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OVIE IND Directing the Theater of Your Mind L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. ©2002 L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. MovieMind: Directing the Theater of Your Mind Second printing: 2006 Copyright Pending, Wash. DC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of the publishers. ISBN Number: 1-890001-23-6 All Rights Reserved Published by: NSP - Neuro-Semantics® Publications P.O. Box 8 Clifton, CO. 81520 USA (970) 523-7877 Printed By: Action Printing Jerry Kucera, Owner 516 Fruitvale Court, Unit C Grand Jet. CO. 81504 (970) 434-7701 [email protected] ISNS: The International Society of Neuro-Semantics Institutes of Neuro-Semantics Web Sites: www.neurosemaIltics.com www.neurosemantics.org www.runyourownbrain.com -2- MovieMind Preface 5 MovieMind 8 Ch. 1: Orientation to Your Mind as a Movie 11 Ch.2: Welcome to the Cinema of the Mind 19 New Movies / New Minds Ch.3: The Neuro-Psycho-Logical Theater 35 Ch.4: Cinema Mind At Work 51 How we actually produce our Movies Ch.5: Cinema Perspectives 72 Points of View as Cinematic Positions Ch.6: Movie States 89 The Cinemas of the Mind and Our Emotions Ch. 7: The Levels of Cinematic Production 101 It Takes a Hierarchy to Create a Movie Ch. 8: Performing Movie Magic ll7 Transforming the Movies of our Mind Ch.9: Editorial Prerogatives - Cinematography #101 135 Being the Editor-in-Chief of Your Movies Ch. 10: A Director's Frame of Mind 146 Ch. 11: Communicating Cinema to Cinema 162 Ch. 12: Filming New Skills for New Resourceful Movies 171 Educational Films for Success Ch. 13: The Neuro-Semantics of your Cinema Mind 168 Principles of Mental Cinematography 177 Specialized Vocabulary 179 Bibliography 180 Author 183 Trainings 185 -3- PREFACE Hello David, what can I do for you? What's on your mind today? I need more motivation. Sometimes I just don't seem to be able to get myself going. Are we talking about work, fitness, relationships or what? Qh, work. Business. I'm sick and tired ofliving paycheck to paycheck and I have plenty of opportunities to increase m:y i.tl.com~, but wh~tl.l ~it dowtl. to actllall~ dQ sQmething about it, I just don't feel motivated. If I were to peek into the theater of your mind and see what you are seeing, what would I see? How do you represent increasing your income? Hmmmm... I really don't think I have a Movie ... I just talk to myself. I just say, "I need to get with it." Sounds like a really boring Movie. If that's all I had going on in my mind about becoming more successful in business, I'd be yawning too and wanting to change channels. I'd have no motivation either. So what am I to do? Well, first how about create a much more exciting and dramatic mental Movie that you'd find compelling, "How to Become a Success at Work." That's just it. When you say that, I don't find that interesting. -5- Hmmmm. So, why do you say you "need to get with it?" When you "get with it" and do what you do, what do you get from that? How is that important for you? Well, I would have more money, enough money to pay my bills then. Okay, and when you have enough money for your bills, what do you get from that? Well, I don't have to worry about my bills. That sounds important. [Yes.] So, how is that important? When you move beyond worrying about bills, what do you then think about? What do you get from that which is even more important? I don't know. '" I guess a sense of freedom to do what I want to do. And what's that? What do you want to do? Hmmmm. I suppose I'd like to work with kids in teaching team building skills. That's what I'd like to do, but I know I can't make a living doing that. As you describe that, it sounds like that would be valuable to you. [Yeah, it would!] So, why is that important? What do you get out of that which is even more important to you? If I could do that I'd feel like I was doing something significant, doing something that really counts, making a difference. So you'd like to do that? Yes I would! Let's say you did. Let's say that somehow you got to do that for a living '" how would that delight and please you, above and beyond contributing and doing something significant? What would you be getting that's even more important than that? -6- 1'd get a sense of fulfillment, like my life is fitting into a larger purpose and that would bring a higher sense of joy or happiness. Good. That's sounds important... so just be with those thoughts and those feelings and whatever images and sights and sounds and experiences come to mind when you think about working with kids ... just let all of that turn into a Movie in your mind ... that's right ... and as you do, step into that Movie for just a moment ... so that you can begin to imagine what it would really be like to be inside that Movie and seeing it from the inside and as you do ... mmmmmm ... just enjoy it and let the Movie become even richer, brighter, fuller ... and do you like that? [Shaking his head yes.] And what if ... I know this is hard to believe, but what if ... this could become a future reality in a few years ... just imagine being a little older, wiser, more skilled ... imagine becoming the You inside this Movie who can do this with skill and confidence ... And you can say "Ahhhhh!" or "Mmmmmmmmm" to feel the pleasure ... and suppose you woke up tomorrow and all of the tomorrows thereafter with this Movie in mind ... and began to take the necessary steps to make it real, would you like that? [Yes I would!] And would you have any problem with motivation then? [No, none.] Well, you can't have this dream. You can't have this Movie as a vision of your future ... it's mine! No, it is not! It's mine. But it doesn't fit with what you really want! Yes it does. It really does fit. I like it. No, you're just saying that. You won't remember this? You won't keep these feelings in your mind or in your body. Ha. That's what you think. Thanks. And so it came to pass. -7- M OVIE IND Your mind is like a Movie ... on your internal Big Screen you flash snapshots of sights, images, and scenarios and you also play snippets of Movie sequences and even full-length epic features. You do it all in that private entertainment center we call "Mind." This is how we think and learn and even reason. Some people are more visual learners, others learn best by hearing, others learn best by doing to get a feel of things, and yet others are primarily linguistic learners. What happens though when we close our eyes or just de-focus them and "think" about things? What Movies play out on the theater of our mind? Horror Movies that would make Stephen King shake with fright? Sex Movies to rival porn? . Adventure Movies! Sci-Pi flicks that would make Stephen Spielburg jealous? Love and Romance Movies? Documentaries? News reels? Drama? Soap Operas? Commercials? Police and Detective Cinemas? Cowboy? The range of Movies we can play on the screen of our minds goes on and on. Yet whatever plays governs our states, emotions, feelings, behaviors, skills, world-views, perceptions, health, and life. It determines what's on our mind. Yet the higher levels determine more important things-like why we watch what we do. We can even step back from the Movies that we play to take control ofthe productions, editing them, directing them, and even -8- producing them. After all, it's our brain. It's the theater of your mind. MovieMind is the newest work in the field of the cognitive sciences. It offers a user-friendly application of the models and patterns that allow you to run your own brain. And, of course, when you can do that, then you can manage your own 'states and take charge ofy our own life. Interested? How would you like to be able to- • Stop playing all B-rated Movies in your head? • Film, create, andJorproduce Grand Productions for your internal Theater? • Take control of your Movies as editor, director, and producer? • Run Quality Control checks on your Movies? • Learn to step in and out of the Movies to enhance your own resourcefulness? Everything in your life from your success, health, wealth, relationships, everything results from the Movies in your Mind. Even your experience of all of these things, you experience as a set of images that play out on the screen of your awareness - as a Movie that you can edit and re-edit, direct and re-direct -once you know how to explore your Movie Mind and take charge of it. Otherwise, it will run B-Rated Movies and torture you day and night with such features. When you wake up to your MovieMind and begin to take control of it-you have a set of tools for improving your thinking, reasoning, intelligence, communication skills, emotional intelligence, relationships, business success, health and fitness, and much more. It's not a panacea, it is rather the way your mind works and how you can work much more effectively with your mind. -9-