Cinema Therapy

Cinema Therapy www.CrowInfoDesign.com | Cinema Therapy Page 1 of 20 About This Ebook If you like movies, this ebook has something special for you. Cinema Therapy is based on a presentation I made at Ignite Phoenix II in 2008. It’s an idea for using movies to help you resolve the life challenges you face. I hope you enjoy this ebook, but more than that, I hope it helps you figure out a solution in your life. ©2009 Crow Communications, LLC The copyright holder licenses this ebook under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Learn more at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Feel free to share this free ebook with your friends and co-workers, post it on your blog, email it, print it, and copy it. If you like it, please subscribe to my newsletter, blog updates, or RSS feed. You’ll be notified each time I publish something new. Subscribe on my blog: http://blog.CrowInfoDesign.com/ Download your own copy at: http://www.CrowInfoDesign.com/ebooks/cinematherapy.pdf Does your company have an idea for a ebook, or do you have a library of white papers you would like to publish as ebooks? We can help you! Contact us at ebooks@CrowInfoDesign.com www.CrowInfoDesign.com | Cinema Therapy Page 2 of 20 About Cinema Therapy Cinema therapy is a technique I developed through years of informal study in depth psychology, especially the work of Carl Jung. I have been fascinated with the idea of viewing my life as a waking dream, and using Jungian dream analysis to investigate my life. I am also a huge movie buff and a former aspiring screenwriter. If you combine my love of movies with my love of Jungian dream analysis, you can see how I arrived at cinema therapy. It’s the intersection of personal growth and the magical world of movies. The Process The driving idea behind cinema therapy is to find a movie antidote to whatever life challenge you face. Cinema therapy is a simple process: 1. You identify a life challenge. (You have a couple of those, right?) 2. You take a few minutes to define an antidote for your life challenge. (What would your life look like without this challenge?) 3. You identify a movie that contains the antidote. 4. You watch the movie. (Repeat as desired.) In the pages that follow, I give you my Ignite Phoenix presentation almost word-for-word the way I delivered it. Experience my talk and give cinema therapy a chance to improve your life. www.CrowInfoDesign.com | Cinema Therapy Page 3 of 20 Human beings are self-medicating animals. We feel some pain in our lives, and we find something to distract us or cover up the pain. Some of the things we choose are not so healthy, so we end up needing interventions www.CrowInfoDesign.com | Cinema Therapy and 12-step programs to bring us back into a place where we can feel the pain again. What I’m proposing today is a different way to deal with the pain. Cinema therapy isn’t a way to self-medicate, but to actually heal our pain through movies. Page 4 of 20 Movies are cheap, easily available, and perfectly safe. Just don’t breathe in the fake butter flavoring on the microwave popcorn because that stuff can cause cancer. www.CrowInfoDesign.com | Cinema Therapy Page 5 of 20 ... - tailieumienphi.vn