My Ideal Future: Love and Happiness

We frecuently are thinking of what we would like to be doing in our future, or we would like to be, and with who, or how would like our house, our childrens...an endless list of things that today don`t seem so clear, or at least for me.
In five years from now, I will be finished my career, and I would like to be doing postgrades studies in the Humanistic area of Psychology, specifically I would like to be doing Gestaltic Therapy. Also, I would like to be in another country, maybe in Canada I don`t know, living there with my boyfriend in a beautiful flat with a very nice view. I really would like to live in a quiet place where I can ride a bike at any hour. I would like to have good friends there and go out with them to the movies, to the theather, to cultural events. But the most importants things that I would like to have in my future are love and happiness for me, and for the people that I love of course.

The Best in Psychology: Fritz Perls

From children, we have admired certain persons for very diverse reasons. And when we grow, the admiration is related with a more wide spectrum of things, like the politic, ideology, contributions to the society, etc.

I think, that the best in the field of the Psyhology is Fritz Perls. Perls, is a very known person because he is de founder (or co-founder, because his wife Laura Perls and other colleagues were founders too) of Gestalt Therapy. It`s important to say that Perls wasn`t a psychologist, at the begining of his profesional life, he studies Medicine and works as a neuropsychiatrist, then he was interested for the psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology, holism. This is one of the reasons that do that I like him, because in the Gestalt Therapy he incoporated so many sources of knowledge. Another reason, is the fact that by himself made films at work, with the aim of show the work of the psychotherapists for public scrutiny (on the contrary of what psychoanalysis has done, always between four walls). He is the best because based in him, in his aproaches it`s possible help to the human being to “seeks the unique creative resolution, of this unique situation, for this unique person, in this relation-ship, in this field, at this moment in time”.

Some of his books are:

“Ego, Hunger and Agression”,
"Gestalt Therapy",
“Gestalt Therapy Verbatim” and,
“In and Out of the Garbage Pail”.

My career: Psychology

When you are in your last year at school, the whole world asks you what are you going to do when finally you graduate. But, to decide what are you going to do the rest of your life is not an easy decision, on the contrary is a very hard decision, or at least it was for me.

When I decided to study Psychology, I considered principally that I will be always in contact to people, studying the human behavior, understanding why people think in certain way, or why does (or doesn`t) do certain things, and be able to help to solve their problems, always thinking that the psychologist it`s somebody who can listen, somebody to trust your intimate feelings and thoughts, or anything that is causing pain or suffering. This implies to consider the human being as a totality. But, the psychologist don`t solve the problems of his patients, he is more like a companion in this difficult and long way of being known and to be accepted. This way of help to the human being, helping to develop his autonomy, it made me be interested and be motivated to study this career instead of any other one. These are in short, my reasons to study psychology.

It`s important to say that the Psychology offers a very wide field of work, this is related with the several fields of study that deals with. Psychologists doesn`t do an individual work only, I mean work with one person, this is the most popular vision, but they also work with groups, do studies or investigations. Improving the knowledge of the human being with him self, and with his enviroment, i`ts possible to improve the relations that he has whit this one. In this respect, the Psychology can be a very usefull discipline and contribute to the entire society. To do this serious job, you must have certain habilities to deel with very diverse persons, basically I can mention some tools like empathy, patience, be known deeply to be able to differentiate these own aspects from those of the patient with the objective of not to disturb the therapy, that you really like to work with people, to know different types of psychotherapies, just for name some.

Until now, I don`t reeeeeeeeeeally have a favourite subject, still I`m looking for "my thing", if I can say that. But, I`m really interested in the Gestalt, the way that this psychotheraphy understands and treats the human being as a totality, it made me so much sense that I felt deeply attracted to it at once.

My favourite picture

This time i`m going to show you and talk about one of my favourites pictures and explain why I choose it.

Originally, this picture was a normal picture, with normal colors and with a normal background just like any phothograph that you can take for fun, or to keep a special moment to eternity. But this picture has more history than that.

Maybe you are thinking that this picture is very egocentric, even senseless, because after all i`ts only me. So what, it`s my blog! I can put in it what I want! No, I`m just joking and I`m going to explain what make so special this picture.

The main reason to choose this picture, is because it was a present from my boyfriend on my 21th birthday. He made this stencil specially from me, and it was a really hard work, it required a lot of time, talent, patience, and love. To create a stencil you have to made several insoles, one for each color, also you must be very careful when you cut the design, and to paint without to spill all the paint and to mix the colors.

Summarizing, I like this picture because I love my boyfriend and he did it with love for me.

Love for everyone!!!!!

My favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technology is my mp3. I have this mp3 5 years ago, it was a gift from my uncle, he sent it to me from another country. Before this mp3, I had another one, but it descompused because the battery burst inside.

I use my mp3 principally for listen my favourite music and to keep very important files.

I used my mp3 every day, specially when I`m traveling in the bus.

I like this piece of technology very much because is very usefull, you can keep very important things (like music, pictures, works) from your computer and then open the files in another computer to share. Also is very usefull when the connection to Internet is not sure.

My life with out it would very boring, specially my travel to the University, because I`m on the bus an hour and a half, and if I`m not listen to music I can`t relax to begin a good day.

Introduction

Hello everyone!

My name is Daniela, i`m twenty-one years old and i´m in 3th grade of psychology in University of Chile.

I had to create this blog for my English class, and also have to write an introduction with objectives of the course and what i expect to do in this blog.

Well, first I hope to improve my grammar, because i don`t really have reading problems, the problems come when I have to write. Another objective is improve my pronunciation, the class is a very good opportunity to do that.

I expect use this blog to practice my grammar, and also to be communicated with my classmates.

Ok, that`s all I want to tell you at the moment.

Bye!!!