Movie Mind: Directing Your Mental Cinemas

I just finished reading "Movie Mind" this morning. This is one of the best books that I have read about subjective reality. Michael uses language that is easy to understand and shows what processes are going on at a lower and higher levels of thinking...which is what this book is about. By getting "hold" on how one views the world with pictures, sounds, feelings, etc will help give the reader an actual plan for changing the way they think thereby changing the way he/she feels and operates in life.

Michael explores the levels of consciousness taking us on a journey of how our minds create these levels. At the first level and most empirical is the level of sensory experience. The information from the outside world that we gather through our eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth is represented in our mind as we experience it. And how we experience it is very different then how it is in the outside world. This is because the representation of this information in our mind is merely that, a representation. It is the map that we have formed from the physical world outside us (the territory). Just as a road map cannot represent ALL of the information that it is representing in the territory (the veins in the leafs on trees, potholes, grass blades, bugs, etc...) our brains can not handle all of the information being received from our sensory organs. Have you ever had a conversation with someone you just met and couldn't remember that persons name, what they were wearing, or everything that was said? When gathering information, our brain will gather what is most important and filter the rest by deleting, distorting, and generalizing it. Michael also covers how our brain is the great storage system, recording a mass amount of experiences and plays them back as Movies. In fact, I have noticed that we as humans spend 99% of our day focused on these movies and concepts. It wasn't apparent to me until I noticed while riding the train to work that people rarely if ever talk about what is directly in front of them. They don't talk about the décor of the train, the color of the seats, the smell of the car, the feeling of how fast the train is going. No they talk about what happened to their children the other night, or how their boss messed up yesterday or what they are going to do over the weekend. None of that is being present to what is happening in the NOW. They are simply memories (movies) and imagined future events (movies) and not what they are receiving in their senses at the moment. These movies illicit emotions (obviously) and it is the focus of this book to teach you how to edit those movies and enhance your emotional experience. At the higher levels we then categorize these movies into evaluations. This movie is a "bad" experience and that movie is a "miracle". This person is a real "dunce" or this person is a real "sweet heart". These classifications are not tangible, they are not physical, they are human concepts and evaluations. Having covered all of this, Michael moves into the main focus of the book which is to replay those movies in our head with different perspectives and qualities for maximum emotional effect and impact. For example, if you have a painful memory that keeps coming up, you can distance yourself from it by picturing it as if you are watching it on a movie screen and yourself as an actor. You can distance even more by playing the movie in black and white, and even putting a picture frame around it. The distanc

Good introduction to submodalities and metastates technology without nlp jargon. you can learn easily to use your brain for more empowering states. Mr. Hall is writing very better.