Not only labor made a man out of a monkey, but also the beauty of the world around him. Although the ability to see beauty was inherent not only to Homo Sapiens, but also to the most ancient people. But truly aesthetic feelings can only be experienced by a highly developed person.
When you can see beauty in life's phenomena and try to match your idea of beauty, you become better and develop as a person.
Aesthetic feelings and appearance
People (especially women) are growing hair, taking care of the skin, dyeing. Why? Not only in order to attract a representative of the opposite sex, as it was before. And in order to feel comfortable in your body.
Hierarchy of human needs
The psychologist’s pyramid Maslow shows that the physiological needs of the person in the first place, and spiritual - in the last. But one who cannot be realized in the spiritual realm turns into a monkey.
This is the main problem of mankind. After all, people are forced to survive, not read books. Hence the widespread, one might say, animal attitude to each other, deceit, fraud, desire to cash in. Aesthetic feelings of a person on such a basis can not be formed. Some “chosen ones” still manage to develop, earning bread every day. They are able to experience real aesthetic feelings, to develop in a creative or intellectual direction.
Aesthetic feelings (or aesthetic consciousness) are a complex of structures. Consciousness of an esthete includes attitude to religion, to work, taste, judgment, contemplation, perception, appreciation, ideal, values.
A person’s taste is his direct opinion on an object or phenomenon. If, for example, your boyfriend wears jeans with slits, which are now in trend, but you don’t like them, you like trousers without slits more, then this is a subjective aesthetic feeling.
What is aesthetic judgment
The concepts of "aesthetic taste" and "judgment" can be confused. But actually they are different. Judgment is, rather, an assessment of the morality of a given phenomenon. That is, what you think about the work of a person, how beautiful or ugly it is.
Aesthetic contemplation is the ability to evaluate reality from the point of view of aesthetics, and not just logic. The ability to give a positive or negative assessment, based not only on the details, but also on the picture as a whole. For example, when you see a picture of an artist depicting the life of cats (a humorous genre), you evaluate it in terms of contribution to art, and not only criticize the color of the cat’s boots in the picture.
Aesthetic perception - what is it?
- Perception is an opinion about a work of art and its contribution to world beauty. When you look at a beautiful thing and experience positive emotions. For example, buying a set of cups and saucers due to the fact that this set is 100 years old.
- An aesthetic assessment is what a certain person thinks about the beauty of nature, of any phenomenon or thing. Or maybe about the beauty of another person.
- An aesthetic ideal is a generalized concept that characterizes what a person understands by the word “ideal”.
- Aesthetic values characterize a person very much, as they express their attitude to all life spectra. The attitude of the individual to different spheres of life as a whole is his personality.
Without aesthetic needs, a normal person cannot work if he is not a moral freak. He needs labor not only to buy food, but also to realize life values, to buy resources that will bring joy to other people (for example, to buy a child’s toys) or to invest in self-development (watching movies, buying books).
But the ability to feel beauty also does not say that a person is perfect. For example, Hitler was an artist and also saw beauty. At the same time he became famous as a tyrant.
What is responsible for the development of our aesthetic feelings?
The development of aesthetic feelings of human beauty and its intellectual development are directly related. Without sufficient intelligence (or education), the individual will not be able to fully appreciate the beauty. To, for example, evaluate a work of art, you need to know its value in the context of the era, to study art history.
How to develop a sense of beauty in yourself?
Information sources will help: books, good films, as well as communication with other people. Conduct developmental trainings, value in people not only material well-being, but also spiritual values. Develop in yourself the ability to see the beautiful in the details.
Aesthetic feelings are the need to develop
Let's look at what is an investment in yourself. These are actions that allow the formation of moral and aesthetic feelings. This is care for health and appearance, new knowledge. Without these three components, success cannot be achieved. All three qualities must be developed in oneself. While you are young, you don’t especially think about morality and aesthetics. That is why psychologists advise to develop aesthetic feelings of preschoolers.
But it is worth considering that if you do not take care of them properly, then in a more mature age there will be many problems. Human life will become very limited.
