Using art to help change our mental health is a good way to understand role playing. Roles are areas of influence of whom we perceive ourselves to be, given our situations, circumstances, experiences and various stages of life. We begin to act out roles from a very early age. Son, daughter, sibling, friend, cousin, student, are examples of general roles we gain life experience playing. As we get older, the list increases—parent, spouse, partner, manager, teacher, apprentice, lover, neighbour, owner, tenant, leader. Being self-aware is knowing what you’re playing, how you’re playing it, and why this affects your decisions given the circumstances you happen to be in. Living out of self-awareness means that instead of taking a reactive approach to our decisions, feeling like you’re being forced into roles that you don’t want to be forced into, you begin to see role-playing as areas of life where you have the influence to make the changes you want to make. Try ending a role that you play with -ESQUE. What’s spouse-esque about the ideas, feelings, thoughts, emotions that my situation is bringing up for me? How can I act on them in a way that is spouse-esque?
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