We saw the new movie, Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio last night – prompted by the family.  The trailers didn’t look so interesting to me, but I thought Inception was excellent.

Being someone who dreams a lot every night, with sometimes 3 or 4 dreams, many of which I remember, I loved the plotline of separating dreams from reality.  I also really liked the “dream within a dream” ideas that are the main story.

The main thrust of Inception is that it is possible to plant an idea into the unconscious human mind, if all of the blocks, projections and geography are navigated correctly.  I won’t be a spoiler and ruin the many surprises for you – but suffice to say that the movie flirts with so many elements of real life, it’s a certified thriller.

Think of it as the Matrix, Blade Runner, James Bond and Alice in Wonderland on steroids.  Getting about a 50-50 mixed array of reviews from critics, a few said that it contained “mundane scenarios” of dreamscapes (the NY Times was one of those).  That’s exactly what made it even more interesting for me.  The dreams in Inception were at times ordinary, and then the mundane was twisted into most bizarre scenarios.

What made it really excellent was that it tapped my beliefs in the Descartian notion “to think is to create.”  Like the ancient and now highly-commercialized “law of attraction” (The Secret and The Power of Positive Thinking), believing in yourself, and in possibilities often creates possibilities.  Our mind, and what we hold as values, beliefs and matrixes of what is real are very, very powerful.  Our realities can indeed be shaped by what we imagine.

So – in terms of health and spirituality, and your personal relationship with happiness and health – the inception of belief in you might be to imagine that you are healthier and healthier.  Perhaps if you think you can lose weight, eat well, exercise, make a good living, and have a great life – with God’s help – you will!

Go see Inception.  It’s great.