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This is the tickle machine, tickle, tickle tickle.
Got rules it's a game and a game has rules and you have to follow the rules.
And the thing about tickling is
people do not follow the rules, they don't know the rules, they never thought they could be rules.
So it is I am bigger than you are. I am going to tickle you and you can not stop me.
but i would make you laugh because I like people to laugh to laugh at me, ha ha h ha I am so funny.
I have to tickle you to make you laugh. No, it is not that kind of a game.
The child says
"What are you?" and the
tickle machine says
"Tickle Machine,
if you touch me I will tickle you."
And the other rule is:
Anybody can say stop.
And then it stops, stops tickling.
Then the other is: it only tickle softly. It does not tickle hard. It does not poke.
It does not scratch. It does not dig.
it's just tickles slightly about five to eight seconds and then
it stops, quits.
And then it comes up again.
And the child says, if it wants to play, "What are you?"
"Tickle Machine." Oh and the child may say
No, you can not tickle there.
Or, this is where you can tickle.
So it's a safe,
it's a safe game.
So level one is: 1. If you touch the tickle machine, it will tickle you.
And when you start, you can play that, just that level for a long time. It will
try to make you touch it but it won't
tickle unless the child touches.
If you laugh or touch me, I will tickle you.
And it will
try to make you laugh.
And so, adults learn how to make kids laugh.
And kids
learn how to
keep calm and centred,
and not laugh.
Calm and centred, collected
self control, on the good side of self control, calm and centred.
All the same time,
everybody has got joy.
Where is this hand?
This hand is that hand is that hand. Everybody's got joy,
joy happening.
Well it is something you just feel!
"What is it?"
"Tickle machine, if laugh I will tickle you" And of course if you touch it
I am going to tickle you too.
That is Level Two.
Level Three,
Tickle Machine:
If you smile
or
or laugh
or touch it
it will tickle you.
3, A much more difficult level.
Maybe after you play Tickle Machine for
two years or a year and a half
do you go to this level.
And then
you are learning how to make kids laugh.
You are just exploring this is an experiential, Gestalt, touchy, feeling, Esalon
kind of exercise. And it doesn't
cost you!
4. "What are you?" "The Grabber"
It, what the grabber does, it slowly
comes up to you and
if you don't grab the grabber before it grabs you,
it will grab hard and tickle hard,
for about five to ten seconds.
Tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle! So of course the kids. 0:03:58.269,0:04:03.659 Now the rule is: you have to touch the grabber before it or it will tickle you.
It is just a switch, the child has got to be listening. 0:04:07.959,0:04:09.650 Child has got to be listening
and ready to
act.
5. A whole new level of game,
a whole new level of fun.
"What are you?" 0:04:22.729,0:04:25.139 "I am the alien." And
the alien lands and walks, walks on two fingers
and sniffs, tut, tut, tut. 0:04:33.229,0:04:34.879 If you touch it,
it pinches, hahhhh!
A little pinch does not hurt, a little pinch. It does not hurt.
because it is an alien and it takes a sample of interesting planets. It does not
sample uninteresting, dead planets.
Just if moves or they do something, it takes a sample for scientific study later.
And it walks over the tickle areas.
And if you, so there are 3 levels here:
1. If you touch it.
2. If you laugh.
3. If you smile.
It will take a sample
and fly away.
It is a very high level of provocation.
It is, a very high level of calm.
ohmmmmmmm
Deep inside your soul,
I can play Tickle Machine
to level five and beyond.
It is a wonderful game
and no equipment needed,
no computer,
just two people,
your child and you.