Movie Clips Part 1
To support our Healing, Tipping Point Recognition and Coming Home to Self. Do you have any additional movie suggestions?
Yes Man (Yes as our nature)
Notice that Self’s nature is a Yes to absolutely everything. In contrast, the nature of parts, is at least a subtle resistance or a No. Jim Carrey’s Yes is from parts. Can you disccern Being Yes from doing Yes. Can you feel your Self’s Yes? You are the Yes Man!
Hook
(Freedom & innocence)
Can you remember your freedom and innocence before the should’s and the parts blended and obscured your true nature? True nature never left. Peter as a forty-something attorney, husband and father forgot. He returned to the Lost Boys in Never land to remember qualities of his intrinsic nature.
I Heart Huckabees
(all is the blanket)
In this scene from a favorite Self-leadership comedy, Dustin Hoffman describes “Once you get the blanket thing you can relax because everything you could ever want or be you already have and are.” Fulfillment is here.
Phantom of the Opera
(The Self & Part duet)
Self as Lover: “I’m here, nothing can harm you, let me be your freedom, let me be your shelter, you are safe, your fears are far behind you, let me lead you from your solitude.” Part as Beloved: “All I want is freedom and a world with no more night, share with me one love one lifetime, hold me, say you love me, promise me that all you say is true.”
Groundhog Day
(Love)
In this final scene of Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s character, having explored every option for fulfillment, pleasure and meaning in his never ending day that he could imagine, discovers that the most fulfillment or perhaps only true fulfillment comes from abiding as the Self quality of Love. If you were to experience a Groundhog Day, what’s your movie conclusion?
Star Wars
(what is The Force?)
What is this power, this undiminishable presence, this connectedness, this aliveness, this is-ness? How is it most present in you?
Inside Out
(What are your 5 primary parts?)
In this quintessential IFS movie, Inside Out depicts the human inner world as consisting of five primary parts. If you entered this animated scene, which five parts would best be representative of your inner world? Though Self is absent in Inside Out, how would Self be present in your version? Which character’s inner world would your five parts most resemble?
Good Will Hunting (Discernment)
So much of our difficulty and suffering is not of ours and “it’s not your fault”. If we each could just discern where it’s not ours — rather, in IFS lingo, it’s of a cultural burden, a legacy burden, an unattached burden. Through such discernment, we more easily unblend from the burdens and return to intrinsic natue of peace, love and fulfillment. Burdened parts identification is just innocent confusion. And, “It’s not your fault”.
Lord of the Rings (my precious)
This is a scary 8 seconds. Gollum is possessed by parts or thoughts of desperation, urgency and necessity. When we, our parts, believe we have found what will give us fulfillment, we often develop a singularity of focus. A Gollum aspect might even appear grasping for dear life and fully eclipse our true nature.
Pleasantville
(beauty colorized)
Bud argues his case in court for “You can’t stop something inside of you” as the aha’s pop and the Self quality of beauty appears, we become colorized.
Powder (Humanity)
Celebrating true nature, our Self, as simply our essential humanity and highlighting the sometimes difficulties in being this innocent beauty within a world of protective parts.
August Rush (the music)
August found his way home through the music. August’s last line: “The music is all around us — all you have to do is listen.” What is your music? What quality of Self is your ever-present pointer, foundation or home?
Beauty And The Beast (Falling In Love With)
Which of your parts appear as a beast? Is this “falling in love with” limited to our beloveds, our children and those closest to us? Or may we, as Dick Schwartz demonstrates within his own system, fall in love with our parts, what Dick calls our sacred little beings?
Moulin Rouge (Love as True Nature )
Do you ever feel like Christian in your earnest devotion to and pursuit of our nature of love, connectedness and unity?
The Empire Strikes Back (Fear vs Love)
Yoda helps Luke discern fear from love or IFS burdens from Self. What best helps you discern burdens from Self?