For example, body health begins with psychological, mental health. All mental sores or clamps, one way or another, are reflected on the body, make themselves felt by ailments of various degrees of severity. Fear, constant depression, depression, hopelessness are “transformed” into cervical osteochondrosis, lack of emotions, love, colors of life, spoil a person’s vision. The inferiority complex, one way or another, is reflected in the posture and spine.
The first thing you should start to take care of your health with is to find peace of mind, to develop a factor such as aesthetic feelings (this is reading all kinds of literature, contemplating beautiful things).
Then you need to pay attention to body care and appearance. If a person does not like himself externally, then his self-esteem suffers, and life success cannot be achieved. In a woman’s life, her appearance and psychological comfort are directly related. Therefore, you need to take care of creating your own style, skin care.
Walking in the fresh air does not cost money and at the same time reflects well on a person, indirectly responsible for the education of aesthetic feelings in children. Masks made from henna, basma and sour-milk products will help maintain the beauty of hair.
To fully care for the skin (cleanse, moisturize, tone), you need to stock up with peeling for the face, moisturizing cream and tonic. Quite affordable firms have quality products.
Aesthetic feelings are knowledge
One sage said that knowledge is a valuable burden that does not interfere. You never know which information you need today or tomorrow. Therefore, extra knowledge does not happen.
How to invest in knowledge?
- Read every day. Giving preference not to the tabloid press, but to psychological books or educational literature, a person invests in himself.
- Chat with new people. Do not hang around in cafes for days to make acquaintances. Even in social networks there are people who can give advice on a particular occasion, advise good literature.
- To take risks. From time to time it is worth leaving the “comfort zone” and trying yourself in some new business. In this way, a person develops.
Love and aesthetic feelings
The human psyche is multifaceted. But only a person who is capable of experiencing aesthetic feelings can love. One and the same quality - the ability to love - in different people can manifest itself in different ways. How strongly this feeling is developed in a person depends on his internal development, as well as on how vivid emotions you feel for the person.
The first step in love is a habit
Emotions, one way or another, require a way out, but how a lover will realize himself depends on its development. Traits such as hysteria, narcissism, selfishness, indicate that a person has a strong instinct of fear and a little expressed sense of beauty. Or his basic needs are simply not satisfied. The inability to realize oneself pushes a person to hysteria, selfishness, self-defense.
An individual who is in the first stage of falling in love loves for the status that this or that person gives him. He loves for comfort, for the opportunity to defend himself. Or just for a beautiful thing. He is able to enjoy beautiful clothes, cars. But falling in love with a certain person is difficult for him. Surrounding people are evaluated solely by appearance or by material status. The moral qualities and personality of the interlocutor are of little interest to him.
The second stage of love - sympathy
This is love, also based on basic needs. The feeling of love for one's neighbor is still poorly developed and cannot be fully realized. The manifestation of sympathy is limited to coquetry, flirting. If the object of love did not reciprocate, it quickly passes, as attachment to it has not yet formed. It is like aesthetic feelings of children.
The second stage of love has no creative basis. If a man in love failed on the personal front, did not get what he wanted, then he can get angry at the opposite sex, become a woman hater or a woman hater and devote his entire life to a cat or dog. This individual can easily pass by human grief, use someone, he also has a desire to take revenge.
The third stage in the development of love - physiology
A person in the third stage of falling in love is also attracted by physical characteristics (pleasant voice, appearance), but he already experiences a feeling for a person more deeply and fully than in the second stage. The formation of aesthetic feelings is based on an understanding of the object of passion. He not only wants reciprocity with a partner, but also respects his environment, tries to decorate his life as much as possible. At this stage, a person is already learning to understand psychology, reading thematic literature, trying to delve into the situation. The individual wants not only to take, but also to give.
An attachment to the object of love is formed, which is difficult to get rid of.
The fourth step in the development of love is true love
A person who is at such a stage of development can not only understand the mood of another, have compassion, but almost physically experience the pain of his neighbor. Formed attachment and disinterested love for a person, the adoption of all his characteristics, including shortcomings. But do not confuse this feeling with a painful addiction, which many lovers confuse with love.