HOW TO TEACH EMOTIONAL DISORDERS AND FICTION - FOUR PERSPECTIVES JOURNEY LIKE A PRO
External fantasy stories mimic how your internal emotional system works. When your mind travels through a fictional story, book, or movie, you change from four perspectives without being aware of it.
The four perspectives you travel through when going on an external story or internal emotional journey are:
Objective method
A subjective approach
An acceptable method of arguing for an 'acceptable' solution (one that you believe will lead to psychological and emotional harmony).
Unacceptable view Arguing for an 'unacceptable' solution (which you currently believe is the cause of your mental and emotional dilemma).
If you're aware of traveling through these perspectives when observing external fiction, you're probably a student of the structure of fiction, a critic, or a writer of fiction who realizes he's not very good at his job. To fully enjoy a fictional story you have to be carried away and willing to 'suspend your disbelief' to let the story travel as if it were real.
If you are struggling with a mental disorder, however, the opposite is the case. You need to be fully aware of these four methods to stop the negatively charged internal narratives you are currently carrying. They may have the ability to convey a sense of reality but the truth is that they are nothing more than emotionally charged inner stories. To heal from them you must become the author of your own inner experiences.
A person with a phobia or obsession has an unfinished story going on in their body. All you need to do in order to complete such an internal story is to travel through all four perspectives to completely drain the emotional energy associated with it.
The most effective way to travel through these pathways is to initiate the discharge of energy (not by trying to think your way through it). This is how change in perspective is created - through 'feeling'. To do this you focus your conscious point on the center of your emotions just like you would before going to see a movie.
Just a word of warning here – make sure you have a professional support network (eg doctor; counselor) before you decide you're going to start turning to your inner negatively charged stories. When working on internal stories you don't just watch your 'film', you also play all the characters involved on an emotional level.
We enjoy fantasy stories and other similar external journeys, because they mimic the entire experiential pathway we follow when creating and expressing an emotional response to a real or imagined triggering event. Expository fiction allows us to do this while remaining emotionally connected to their subject while remaining in control.
Think of a fictional story that you really enjoyed. You enjoy it more than others because of the emotional satisfaction you get. The story created your emotional response (with your help) and then provided a means of emotional release at the end of the story.
We deliberately avoid extraterrestrial fictions where we decide that they will not produce any emotional content for us or that they will produce such intense emotions that we will not be able to express our reactions at the end of the story.
Unfortunately when dealing with a stuck and incomplete internal narrative they are usually the type of narrative we don't want to observe in the outside world.
Now let's take a closer look at the four approaches, but I want you to remember as we - I understand while writing this and it may take some time for you - we're going to look at the four approaches. In four ways. It is holographic in nature, it is a matter of perspective.
Objective method
The objective approach is the most peaceful of the four approaches - you feel emotionally neutral here - although you don't feel calm here because you've tipped into the subjective approach.
The objective point of view actually appears twice in the point of view cycle - at the beginning and after the cycle is complete - so we can say that there are actually five points of view with the first point of view being the objective point of the pre-story. perspective and the fifth perspective is the post-story. Objective method.
In post-story objective perspective you have completed an external or internal story journey and the overall objective perspective has changed.
The objective perspective has you perched on a hilltop watching the story's battlefield like a proud military general. You see the various characters below struggling to fight, your current opinion
The four perspectives you travel through when going on an external story or internal emotional journey are: Objective method A subjective approach An acceptable method of arguing for an 'acceptable' solution (one that you believe will lead to psychological and emotional harmony). If you are aware of traveling through these perspectives when observing external fiction, you are probably a student of the structure of fiction, a critic, or a writer of fiction who realizes he's not very good at his job. To fully enjoy a fictional story you have to be carried away and willing to 'suspend your disbelief' to let the story travel as if it were real. You need to be fully aware of these four methods to stop the negatively charged internal narratives you are currently carrying. All you need to do in order to complete such an internal story is to travel through all four perspectives to completely drain the emotional energy associated with it. To do this you focus your conscious point on the center of your emotions just like you would before going to see a movie. The story created your emotional response and then provided a means of emotional release at the end of the story. Unfortunately when dealing with a stuck and incomplete internal narrative they are usually the type of narrative we do not want to observe in the outside world. In post-story objective perspective you have completed an external or internal story journey and the overall objective perspective has changed. You see the various characters below struggling to fight, your current opinion
In post-story objective perspective you have completed an external or internal story journey and the overall objective perspective has changed. Unfortunately when dealing with a stuck and incomplete internal narrative they are usually the type of narrative we do not want to observe in the outside world. The story created your emotional response and then provided a means of emotional release at the end of the story. If you are aware of traveling through these perspectives when observing external fiction, you are probably a student of the structure of fiction, a critic, or a writer of fiction who realizes he's not very good at his job. You need to be fully aware of these four methods to stop the negatively charged internal narratives you are currently carrying.
