Man has an invisible blanket8/30/2023 ![]() If the object of the drug itself and the object of the process of active using are removed – a toxic negative space might form. Do those family members experience the second problem of a toxic negative space within the home? Suppose someone experiencing active addiction illness has family members living with them. The negative space is the open atmosphere, in the background. Paradoxically, the content of the negative space in art – while represented concretely – is itself without an overt object.ĭoes the group room, meeting room, or counseling office have a negative space? Yes. In that essay I also highlighted both the concrete content and the aesthetic quality of the background – even of a seemingly plain background. These are examples of visually representing “negative space”. What is shown other than the main object represented in the art?Ī simple solid color, a blue sky, or a complex crosshatch weave of various colors might serve as a background that the object in the art sits on, or sits in front of. I described the importance of the background within a work of visual art in an essay titled Negative space. The physical objects around us, the content we consider in our minds (objects of thinking), and our deep assumptions about life that we do not consciously consider (buried mental objects) exude their influence.ĭo these objects and the processes related to them effect the atmosphere around us? (And therefor others around us as well?) I’ll go ever further and say that sometimes the basic content in the room (of recovery, or of relapse process) can be sensed – even when those in the room that are holding the agenda are seemingly unaware of their own content. That is latently present, yet unspoken, in the collective gathered for a meeting. presence and depths of the collective mental relapse process, presence and level of health/vitality of recovery, orĢ. Likewise, some with long-time recovery can sense the:ġ. ![]() With 32 years of service in residential addiction treatment programs now behind me, I think I can say that I have at times experienced the sensing of the dormant agenda in a group of people – when I come into the room. Our human heritage and social epigenetics have seemingly equipped us by developing within us such radar and radar capacity. Somehow, in the room we enter, we sometimes register the collective assumptions, world view, goals, or direction of those assembled in the room. In life it seems that sometimes, somehow, we can latch upon and perceive the unspoken content of others. What is felt? What is perceived? What is apprehended? When you walk into a room, do you ever pick up on any unspoken content, themes, trends, or the basic agenda of those in the room? ![]() Can the presence of recovery, or the level of recovery function, be somehow detectable when it is unspoken and not overtly displayed?Ĭan recovery be intuitively recognized or somehow felt in another person?Ĭan recovery be intuitively recognized within an interpersonal space?Ĭan recovery be present and sensed in the atmosphere? ![]()
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