Category: Acting

The second time I attempted to join a community college acting class recently, my whole being reacted again to reject the environment I was experiencing as a prospective venue for my personal growth and expansion.

The message pounding in my fight-or-flight response to unregulated youths’ allowed overstim of my senses was, “Get me the heck out of here! I am a writer!”

It’s interesting that I did not get this same panic-pinging from the community adult theater teacher’s class – perhaps because she cultivated an adult creative atmosphere which included space and time for my finding my own way to adapt myself to it.

When I have previewed college acting classes, what seems encouraged is “going to extremes.”

That’s not what I am looking for on the road to self-expressing.

How does one know that how they are performing is “good?”

Projecting what it might be like, and then shifting behavior’s course to experience congruency.

Enthusiastic

Furious

Determined

I did not realize until now that the way I express as characterization does not need to match others’ versions.

I thought I was on my way to “becoming normal” like extroverts praised by society.

But the accident smacked me back deeper into myself so that when expressing externally, I must be even more of my authentic nature.

I just can’t afford the excess energetic movement expenditures required by “faking it.”