In order to design a healing dental environment, the first thing that should be known is the common causes of dental fear (Dental Fear Central 2004-2007).
- Bad experiences: studies suggest that about 80 -85% of dental fear is caused by bad or horrific dental experience.
- A history of abuse: a person who has a history of bullying or having physical or emotional abuse, especially in childhood, may contribute to developing dental fear, especially in combination with bad experiences with dentists.
- Uncaring dentist: a dentist who is perceived as cold and controlling. This has a huge psychological impact on patients.
- Humiliation: insensitive remarks and the intense feelings of humiliation they provoke are one of the main factors, which can cause or contribute to a dental fear.
- Vicarious learning: affects of other people’s experience. If a parent or other caregiver is scared of dentists, children may pick up on this and learn to be scared as well, even in the absence of bad experiences. Also, hearing other people's horror stories about visits to the dentist can have a similar effect.
- Preparedness: people who quickly learned to avoid the needle in order to escape hurt, but they still face the dental needle when treated.
- Post-traumatic stress: Research suggests that people who have had horrific dental experiences (unsurprisingly) suffer from symptoms typically reported by people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This is characterized by intrusive thoughts of the bad experience and nightmares about dentists or dental situations.
Many healthy professionals give a wide range of ways to solve dental phobia. Some ways are used in present treatment. The solutions mostly be used are hanging images on the walls and drawing murals on ceiling and walls. In many surgeries, dentists like using scenic photographs or pictures, especially, a beach, a sea, a lake or a forest. These images do their work to some extent. From first hand experience in dental practices, when people lie on dental chairs, sometimes they can not see the images because their views are always filled with dentists’ hands or dental equipments. Hanging mobiles like birds or fish is another common practice. But it also does not work for the same reason as the images mentioned above. If the images or decorations are too small to absorb patients’ attention, they will not work. As a result these kinds of images are suitable in the waiting room or corridor.
Watching video eyeglasses and installing DVD players are the other two modern techniques, patients often find video glasses novel, but many feel claustrophobic or cut off from their surroundings and to patients with serious dental fear or those suffering from pain finds it difficult to concentrate on the video. Doctors also sometimes feel cut off from the patient since they cannot see the patient’s eyes or expressions (Maklin 2002, p.448).
After interviewing and observing dental practices, hospitals and some similar institutions, it obviously shows that “bright”, “strong”, “vivid”, ”warm”, are words that people might use to describe their impression of the visual arts and designs they like. Some of the words may be chosen with the intention of conveying the visual attributes of the appearance, the hue, the lightness and the intensity of the color, and the other words chosen are an attempt to convey an emotional response that the observer associates with the visual arts’ appearance. In other words, people pay more attention to active, welcoming and stimulating things.
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2008年2月19日星期二
A critical review: the complete illustrated guide to Feng Shui
The complete illustrated guide to Feng Shui – how to apply the secrets of Chines Wisdom for health, wealth and happiness is a comprehensive and practical guide to display the principles of Feng Shui. The author is Lillian Too, who is a best-selling author, television personality and Feng Shui practitioner from Malaysia. She graduated as an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1976. In the early 1970s Lillian Too became her preoccupation with Feng Shui when she began to learn kung fu with Master Yap Cheng Hai who told her many stories about Feng Shui and its potent effect on families and households. She began to research into this subject through studying of the whole spectrum of Chinese cultural practice. In order to improve and enhance her career and family life, she has actively utilized Feng Shui, and she has always been her practice based on the real world.
Obviously, this book is in the field of Feng Shui, which is an ancient Chinese practice believed to utilize the Laws of both Heaven (astronomy)and Earth(geography), and to help one improve life by receiving positive Qi. The words 'Feng Shui' literally translates as "wind and water" in English, and in literal sense, "wind and water" refer to the topography of the earth, including its mountains, valleys, and waterways. And it is cultural shorthand taken from the following passage of the Zhangshu (Book of Burial) by Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty: Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when encountering water [1]. To be frank, Qi is a difficult word to translate and is usually left untranslated. Literally the word means "air". And in Feng Shui, "Qi" means "flow of energy". Feng Shui adopts a sensible approach toward human’s relationship with the environment and personal living space. The most important spirit of Feng Shui’s core philosophy is that humankind must live in harmony with the environment. This idea conforms to our promotion about protecting the natural environment.
This book aims to provide the secret elements of Chinese wisdom into technological and scientific advance applicable to interior and environment design. It reveals that the philosophy of Feng Shui is not just focuses on the contours of physical landscapes – mountains and rivers, and their shapes, sizes, and courses but can be applied to modern interior and environment design as a part of fusion of different cultures.
