TAT

A new psychological test I learnt in class today - TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)...

The TAT is popularly known as the picture interpretation technique because it uses a standard series of 30 provocative yet ambiguous pictures about which the subject must tell a story. In the case of adults and adolescents of average intelligence, a subject is asked to tell as dramatic a story as they can for each picture, including:

- what has led up to the event shown
- what is happening at the moment
- what the characters are feeling and thinking, and
- what the outcome of the story was.

Here are some examples of the pictures used for the test:

Mirror mirror on the wall

"You cannot love another person from a false self. You cannot love another while you are still hiding. How can you help them to freedom while you remain captive? You cannot love another unless you offer her your heart. It takes courage to live from your heart. My friend Jenny said just the other day, “I desperately want to be who I am. I don’t want the glory that I marvel at in others anymore. I want to be that glory which God set in me.”

Finally, our deepest fear of all . . . we will need to live from it. To admit we do have a new heart and a glory from God, to begin to let it be unveiled and embrace it as true—that means the next thing God will do is ask us to live from it. Come out of the boat. Take the throne. Be what he meant us to be. And that feels risky . . . really risky. But it is also exciting. It is coming fully alive. My friend Morgan declared, “It’s a risk worth taking.” (Waking the Dead - The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive, John)

In order to truly be able to love others, we have to first be truly able to love ourselves which means embracing ourselves for who we are. To meet with our greatest fears, our weaknesses, our ugliness and baring before God, asking Him to purify us. How comfortable are we with the person we face in the mirror daily?

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." - Psalm 51:17

Spring of Life

The song that see me through my down moments in uni days...

Spring Of Life - Hillsong Australia

Quotes on Gratefulness

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."
-Albert Schweitzer

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
-William A. Ward

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
-William Arthur Ward

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;-The Bible Phil 4:6 NKJV

Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more. But if you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive the week.If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the world.If you have money in the bank or in your wallet, you are among the top 80 percent of the worlds wealthy.If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
- Author Unknown

I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like my shoes.I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for me when I get up in the morning... Saying, 'Good morning, John. You made it, John.'I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.I'm thankful...
- Johnny Cash
American Country Western Singer

Weiwei on magazine cover

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