The Movies in Our Mind
We always have a choice on what we think about. When we think about something, those thoughts are going to have a cause, and an effect.
An Empowering Movie in The Mind:
I am not happy in this job. I am overqualified. I’m only here because it feels safe. I think I deserve better. How can I move on safely? Where do I begin? How do I begin?
A Dis-empowering Movie in The Mind:
Another day in the rat race. I hate this job. I hate these people. I can’t wait until the day is over. I hate my coworkers. I hate my boss. The pay is terrible, the benefits are poor. What a life. I can’t wait to get home and have a drink.
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The Movie in Your Mind
Your life is a stage, you play your part. You create the scenes you write the script. When the curtain goes up, you recite your lines, you play the part. You are the director, the producer, you are the star in, The Movie in Your Mind.
Production
You write the script. You create the character. You design the plot. You are the star. You are glued to the screen. The Movie in Your Mind can make you powerful or make you weak. You own it and no one can take that power from you.
Examples:
Movie in her mind 1: He is cheating on me. I know it.
Movie in her mind 2: I will get a better job and move to a better neighborhood.
Movie in her mind 3: I am calm, focused, I am powerful. I am in control.
Movie in her mind 4: I can’t take it anymore. This is too much. They don’t like me. I’m not good enough. What am I doing here. Why do I feel so weak and insecure?
Movie in her mind 5: I am not happy about this marriage. I don’t have to be a slave. I need a plan so I can move on. How can I do this safely and intelligently?
Concept
“The Movie in Your Mind” is the analogy I use to describe the images in our mind which occur when we think or engage, with vivid thoughts.
I refer to this phenomenon where we mentally visualize the events, characters, settings, and actions involved in the narrative or, our perception, of people, places, things, events, or situation, in our life.
When you and I do this, we are creating a rich and immersive experience, like watching a movie. And we are often glued to the screen, subconsciously. Often, we are in a hypnotic, trance-like state.
These mental movies tell our brain how to make us feel by creating and releasing chemical messengers called neurotransmitters.
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The Movies in Our Minds
The movies in our mind hold great power—and we are their directors. They guide us to people, places, events, and experiences, shaping our perception of the world. These mental movies influence how we learn, what we remember, and how we live. They can either limit us or empower us.
If we’re not careful, we risk living with an ancient mentality in a modern world. Old memories and outdated perceptions can blind us to the possibilities around us. Where we are today is the result of the movies we’ve been playing in our minds.
But what if we could rewrite the script? What if we could consciously use …The Movie in Our Mind …to shape our future and create the life we truly want? We can, and we do it everyday.
This concept of The Movie in Your Mind goes beyond visualization, do not confuse it for visualization. This analogy puts you in control of how your brain makes your body feel and how you learn and how you sleep, perceive events, learn, remember and behave. This analogy is more descriptive than the term visualization. I ask you not to confuse it with visualization.
The BRAIN, CONSCIOUS MIND, SUBCONSCIOUS MIND: Each have unique language, unique currency. Their rules and laws will be OBEYED. If we do not know their rules and laws, we use their power randomly. Without direction. This UNDIRECTED power can EMPOWER us or DIS-EMPOWER us.
Childhood Impressions
In the 2nd grade a teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I cheerfully replied, “a child psychiatrist” she laughed at me and told me “You can’t” I asked her “why? She replied “because you have to read a lot”.
(as an adult, I did more than “read a lot). That memory was buried deep within me.
I never thought about it after that day but one 57 years later, it was clear as a sunny day.
Like a hypnotized person or a programed robot, this is what I did:
I woke up, I walked over to my library of books, I looked at them, and I asked myself, why do I work as a janitor?
Then, like a slap on the back of my head, there she was, that teacher who laughed in my face and told me “I can’t”, when I cheerfully said I want to become a child psychiatrist.
We can differ on this but in my perception, her words indirectly planted a subconscious impression into my 7-year-old, subconscious mind.
I wasted decades of my adult life working as a janitor, a foot messenger, and conducting physical labor, because there, I felt safe. There, I did not have to read “a lot”. It was my subconscious mind communicating with me. Prior to that morning, I spent weeks researching childhood impressions and the subconscious mind. Why? Because during that period, I was writing the chapter on childhood impressions, for my previous book, User Manual for Your Mind. That book was the result of me, feeling like I was a broken child that needed to be fixed. It was my notes on behavioral science psychology the subconscious mind and the brain.
Then that morning “just like that” out of nowhere appears a memory that was buried in my childhood for 57 years? I dont think that was a coincidence. That memories was completely buried until I decided to research the subconscious mind.
I lived my life as a broken child, thinking I needed to be fixed. I was intimidated by academic environments and felt inferior to anyone who I perceived intelligent. If I saw a man dressed in a suit, I perceived him as a success. I felt inferior to him. I addressed him as sir.
I had a movie in my mind, it was not in my best interest. The name of the movie: “Inadequate Self Image”, I was glued to the screen.
I watched that movie every day, maybe all day. I dropped out of school at age 12 in the 7th grade. I never attended college. In my mind, I could not read “a lot”. Despite my dream and desire to go to college, I believed I would fail.
Ironically, I spent my nights in bookstores and reading books on neuroscience, psychology, and personal development. My minimum wage salary of $7 an hour was spent on books that cost $50-$100.
I invested in personal development audio and video, CD’s, cassette tapes, and video programs.
I studied medical terminology, psychology, neuroscience, art, and law, professional Spanish, professional English. Why? Because in my heart I believed in my potential, but in my mind I had baby elephant syndrome. A psychological limitation.
I studied legal and medical interpretation. I read the same books in both languages. I read the dictionary like a book. I studied and practiced martial arts and boxing. I studied piano, violin, guitar, and harmonica. I learned to read music.I had a fascination with learning and intelligence. The movie in my mind, ” I cant read a lot” created a limitation in my mind.