SWEEPING THE EMOTIONAL CHIMNEYS

We carry all our emotions in our mind all the time, but we use only a small part of them.
We feel that some of our emotions are forbidden: "we must think only good thoughts, be kind and polite".

In Finnish Theater College they did this kind of "mind opening" exercise.

Students were trying to face their all different kinds of emotions one by one so deeply they could:

- students were silently on the floor their eyes and ears closed

- they were going into each emotion so deeply, as far as they could go

- when they reached that critical point they could not go any further

- they came enough backwards and stayed there long enough

- after that they tried to go a little bit further than earlier

- by sweeping those emotional chimneys enough they could touch their real ego

- and use it

This way they swept their all emotional chimneys so they can use those emotions safely.

In movie therapy we can work the same way:

- Touch our emotions more and more by safe way and became stronger and stronger

Good enough self-esteem means that we know who we are, what we can do and feel and be free.

Thanks to professor Kari Väänänen and teacher, musician Martti Syrjä