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Home The Real Law of Attraction CDs Life Essentials Seminar on DVD Learn to Meditate CD Course Other Products FREE Seminar Weekend Course Relationships Film About Michael Rowland Emagazine and Relationships Articles	*- Relationships Film –* *Written and Directed by Michael Domeyko Rowland* *Bulletin Three* *Relationships – Three Great Ideas:* How can you create connection with another person? How can you enjoy intimacy and heart connection? These are the two most important questions about relationship, because without them, a relationship is dry and boring. It may be friendly and intellectually stimulating, but the juice of closeness will be missing. Firstly, the more you develop yourself, and so the more you know yourself, the more open and loving you will become. This requires you to practice introspection and meditation. Meditation frees up your loving energies and introspection allows you to know how you have been conditioned. Introspection also includes consciousness work such as Voice Dialogue (see website above). Also, in a practical, external sense here are three things you can do. 1. Don't expect too much from your partner. Many people sabotage their relationships by expecting that their partner be a perfect, enlightened person. They want them to be all knowing and put up with all the negative behaviours they throw at them, and still remain loving and always forgiving. No one is a saint and it is better to give love, which means behave in a loving way, rather than expect to receive it. 2. It is a good idea to keep turning on positive, warm and interested behaviours, and not wait for your partner to do so first. How can you do this? By practicing all the time, with everyone you meet. All characteristics have to be deliberately developed if you have not got them already. With everyone you meet, really ensure that you are connecting with them, with your eyes, your facial expressions, your manners and your language. By placing your attention fully on the other person and doing what you can to uplift them, you will create remarkable results. 3. Work to make the atmosphere of your home as sweet, considerate and friendly as you can. You home should not be a place to vent negative emotions, which are the killer to all love and all relationships. Keep negativity out of your home. Do everything you can to create a beautiful, loving, friendly, accepting, uplifting, forgiving and happy atmosphere. Also, it is a great idea to spend a few minutes before you go into your home, thinking about how you can uplift your spouse and children. What actions can you take, what behaviours can you express which will make them very pleased to see you. You will be well rewarded by their happiness. In summation, don’t expect others to give to you, before you have given to them. Next issue we will give more of these ideas. If you are enjoying these bulletins, it would be great to hear from you. Please email me at the address below. For your responses and questions about relationships, please email me at: film@pnc.com.au *TELL A FRIEND:* Please advise your friends, who would like to subscribe to these bulletins, to go to: http://www.lifeact.com/RelationshipsFilm.htm *Films:* A film must take place in a certain world. This does not refer to the planet we live on, but the world of the characters. Which means the location, the era, the settings, the buildings, the costumes, the people they interact with and all the other realities of life in any particular circumstances. If you take the characters out of their world, you will confuse the audience, and so they will not enjoy the film. So how do you create a world for the characters? The simplest example is a horror film. The characters go to the haunted house on the hill, and within the house the monsters, the vampires, or whatever, attack them and kill them. Some of course escape and manage to kill the monsters. The house on the hill contains all the elements of the characters world. It is dark and scary, high ceilings end corridors, creaking doors, unexpected bangs and footsteps, and all the normal accoutrements of a horror film. If you suddenly allowed the characters to open a window, and it was overlooking a beautiful Golden Beach, with deep blue water and lovely sunshine, you will be jarred and feel completely out of place. The mood of the film would be broken and these scary, horror emotions you were trying to create would obviously disappear. This also applies to any aspect of the world you are trying to create in your story. If you suddenly changed a characters costume into something from another world, or a character behaved in a way that particular character would not behave, or suddenly an item appeared which was out of place, this would jolt the audience out of the dream of the film. All these would cause your audience to be taken out of the emotional state which they were expecting to be in. You would lose their attention, and so the film would be a flop. So, when creating your world, make sure that it is enclosed, and consistent. What you are always trying to do with film is to draw the audience into the story so you can activate the emotions within them. The world you create is the key to this. Before you write your film make sure that each character fits into the world you are creating. And, make sure that your screenplay is consistent with that world. Many people write stories for films which are just a mixture of different ideas and do not belong together. All your ideas must to be a part of a whole. This requires you to know why you are writing the story. What is the idea that you wish to get across? Sometimes this is called the theme or the premise of the film, and it is also known as the concept of the film. You need to be able to sum up your film in one single sentence to be sure that you have understood what you are writing. Next issue we will show you how to do this.

