Movie Clips Part 2
To support our Healing, Tipping Point Recognition and Coming Home to Self. Do you have any additional movie suggestions?
The Matrix & Little Buddha (Clarity)
In both movies, Keanu Rides the “Bike of Being” discerning Self and parts, the sky and the weather, and recognizing All is of Self. Keanu follows the white rabbit, chooses the red pill, doesn’t leave the bliss of Self under the Bodhi tree and trusts his knowing. All is of Self recognition is also highlighted in both movies when “the other” as a perceived threat is realized as inseparable from ourselves, ending the battle between Self and parts and representing the happy ending in returning Home.
Field of Dreams (knowing)
As we hear the whispers of Self qualities, like Ray, at first we often ignore. Eventually, something seems to become compelling. Ray heard: If you build it they will come, Go the distance, and Ease their pain. What whispers from Self do you hear? Like Ray, do your thoughts or protective parts try to convince you to ignore the whispers, to ignore that still small voice? How do parts in others react when you follow the whispers? Is your system like Rays where the whispers become a knowing? Do you have a sense of where the whispers are directing you? What is your Field of Dreams?
The Truman Show (Freedom)
Truman hears “the creator” (perhaps fear internalized as protector parts) who tells him he can’t leave and that he is afraid and belongs here. Truman ultimately responds from knowing, clarity and freedom: “In case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.”
The Wizard of Oz (home)
Dorothy realizes that it had all been a dream and that she is home. As long as we have parts that have not been welcomed home, the parts will project drama outside of us and our lives will mirror whatever lack remains within our burdened or unintegrated parts. In reality, we never left. Self is here now. There is no place like home.
The Princess Bride (Devotion To Self -“As You Wish”)
Rumi’s poetry is almost only of love, devotion and surrender to the Beloved (Self). The Princess Bride is the same. Wesley’s life is a poem of love, devotion and surrender to the Beloved (Self), in the form of romantic love towards Buttercup, essentially expressed in “As you wish”. Can you find romantic love as devotion to Self? Can you find your “As you wish” in your love, devotion and surrender to Self?
A Beautiful Mind (Discerning Me from parts/voices)
Genius John Nash developed the ability to discern himself from his overwhelming inner voices/parts. Dick Schwartz has spoken of the movie’s ending as tragic because John “succeeds” by ignoring, tuning out or re-exiling his loud “problematic” parts. This re-exiling occurred because a part, rather than Self, responded to the loud parts. If instead Self responded, there would be an eventual unconditional welcoming home of all arising parts.
Twilight Zone Movie (Returning To Essence)
When given the choice, all the seniors except one choose to remain identified as their parts. One chooses essential timeless essence, which in the magical scene returns his body to it’s childhood form, but it’s not about the body or youth. He exclaims tally-ho and embraces life/essence/innocence/pure you.
The Abyss (knowing)
For years this clip represented the greatest fear of my protective parts. Bud tries to inhale liquid but his protective parts freak out grasping for air until ultimately they realize that they can breathe the liquid. Similarly, our parts desperately grasp for fulfillment through acquiring objects, experiences, relationships and substances until they realize that fulfillment is intrinsically here in or as Self.
Avatar (Nature)
Jake is innocently confused in viewing other as enemy. Neytiri responds calling him a baby. In Effortless IFS, Nature is a Self quality expressed in flavors such as harmony, contentedness and peace. Eventually, Jake becomes intimate with nature or perhaps as nature.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
(precious essence)
What does Mr Rodgers represent to you? For me, he sees and celebrates Self or precious essence in every one of us. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Mary Poppins (Playful Love)
Are your parts met by unconditional love? For your young parts,who in the world best represented unconditional love that they could fully receive? Do your parts have an external Mary Poppins? What’s most like Mary Poppins that’s here now as the playful, free, love as Self of your nature?
Avatar: The Way Of Water (Nature & Unity)
“The way of water has no beginning and no end. The sea is around you and in you. The sea is your home before your birth and after your death. The sea gives, and the sea takes. Water connects all things – life to death and darkness to light.” You are nature/water/unity.
The Thin Red Line (Beauty In Horror)
Once we fully and truly realize that there are no bad parts, that all our parts and thoughts are intrinsically innocent, what we see inside seems to project to the outside. External horror can be one of the greatest challenges. Can you glimpse the beauty? What do you see?
Baraka (Beauty & Wholeness)
(Clip can be plot spoiler) This virtual reality movie discerns reality from experience in seeing that nothing is real which is another way of saying everything is real.
Caddyshack (Playful Lightness Of Being)
Be the ball Danny. Na na na na na na na.
The Legend Of Bagger Vance (Flow/Harmony)
Why do we enjoy playing or watching sports? Is it for the Self qualities of flow, ease, the zone, harmony, or grace? In this scene, parts surrender with soft eyes to the field, to the harmony, to authenticity, to the one and to feeling it with our hands not our head. Do you experience flow and harmony in a sport?
Hair (Freedom & Love)
Hair is a favorite musical and selected because it celebrates themes of the liberal 60’s which can translate into channels for qualities of Self such as authenticity, love, freedom, oneness and flow. Can you equally find freedom and love in the conservative version of this musical? Can we equally find in Joe Biden and Donald Trump a devotion to freedom and love?
The Sound Of Music (Hear the music?)
Are your hills alive? Can you hear the music? What if it all is vibration, frequency, music and beauty?
