The Nature of Reality: A Seth Podcast
Jun 18, 2026 · 8 min · 8 segments
In this episode, Dave discusses the vital nature of play from the Seth perspective. **Explore More from the Seth Center:** 🔮Visit our website…
David SelakHost
When we view the body as a precious, reliable vehicle for expression, joy, and movement, we naturally support its innate healing abilities and vitality.
On the other hand, beliefs that see the body as weak, unreliable, or inferior can set up patterns of expecting discomfort or illness as normal.
Through imaginative games, both children and adults learn to shift their focus toward positive outcomes, dissolve fear-based patterns, and activate the body's own resourcefulness.
Even simple, playful practices can reinforce feelings of safety, strength, and spontaneous recovery.
This wisdom invites us to reconnect with the childlike wonder within, whether we are guiding little ones or reclaiming our own inner freedom and health as adults.
Seth teaches that parents' beliefs about the body profoundly shape their children's experience.
When affection, respect, and confidence in the body's abilities are modeled, children grow up trusting their natural healing capacities.
There's no natural reason for shame around any part of the body, and play helps build healthy privacy without guilt.
Even in cases of minor discomfort, Seth encourages us to use the power of imagination.
He shares profound insights on how ancient cultures used play and drama for healing, often with results as effective as medical approaches of their time.
Play revives spontaneity, rests the worrying mind, and opens the door to the body's own wisdom.
Let me share this week's quote from Seth, from The Way Toward Health, Part 1, Chapter 7.
To a child, play and work are often one and the same thing, and parents can utilize imaginative games as a way of reinforcing ideas of health and vitality.
Play could also be used even in old people's homes, for it could revive feelings of spontaneity and give the conscious mind a rest from worrying.
Many ancient and so-called primitive peoples utilized play and drama, of course, for their healing values, and often their effects were quite as therapeutic as medical science.
When we view the body as a precious, reliable vehicle for expression, joy, and movement, we naturally support its innate healing abilities and vitality.
On the other hand, beliefs that see the body as weak, unreliable, or inferior can set up patterns of expecting discomfort or illness as normal.
Through imaginative games, both children and adults learn to shift their focus toward positive outcomes, dissolve fear-based patterns, and activate the body's own resourcefulness.
Even simple, playful practices can reinforce feelings of safety, strength, and spontaneous recovery.
This wisdom invites us to reconnect with the childlike wonder within, whether we are guiding little ones or reclaiming our own inner freedom and health as adults.
Seth teaches that parents' beliefs about the body profoundly shape their children's experience.
When affection, respect, and confidence in the body's abilities are modeled, children grow up trusting their natural healing capacities.
There's no natural reason for shame around any part of the body, and play helps build healthy privacy without guilt.
Even in cases of minor discomfort, Seth encourages us to use the power of imagination.
He shares profound insights on how ancient cultures used play and drama for healing, often with results as effective as medical approaches of their time.
Play revives spontaneity, rests the worrying mind, and opens the door to the body's own wisdom.
Let me share this week's quote from Seth, from The Way Toward Health, Part 1, Chapter 7.
To a child, play and work are often one and the same thing, and parents can utilize imaginative games as a way of reinforcing ideas of health and vitality.
Play could also be used even in old people's homes, for it could revive feelings of spontaneity and give the conscious mind a rest from worrying.
Many ancient and so-called primitive peoples utilized play and drama, of course, for their healing values, and often their effects were quite as therapeutic as medical science.
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