 2000). The mind/body connection in mindful learning considers being open to what an individual can learn through his/her senses of touch, smell, hearing and taste. Rather than contemplating or focusing on concepts and ideas…