Re: Envisioning Anxiety: Nocturnal Gnashings, Noshings

"Choose Your Own Adventure!": A book series I've referenced here before and utilized in my earlier professional practice when trying to engage, establish rapport with youngsters...which brings the reader to various climactic cliff hanging situations and "pauses", giving you the reader options (e.g., "If you think the character should enter the cave turn to page 61..."), which was sort of a precursor to contemporary video games, which tend to just unfold at a more rapid pace. Since you're gonna' think about something as you attempt to get a good night's sleep, which turns out to be a peak time for anxiety to rear its head, to peek into our semi-conscious self, when lots of us begin to re:engage our respective areas of preoccupation that have kept us up nights prior, may as well think about something fun, adventurous, semi-pleasurable. In order to gain the advantage on behalf of our youngsters in this struggle, many of us parents found ourselves resorting to creatively engage our children's unbridled imaginations (in my office this came to include adult children)...our own series of...

Three Sums: As in "Here are three (apparently random) things for you to make a story out of...use your imagination...take your time...and then, after you do so, you can in turn give me three...It can even be based on your real life experiences, or those you have heard about"...as in the series...

L.I.F.E. - As in Life Imitating Fiction, Envisioned...some more three sums: "...A logjam of fans, fake tickets, and local trouble makers..." (or "hooligans"! sounds like Harry Potter, eh?) which adds up to a recent headline "UEFA Blames Delay at Champions League Final..." and even more in-the-moment, "A failed economy, a horde of protestors in the presidential palace, and a fleeing president..." - a real life lifetime adventure unfolding before my ears this morning which could easily evoke fears, jeers, or cheers, depending on the ears of the beholder, your own camera angle...There are almost an unlimited supply of real life examples or those you might re:envision...from the ridiculous to the sublime...I can take you only so far in this adventure; the rest is up to you...[Pause]...Make good choices, enjoy!


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