or foolish trying to speak English. As you remember this bad experience,
again notice the details of your internal movie. See the memory in your
mind. Notice if this movie has sound, and notice how you feel in the movie.
First, bring this negative movie screen closer to you, making it bigger.
Make the sounds louder and vibrate the feelings faster. Most people will
feel worse by doing this. That’s not what you want. So now do the opposite.
Push the movie screen farther away, making the movie smaller. Then make
the movie darker and harder to see in your mind. Imagine this movie screen
has a button that controls volume. Grab that button and turn it down,
making the sounds quieter. In fact, turn off the sound completely. Finally,
take a deep breath and calm your feelings.
By doing all of these things, you’ll notice that the negative feelings are
much weaker, or gone completely. You have taken an unhappy memory and
made it powerless by consciously directing your mind. Most people believe
that memories are unchangeable, but you have just proven that you are, in
fact, in control of your memories. The same is true of your thoughts.
You have a choice. You can be the conscious director of your mind or
you can let your brain run wild. Most people do the latter and they feel
powerless. They are controlled by negative thoughts and memories and bad
experiences. This is not necessary. You can choose to run your brain,
directing it to produce the thoughts, feelings and actions you desire.
You can make the negative powerless and you can also increase the
strength of positive memories, thoughts, beliefs and goals. You can control
your brain instead of being controlled by it. This process not only works for
memories, it also works for goals you want to achieve in the future. Think
of a big goal for English, one of those large and inspiring goals that will
change your life.
Close your eyes as you think of this goal. Now consciously make a
movie for that goal. You are the director! See yourself speaking English
powerfully to other people. Choose a situation that inspires you. As you
look at this movie, notice the faces of the other people as they listen to you.
See them smiling as they understand and enjoy your English! Grab that
