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Discover the
Secrets of Method Acting - Part 4
By
Neils Bohr
The Breakfast Drink is the
first Sense Memory exercise.
The Breakfast Drink
The purpose of this exercise is to experience and fix in
memory the reliving of all the sensory aspects of the
breakfast drink. Choose what you habitually drink in the
morning (e.g. a cold fruit juice or a hot drink like tea
or coffee). Take the cup or glass in both hands and
concentrate on your five senses one at a time. Breathe in
the smell. Concentrate on the aroma.
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Allow
yourself to feel the heat, steam or cold of the cup.
Explore the cup with your hands. Note the weight and
texture of it. Be aware of the patterns or decorations on
the cup. Note any cracks, nicks or flaws. Listen to the
liquid as you stir it or swirl it. See the color, size and
shape of the cup. Taste the liquid. Be aware of the
temperature, texture and flavor. Also pay attention to the
cup against you mouth.
This whole procedure should
be done slowly. Deeply explore all of the sensations. The
more time to devote to exploration, the more beneficial
the exercise becomes. The idea is to be entirely focused
and completely concentrated on the breakfast drink.
Now set the container down,
turn away and repeat the entire procedure without the
breakfast drink.
If you find that you are not
able to recreate some of the sensations experienced with
the actual cup or glass in your hand, go back to the
physical object itself and explore it again. Concentrate
on weak sensory aspects as you work with the container
(for example, if you cannot re-live the odor, return to
the drink and focus on the odor in particular). By thus
alternating between the actual drink and imaginarily
re-experiencing the drink, weak sensory aspects may be
strengthened.
The goal of this exercise is
to improve concentration, but specifically this is an
attempt to determine how many of your senses are working.
The "breakfast drink" refers
to coffee. Coffee has a distinct smell. As you have
learned, smell is an important trigger for memory recall.
Using a cup of coffee as the breakfast drink will make the
exercise easier. However, the exercise is called the
breakfast drink so that any cup and liquid may be used.
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