Invitations to Play

There is so much brilliance, beauty, advice, solace and humor embedded as packets of information in the alive field of oneness that is both around and within us. It really is as though it is up to us to choose what we want to investigate, experience and see, then life obliges us with an abundance of material to explore, make meaning of, and enjoy. 

I've found the stream of intelligent, loving collective presence to be available at any time, eager to engage when I ask it to. I've come to genuinely love this friendly-alive-ready-profound-loyal-playful-super-down-to-hang-out-with-us Beingness we are surrounded by and expressed out of. It is the real wilderness, the untameable, tender force within that I want to get closer and closer to. 

As much as a deep, regular practice of one process or channel can help us get to know and build up a relationship with Source, it also has a lot of value to try interpreting Source field information using different channels, especially ones that might not feel so native to us. The added ingredient of not being trained or feeling awkward in that medium can be helpful for accessing certain parts of consciousness. Playing in channels we aren't comfortable in can be a way to discover parts of us that have been preserved and remain rather original.  

It can also be useful to weave back and forth between channels, in an approach known to expressive arts therapists as "intermodal", meaning that you follow a bit of information you're getting by expanding it into different channels, where you may gain different perspectives on the same material and more thoroughly integrate it into your many levels and layers of intelligence. 

All process play invitations I present here are ways to connect with our inner wild, Source or however we might like to name that loving, powerful, wise, uncapturable something and its wonderful, revitalizing point of view for us. While getting to know the inner wild, we also get to know the more personalized animal within, the one that is unique - who we turn out to be when we're not faking it anymore. 

I share approaches I learned, adapted or made up that I have found personally fruitful. The idea is that if they worked for me, and others, they could work for you, or at least set you on your path to finding, tailoring, or inventing a process approach that helps you get in touch with your wilderness in the way you want to.

The right way to think about them is, in my opinion, to try them out if they twinkle for you in some way, and to feel completely free to ignore them if they do not resonate. Your inner resonance is the aptest of guides towards what your being wants to play with. I don't believe in doing anything else.  

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Thumbnail image reverently appropriated from Ruth Heller's Animals Born Alive and Well.