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Ego Playground is a collection of numerous mind traps that this author has discovered or helped others to overcome from a mental health issue.

Ego Playground exposing ego games using poetry

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Ego Games We All Play
Ego Endless Loops
Ego Knots and Traps
Ego Insanity in Relationships

Mind Traps & Quicksand: Ego Playground

Ego Playground is a collection of numerous mind traps that this author has discovered or helped others to overcome during his many years as a mental health counselor.
This collection of inner dialogues contains examples of accepted insanity, bogs, circular reasoning, delusions, ego, endless loops, hypocrisies, illusions, internal conflicts, knots, maelstroms, maya, paradoxical problems, psychological games, quicksand, scripts, snippets, tangles, tapes, traps, and undertows.

Source of Mind Games: Ego Playground

The mind games were collected from practicing therapy, meditation, recovery processes, and through the inspiration of primarily the following four books: Games People Play by Eric Berne, Knots by R. D. Laing, Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy: Revised and Updated by Albert Ellis, and Freedom From the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Ego Playground is an advanced collection of self-defeating loops, while the beginner’s guide collection of self-defeating loops can be found in Garbage Rules.
To understand the structure, purpose, and payoffs for human ego games, read Games Ego Plays.
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Poetic Format: Ego Playground

The self-defeating loops, scripts, or knots are presented in a consistent poetic form.
Each poem is written in three triplets.
A triplet is a three-line stanza.
A stanza in poetry is similar to a paragraph in prose.
This format became the poetic form because, over time, it proved to be a useful mold to induce adherence to the essentials of the desired meaning for each poem.
The three-by-three format also allows for deviation in how the ego games or poems are read to modulate their emphasis and meaning.

Modulate Meaning: Ego Playground

The meaning of a poem can be modulated in various ways.
Beginning stanza lines can end previous meanings or start new meanings.
Repetition, rhyme, or off-rhyme can connect words, lines, concepts, or images.
Alliteration (words starting with the same letter) can promote or enable various connections.
Symmetrical word placement can emphasize particular ideas or images.
Poems can cycle or even re-cycle by repeating lines or ending the poem with its beginning.
Lines can be read as individual sentences or as parts of sentences completed by other lines—for example, by other lines in the same stanza or similar lines in the poem that are connected through repetition, rhyme, off-rhyme, or connotation.
Shared meanings can connect non-contiguous lines.
Issues, words, and lines can be emphasized through repetition, rhyme, off-rhyme, or from the connotation of word choice.
Stanzas can stand alone as well as be part of the whole poem.
The beginning or end words of lines can be thematic.
The end words can be read as a comment on the poem’s title.
Words can be set off for emphasis or have more than one implied or preferred meaning.
The lines can be read according to their indentation, such as all the left-aligned ones as one sentence and all the indented ones as another meaning or sentence.
Some poems can even be read backward!
The above list is not meant to be an exhaustive study of how to derive the meaning of poems.
Instead, it is presented to help those unfamiliar with poetry enjoy some of its nuances rarely found so generously displayed in prose.

Poetic Strategies: Ego Playground

Beyond this list of ways to modulate poems is another area of poetry that might be considered poetic strategies.
For instance, sometimes poets purposely reverse normal wording or phrasing to awaken their audience to some meaning that has lost its savor or become dull over time.
Poetry is usually considered a higher form of writing than prose; therefore, poetry deserves some study and exploration.
Poetry varies significantly according to country and period.
People often wind up preferring particular poets and styles of poetry.
One of this author’s favorites is Haiku, a Japanese style with a fun Senryū variation.

Titles of Poems Provide Meaning: Ego Playground

The title of any poem or ego knot can be used to direct the meaning, glean the meaning, or play on the meaning of the knot/poem.
Other poetic stratagems were also used, such as alliteration and enjambment.
Furthermore, the three-line form allows for a symmetrical typographical design.
You might look for outlines of shapes within the white space, such as a vase, goblet, or tree.
Since this book is left-justified and because you might have purchased it as an ebook, the shapes may or may not appear on your device.
Sometimes the break in a stanza does not fit the break in thought or voice.
The beginning lines of an idea or voice are left-aligned, and the lines continuing that thought or voice are indented farther to indicate where a break occurs.

Less “I” Less Ego: Ego Playground

In some poems, “I” is left lowercase.
This is on purpose, though the point of it depends on the poem.
In some, a small “i” was used only to indicate a weak sense of self or a state of self-downing.
In others, “I” and “i” distinguish the voices in some parent-to-child dialogue.
(The small “i” is used for the inner-child voice, and the large “I” is used for the inner-parent voice. “I” is also used to represent the ego, self-absorption, or egotistical states of non-being.)
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There Are a Total of 681 Poems: Ego Playground

The titles of the poems are organized alphabetically.
Below are how many poems exist under each letter of the alphabet used.

A — 35; B — 29; C — 60; D — 55; E — 29; F — 43; G — 26; H — 21; I — 21; J — 5; K — 15; L — 20; M — 38; N — 11; O — 12; P — 49; R — 26; S — 98; T — 46; U — 6; V — 8; W — 23; Y — 5