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Directing the Theater of Your Mind
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
©2002 L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
MovieMind: Directing the Theater of Your Mind
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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M OVIE
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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
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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.
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