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Welcome to Lifebuilder! In this week's edition, we focus not so much on content - what we learn - but how we learn. Life is a learning journey and we all know instinctively that not learning and growing are negative behaviours that run counter to our fundamental life purpose, which is to experience and to grow in consciousness. However, despite the critical importance of learning and the ability to learn in life, we are never really taught how to learn properly and many of us are stuck in old rote learning methods we picked up at school, and consider learning tedious and laborious. Many people shy away from personal development because they think it involves reading lots of books, attending long-winded seminars and doing lots of laborious exercises, all of which is not much fun, so they prefer to go and watch a movie or do any one of the innumerable other activities available to entertain themselves. 

But what if learning to grow yourself and your life could be a very positive experience, entertaining and fun at the same time as profound and transformational? And what if the medium by which the learning takes place could put people into an alpha brain wave state, an open and relaxed brain wave state that has been shown to be highly conducive to effective learning? Would many more people then not be helped to start the process of personal growth that is the real reason for this journey we call life? Asking these questions led us to develop the concept of Entertrainment - using entertainment in the form of movies to help people to learn more about themselves and become wiser, more loving and more successful human beings. 

We tested the concept last month with two screenings of the movie The Secret and it was an overwhelming success, so we have now decided to run a regular monthly movie followed by a short interactive training session based on the principles highlighted in the movie. We are showing the mind-blowing movie What the Bleep Do We Know next Wednesday the 21st of February at 6 p.m. at the FNB Conference Centre in Sandton, and also doing a full-day workshop where we will show The Secret again on the morning of Saturday the 3rd of March, and to show that there are powerful messages in movies that are not made for the sole purpose of delivering a message, a commercial blocbuster, Episode 3 of the Star Wars movies, Revenge of the Sith, that afternoon. 

The movies will be followed by training / workshop sessions that summarise and synthesize the principles in the movie and explain how to live them. If you have family members or friends who have always scorned your efforts to grow personally (and most of us do!), try inviting them to one of these movies, as the fact that they are going to watch an entertaining movie may persuade them. Because this is entertainment first and learning second, these Entertrainment events are also a highly effective way to get children to pay attention through the entertainment of the movie, and then help them to learn from it by interpreting the movie for them. These are lessons that will help them immensely in their journey through life, and I believe there is no better way to help them to grow personally than through the Entertrainment concept. 

See the Events section below for more information about these events, our feature article for more about the Entertrainment concept, or click here to go directly to the web site and get all the information and book your seats for the event there. If you live outside Johannesburg and cannot come to these events, but are interested in being notified when we run an Entertrainment event in your area, you can tell us if you want to be notified when we do this by filling in a form on this site. If you would like us to run an Entertrainment event specially for your organisation, please also visit our web site to find out more about the concept and then click here and send the email that pops up to enquire about this.

We hope to see you at one of these events, and enjoy this week's article!


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Entertrainment - A New Concept in Personal Growth

The biggest challenge facing someone wanting to grow personally is the tremendous energy of the world that wants them to stay just as they are. This 'mind energy' is expressed in the huge amount of entertainment that we produce and consume voraciously as a society - movies, television, music, computer games, sport and even (or sometimes especially!) shopping are all forms of entertainment. 

The problem with all this entertainment is that it distracts us from the real reason we are alive - to discover who we really are and what our true purpose is. All the great spiritual teachers of the past have emphasized the need for meditation, quiet contemplation and reflection in order to discover this Truth within us, something that is almost impossible when the mind and body are engaged in all these activities. However, almost every movie you watch puts you into another world where anything becomes possible and one's disbelief and cynicism is suspended for a while. This relaxed and open state of mind, referred to by neuroscientists as an 'Alpha' brain wave state, is not only very relaxing and pleasant to experience, but is the ideal state for true learning to occur. This is why we all love to watch movies - they temporarily allow us to get out of our ordinary stressed state of cluttered and cynical mind (technically referred to as a 'Beta' brain wave state) and to relax and experience a magical journey into another world for a time. 

If the movie is uplifting and has a positive message, we leave the cinema feeling uplifted and inspired; conversely, if it is a movie filled with violence and all the other dark passions human beings are capable of, we would have absorbed some of that energy and feel a corresponding negative emotion. Either way, the experience the movie has given us has changed our internal state for better or worse, and we may also have come out with some new conceptual understanding from absorbing the content of the movie (OK, maybe not if it was a 'Rambo' type movie!). We have had both an emotional experience and a cognitive realisation in a highly receptive state of consciousness, which any expert on learning worth her salt will tell you are the two key factors that make for effective learning. 

Personal experience of watching movies like The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know and the theoretical knowledge of learning and brain wave states made me ask how I could use movies and possibly other entertainment media as well as a vehicle for spreading higher consciousness, enlightenment, 'good vibes' or whatever else you want to call this Truth in the world. In other words, use the very things that ordinarily prevent most people living in modern society from finding the Truth to help them realise it! This would also be an engaging and fun experience for people of all ages, overcoming the big handicap that most personal development training has of being too conceptual and not experiential enough, and hence too uninteresting for most people's entertainment-hungry minds to pay attention to or absorb. And so 'Entertrainment', a new concept in personal growth, was born. Click here to read more about it and the upcoming Entertrainment events.  

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