That's an interesting question to
answer. I believe so and I want to try to explain why. Most of people
think in Mask like something that is cover, hide and conceal parts of
our face or body. For analogy, a “social” mask hide part of our
real personality. “Take off your mask!” we can say when we think
to have caught someone in flagrancy. Meaning we want this person to
show us his or her “real self”.
But really, what's that's “real self”
or what we intend when we ask someone to be his or her self?
If for sure we wear different “social”
masks in our day to day life, the most interesting question is: where
that masks are coming from? Who built them?.
I believe that all the masks we wear
and inclusive the masks we do not wear, are a human productions,
there coming out of our mind, triggered by what we like to call
“reality” and whatsoever a “reality” can be.
So we make a lot of masks. One for a
partner, one for a parents, one for a children, one for my
colleagues, one for my boss or maybe one for my employees, if I am a
boss. We build a mask for a good citizen or sometime for a bad one,
other for friends and again one also for enemies.
For that I believe a huge part in a
life coaching path is to help people to discover all the masks they
are wearing and teach some skills about how to be a good director of
that sort of strange theatrical company.
For that when people wear a “real
artifact mask” over the face, something is happening, some
paradoxical stuff are going on. The power of the mask is all here. A
Mask over my “social mask” have the power to freed my self
(whatsoever that thing Is) in a way that makes my discover other
“masks” opportunities to use in life.
An artifact Mask over my “social-built
masks” provoke a mind-burn out that literally, can re/start my
grown and my change toward that better human been all of us we want
to be.
In that sense a weekly group of wearing
masks could be like a gym for your mind, a place where maintain your brain cells active and free to explore.
At the same time, a process of life
changing could be better coached in some difficult steps with the
provocative but sweet power of the Masks.
