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Soul Play: Turning Your Daily Dramas Into Divine Comedies

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Imagine being the director of your own play. Imagine also being the playwright and your own cast of characters. Sound like a one-person show? It is! In Soul Play, Vivian King uses the metaphor of the "Inner Theatre" to represent your inner world and all that takes place inside your mind. The metaphor provides you with a way to identify and resolve issues on your own inner stage, and to do so when that resolution may seem impossible in the outer world. Soul Play will help you develop self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self- mastery. In reading this book, you, as one of the world's actors, can expect to become the director of your own life so you can play a more excellent part on the World Stage.

Here's a brief overview of what you'll find in this book. First, you'll consider the connection between your soul (playwright) and your play on Earth, and the reason why it's so easy to forget who you are behind all the masks you wear from day to day. Then you'll meet your "entourage"-your inner actors, director, and playwright, as well as members of your supporting cast and those in your audience. You'll take a tour of your inner theatre and explore the set. Here you'll discover what's happening on stage and behind the scenes. You'll explore the basement of your mind and also the upstairs (which I call the mysterium). After all that, you'll discover your director's inner sanctum and find your director's chair. Most importantly, you'll learn the secrets of who you are and what you do as the director. Using what I call the "three steps in directing," you'll have the opportunity to take one of your unaccomplished actors through all three steps to help! him or her become a star. To enhance that actor's new script, you and the playwright will explore how the role can be even better. Having practiced using the principles of directing, you'll realize that you now know how to work with the other actors to get your act together. Finally, you'll focus on the value of rehearsals and look more closely at the dark times in your life. You'll learn what to do when nothing seems to work and the stage appears empty. You'll discover what it means to give a peak performance and to enjoy each moment. And before completion, you'll also reflect on the roles you play in the Family, Organizational, and Community Theatres, and determine how your role fits into the larger World Play.

With her innate warmth and wisdom, Vivian King, takes the reader onto, or into, their own Inner Theatre "stage" to do some safe, enjoyable, profound, transformative work. This is her best known work, though she's known in Poland and other European countries as a great teacher, with workbooks in print in English and other languages.