| I am currently rehearsing the role of Rosalind in As | | | | the character you're playing or feels more comfortable |
| You Like It with the Living Willow Community Company | | | | to wear. If you're brave enough, drop all the costumes |
| and what a gift of a part she is too; mercurial in her | | | | and make-up and choose to perform as the real you! |
| wit, passionate in her love, wise in her understanding | | | | What is even more amazing to realize, is that not only |
| and active in her desire to help others. She also | | | | are we the actor in our own play but we are also the |
| spends most of the play pretending to be a boy which | | | | script-writer, director, location manager and casting |
| is an education in itself........ | | | | agent. We choose everything that happens to us and |
| For a long time now I have recognized the spiritual | | | | if we don't like the way it's going at the moment we |
| significance of my acting hobby, aware that becoming | | | | can effect a wholesale rewrite! Just bring into focus a |
| another person for a short time taught me about the | | | | clear picture of what you want to create in your life |
| roles we play in life, the illusions we maintain for public | | | | and then make it happen. It really is that simple. |
| presentation, the importance of compassion for those | | | | A fantastic exercise to help you with this ancient |
| in different circumstances than ourselves and most of | | | | understanding (you may have heard it called |
| all our incredible capacity to change and become | | | | manifestation, cosmic ordering or the law of attraction) |
| anything we wish to be. I have sometimes arrived at | | | | is to choose a situation in your life that is currently |
| rehearsal tired after a long day at work, only to find | | | | unsatisfactory for you. Now, imagine that you're the |
| myself lifted by Rosalind's infectious joyfulness as she | | | | director for a movie of this situation and you can make |
| embraces fully each moment life offers her. Living her | | | | the story happen exactly as you want it to. Where |
| story I have experienced that self-awareness is vital | | | | would you be? Who would you be with (we'll allow an |
| and happiness is literally a choice. She herself says to | | | | endless supply of Jonny Depps and Sandra Bullocks |
| the incurably melancholy Jacques, "I had rather have a | | | | for the purposes of this exercise)?! What would you |
| fool to make me merry, than experience to make me | | | | be doing or saying? What would happen? How would |
| sad." | | | | you feel? It has been scientifically proved that the brain |
| It is easier to embrace life with all its ups and downs if | | | | cannot differentiate between what is real and what is |
| you look at your life as a play - you the eternal soul | | | | imagined so if you imagine it, it's true! Write it all down |
| are an actor in this play, and your personality and body | | | | and read it once a day for three weeks. It's very |
| are the costume you have adopted. The material | | | | interesting to notice the developments in the situation |
| accessories you surround yourself with are merely | | | | at the end of this time. |
| props (prop suggests that "things" are useful | | | | The dictionary describes play as: "occupy or amuse |
| temporary supports but shouldn't be permanently relied | | | | oneself pleasantly, move freely, have fun, romp, be |
| on.......perhaps that's another article)! Don't like your hat? | | | | flexible, join in." They sound like good ingredients for a |
| Go to the costume cupboard and find one that suits | | | | happy life. Now, what's my next cue? |