- Relationships Film –

Written and Directed by Michael Domeyko Rowland

Bulletin Three

Relationships – Three Great Ideas:

How can you create connection with another person? How can you enjoy intimacy and heart connection? These are the two most important questions about relationship, because without them, a relationship is dry and boring. It may be friendly and intellectually stimulating, but the juice of closeness will be missing.

Firstly, the more you develop yourself, and so the more you know yourself, the more open and loving you will become. This requires you to practice introspection and meditation. Meditation frees up your loving energies and introspection allows you to know how you have been conditioned. Introspection also includes consciousness work such as Voice Dialogue (see website above).

Also, in a practical, external sense here are three things you can do.

1. Don't expect too much from your partner. Many people sabotage their relationships by expecting that their partner be a perfect, enlightened person. They want them to be all knowing and put up with all the negative behaviours they throw at them, and still remain loving and always forgiving. No one is a saint and it is better to give love, which means behave in a loving way, rather than expect to receive it.

2. It is a good idea to keep turning on positive, warm and interested behaviours, and not wait for your partner to do so first. How can you do this? By practicing all the time, with everyone you meet. All characteristics have to be deliberately developed if you have not got them already. With everyone you meet, really ensure that you are connecting with them, with your eyes, your facial expressions, your manners and your language. By placing your attention fully on the other person and doing what you can to uplift them, you will create remarkable results.

3. Work to make the atmosphere of your home as sweet, considerate and friendly as you can. You home should not be a place to vent negative emotions, which are the killer to all love and all relationships. Keep negativity out of your home. Do everything you can to create a beautiful, loving, friendly, accepting, uplifting, forgiving and happy atmosphere.

Also, it is a great idea to spend a few minutes before you go into your home, thinking about how you can uplift your spouse and children. What actions can you take, what behaviours can you express which will make them very pleased to see you. You will be well rewarded by their happiness.

In summation, don’t expect others to give to you, before you have given to them. Next issue we will give more of these ideas. If you are enjoying these bulletins, it would be great to hear from you. Please email me at the address below.

For your responses and questions about relationships, please email me at:
film@pnc.com.au

TELL A FRIEND:
Please advise your friends, who would like to subscribe to these bulletins, to go to:
http://www.lifeact.com/RelationshipsFilm.htm

Films:

A film must take place in a certain world. This does not refer to the planet we live on, but the world of the characters. Which means the location, the era, the settings, the buildings, the costumes, the people they interact with and all the other realities of life in any particular circumstances.

If you take the characters out of their world, you will confuse the audience, and so they will not enjoy the film. So how do you create a world for the characters? The simplest example is a horror film. The characters go to the haunted house on the hill, and within the house the monsters, the vampires, or whatever, attack them and kill them. Some of course escape and manage to kill the monsters.

The house on the hill contains all the elements of the characters world. It is dark and scary, high ceilings end corridors, creaking doors, unexpected bangs and footsteps, and all the normal accoutrements of a horror film.

If you suddenly allowed the characters to open a window, and it was overlooking a beautiful Golden Beach, with deep blue water and lovely sunshine, you will be jarred and feel completely out of place. The mood of the film would be broken and these scary, horror emotions you were trying to create would obviously disappear.

This also applies to any aspect of the world you are trying to create in your story. If you suddenly changed a characters costume into something from another world, or a character behaved in a way that particular character would not behave, or suddenly an item appeared which was out of place, this would jolt the audience out of the dream of the film. All these would cause your audience to be taken out of the emotional state which they were expecting to be in. You would lose their attention, and so the film would be a flop.

So, when creating your world, make sure that it is enclosed, and consistent. What you are always trying to do with film is to draw the audience into the story so you can activate the emotions within them. The world you create is the key to this.

Before you write your film make sure that each character fits into the world you are creating. And, make sure that your screenplay is consistent with that world.

Many people write stories for films which are just a mixture of different ideas and do not belong together. All your ideas must to be a part of a whole.

This requires you to know why you are writing the story. What is the idea that you wish to get across? Sometimes this is called the theme or the premise of the film, and it is also known as the concept of the film.

You need to be able to sum up your film in one single sentence to be sure that you have understood what you are writing. Next issue we will show you how to do this.