Writings
How to get "in the Zone"
by Vincent Parisi
This is one example of "Who Are You" using a sport concept.
SPORT LOCKEROOM
Baseball - Soccer - Football - basketball - one player for each sport - coach talking to them about fair play what it is and where does it live. Fairplay also has to be practiced in everyday life - Fairplay is the common denominator in sports as it is in life. Fairplay stops the human violence because fairplay lives at a being level. Who we really are - Fairplay is the essential part of being a professional in sports as it is in life, business, etc. Fairplay is the key factor that connects sports and life. - Subject fairplay and team play the importance of both in sports and life just like a musical orchestra each player has a different instrument making one harmonious sound.
FAIRPLAY
Dialogue
COACH - I requested this special meeting to discuss with you very openly, I need your personal participation in this discussion. The fair play and team play are many times forgotten and undervalued in sports and life and to show you how both are connected.
PLAYERS - (looking are each other in dismay of not understanding and undervaluing it.)
Team play assets
Each player playing it’s own position and the importance of each player to the team like each link is important to the chain.
In the zone
Human = Body, Being = Spirit playing as one in harmony - physical and technical strategy - spiritual = professional player takes care of its body - nutrition - exercises - no bad habits body as an instrument tool = vehicle. Life needs to be the same professional = fair play
(must embrace (take in) the audience into the conversation in the who are you! while explaining it to the player show the neutrality of the soccer ball showing different sports baseball, etc. in a net) as nature life - neutral
COACH = BEING
COACH - What is the difference between an amateur and a professional?
PLAYER - Answer: Money!
COACH - I will show today how to get in the zone and stay there longer than usual what is the zone?
Answers by the players each player yells a different funny answer: Syched out! - Playing at its highest peak! - I don’t know never been there?!
Teach the process of elimination how to get to the answer or what is the beginning of anything.
PLAYERS - This is too deep too difficult! (the rest of the players nodding yesing it)
COACH - So we have gone to the moon and come back and we still don’t know who we really are and still commit mental and physical violence to ourselves and others. So let’s start to take a look at it and see what happens! What do you have to lose. Are you willing? Try it! You might like it!
PLAYERS - (Audience) Yes! OK!
COACH - So lets start “why I don’t know” the question is, you don’t know or you’re not willing to know, this smart answer of “I don’t know” saves us at the moment, but leaves us confused - Zoned out - It’s not a good place to be - so let’s find out once and for all, what do you say!?
PLAYERS - Yes! Yes!
COACH - I don’t know this! I don’t know that! There is lots and lots of I don’t knows in our life. Why did you do that? I don’t know! Why did you say that? I don’t know! Do you love me? I don’t know! I don’t know! I am not sure. Who are you?
- I don’t know I am not sure who I am.
- You see how smart we are getting ourselves off the hook.
- You see we are so smart that most of the time we outsmart ourselves, and that’s the real joke about all this.
- We are the ones that pay the price at the end of all this
- and we OK it.
- There is a saying that “if other people do to us what we do to ourselves we would kill them”
- but if we do it, it’s OK! It’s OK! After all, I am my own worst enemy
- So! It’s my life! Yes! So! Smoking? Drinking? Drugs? So what! It’s my life! We all have to die! Anyway!
- So what’s the difference! Might as well enjoy it while you are here!
- That’s enjoying? At the cost of you life?!
- Halo! Halo! knock knock Is anybody there?! I don’t think so!
- Whose in charge here, of your life!
- Who ever is, needs to be fired - replaced. Very quick before it is too late!
- If this was a business with this kind of management, you’ll be out of business in a very short time for sure!
COACH - So everytime you come up with this “I don’t know” answer you better find out quick.
- So let’s find out how to find out what you don’t know once and for all - Who do we ask!? Ha! Ha! Who do we know that they know and it’s not just their opinion about it
- We are the great secret about this! Who are you?! The real you is the question, YOU ARE WHO YOU THINK YOU ARE WHICH YOU DON’T KNOW
- YOU ARE WHO THEY THINK YOU ARE WHICH IS THEIR OPINION ABOUT YOU!
- AND WHO CARES, PAY NO ATTENTION TO IT, BECAUSE OPINIONS ARE OPINIONS, THAT CHANGE ALL THE TIME
- AND THEN THERE’S WHO YOU REALLY, REALLY ARE!
- Now we got something here! - how do we find this out who you really, really are.
- We really are by a process of elimination of, who we think we are, and who they think we are, (opinions, beliefs, etc.) until we get to the beginning, to the seed to the real you, unchangeable - eternal.
- So who are you?! Name - Gender - etc. good that is who you think you are Who also you could be
COACH - Ha Ha Now we are down to two words Human Being you - we - are a human being - good good, very good we are getting hot we are both a human and a being right?! Yes!
PLAYERS - Yes. Right.
COACH - Now which of these two is the real you, real us the human or the being? The dictionary says, “The human is the characteristic of a man” It must have been a man who wrote that.
- Being means spirit Be - in - God now then is the human eternal? Answer; NO - Does it die? Is it mortal? Answer: YES!
- so the human is part of who you - we are, but it is not who you - (we) really are.
- When you find out who you really are, you also find out, who the other people really are. Being - Spirit is it forever, eternal?! Answer: YES! Does it Die? Answer: NO! so then that’s who you - (we) really, really are a being - a spirit (that little voice in the back of the head that says play nice) and the big voice (that says hell with it! So what! Who cares!) - so we could say you - (we) are both a perfect spiritual being having a human experience called life in our case playing soccer, football, etc.
COACH - you - (we) now have the answer to who you - (we) really really are, and to all those “I don’t knows” that we come up with in life. Now you see who doesn’t know is the human but the being spirit does know it. It is your - (our) best coach soccer - foot ball - etc. sports and as in life. you - (we) now have the best coach in the world within ourselves. This is the zone, This is where the zone is, fairplay, professionalism,
PLAYERS - how do we get there.
PLAYERS - How do we know when we have it and how do we keep it for good (All excited)
COACH - OK OK you are all excited - great great! Let’s all take a 10 minute break and find out how, how they play together in the game called life. When who you think you are is your mind, the human, then the mind protects itself, the ego, problem. When you discover who you really are you also discover who other people are - a spiritual being having a Human experience call life.
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