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Watching Movies With

Conscious Awareness

One of the most important aspects in beginning to use E-
Motion Picture Magic is learning to watch films with con-
scious awareness. We enhance our conscious awareness when
we bring non-judging attention, curiosity, and acceptance to
whatever is arising in our experience of the present moment.
Many psychotherapeutic and spiritual orientations teach us
to become more aware of ourselves because they recognize the
healing power of awareness. The Jewish Talmud points out that
normally we do not see what we think we see, that what we
perceive is more a reflection of usthan it is objectively it.
Everything we experience is altered and shaped by our minds.
Our desires filter our selection of the items that we perceive.
Our emotions color those perceptions. And finally, our atten-
tion wanders from perception to perception, virtually guaran-
teeing that what we see of the world and ourselves is mostly
inaccurate.