Life’s Details – Japanese School Life Peek #14

Posted by kairospix (Singapore, Singapore) on 29 May 2008 in People & Portraits and Portfolio.

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This shot shows a student with her hand wrapped up. It brings to mind the thought that when you are fully immersed in an activity, discomfort and pain becomes less of a distraction and you get by.

Some psychologists in the emerging field of positive psychology (which is more scientifically rigourous than pop psychology stuff like “positive mental attitude” popularised by Napoleon Hill or NLP stuff popularised by Anthony Robbins) call this deep focused concentration as flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) or mindfulness (Ellen Langer).

Cognitive behavioural therapists have been known to use such focusing on help clients refocus on something else to help them get out of their cyclical depressive or painful mental state of mind.

Sometimes in life when we are faced with a depressive and painful moments, it helps when we refocus and be really absorbed with something else.

So what are you focused on? What’s your flow? What are you mindful of these days?

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Location - Chikuma City, Nagono Prefecture, Japan
Camera - Canon Powershot G1
Lens - Canon 7.0 - 21.0mm (approx. 35 - 105mm)
Capture date - 30 August 2001
Aperture - f4.0
Shutter speed - 1/50 sec
Shooting mode - Aperture Priority
Exposure bias - 0EV
Metering mode - Center-weighted Average
ISO - 100
Focal length - 7.0mm (approx. 35mm)
Stabilization - Hand held
Lighting - Indoor Artificial Flourescent Light
Flash - Not Fired
Post-processing - PS & LRoom processed
Cropped - Yes

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