Feel Good Helpers
In a world full of bad news and negativity, it can be challenging to stay aligned with our higher, inner nonphysical selves. The internet, TV, and print bombard us with images and information that doesn’t make us feel good.
Some movies, books, and TV shows, though, can inspire us to see the world in new, more positive ways. They can teach us to be more aligned. They can leave us feeling good.
This is a list of some movies, books, and shows that have helped me stay aligned. Maybe you’ll find something here that will help you feel good.
[Note: The list is a project-in-process, so check back for new entries.]
[If you have any movie, book, show or other feel good helper suggestions, please leave them in the comments. Let's help each other feel good!]
Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a wonderful corny musical made in 1954. It’s a great reminder that just because we can’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t about to appear.
Brigadoon is an enchanted Scottish village that received a miracle in the 1700s. Now, when the townspeople go to sleep, they slumber for 100 years. They wake up and enjoy their day and sleep again for 100 years. New Yorkers Tommy and Jeff stumble over the village when they’re out hunting. Tommy falls in love with one of the village women, Fiona, and he has to choose between the “real” world he knows and this seemingly impossible reality of a disappearing village.
After the village teacher, Mr. Lundie explains the town to Tommy, Tommy asks if the townspeople are happy living just one day every 100 years. Mr Lundie answers, “Of course, lad. After all, sunshine can peek through a wee hole.”
Later, when Tommy tries to explain his strange decision to give up his New York life to join the village, he tells his friend, Jeff, “I’ve found that sometimes the things you believe in become more real to you than all the things you can explain away and understand.”
These two quotes capture two important principles of the Abraham-Hicks teachings. First, even if everything seems lousy, you can still find good feelings because “sunshine can peek through a wee hole.” Second, if you focus long enough, your virtual reality will become more real than all the “facts” you’ve been taught.
Shallow Hal
Hal (Jack Black) is shallow. He thinks the only women worth anything are the ones that are physically beautiful. One day, Hal gets stuck in an elevator with motivational speaker, expert Tony Robbins. Tony tells Hal that Hal has a pattern of seeing only physical beauty. Tony uses neurolinguistic programming, NLP, (the movie doesn’t label the technique, but that’s what it is) to break Hal’s pattern and imprint a new one.
From that point on, Hal sees only inner beauty. That’s when he meets Rosemary. Rosemary, in reality, is a hugely obese woman, but Hal sees her as stunning (Gwyneth Paltrow plays the vision he sees). Hal falls in love with Rosemary while his amazed friends, who see Rosemary in the “real” way, look on.
Finally, one of Hal’s friends, can’t take it anymore. He finds Tony Robbins and gets Tony to tell him how to undo what Tony did so Hal can see reality again. Tony finally agrees, and Hal returns to his old self.
He’s not happy about it. He still loves Rosemary. He asks his friend why his friend did what he did, and his friend explains that what Hal saw wasn’t real.
Hal says, “If you see something and hear it and smell it, what keeps it from being real?”
His friend says, “Third party perspective. Other people agreeing that it’s real.”
Hal asks his friend who his perfect woman is. His friend likes Wonder Woman. Hal asks what his friend would do if everyone told him Wonder Woman was ugly. His friend said he wouldn’t believe them because he knows she’s beautiful. Hal asks how that’s different.
This little romantic comedy is a blueprint for understanding how to feel good in the world. It’s also the key to understanding the law of attraction.
We get what we get in life because we’re a vibrational match to it. If we look at “reality” and see ugliness, we get more ugliness. But if we look at reality and see beauty, even if beauty isn’t there (from that third party perspective), we experience beauty. We then become a vibrational match to beauty, and beauty comes to us.
This movie is powerful inspiration for choosing how you want to see the world and seeing it that way no matter what other people have to say about it.
The Guru
The Guru is about a young man, Ramu Guptal, played by Jimi Mistry, who comes to the United States from India intending to find fame and fortune as an actor and dancer.
Ramu’s plan doesn’t go well. He finds himself on the set of a porno movie, unable to get certain of his equipment to function properly for his role. One bizarre thing leads to another and Ramu ultimately finds himself in the role of “The Sex Guru” to rich people. He’s a total fake, but he has one good piece of advice for his clients, the advice he’s lived by, the advice that brought him to the United States to begin with. Ramu tells people, “Move your feet to the beat of your heart.”
His desire for success was really about feeling good. When he got the success, he realized it didn’t make him feel all that good because he was lying to others and to himself. By becoming true to himself (being aligned with his inner being), Ramu ends up with the love of his life. Then he feels good!
This movie is a great reminder to listen to your inner wisdom. You always know when you’re on track if you pay attention to what Abraham-Hicks calls your guidance system. This system is your emotions. Feel good? You’re aligned with your true self. Feel bad? You’re not aligned.
Remembering to “move your feet to the beat of your heart” is the way to align with what you desire.
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride is full of inspiration for manifesting your reality.
Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) and Wesley (Cary Elwes) share true love. When Wesley is supposedly murdered by Dread Pirate Roberts, Buttercup agrees to marry Prince Humperdink even though she doesn’t love him. When she discovers Wesley is still alive, she promises to never doubt him again. Even though he’s captured and it looks like she’s going to have to marry the Prince, she isn’t bothered. She tells the Prince she’s sure her love will come for her.
Later in the movie, Princess Buttercup makes an agreement with the Prince that he’ll send four ships to find Wesley and if Wesley comes before the marriage, he has to let her go. Eventually, she finds out that the Prince never sent the ships, but she’s undaunted. She knows Wesley will come. Her knowing is calm and unwavering.
In the meantime, for 20 years, Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) has been looking for the man who killed his father. He discovers the killer is close by, and he needs to find Wesley so Wesley will help Inigo get into the castle to get the killer. Inigo’s sidekick, Fezzig tells Inigo that they don’t know where Wesley is, and Inigo says, “Don’t bother me with trifles.” After 20 years, he’s close to getting his revenge, so he’s not interested in the obstacles. When they go looking for Wesley, Inigo calls on his dead father’s help to guide his sword to locate the entrance to the secret place where Wesley is being held.
The theme of true love and its constancy pervades this movie. Abraham-Hicks says that love is the highest vibration we can have. When we feel love, we are totally aligned with our highest self. You can see the results of that in The Princess Bride. Buttercup and Wesley defy outrageous odds to end up together. Their love and their knowing that they’ll be together attract what they want. Inigo’s love for his father brings him what he wants to.
Billy Joel has a cameo in this movie, playing a character called Miracle Max. When I watch The Princess Bride, I find it much easier to believe in miracles, i.e., my ability to create reality by using the law of attraction.
