Eric Roberts on self-limiting behavior, and not realizing your talent
“Hollywood has never embraced me. Part of that is my fault because of my behavior in the past..” [imdb.com Jan 18 02]
> related topic page: self-limiting
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“Unrealized talent does not make a comfortable chair, unless you’ve sat on it your whole life, then it makes it a dangerously comfortable chair.” [ericrobertsactor.com]
> related quote: Consultant, writer and educator Annemarie Roeper affirms that “giftedness can be both a positive and a negative force. It is a burden when it has no channel for expression and it is not understood… Unsupportive environments can lead to depression, to the suppression of one’s abilities, even to feelings of desperation that could become self-destructive.”
from article Depression and Creativity by Douglas Eby
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August 11th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Neurolinguistic Programming
In the early 1970s in America Richard Bandler, then a young college student studied the work of Fritz Perls and later Virginia Satir and found that he could reproduce their high-level therapy skills to a degree that even surprised him. Bandler seemed to have a natural ability to mimic (model) the language patterns by Virginia and Fritz.
At the University of California at Santa Cruz, Bandler who was well versed in the teachings of patterns in mathematics and computers teamed up with a college professor, John Grinder to help him understand the processes that were at work. Soon Bandler and Grinder, who used what he knew about patterns in linguistics, created a new model for personal growth called NeuroLinguistic Programming.
Bandler and Grinder had set out to model the hypnotic skills of Milton Erickson. They had astounding results. They built a communication model about human “thinking” and “processing” and used that model of how we see images, hear sounds, reproduces smells and tactile experiences in our mind to track and model the structure of subjective experiences.
Sounds very complicated but really it works very simply. Here is an example as used by Paul McKenna - probably the best & most successful hypnotist in the world.
Close your eyes and think of a negative memory. Become involved in the situation as best as you can. Feel the emotions that you felt, see the things you saw and hear the things you heard.
Now take that memory and project it onto a mental screen seeing yourself in the picture. Put a frame around the picture and view it as if it is an old photograph. Next drain all the colour from the picture and shrink the screen to the size of a matchbox.
Have the feelings associated with the picture decreased in any way?
Another good example of NLP involves Anchors. Have you ever smelt a certain perfume or aftershave and had it remind you of a certain person or situation? Gone to a certain place that brings feelings long forgotten flooding back? Or been in any situation that creates emotional responses that would not normally be associated with it? Well if you can answer yes to any of these then you have experienced anchors. Some anchors are associated with positive feelings and some with negative emotions. However, you should be aware that anchors can be consciously installed or already existing ones altered. Here is an example:
Think of a time when you were really happy. If you can’t think of one then imagine something that would make you feel really happy. See what you would see, hear what you would hear and feel what you would feel. Really get into the picture and try to experience it as though it were happening now.
Now brighten the colours and make them richer. Increase the volume. Make the picture bigger, brighter, louder. That’s it and more and more….
Now press your first finger against your thumb and fully experience your happy feelings. Do this everyday for 2 weeks and you will create an anchor that will instantly recreate these feelings. Whenever you want to feel like that again just press your thumb and first finger together and wham the feelings will come flooding back! Don’t believe me? Just try it and see!!! hypnosis spiral
June 12th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Quote from article:
“Consultant, writer and educator Annemarie Roeper affirms that “giftedness can be both a positive and a negative force. It is a burden when it has no channel for expression and it is not understood… Unsupportive environments can lead to depression, to the suppression of one’s abilities, even to feelings of desperation that could become self-destructive.” end quote.
Charles Rocket was a gifted actor but he made 1 mistake which cost him what could’ve been a better career. His talent was never channelled how it could’ve been. In the last 2 years of his life he suffered from severe depression & eventually did take his life. His feelings of desperation were self-detructive.
It wasn’t until after his death that people realised what a talented gifted performer he truly was.
So I understand where this quote is coming from.