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Embodying Lightness Of Being)
What is life like when Self, Beingness or Self-Leadership has shifted from the background to foreground in you? For some of us, this art film may provides a glimpse of that beauty.
Every Day (Shared Self/Same Same)
In this love story, one teenager wakes up in a different teenage body every day and his/her lover is in love with him/her regardless of the form of the day. The movie is made for teenagers yet the seeing through the ever-changing forms can be a beautiful celebration of our Shared Self or Shared Being.
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory ("I Want It Now")
Does this annoying scene of fixation with “I Want it Now” within the magic and fulfillment of Wonka’s chocolate factory depict for you parts in their extreme wanting in contrast to Self’s fulfilment here and now? Where do you “Want it Now” even when it is here? How would you react to Wonka’s reply, you can’t have one? Can you hear that as a Zen pointer?
City Of Angels (Preciousness Of Life)
This scene is about the inverse of most our other selected scenes: Rather than focusing on the love of or aspiration for Self or ever-present Being, this scene is a celebration of our humanity. The character was formerly an angel, abiding 100% as Being, and chose to “fall” into humanity and subsequently became hedonist of this human life experience. Ultimately, is it not a balance or both/and of being Self and fully enjoying our precous human lifetime? Some speakers call this full both/and “Zorba the Budda”.
Jesus Revolution (Love)
Ministering to the marginalized (Self to our wounded parts): “If you feel you are misunderstood and judged, you will find forgiveness and freedom right here”. Welcome home. What do your parts long for and are they being met?
The Lion King (Perfect Harmony)
Are nature and perfect harmony outside of us or a quality of Self? Is perfect harmony limited to brief glimpses? “Can you feel the love tonight, the peace the evening brings? The world for once in perfect harmony with all its living things. Can you feel the love tonight? You needn’t look to far. Love is where we are.”
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Beauty, Nature, Love)
Saint Francis opens perhaps to Self as beauty, nature and love. Can you touch such knowing? When you do, is there a tension with parts?
Aladdin (Celebrating Our Parts)
The Genie (Robbin Williams) celebrates the magnificence of the parts of Prince Ali. As Self realizes more space within us, Self’s nature seems to be to see, love and celebrate each and every part. Is it a possibility to fall in love with all of us, with all of our parts… “You are going to love this guy!”
The Kid (Healing & Updating)
40-year-old meets his 10-year-old self and realizes the opportunity to heal and unburden while falling in love with the innocence of it all. This is often considered a quintessential IFS movie.
What Dreams May Come (Fulfillment & suffering)
Experience “heaven” as fulfillment and “hell” as being blended with a part, wtih a “resistance to what is” part obscuring everything. Experience love’s devotion that would join you in “hell” to help you remember Self. How deeply into “hell” will your parts allow you to travel to meet, welcome, or love other parts that are still stuck in fear and attachment. What’s your capacity to be intimate in the darkness, the fear, the “hell” with your parts that need you?
Shallow Hal (Beauty)
Shallow Hal was a imprisoned by some culturally defined intepretations of beauty. Accordingly, his life or search for fulfillment was a tragic joke until Tony Robbins freed some of his seeing. Beauty became much more accessible. Love became more accessible. How are we “Shallow_____” limited by our culture’s beauty myths or what we call in IFS legacy burdens? What do you see here as Shallow Sid?
ET (Longing For Home)
Innocence supporting and celebrating the longing to return home. “ET phone home”, how does the longing for home arise in you? Even from those parts of us that might seem alient or distorted, can we see their innocence and their longing for home?
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Flow)
Do you know the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Jonathan appeared to be an ordinary gull, but as other gulls lived to eat, all that mattered to Jonathan was flight… to realize the essence of being a gull that of perfect flight…perfection. At first, it was to fly higher and faster. Then flight transcended height and speed. What’s next for you in realizing your perfection? If wanting more of Jonathan, for full audiobook read by author Richard Bach: https://youtu.be/ozcsD_3D8Ag or a movie set to Neil Diamond soundtrack see on YouTube from which this video is taken.
