Insights from Impro Theatre

[jedimasters]

Hey.

My intention with this post is as always to express some of the insights that I've gathered. In this case, from going to Improvisational Theatre workshops, more commonly refferred to as 'Impro'. 

So I talk a lot to myself, and in many cases I name the different parts of my self. I mean we all speak the same language here on the forum, right? So I have this practice that I call the Higher Self practice. This is where I take a step back to kind of look at and analyze my life in a birds perspective. And whatever my ego is doing, making stories or arguing internally about stuff, I name these as different parts of my ego / my lower self, the part that is being observed. For example, let's look at one part of you which might have a negative outlook on life, "Guh fakin holdays", yup that's his name. And this is where improvisation comes into the picture. Now you let him express himself fully. Preferably you're going to speak and fully embody until he is done speaking. You can also experiment with writing all this out. Could look something like this 

"Gah these fakin holidays. You know my family bluuh I love em but bluuuuh this is fucking so tiresome everyone is doing something wrooooogn allllll the timmmmemeee ememememememememememememe gaaaaaaaaaaaa. Im in disgust. Disgusted with life Bluuuuuuuh." 

And now relax. Just allow this part to relax. And show some emathy. As the higher self. The hugher self could also say something like "I love you. You are a part of me, although you are not the entirety of me. And these beliefs and feelings of disgust does not reflect the infinite love that we are." 

This, by the way, is also a way of Ghestalt. And it builds on the a philosophy that you have opposing parts on the inside. So we got on the one side "ga these fakin Holidays' and he is sp disgusted and tired that he doesnt even give a shit about knowin his name. And on the other hand you got "mr.Holly jolly christmas". And he is quite opposite. 

He is more like "yo, I am incredibly grateful for this wonderful magical time to spend christmas. It's just so incredibly wonderful that this could possibly happen. We live in this amazing country, and get to spend time together with amazing people, and get to play around in amazing ways and eat amaizing food and talk together about the amazing things we are discovering in and about life. And whith my dad. Dont get me started. Its so nice. So incredibly nice, wehave amazing quality time together, it's beautiful, amazing and sweet. 

Is there peace between these parts. Well, we have to start to let these parts talk together. And facilitate this little conflict as the higher self.