If you were a scribe copying out some especially ponderous philosophical Greek, the margin in which you could reflect on your own world served as a source of "refreshment, light and peace," to quote the ancient Latin liturgy.
You can also create a mini-ritual in which you first reflect on what this fear or worry most needs from you, and what it is about at a deeper level.
His frequent returns, since 1967, to the medium of glass, in which you are reflected but which you also see through, are emblematic.
To help keep you engaged, each email prompt you receive will also include a random past entry, which can help you reflect on where your life was a few weeks or months or (eventually) years ago.
You do need downtime, you do need periods in which you can actually reflect on something without needing instantaneously to give a reaction," said Will Hutton, chair of the Big Innovation Centre at The Work Foundation.
Freed of stretchers or underlying panels in most cases, the paintings have undulating surfaces on which you find yourself reflected as in fun-house mirrors.
In one scene Melville points the camera at a storefront window in which you see the reflected image of German soldiers arresting passers-by.
Then, lead a sum-up discussion in which you ask students to reflect on how the comparative analysis influenced their opinion of NASA's proper role and potential.
Which sounds very impressive until you reflect that it applies to most of the adult male population.
