Birgit Wolz - E-Motion Picture Magic-A Movie Lover\'s Guide to Healing and Transformation
Exercise 1: Beginning Your Process Do you remember your first important movie experience? How did it affect you? Do you be ...
led to strange miscommunication. As the story progressed, however, I noticed that they did not hide with shame but started to ad ...
Later I had to face several losses and disappointments. One of the biggest challenges was a life-threatening, disabling ill- nes ...
obstacles, and experienced an internal transformation. Recognizing that the characters had grown immensely in this often agonizi ...
most deeply moved when a character demonstrated a strong com- mitment to their authentic truth or their spiritual self. For exam ...
Working with individual clients and my cinema therapy group, I have observed how these various practices and the power of films ...
seen as the “collective dreams” of our times. When certain movies resonate with us, they touch into the unconscious part of our ...
clients experience, the faster they move through the healing process. Painful emotions can do more than produce tears; they have ...
The late author Norman Cousins wrote about watching humorous films as part of his recovery from degenerative dis- ease: “Ten min ...
2 How Movies Support Healing and Transformation When Movies Impact Us My first inklings about cinema therapy came from stories I ...
paper. It was assigned two weeks ago and was due yesterday. She wonders whether she is capable of writing it. Elaine has very hi ...
she remembers that she cried when she saw this film a few years ago. As she watches the sad scenes, tears start flowing. It feel ...
believes that Jim might take advantage of her vulnerability, criticize her, or push her away. Then she would feel even worse. So ...
play with friends from school or visit their houses. Having been married happily for twenty-five years, she raised two wonderful ...
Why Movie Plots Affect Us In order to understand the effects of movies, a multidiscipli- nary approach is needed. The following ...
various stress hormones in them, than do irritant tears (trig- gered by onion vapors). Some researchers theorize that crying may ...
tive internal stance. This is called surrender. Our passive receptivity experienced while watching a movie supports this inner s ...
of their modeling capacity. They helped her find courage because many screenplays provide a template for ordering and understand ...
Christopher Vogler points out in The Writer’s Journeythat the ideas embedded in mythology and identified by Joseph Campbell in T ...
characters’ process of letting go and learn to move into the present moment where we can take action with clarity. For these fil ...
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