Play is an important part of child development. Play initiates a curiousity and enjoyment. A conerstone of a good therapy is the ability of the person to be playfully curious about themselves. And notice. To have learnt to play in safety gives a looseness, a spontaniety. A mocking playful sense of self as being odd, quirky, nonsensical, contradictory, absurd, ridiculous.

To explore yourself skeptically, from the viewpoint of an outsider with a playful curiousity, gains awareness of who you are, how you are, and your journey taken to this point now in the present.

If you have no experience of play as a child – then the reaction is to be tight. Scenarios have to be predicted to be made safe. Unplanned happenings are frightening and provoke fear anxiety. Self protection is the big driver blocking off play and creativity. Adults are lucky to play. Most have an internal super ego that has gone beyond the role of looking after. Holding back, keeping down. Beholden to the man.

Children are allowed to play more than adults. Adults have pets to play. Laugh and encourage the pet to play is admissable. But can the adult do the same?

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