Lost Your Childlike Brain? Find It Again Here.

January 2, 2008 at 11:53 pm

Wondra Jedi art

Often lately I’ve been reflecting upon my childhood.

Not so much in the psychoanalytical sense of searching for traumatic events or emotional scars or anything like that. But because, as I remember it, I used to have a lot more fun.

Today, as an adult, I worry too damn much. And I think too damn much. And I brood and I plan and I figure and I stew and tense and clam up. I clench my jaw and quint my eyes and forget to breath for days at a time.

And it’s starting to suck

me

dry.

Now all this might actually be fine and dandy, except I know I wasn’t always like this.

There was a time, I am certain, when I was filled with fearless wonder and excitement, and the world crackled with electric potential.

I’m certain because there’s this long lost tape my aunt found a couple of years ago. I’m not sure how old I was–maybe seven or eight. I don’t remember any of it, but one evening somebody had a tape recorder, and I had a story to tell, and a song to sing, and I just went on

and on

and on.

I was so excited about . . .nothing. It was nothing. Somebody got stuck in the snow and a dog got lost in the dark. A hunt ensued. Flashlights were involved. I was happy to sing songs from the spring music program–with GUSTO.

I wasn’t doing it for the tape recorder. I don’t think I was hamming it up. It didn’t sound like I even knew I was being recorded. It was just . . .

me

. . . being me.

People hearing it today, who didn’t know me then, don’t believe it. I don’t blame them. I don’t believe it. Adults who do remember me as a child are shocked to confront the change that crept in so imperceptibly over the years–and have to ask, almost in hushed tones,

“Where did that kid go?”

Quite frankly, I have no idea. It is, as my 9-year-old daughter would say, “Totally Freaky!”

But I do know one thing.

I want to find him again.

I could use a little of that kid’s fearless passion and boundless excitement. I could use some of that fun.

So anyway, like I said, I’ve been thinking about my childhood lately and badaboom–I run across this great hypnosis podcast by Michael White (hypnotist extraordinaire) at Know More Trances about finding your childlike brain again.

Master Jedi WondraPerfect.

Now, by no means am I qualified to review hypnotic techniques or imagery. So I can’t really vouch for its effectiveness (I don’t think it hypnotized me), but it was a hell of a lot of fun to listen to. So if you’ve got eight and a half minutes, dim the lights, close your eyes and listen in. If nothing else, it should produce a grin, if not a chuckle.

Oh, the Jedi artwork? Somehow, a couple of years ago a rumor got started with the students that I am secretly a Jedi Master.

I do absolutely nothing to discourage that rumor.

And this being a post about mystical multiple personality energy forces and Jedi mind tricks, I thought, what the heck–where else am I going to post them?

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