Life is full of pain and problems. Often we get
into a stuck place and can’t find a way out. Sure there are
lots of things that can help; faith, therapy, medications. But
the simple fact is that it is very hard to clearly see the dynamics
of our pain. We are like fish trying to understand what water is,
we have to be thrown up onto the shore to realize what we have
been swimming in.
Now comes Recess for the Soul.
The idea is deceptively simple. We can all remember playing. These
memories are of us at a younger and less complicated time and place.
A place that is safe, and more importantly, fun. And not “fun” in
the hectic superficial way of Disney, but real fun that is challenging,
and revealing and engaging, where we are at the center of the universe
and all powerful. From this remembered playground we can easily
conduct a wonderful little dialog with our selves - all our varied
and multi-faceted selves.
Original ideas are very rare. Ideas that have this level of power
and effectiveness rarer still. I commend Recess for the Soul to
anyone who is searching for a new way of being, or of salving old
injury, or is facing one of life’s great hurdles. It is a
tool of incomparable effectiveness whether for personal growth
or in process with others.
Like, Recess for the Soul, its author Bernie DeKoven
is unassuming, but also one of the extraordinary thinkers of our
age. These ideas deserve a book at least if not a whole new branch
of psychotherapy.
I was concerned the first time I listened to the CD, thinking
how much stuff was packed in there and how glad I was that I had
taken one of Bernie’s workshops. Then I learned that the
website had the whole script as well as other support information
online so one could immediately put this powerful technique to
use in one’s life or practice.
Highly, recommended.
.Jay Beckwith, inventor, play advocate, Boldr |
