even though texts on human psychology dont say so, in chapters on emotions. but, here is a theory in the making, realization has affective component. anyone who is not able to feel basic human emotions in own self, is not able to discern them in others and is not sensitive to genuine feelings of others, cannot feel realization, either.
until s/he does that, i.e., feel emotions and adapt to emotions without pretence, people wont feel realization.
share your thoughts if you like.
best,
Dushwari
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the aha! principle
leads to certain emotions i think 
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shona,
exactly, you are right. if you are making a comparison with the real aha moment, the inspirational split second in which you turn back and realize what you did yourself away with or that what can you do now, to make up.
the real honest to God, realization is what is referred here.
dong some research that indicates the affective component of
realization, so hopefully, will finish writing on it.
i hope you are not being skeptical when you included the emoticon.
or is it ironic?
best,
Dushwari
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^just thinking about the thought..nothing skeptical or ironic
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good lifeless.
inshallah, when the paper comes out, i will share.
alot of things in culture are swept under the carpet as they are not even recognized, such as the real feeling of realization. and what to do, when it comes.
best,
Dushwari
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oh do share dushwari, its intriguing stuff
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very interesting indeed Dushwari. what u studying by the way- it has u absolutely encaptured :)
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even though texts on human psychology dont say so, in chapters on emotions. but, here is a theory in the making, realization has affective component. anyone who is not able to feel basic human emotions in own self, is not able to discern them in others and is not sensitive to genuine feelings of others, cannot feel realization, either.
until s/he does that, i.e., feel emotions and adapt to emotions without pretence, people wont feel realization.
share your thoughts if you like.
best, Dushwari
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One would hardly disagree with the quixotic nature of the statement that one can not be sensitive to feelings of others if can not realize it. I can understand the word “migraine” because I have experienced it myself, but is it really true that we will be apathetic towards all such emotions that we don’t have first hand experience of. Human beings are social animal, they can not survive unless communicate, interact and associate, is it possible that in such a well knitted mesh of human social life, one would have not found the ways to deal with inadequacy and inability to understand the emotions of fellow human being without having first hand experience?
The answer has been found in “cognitive neuroscience”, there are many studies, researches to understand the similarities in the neural circuits during an emotional crisis for one’s own self or in any one else. These similarities lead to a conclusion of shared representation of social cognition, a base for social interaction. Human beings are blessed with a power to simulate; one can simulate the pain one is going through without having the need to experience it. Simulation is usually equated with role-taking, or imaginatively "putting oneself in the other's place. This metaphor is understood to embrace adoption of different spatial and temporal perspectives as well as other shifts in indexical specified situations (e.g., in social role, office, or kinship relations); and further, adoption of alternative character traits and similar exercises of dramatic impersonation.
We can internalize and adopt the emotions of others to realize and appreciate the gravity; our ability to simulate may vary from person to person, and may not even reflect the true nature one’s feeling but none the less it serves the purpose to understand others to a great extent. You probably have heard this song, does it explain anything?
Kon rota hey kisee aur kee khater ai dost
Sab ko apnee hee kisee baat pey rona aya
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social coginition has a cognate - subjective well being.
at what juncture do you think that the social cognitive should enable a feeling, and realizing human being to find affinity between care for other's feelings and (if fully aware of own feeling confidently), then with subjective well being?
otherwise the person will always remain either selfish or miserably confused and miserably confusing.
best,
Dushwari
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Although I am sure that you are well aware of the definition and scope of subjective well being and social cognition and can also easily identify at what juncture they can be considered connected if at all, let’s try to understand both the branches of psychology again so that we are clear as to what we are discussing.
Subjective well being is a branch of psychology that ventures to understand how people evaluate their lives, focus of the research has been to understand the difference in the positive level of long term well being, it does ‘t merely strive to gather data for acknowledged clinical cases. A person’s evaluation of life may be cognitive, or it may be in the form of effect. When a person evaluate level of satisfaction of his/her life as a whole as oppose to events driven , his/her evaluation is supposed to be cognitive.
Two factors are considered as hallmark of subjective well being (SWB), one that it takes a holistic picture of self evaluation of the satisfaction, from agony to ecstasy, it doesn’t focus on undesirable state of mind like depression and hopelessness. Second, it is respondent’s internal experience, external frame of reference should not be imposed while assessing SWB. So it should be clear that SWB is a measure of individual’s own perspective. If I am doing well, I am doing well within my own frame work. One thing that we must understand is that SWB is not a measure of mental health, psychologically a very sick , delusional, person may perceive himself to be very well satisfied, regardless of what evaluation criteria he may imply, his level of satisfaction is not a reflection of his psychological health.
Cognition refers to the process of encoding, storing, processing, and retrieving information. It is generally associated with the question of "what" (e.g., what happened, what is going on now, what is the meaning of that information.), when we add the word social, the dynamics of cognition changes from person to a group of persons and thus to a society.
Now come back to the actual question (I am not sure if I understood it well) that you have raised here, since each individual is considered as a brick in the wall of society, it is rather unthinkable that a an individual can turn a blind eye to another individual who is so very closely linked to him/her. The affinity and the strong need to be caring about other is not a question of realization, its is rather a cardinal factor in the creation of a society. Why we are not thoughtful about fellow human beings is not because the process of social cognition doe’s not impart in us a feeling of affinity, we are rather driven by strong vested interests that does not impede us in attaining high level of SWB without giving any head to the well being of other.
If somehow the measure of self satisfaction (SWB) is reflective of well being of other, we might reach at that juncture. We may discuss it further, if you so desire.
social coginition has a cognate - subjective well being. at what juncture do you think that the social cognitive should enable a feeling, and realizing human being to find affinity between care for other's feelings and (if fully aware of own feeling confidently), then with subjective well being? otherwise the person will always remain either selfish or miserably confused and miserably confusing. best, Dushwari
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that is nice. all which you elaborated. but really, we can make a bridge of straws, but its strength will depend on how carefully it is built. not on the premise that a bridge can't be built with straws.
u are right the vested interests.
my argument is, that there are people who say they know their vested interest and destroy their own efforts again and again, simply because they don’t see past their claims i.e., they don’t know about their own vested interests for sure.
many people share this thought: why care about what happens to someone who is thick in their way of being flaky.
there must be honest to God negotiations and only then, deliverance of a thoughtful rather than a frantic message can be felt, and experienced.
the thing is that then why there is much need to have a strong relation in life with a mate or in any relationship with anybody? lack of care in realization or empathy for honest and shared feelings, can cause huge, perhaps un-compensate-able loss/es, in this way and people don’t get that unless and until they don’t suffer all the way, unfortunately.
how do you have a strong relation if the person who you know you could be with, is simply unable to see that that person has your support, but instead that person mistakes you, for no reason except that person's utter lack of realization? a client and a psychologist can have a this dangerous state, when the client is very lost in own demons to fight. no?
best,
Dushwari