A discussion on how to manage and regulate thoughts, even when we cannot control them.
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[Music] okay good morning everybody hope everybody is well we've been talking about this concept of thoughts and feelings yesterday where we left off was the understanding that like in the old movie theaters the little frames in the film that pass over the light the projector creates an image that allows me to connect to in a way that brings emotions so if i'm going to look at if i walk into a theater let's say you know 40 years ago and or maybe more i don't know and then they hand me a film like handing the roll and i'm like going through the pictures and like you know picture by picture i'm looking at the roll i'm just like rolling the roll down picture like they hand you the roll like those big those big rolls you know i'm talking about the film roles when they would stick to the side of the projection machine it would it would play through if you're listening to this you're not seeing all my hand motions that are trying to depict how it used to work so if they if you walked in and they're like hey guys by the way yeah listen we're gonna do something different today we're not gonna play the thing so we're gonna leave the lights on in the theater and you know instead we're just gonna hand
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- 0:05[Music] okay good morning everybody hope everybody is well we've been talking about this concept of…
- 1:09those big rolls you know i'm talking about the film roles when they would stick to…
- 2:14the characters are moving mickey doesn't move he's not real believe it or not so mickey…
- 3:20don't remember any i don't think i've seen bambi i just read about walt disney but…
- 4:59bambi they cried that was it was the emotion that was emitted from an animated character…
- 6:03now imagine as if the next day walt disney would say hey you know what i…
- 7:04flip the pages so you would see the stick guy moving you know right so if…
- 8:37it's still a thought it's still something no you have parts of you that are automatic…
- 9:47you got the guard rails up like you can't you know go places and then feel…
- 10:54and he said to me he's like i got rid of all the negative people in…
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