- In the Dentist Office - wherein
I discover the Inner Playground: (mp3)
- The Inner Playground -
defined
- My Inner Inner City
- My Own Private Hollywood
- Part Two: Games for the Inner Player
- Freeze Tag
- Mother May I
- Simon Says
- Part Three: Building an Inner Playground
- The Inner Seesaw
- My Inner Swingset
- Part Four: Introducing Serious and Silly
- Serious and Silly (mp3)
- Kick the Can
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Imagine that there are only two players in your
inner playground – one, who tends to be very rational, clear
headed, sober, objective, serious, and all that is therein implied.
Let’s call that one “Serious.” And another, who
likes to be funny, to joke around, to do the unexpected, who is
unpredictable and not really that reliable, who, in short, is for
all intents and purposes, silly. That one, we’ll call, um, “Silly.”
To help you imagine these two players, you might want to find
a mirror, or some other surface upon which you can, so to speak,
reflect. Make
the most serious, grown-up, purposeful face you can. In fact,
you better make several. Keep on doing this until you find the one
face that is clearly and inarguably serious. It’d help
if you could take a picture. If not, imagine that you did. Next,
do the same thing
with your silly face – the silliest face you can make,
the one face that you could never mistake for anything else but.
See also: The Importance
of Being Silly from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi |
