There are many books on the market for the exercise of the body and quite a few on mental exercises. This book offers the first everyday exploration on sensory training. With trained senses, new worlds open up to the reader. Colors become brighter! Sounds become sweeter! Different tastes form on the palette! In essence, not only will the user of this book enjoy their reading experience, but will gain tangible results from it.
Senses and Your Abilities is book written in a simple and fluid, but highly readable, style. The guiding principle was that the book be “easy to read and a pleasure to read.” The authors believe this book will be of greatest benefit to anyone unaware of much of the untapped power within their senses. This book will help them to unlock those abilities.
The book will especially appeal to seniors. With our increasing lifespans, more people are becoming familiar with the tragic consequences on an inactive mind late in life. By keeping one’s mind alert and constantly busy with new exercises, these things may be staved off. A wondrous world of sight and sound will unfurl before the more mature readers of this book, exciting the brain and the senses on a daily basis! Senses and Your Abilities challenges to reader to get off their couch and explore the world around them. Whether it is inhaling the scents of homemade brews of tea or paying attention to the shades of colors of parked cars, these are exercises that everyone and anyone can perform.
Most importantly, these exercises are simple enough that most can be done in a few minutes, so the reader will never get frustrated at lack of results. Indeed, this book aims to open up the minds of its readers to the amazing processes going on throughout their bodies every time they sniff their coffee or run a hand across a silk shirt. This book is up-to-date, and makes use of the latest scientific knowledge on the workings of our brains and senses. Senses and Your Abilities is both educational and motivational!
A Rudimentary and Practical Treatise on Perspective for Beginners[ : Simplified for the Use of Juvenile Students and Amateurs in Architecture, Painting, Etc. Also Adapted for Schools and Private Instructors].
Стр. 85 – When the nautilus floats on the water, he puts out his head and all his tentacles, and spreads them upon the water, with the poop of the shell above water ; but at the bottom he creeps in the reverse position, with his boat above him, and with his head and tentacles upon the ground, making a tolerably quick progress.
Стр. 56 – From the above definitions it will be at once evident that there are two leading ideas in the minds of zoologists when they employ the term species ; one of these being a certain amount of resemblance between individuals, and the other being the proof that the individuals so resembling each other have.
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Стр. 10 – . trace the progress of those changes which are not peculiar to individuals or to species, but have a wider application, and form the history of a great class. In their infancy the molluscous animals are more alike, both in appearance and habits, than in.
Стр. 77 – I., Fig. 9. Body oblong, with minute terminal fins. Mantle supported by a cervical and two ventral ridges and grooves. Arms with six rows of very minute cups. Tentacles elongated. Funnel valved. Shell placed vertically in the posterior part of the body, with the involute spire towards the ventral side. The last chamber is not larger in proportion than the rest ; its margin is organically connected ; it contains the ink-bag. The delicate shell of the spirula is scattered by thousands on the shores.
Стр. 76 – Arms with 4 rows of suckers. Mantle supported by tubercles fitting into sockets on the neck and funnel. Length 3 to 28 inches. Shell as wide and long as the body; very thick in front, concave internally behind ; terminating in a prominent mucro. The thickened part is composed of numerous plates, separated by vertical fibres, which render it very light and porous. T. Orbignyana, pi. II., fig. 2. The cuttle-bone was formerly employed as an antacid by apothecaries ; it is now only used as ” pounce,
Стр. 19 – March, 1850, it was observed that he must have come out of his shell in the interval (as the paper had been discoloured, apparently in his attempt to get away) ; but finding escape impossible, had again retired, closing his aperture with the usual glistening film ; this led to his immersion in tepid water and marvellous recovery.
Стр. 18 – The fresh-water molluscs of cold climates bury themselves during winter in the mud of ponds and rivers ; and the landsnails hide themselves in the ground, or beneath moss and dead leaves. In warm climates they become torpid during the hottest and driest part of the year. Those genera and species which are most subject to this
Стр. 67 – By means of their long arms and suckers they could drag their bodies into very narrow crevices; and when thus fixed, it required great force to remove them. At other times they darted tail first, with the rapidity of an arrow, from one side of the pool to the other, at the same instant discolouring the water with a dark chestnutbrown ink.
Стр. 82 – Forbes has suggested that the inner courses of the hamites, broke off, as the outer ones were formed. But this was not the case with the orthocerata, whose long straight shells were particularly exposed to danger ; in these the preservation of the shell was provided for by the increased size and strength of the siphuncle, and its increased vascularity. In endoceras we find the siphuncle thickened by internal deposits, until (in some of the very cylindrical species) it forms an almost solid axis.
Стр. 85 – He keeps himself chiefly upon the ground, creeping sometimes also into the nets of the fishermen ; but after a storm, as the weather becomes calm, they are seen in troops floating on the water, being driven up by the agitation of the waves.
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Susan Stemple Kubes (she/her/hers)
Lifelong Florida resident Susan Stemple Kubes has been driven to create art her entire life. Her father always encouraged Susan’s drawing and taught her to observe the world in a thoughtful, careful way. Eventually, Susan opened her own studio, not only would she create her own work there but she also invited artists and beginners into her studio to teach them about art and painting. Susan elaborates, “This became one of the biggest joys of my art career, helping others learn to create.”
While art has provided Susan with many unique and powerful experiences, perhaps none is more powerful than pain management. Susan is living with degenerative osteoarthritis, causing debilitating pain in her joints and spine. Only being able to exert herself for short periods of time before needing to rest has dramatically impacted Susan’s life. She had to close her studio space when it became too difficult to maintain. Susan has been able to continue to paint, which has provided her with much-needed respite from the pain she experiences. “When I am painting, or planning a painting, I honestly can ignore the pain for a while. The happiness of creating helps me immensely to keep going and gives me a feeling of fulfillment, of being competent and useful again.”
There is a strong connection between art and music for Susan, the inspiration for each of her paintings begins with music, she will listen until colors begin to appear in her mind, then Susan begins to paint. For the last few years Susan has exclusively created with alcohol inks, “. just because they are so bright and fluid, moving and mixing in different ways that I find challenging and exciting. I enjoy experimenting with new techniques and materials.” as Susan puts it. Her recent work using alcohol inks has mostly been in an abstract style and enjoys the conversations and connections that are made through her artwork. “As an artist, I still need that validation. to know that others feel personal connections to my work.” Susan continues, “I love when they [the viewer] get into a discussion about an abstract, what they think it represents, what it means. I want the viewer to become involved, not just an observer.”
