Magic Cinema Visualization Meditation

Magic Cinema Visualization Meditation is a creative therapeutic technique that combines meditation and guided imagery to help individuals transform their perceptions of past experiences, emotions, or challenges. By using the metaphor of a "magic cinema," clients visualize their memories, emotions, or situations on a mental movie screen, where they can re-edit, reframe, and reimagine them in ways that promote healing, emotional balance, and personal empowerment.

The purpose of Magic Cinema Visualization Meditation is to allow individuals to gain control over their emotional responses and memories by visualizing them as a movie. This process helps to reduce the emotional impact of challenging experiences, reframe negative beliefs, and foster a sense of empowerment by enabling the individual to alter the "story" of their life.

Transcript

Sit comfortably.

Adjust your body so that your back and head are supported.

Close your eyes and take a deep,

Clearing breath.

Breathe in relaxation with your in-breath and breathe out any discomfort,

Tiredness,

Or stress with your exhalation.

With each cycle of breathing,

Breathe in relaxation and breathe out the rest.

With each breath,

You become more and more relaxed.

Imagine yourself in a small,

Old-fashioned cinema.

You are the only person there.

You are sitting in a seat near the middle and on the screen is a black and white photo in which you can see yourself in the situation just before you had a negative response.

Next,

Imagine floating out of your body and up into the projection booth behind you.

From there,

In the projection booth,

You can see the screen and you can see yourself sitting down there in the seat in the middle of the cinema.

Now look at the screen.

The snapshot on the screen turns into a black and white movie that begins to play slowly.

Watch it play from the beginning up to just beyond the end of that unpleasant experience.

When you get to the end,

I want you to stop the movie and then run the movie backwards.

You'll see everything happening in reverse.

People will walk backwards,

Things will move backwards,

And run the movie back to the start.

Then run the movie forward in color,

But do it really fast,

Taking one or two seconds to do it.

Then run it backwards in color,

Then run it forward again,

But this time,

As it gets towards the end,

The whole screen shrinks in size until it is as if you're watching an animated postage stamp.

Then run the movie slowly forwards again,

But this time,

Add funny voices to the people,

Add circus music to the soundtrack,

See clowns leaping around in the scenes.

See the thing you were worried about becoming tiny or getting stamped on or getting washed away down a drain.

Then run the movie backwards and forwards as fast as you can.

Now go back and think about what it was that was giving you the problem.

You will find that your reaction to it is now different.