You may want to rent the movie "Austin Powers" before you watch my video on mini-me. You'll appreciate my logic a tad more. But even if you haven't watched the flick marketed toward adolescents or anyone with an adolescent sense of humor, I think you will benefit from this visualization exercise.
Use caution when trying it out at home. You know, work with dull scissors. And make sure you recycle the brown bag!
To watch the YouTube video, click here
To read more Beyond Blue, go to http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue, and to get to Group Beyond Blue, a support group at Beliefnet Community, click here.
To subscribe to "Beyond Blue" click here.
Add to Del.icio.us
Add to Technorati
Add to Digg
Add to Newsvine
Add to Facebook
Add to StumbleUpon
Subscribe
Therese
Speaking as one of the two or three people who has not sat through an Austin Powers movie, I have to stretch my imagination a little to keep up. Some months about I started referring to anxiety demon. Giving it a name helped me deal with it. It made it something separate from me and it attacks me. Why a demon? Probably has to do with all those episodes of BtVS.
Richard: IMHO, our inner battles ARE against demons; we're alll dragon slayers. Tink about it: Demons are ugly, right? What could be uglier than the inner voices we all hwar reminding us of the terrible negative things anyone ever said to us? And, not too get TOO fundamentalist her, since demons are from the devil, that fits as well. Remember that whenever Christ encountered someone who was ill or in need of His intervention here on Earth, He spoke to the demon inside that person and cast it out in order to effect His healing of that individual. And since His message to each of us is one of unconditional love, anything from the opposite end of the spectrum can't be from Him, if you follow my logic.
Therese: I can't wait to make a puppet of my fther! (He's MY inner critic! Telling him to shut up already will be a real TREAT!
Therese, you make me laugh like a hyena. I love the 'mini-me' idea. I must say that your 'mini-me' is quite well-behaved. Could I send mine to you for training in manners. My 'mini-me' is grumpy, gruff, cusses, and obstinate. He doesn't care about punishment. I'd get arrested for 'mini-me' abuse if I decided he needed to behave. That said, since I am bigger and meaner than him I just scare him into submission. Does that count ?
Naming the 'speaker' makes great sense to me and sort of demystifies the rightness and power any of the mini-me's that might plague us from time to time. I wasn't wild about Freud's take on why things were going on in people but I did appreciate the names he had for the aspects of who we are psychologically. So, I may not get a paper sack or a balloon and paint my face on it (or a soccer ball - remember Tom Hanks?) but I am gonna name that tune - when that silly, sad or stupid mini-me begins to chime in. Good one, Therese.
Frank,
Post a Comment
By submitting these comments, I agree to the beliefnet.com terms of service, rules of conduct and privacy policy (the "agreements"). I understand and agree that any content I post is licensed to beliefnet.com and may be used by beliefnet.com in accordance with the agreements.