The author chooses this topic as she wants to introduce Feng Shui to be a world-wide knowledge and method of living in a harmonious relationship with the earth’s environment. Moreover, she uses Feng Shui as a bridge to situate the human builting’s environment on good and right spots. As a traditional and mysterious culture, Feng Shui is not as familiar as other Chinese conventional ones; actually, it is an unfamiliar thing even to Chinese. But this book gives audiences a distinct and clear layout of Feng Shui’s principles, and it also introduce some practices how to use these principles in landscape, homes, decorations business places and so on. This text addresses the principles of Feng Shui which can be used in a wide variety of scope. For example, how to find or advance a harmonious landscape, and planning to maximize Feng Shui for interior design and decorating in the physics space, furthermore, it can be used as a tool to enhance business and career success, even for health, romance, and marriage. As a good result, people read this book and then will find that they could use the practical application of Feng Shui to regulate the location of their home and its interior and decoration, moreover, to enhance their personal relationships.
The book is narrative and well structured. Each chapter begins with an introduction to summaries the main idea or a significant question. And then it is followed with an explanation that can be divided into several parts about analysis different elements of Feng Shui with their uses and functions. It try to clearly explaining many Chinese traditional, past comprehension, professional names of Feng Shui and its principles in a simple and easy way to read and understand to audience who may not be familiar with Feng Shui or even has touched with this aspect in the first time. Furthermore, it describes the practical applications and advice about how to apply them in a clear, straightforward text with examples which all based on experience. It is illustrated and explained with many unique images which could give an exactly right guide to beginner. From this book, it can be found that the author uses a large number of helpful features to audience to understand. For example, a clear index as a guide, novel self-made models illustrate the practice of Feng Shui, representative and beautiful illustrations in nearly every page in order to show different styles of objects can be auspicious or inauspicious, several interesting personal cases, boxed features introduce detailed advice, further reading and useful addresses of Feng Shui Institutes at end word. Moreover, this guide book is not only give good advice to enhance benefits in human’s life but also list bad advice and locations in order to guide the audience to avoid or resolve them.
In my point of view, this is a good book as a spreader of Feng Shui. The author makes a central thesis to arrange each subject rigorously. The author’s thesis and purpose of this work is to excite audience’s thought and mobilize them to live in harmony with the natural. It gives a clear definition and practices a distinct practice of Feng Shui and also has lucidity of thought. If it is a Chinese book, I should say it does very well. However, as an English publication, facing with people who speak and think in English, it does not achieve the author’s aim.
Firstly, Feng Shui as a subject, it is considerably in dispute. Some people argue that Feng Shui is not a science; it is an integrated science with a holistic observation of the environment, geography, health and so on. Some people suggest that Feng Shui is the old world of superstition, and obstructs the Chinese people’s creativity in the architectural design, interior design and other forms. And others claim that feng shui is just a belief about environmental will influence the fate; this is a superstition, and the justifications is incompatible with modern science. In my opinion, Feng Shui is a part of Chinese culture, a reflection and the embodiment of Chinese philosophy in the environment; it is also the environment concept of Chinese people. But it still exits feudalistic and superstitious ideas, as well as many rules which are unable to explain by science. So I do not agree with the author argues that Feng Shui is neither difficult to understand nor hard to practice.
Secondly, this book is written in English, but it still could be discovered that it is written in Chin-glish, not pure English obviously. As a result, it is easy for me to understand the author’s meanings and even implications because we both have Chinese background. But it is very difficult for a people know English but do not understand Chinese culture to find out what is the implied meanings of this book. It can be proved by a British teacher who give me the advice of writing, he said he understand the words but do not understand what the meaning of these words.
Finally, it has too many information about Chinese traditional culture for a general reader in Britan and it can be proved in the lending number of this book, only 9 times from August 1999 to February 2008 including my time. Compared with another Feng Shui book – The Feng Shui handbook, how to creat a healthier living and working environment, which is much more popular because the latter one shows much more general language to explain. And this book is too complex to comprehend. For example, about using compass and the Pa Kua to activate good luck. In my mind, compass and the Pa Kua are filled with Chinese characteristics obviously, and the principles of using are too specialization to beginner. They are very difficult to be controlled by a layman and they will become not measurement tools but special furnishings.
In summary, as a complete illustrated guide book to Feng Shui, it makes a significant contribution within its field and is appreciated as a Feng Shui classic in Feng Shui for Modern Living. But in my point of view, it is neither fish nor fowl. It involves most principles, but it does not show the origin of Feng Shui, the process of historical evolution and even some recommendations could be said to be no scientific basis. So, some parts of this book are recommended to read, such as how to allocate rooms, corridors, furniture. But some parts is rubbish, such as positioning a mirror to reflect the cash register will increase business turnover.
Obviously, this book is in the field of Feng Shui, which is an ancient Chinese practice believed to utilize the Laws of both Heaven (astronomy)and Earth(geography), and to help one improve life by receiving positive Qi. The words 'Feng Shui' literally translates as "wind and water" in English, and in literal sense, "wind and water" refer to the topography of the earth, including its mountains, valleys, and waterways. And it is cultural shorthand taken from the following passage of the Zhangshu (Book of Burial) by Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty: Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when encountering water [1]. To be frank, Qi is a difficult word to translate and is usually left untranslated. Literally the word means "air". And in Feng Shui, "Qi" means "flow of energy". Feng Shui adopts a sensible approach toward human’s relationship with the environment and personal living space. The most important spirit of Feng Shui’s core philosophy is that humankind must live in harmony with the environment. This idea conforms to our promotion about protecting the natural environment.
