A coffin Psychodrama technique is in the works

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Eli introduced a new psychodrama technique involving a wooden coffin to help people confront their mortality and live more fully. Inspired by a chapter on death, Eli plans to use the coffin as a prop to encourage participants to reflect on their regrets and write their own eulogies. The goal is to prompt individuals to find meaning and purpose in life, as exemplified by Victor Frankl and Mahatma Gandhi. Eli aims to start these workshops later in the summer, encouraging people to “get busy living” rather than dying.

Psychodrama and the Coffin Technique

• Eli introduces the idea of using psychodrama with a wooden coffin to help people confront their mortality and live more fully.
• Eli shares a personal anecdote about hearing a “click, click, click” in his 70s, emphasizing the importance of living fully.
• Eli discusses the practical aspects of the project, including having a friend who is a carpenter willing to make the coffin.
• The concept includes using the coffin as a prop to help people reflect on their regrets and write their own eulogies.

Reflecting on Regrets and Eulogies

• Eli explains the idea of placing people in the coffin to contemplate their regrets, emphasizing the urgency of living.
• The discussion includes the possibility of writing and presenting one’s own eulogy, which Eli finds intriguing but challenging.
• Eli clarifies that the purpose is not to be macabre but to wake people up to their mortality and help them find meaning and purpose.
• Eli mentions working on a new chapter about finding meaning and purpose, inspired by Victor Frankl’s concept of logotherapy.

Inspiration from Victor Frankl and Mahatma Gandhi

• Eli cites Victor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning” and his concept of logotherapy, which emphasizes finding meaning in life.
• Eli uses the example of Mahatma Gandhi, who found deeper meaning and purpose in his life after a racial incident in Africa.
• Eli reflects on his own purpose, which is to help people raise their consciousness levels, inspired by Dr. Hawkins’ research.
• Eli emphasizes the importance of finding a deeper meaning in life, as it affects not only the individual but also those around them.

Personal Reflections and Client Experiences

• Eli shares his personal reflections on finding meaning and purpose, which has been a driving force in his life.
• Eli discusses the concept of raising consciousness and how it can positively impact others, referencing Dr. Hawkins’ research.
• Eli recounts a conversation with a young client who finds meaning in helping people have heat and electricity, which sparks his motivation.
• Eli encourages others to find their own “spark” and purpose in life, as it can lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful existence.

Planning the Psychodrama Workshops

• Eli mentions the possibility of starting psychodrama workshops later in the summer, focusing on the future and death.
• Eli plans to use the time during his brother’s vacation to further develop the workshop ideas and logistics.
• The workshops will involve role-playing and addressing future death, aiming to help people live more fully.
• Eli expresses his hope to start these workshops and encourage people to wake up and live more meaningfully.

Hola, happy humpy day. How are you guys want to do a little presentation today on a new idea that me and my brother have been talking about using psychodrama. I just finished a amazing chapter about death and how denying our death actually stops us from living fully, cuz we think we got forever, right? Well, let me tell you, when you get to your 70s, like I have, you start hearing that click, click, click, a little bit more you get get busy living or get busy dying, right? So as I was writing that chapter, I shared something with my brother. I said, Wouldn’t it be cool if we could get a wooden coffin and then create a psycho drama scene for people to do using a coffin? What a hell of a prop, right? Well, the good news is, I’ve got a dear friend that’s a carpenter, and he said he’d be willing to make us a wooden coffin. So this is in the works. So why would we do this? Sorry, a little hairball. I’ve read over the years from different people, they’ve used coffins to help wake people up to take pictures of them while they were in the coffin, which we would do with polar Polaroids, kind of put it up on their mirror to remind them, you know, you’re not here forever. But one of my biggest fears since I’ve been a youngster is having regrets on my deathbed. And so one of the things we would do, as they get put into the COVID as they’re laying there, what are your regrets? Now, these could be people in their 20s, 30s, 40s or 50s or even 60s, I guess. Well, tick, tick, tick. There’s a time limit here. What are you waiting for? Guys? And also another idea I’m having, and I’ve got to kind of tweak this out a little bit more, writing their own eulogies. Now I have somebody else do it. I have thought of that, but that would, you know that’s takes a lot of work. You’d have to invite a lot of people to come and read your eulogy, or or maybe a best friend, I would maybe we could do that. Who knows, but would it be interesting to write your own eulogy and they come and do a presentation to your dead body? But the purpose of this is not to be macabre or weird or anything like that. It’s to really shake people to realize that we are mortal beings and we need to figure out what we’re doing here. You know, I’m I’m working on another chapter I started yesterday about finding meaning and purpose. One of my greatest inspirational teachers had been Victor Franco. Victor was a Jew in Auschwitz. He was a psychiatrist, and he wrote this amazing book when he got out, called man’s church for meaning. It’s based on what he calls logo therapy. And what he said is that if we don’t find meaning and purpose, we’re just adrift going around, you know, every day, like er, like that. And in this new chapter I’m writing, I use the example of Mahatma Gandhi, who suddenly, even though he was a lawyer and working as a lawyer in Africa, he suddenly woke up because of some racial stuff that happened to him, and he found a deeper meaning and purpose in his life, which was to get the British out of India. And you guys know the story, I hope he did do that. Okay? Now, of course, fortunately, as many people like him find out, he did get assassinated, because there’s those looney tunes out there that don’t want the change, but he found meaning and purpose. Well, what are we waiting for? Okay, why? You know, I know what my purpose, what gives me meaning in my life. You know it’s to help people raise their consciousness level that to me, there’s nothing greater than that, and it’s been this way for quite a while. Thank God. Every day I wake up, or I’m walking to my car to go to my office, it’s like I’m going to raise consciousness today. Because when you help people shed the lower emotional vibrations, their consciousness level, according to Dr Hawkins, goes up. Well, a lot of people are below 200 which you don’t want to be half the people in America from his research. And what a what an honor to be able to help people do that. Because on the bigger scheme of things, if I help one person raise their consciousness, you’re affecting everybody, okay, but if it goes down, you’re affecting everybody, like Hitler found out. So that gives me meaning. That gives me a deep. Purpose in life. Gandhi, you know, cleaning out the Brits from India, the colonization crap that was going on, gave him great meaning and purpose. What is? What is? What gives you meaning? What do you enjoy doing and not play, you know, going to concerts and all that stuff. Not that I’m knocking that, but I’m talking about a deeper meaning, okay, like Victor Franco found when he was in that horrible Auschwitz concentration camp, he had an opportunity to escape. Was a friend of his, but because he was physician, his purpose was to help the L prisoners in the camps. He could not abandon them. Okay, so many people would abandon their lives in a heartbeat because they’re bored. It’s stale because they don’t have a There’s no meaning to what you’re doing. You know, I had a young client in on Monday, and we were talking about this a little bit, and he works for electricity and gas company locally, and he said one of the things that spurs him on to go to work every day. Is he’s helping people have heat and electricity, and that gives him, you know, something inside, to a spark. I guess I want to call it, to go to work every day. What is your spark? So by doing this psychodrama workshop, as I created talk to Tim. He’s my brother’s going on vacation on Saturday for two weeks. So I have some time to kind of download some things of what we can do. Because, you know, with psychodramas, role playing, right? And your role play stuff from your past, different things that you want to work on. Well, this is your future death you can work on your future. Is that going to be great or what? Alright? So stay tuned. If all goes well, I would love to start doing these workshops, probably later this summer, and get the ball rolling and see who wants to wake up a little bit and get busy living instead of dying. Alright? Love you guys. Bye, bye. You.