[Neurons] 2018 Neurons #38 THE ART OF REWINDING TERRIFYING MOVIES

Sun Sep 9 13:41:31 EDT 2018

From: L. Michael Hall

2018 Neurons #38

September 10, 2018

Getting Over the Past Series (#4)

THE ART OF REWINDING

OLD TERRIFYING MOVIES

NLP calls it "the phobia cure" pattern and sometimes the "visual kinesthetic
dissociation" pattern.  There are problems with both of those names, so in
Neuro-Semantics we call it by what occurs in the pattern, we rewind a move.
Hence, The Movie Rewind Pattern.  The design of this pattern is to take out
the negative emotional charge from an old memory.  Doing that with old
memories that still trouble you, enables you to get over the past.  The
memory does not have to be a phobia, just any referent event that disturbs
you and undermines your resourcefulness.  Here is the pattern.

1) Identify a mental representation that bothers you.

What memory activates strong negative emotions in you?  What memory of an
unpleasant experience, or even traumatic experience, puts you, as it were,
back in that event?  When you identify the memory, identify what you see,
hear, and sense.  What are the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic features of
the movie you're playing in your mind.

.                   Visually: What do you see?  Where?  Is it in color or
black-and-white?

.                   Auditorially: What sounds, words from others, words
you're saying to yourself?

.                   Kinesthetically: What sensations, temperature (cold,
warm, hot), pressure, movement, etc.? 

2) Step back and observe the old movie.

In your mind, step out of the movie and imagine that you are setting in a
theater where you can watch the movie. As you imagine sitting back in a
movie theater, which row would enable you to observe comfortably?  The tenth
row?  The twentieth?  Now put up on the screen a black-and white snap-shot
picture of the younger you in the situation 15 minutes before the event
occurred.  You now have a freezed-framed picture on the screen which
represents what occurred 15 minutes prior to the unpleasant event.  As you
sit back, take a spectator's position, and watch that younger you from this
distance.  How delighted are you that you have stepped back?

3) Float back and up into the control booth.

>From where you are sitting, imagine floating out of your body and into the
projection booth which is behind you and above you.  Once you float out of
your body and into the control room, put your hands on the plexi-glass
window so as you look out, you can see the back of the head of your
observing self who is watching the screen.  As you take a moment to
experience and enjoy this point-of-view take as long as you need to seeing
yourself watching your younger you on the screen.  You can now see two
aspects of you- your observing self sitting in the theater and your younger
self in the still picture on the screen.  Watching this is often strange the
first time, yet you can get use to it quickly by accessing how safe and
secure you feel in this control booth.

4) Begin to edit your old moves.

>From this observer's point of view, notice how you can play around with have
you code the movie.

.                   Visually.   Make it in color, then in black-and-white.
Let it be a movie, then a snapshot.  Shift it from bright to dim.  From
close to far away.  As you play with these distinctions, keep the coding
that helps you most to think comfortably about that memory, that allows you
to stay thoughtful and relaxed.  Notice the effect it has on you when you
dim the picture of the unpleasant memory.

.                   Auditorially.  If there is a sound track, what sounds do
you hear?  What tones, volume, pitch, etc.  In the language system what
words do you hear?  Who is saying those words? 

.                   Kinesthetically.  What sensations does the person on the
screen have in his/her body?  Where is it, what is the intensity, weight,
pressure?  Shift these so you can think comfortably about the old memory.

5) Playing the old memory for the last time. 

When you are ready, turn on the movie and let it move from the initial
snapshot as a black-and-white movie and play it to the end.  Watch it from
the projection booth from beginning to the end.  If, at any time, you feel
tempted to step into the movie- then feel your hands on the plexi-glass so
you can stay safe and in control in the control booth.  If at any time, you
need to fast-forward the movie, after all, you know what happened, just fast
forward it a bit and then play it to the end.

When you have let it play out beyond the unpleasant experience, play if a
bit further.  Let it play it until you see that younger you in a time and
place of safety or pleasure. . . .  Go to a scene of comfort when you were
feeling good about yourself and having fun doing something - at a park, on a
beach, with a loved one. ...  When you get to that place of comfort, stop
the movie and freeze-frame the picture.

6) Step into the move and rewind it from the pleasure scene. 

The next step will occur very, very quick.   You will step into the movie at
the scene of comfort and rewind it in super-fast speed movement while you
are inside it.  You have seen movies run backwards, but you probably have
never been inside it when it was rewinding.  That is what you are about to
do.  You will rewind the movie backwards at a very high speed so that it
take two seconds -2 seconds!  

So first get inside the movie.  Float inside the scene of comfort ... be
there fully.   Feel it.  See and hear what you see and hear when you are
there-feel the comfort.  Now from this vantage point of being inside the
movie, rewind it.  Hear the sound of the movie running backward ... the rush
and the confusion of sights as everything goes backwards.  It's a jumbling
of sounds as everything zooms back to the moment 15 minutes prior to the
unpleasant movie.  When you experience this fast rewinding, all the people
and their actions go backwards.  They walk and talk backwards.  You walk and
talk in reverse.  Everything happens in reverse, like rewinding a movie.

Ready?  Step in ... how much do you feel the comfort?  When it is at a level
of 7 or more, push the rewind button . . .   and experience it rewinding  .
. .  zooooooommmmm.  All the way back to the beginning.  It only takes a
second or two to do that fast rewind . . .

7) Repeat this rewinding process five times.  

For good measure - repeat five times.  When you arrive back to the snapshot
at the beginning, clear the screen in your mind.  That is, take a break,
open your eyes and look around.  Good.  Now, immediately go into the scene
of comfort at the end, and as soon as you step it, feel, see, and hear it
fully . . .  rewind the movie even faster.   As you do this over and over
your brain will become more and more proficient and the rewind will go
faster and faster until the rewind takes only a second each time.   Zoommmm!

8) Test the results. 

Now break state from this exercise.  Then after a minute or two, call up the
original memory and see if you can get the feelings back.  Try as hard as
you can to step into the scene and feel the full weight of the emotions. 

Caveat: If you have difficulty running this pattern, then contact a
well-trained and qualified NLP practitioner or Neuro-Semanticist who can
then facilitate the process with you.

Sources: Sourcebook of Magic, Volume I.   Also, Movie Mind.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., Executive Director 

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