This book aims to provide the secret elements of Chinese wisdom into technological and scientific advance applicable to interior and environment design. It reveals that the philosophy of Feng Shui is not just focuses on the contours of physical landscapes – mountains and rivers, and their shapes, sizes, and courses but can be applied to modern interior and environment design as a part of fusion of different cultures.
The author chooses this topic as she wants to introduce Feng Shui to be a world-wide knowledge and method of living in a harmonious relationship with the earth’s environment. Moreover, she uses Feng Shui as a bridge to situate the human builting’s environment on good and right spots. As a traditional and mysterious culture, Feng Shui is not as familiar as other Chinese conventional ones; actually, it is an unfamiliar thing even to Chinese. But this book gives audiences a distinct and clear layout of Feng Shui’s principles, and it also introduce some practices how to use these principles in landscape, homes, decorations business places and so on. This text addresses the principles of Feng Shui which can be used in a wide variety of scope. For example, how to find or advance a harmonious landscape, and planning to maximize Feng Shui for interior design and decorating in the physics space, furthermore, it can be used as a tool to enhance business and career success, even for health, romance, and marriage. As a good result, people read this book and then will find that they could use the practical application of Feng Shui to regulate the location of their home and its interior and decoration, moreover, to enhance their personal relationships.
The book is narrative and well structured. Each chapter begins with an introduction to summaries the main idea or a significant question. And then it is followed with an explanation that can be divided into several parts about analysis different elements of Feng Shui with their uses and functions. It try to clearly explaining many Chinese traditional, past comprehension, professional names of Feng Shui and its principles in a simple and easy way to read and understand to audience who may not be familiar with Feng Shui or even has touched with this aspect in the first time. Furthermore, it describes the practical applications and advice about how to apply them in a clear, straightforward text with examples which all based on experience. It is illustrated and explained with many unique images which could give an exactly right guide to beginner. From this book, it can be found that the author uses a large number of helpful features to audience to understand. For example, a clear index as a guide, novel self-made models illustrate the practice of Feng Shui, representative and beautiful illustrations in nearly every page in order to show different styles of objects can be auspicious or inauspicious, several interesting personal cases, boxed features introduce detailed advice, further reading and useful addresses of Feng Shui Institutes at end word. Moreover, this guide book is not only give good advice to enhance benefits in human’s life but also list bad advice and locations in order to guide the audience to avoid or resolve them.
In my point of view, this is a good book as a spreader of Feng Shui. The author makes a central thesis to arrange each subject rigorously. The author’s thesis and purpose of this work is to excite audience’s thought and mobilize them to live in harmony with the natural. It gives a clear definition and practices a distinct practice of Feng Shui and also has lucidity of thought. If it is a Chinese book, I should say it does very well. However, as an English publication, facing with people who speak and think in English, it does not achieve the author’s aim.
Firstly, Feng Shui as a subject, it is considerably in dispute. Some people argue that Feng Shui is not a science; it is an integrated science with a holistic observation of the environment, geography, health and so on. Some people suggest that Feng Shui is the old world of superstition, and obstructs the Chinese people’s creativity in the architectural design, interior design and other forms. And others claim that feng shui is just a belief about environmental will influence the fate; this is a superstition, and the justifications is incompatible with modern science. In my opinion, Feng Shui is a part of Chinese culture, a reflection and the embodiment of Chinese philosophy in the environment; it is also the environment concept of Chinese people. But it still exits feudalistic and superstitious ideas, as well as many rules which are unable to explain by science. So I do not agree with the author argues that Feng Shui is neither difficult to understand nor hard to practice.
Secondly, this book is written in English, but it still could be discovered that it is written in Chin-glish, not pure English obviously. As a result, it is easy for me to understand the author’s meanings and even implications because we both have Chinese background. But it is very difficult for a people know English but do not understand Chinese culture to find out what is the implied meanings of this book. It can be proved by a British teacher who give me the advice of writing, he said he understand the words but do not understand what the meaning of these words.
Finally, it has too many information about Chinese traditional culture for a general reader in Britan and it can be proved in the lending number of this book, only 9 times from August 1999 to February 2008 including my time. Compared with another Feng Shui book – The Feng Shui handbook, how to creat a healthier living and working environment, which is much more popular because the latter one shows much more general language to explain. And this book is too complex to comprehend. For example, about using compass and the Pa Kua to activate good luck. In my mind, compass and the Pa Kua are filled with Chinese characteristics obviously, and the principles of using are too specialization to beginner. They are very difficult to be controlled by a layman and they will become not measurement tools but special furnishings.
In summary, as a complete illustrated guide book to Feng Shui, it makes a significant contribution within its field and is appreciated as a Feng Shui classic in Feng Shui for Modern Living. But in my point of view, it is neither fish nor fowl. It involves most principles, but it does not show the origin of Feng Shui, the process of historical evolution and even some recommendations could be said to be no scientific basis. So, some parts of this book are recommended to read, such as how to allocate rooms, corridors, furniture. But some parts is rubbish, such as positioning a mirror to reflect the cash register will increase business turnover.
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