I was just thinking today about integration and how taking action helps with integrating a subliminal. But an idea popped into my mind and had me wondering, could method acting help with integrating or incorporating certain personality traits from a subliminal’s objective? Let’s say you run primal seduction and one of the objectives is to be more masculine, if you embodied a character who was masculine and dominant, like actors do with a role, with that make the integration easier and more fluid?
I read that actors can get so lost in a role so much that they begin to adopt the traits of their character, blurring the lines between the character and the actor
from the article, what really stood out to me:
These studies didn’t involve overt acting, nor professional actors, and yet merely spending some time thinking about another person seemed to rub off on the volunteers’ sense of self. ‘[B]y simply thinking about another person, we may adapt our self to take the shape of that person,’ said Meyer and her colleagues. In light of these findings, it is little wonder that actors, who sometimes spend weeks, months or even years fully immersed in the role of another person, might experience a drastic alteration to their sense of self.
That our sense of self should have this ephemeral quality might be a little disconcerting, especially for anyone who has struggled to establish a firm sense of identity. Yet there is an optimistic message here, too. The challenge of improving ourselves – or at least seeing ourselves in a more positive light – might be a little easier than we thought. By roleplaying or acting out the kind of person we would like to become, or merely by thinking about and spending time with people who embody the kind of attributes we would like to see in ourselves, we can find that our sense of self changes in desirable ways. ‘As each of us chooses who to befriend, who to model, and who to ignore,’ write Meyer and her colleagues, ‘we must make these decisions aware of how they shape not only the fabric of our social networks, but even our sense of who we are.’
Would love to know your input on this.