Building the Playground

1. In the Dentist Office - wherein I discover the Inner Playground: (mp3)
2. The Inner Playground - defined
3. My Inner Inner City
4. My Own Private Hollywood
5. Part Two: Games for the Inner Player
6. Freeze Tag
7. Mother May I
8. Simon Says
9. Part Three: Building an Inner Playground
10. The Inner Seesaw
11. My Inner Swingset
12. Part Four: Introducing Serious and Silly
13. Serious and Silly (mp3)
14. Kick the Can

As wonderful as it is to have a whole mind to play with, sometimes it helps to have a small, fenced-in place to play in – a private, very personal space designed specifically for playing with which ever of my selves happen to drop by. Sometimes, even games won’t work. They take too much organizing, they make me think too much. Sometimes I just need something to play with, something where I can take myselves for a ride, something like a see saw or swing set.

Having these around allows for a particularly meditative kind of play, where myselves can reflect and relax, listen and loosen, play and be played with.

This part of the inner playground is in a deeper, more protected part of my psychological geography. If you want to come there with me, you first need to put yourself in a place where your body is safe and you can lie back and close your eyes and let you mind drift along, without worry, without attention, without interruption.