Dr. Maria Grace is a self-fulfillment expert and is the author of "Reel Fulfillment" finding fulfillment through movies. In this abridged interview, we're going to talk about effective weight loss plans, stress management and how you can prepare healthy meals.

Abridged Interview with Self Fulfillment Expert - Dr. Maria Grace

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Kevin Gianni: This is Kevin Gianni from the Fountain of Youth World Summit. On the line with me now is Dr. Maria Grace. Maria is a self-fulfillment expert and is the author of "Reel Fulfillment" finding fulfillment through movies. Tonight, we're going to talk about effective weight loss plans, stress management and how you can prepare healthy meals.

Let's start by talking about how movies have made their way into your self fulfillment practice.

Dr. Grace: Well, sure, I have always tried in my practice to find ways to help my clients know faster through their issues and especially their defenses and early on I used myths and stories. I'm originally Greek and Greek mythology has a wealth of stories about the various stages of life and in fact myths have always been used in cultures to help people understand themselves better and navigate the changes they experience as they move from one stage of personal development to another. You know, from adolescence to adulthood to married life to parenthood to mature age to old age and then to death. If you look into mythology it's all about the stages of life. So this is what I've started using in my practice, but eventually I realized that my clients felt easier and better talking about their favorite movies.

And I found that many of them had heroes and characters that they identified with or they did not identify with and they remade their problems to me through a certain character. Like Neo in The Matrix or Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams or whatever movie they would see, you know?

And so all of a sudden I realized that the modern myths in this culture are the movies and that I have a treasure in my hands that I could use to help my clients lose weight, find self fulfillment, set goals, or eat healty. So I started teaching seminars and in which I used films to make, to teach concepts about self-development and personal development and personal growth and self-awareness and that turned into a whole method which I eventually received an award for and wrote a book which is Reel Fulfillment which we should tell people that it's spelled r-e-e-l fulfillment and this is what the book is about. It's about how to use lessons from popular movies to improve many aspects of your life in 12 steps.

Kevin: How can someone use a movie or even a myth to start living their lives?

Dr. Grace: My book starts with The Matrix and my client Thomas, that's not his real name, who was someone who identified with Neo in The Matrix. He was a computer whiz, young, his early 30s, and very, very dissatisfied with his life and he was an avid movie go-er and movie lover and he made very little progress in therapy until I suggested that he watch The Matrix. Now I don't know why I had that epiphany but I did.

And so he came back and he said, "Maria, there is no spoon". He sat down in my office and his first, the first thing he said was, "Maria, there is no spoon" and I said, "What is that?" He said, "There's no spoon. There's no spoon. I got it. I got it, Maria, there's no spoon." Now he was referring to the theme, if you have seen The Matrix, where Neo is about to receive, he has received the calling that he's the one to change the world and goes through the oracle and outside the oracle's kitchen there is young boy who looks like a guru with a shaved head and bends the spoon using mind control and Neo asks him, "How do you do this?" He looks puzzled, and the boy turns and says, "It's simple. There is no spoon."

Now something about that theme really hit home for my client and what he saw was that in fact if he could find focus, if he could use his mind to focus on his goals and his desires that would eliminate the obstacles that he was projecting out there in the world. So the spoon was representing an inner obstacle that was projected out there. For example, I'm ugly, I'm fat, I will measure up to nothing, no on likes me, I'm not a good lover, I'm not a good friend, I'm not this, I'm not good at this or that. All these are statements that reflect negative thoughts that we have about ourselves that we project out there in the world and of course those negative thoughts go out there and find situations to attach themselves to.

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