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Visualization: Directing the Movies of Your Mind
This unique audio program teaches you the theory and practice of visualization and--perhaps even more important--how to develop the trust and self-confidence to make it work for you! Discover what scientists, doctors, athletes and executives have you can visualize, you can have!
â Learn three forms of visualization--programmed, guided, and open-screen (receptive) visualization
â Stay healthy, and recover more rapidly when you do become ill
â Expand your mind, your creativity, and your problem-solving talents
â Improve and deepen your personal relationships
The Mental Home Movie method is easy to follow and easy to use. Harness and apply the powers of your imagination to make your subconscious images conscious, and reshape and refine those images into what you want them to be. Detailed techniques and sample scripts immediately get you on your way to achieving your dreams and goals in life.
â Learn three forms of visualization--programmed, guided, and open-screen (receptive) visualization
â Stay healthy, and recover more rapidly when you do become ill
â Expand your mind, your creativity, and your problem-solving talents
â Improve and deepen your personal relationships
The Mental Home Movie method is easy to follow and easy to use. Harness and apply the powers of your imagination to make your subconscious images conscious, and reshape and refine those images into what you want them to be. Detailed techniques and sample scripts immediately get you on your way to achieving your dreams and goals in life.
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1979
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October 7, 2018
A good beginning to visualization.
June 27, 2017
"The body can do incredible things if the mind will let it."
-- Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter, Major Topper (episode), MASH
I was recently reminded of this quote when my hair stylist (aka magician), Bonnie recommended this book to help me with my Bell's Palsy.
This book provides detailed steps that illustrate how to relax and guide your thoughts into something positive. The topics I was most interested in were scripts to help you heal, as well as stay healthy. I will be Xeroxing this information before I return this book to my library.
It's all in how you see things; visualize what is happening and what you want to happen. This is something that I will continue to use for a long time.
Fabulous!
P.S. I have not kicked my Bell's Palsy, but I am better than when I started.
-- Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter, Major Topper (episode), MASH
I was recently reminded of this quote when my hair stylist (aka magician), Bonnie recommended this book to help me with my Bell's Palsy.
This book provides detailed steps that illustrate how to relax and guide your thoughts into something positive. The topics I was most interested in were scripts to help you heal, as well as stay healthy. I will be Xeroxing this information before I return this book to my library.
It's all in how you see things; visualize what is happening and what you want to happen. This is something that I will continue to use for a long time.
Fabulous!
P.S. I have not kicked my Bell's Palsy, but I am better than when I started.
July 12, 2023
I really enjoyed this book. I have tried to use visualization in my healing and growth and was frustrated because I could not see anything. After reading I realized I was trying to force something instead of exploring what is already in front of me. The book explains visualization or movies of the mind and offers preparation exercises as well as different exercises to work with. The book was released in the late 70's and the vocabulary was not a significant as it is today, so it is was an easy read. I have incorporated several of the exercises into my practice.
November 24, 2017
People who are strangers to visualizations benefit the most from this book as it covers the most important aspects of visualization, however those who have already read one in depth book about this subject might not be able to discover anything new in this book.
January 31, 2026
after starting the book it became apparent just how often your mind plays movies of the mind and find that powerful. the author makes a point early in the book about the usefulness to pay attention, as they hold the rawest form of your thoughts and can have a lot of meaning to reflect about. simply knowing this should effect your every day mental process. as hundreds of thousands of thoughts, ideas, emotions fill us, you can start to separate true understanding from noise that exists. reading with intent will surely help one discover aspects about your life that me be hidden and put you on a path to discover a private parts of yourself that have yet to be surfaced.
my main thought around visualization is that once you understand it you can’t really unlearn it. whenever i’m reading a self help book that uses the power of thought to help achieve something, i’m always more open when the writers background is in therapy and science. the mix of metaphysical with solid examples in the practicality sounds enticing, a bit mysterious and bridges our gaps with unknown. this is one of many books i’ve read with this common theme; the method is called something different but the concept stays the same. sometimes referred to as manifestation, law of attraction, supernatural occurrences, day dreaming, wishful thinking, and this case just visualization. the author explains the increasing number of regular people incorporating this system of imagination into their lives, and not exclusively left to mystics and shamans. without making the book overly esoteric, making it much more approachable as a something natural, and demonstrates its effectiveness in grounded ways.
with that said, there are so many different authors who write about similar topics but i find this one unique in its own way. the way she words her observations is great, it feels thoughtful, intentional. there’s one part where she says “the more you are the more you have to give”. that promotes growth and a perspective that i appreciate. she references people like tchkaikovski, einstein, carl jung, mozart, making me believe she created this book with carefully with specific influences.
reading adelaide bry’s book was one of my more calming and intuitive reads yet. opening the book was always a pleasure and held my attention consistently. her writing style. and the way she describes her patients experience. her own practices comes from relaxing place that influences your daily thinking, letting you focus on your real life self. in a way i’d describe as trying to help remove distractions and resolve blockage from successfully picturing your ideal way of life.
never mind to the books publishing date being in the late 1970s. knowing the books age only reinforces the messaging by confirming these concepts are not just trends. and that visualization isn’t something new to us as we all have done it as some point, especially as children with imaginative minds so its an ability we have already and it can be developed into something that improves our live.
my main thought around visualization is that once you understand it you can’t really unlearn it. whenever i’m reading a self help book that uses the power of thought to help achieve something, i’m always more open when the writers background is in therapy and science. the mix of metaphysical with solid examples in the practicality sounds enticing, a bit mysterious and bridges our gaps with unknown. this is one of many books i’ve read with this common theme; the method is called something different but the concept stays the same. sometimes referred to as manifestation, law of attraction, supernatural occurrences, day dreaming, wishful thinking, and this case just visualization. the author explains the increasing number of regular people incorporating this system of imagination into their lives, and not exclusively left to mystics and shamans. without making the book overly esoteric, making it much more approachable as a something natural, and demonstrates its effectiveness in grounded ways.
with that said, there are so many different authors who write about similar topics but i find this one unique in its own way. the way she words her observations is great, it feels thoughtful, intentional. there’s one part where she says “the more you are the more you have to give”. that promotes growth and a perspective that i appreciate. she references people like tchkaikovski, einstein, carl jung, mozart, making me believe she created this book with carefully with specific influences.
reading adelaide bry’s book was one of my more calming and intuitive reads yet. opening the book was always a pleasure and held my attention consistently. her writing style. and the way she describes her patients experience. her own practices comes from relaxing place that influences your daily thinking, letting you focus on your real life self. in a way i’d describe as trying to help remove distractions and resolve blockage from successfully picturing your ideal way of life.
never mind to the books publishing date being in the late 1970s. knowing the books age only reinforces the messaging by confirming these concepts are not just trends. and that visualization isn’t something new to us as we all have done it as some point, especially as children with imaginative minds so its an ability we have already and it can be developed into something that improves our live.
November 21, 2014
this is the perfect book for everyone it stretches reality. it was surreal and scared the crap out of me when i saw the results. whatever you do make sure you create the visualization all the way thru the conclusion of the matter. that hoodwinked me a time or 2 but my visualization manifeasted.
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