With all the "heaviness" in the world, it may seem like a crazy request to find your playful spirit. Our options are limited to revel in all the negativity or just go have some fun and jokes to lighten it all. I am not trying to imply that some serious challenges are all about and lets turn a blind eye. I am inviting you to add some lighter spirit to it all rather than mope about the world with doom and gloom. Yes, if you listen to the news all day and are constantly being updated, I imagine there is no other feeling you could have. I am offering an alternative. Give some of it up and get back to enjoying what you can in life.
If there is some action to take or activity to alleviate or effect the situation by all means do it. Most of what I see, has no call to action, nothing offered to me to do that will make a difference in this moment about my cares and concerns. It just non stop talk, opinion and analytical jargon that I am tuning out. It is my circle of concern as they call it but not my circle of influence. Get back to your circle of influence and find some fun for the world isn't promoting it and it is healthful and enjoyable!
We are meant to have joy and have it more abundantly. No matter what the conditions, babies are being born, spring blooms are coming, friends are gathering, learning is happening, people are painting and hiking and finding things to be doing that inspire love, joy and fun! We can chose our focus! We can influence the quality of each day by putting some cool stuff in it that uniquely inspires us. I call it "Play" for that is what it is. It induces relaxation and joy, enlivens our mood, gives us a breather from our concerns. It often brings peace and fresh views on all the issues we have in our lives.
People need play, rest and joy as part of balance if they want health. It is part of the circle of influence. There is night and day, a week and the weekend, holidays, etc.. these are cycles of rest happening all around us. Rest enhances our health for we get in oxytocin, where the body gets a chance to rebuild and renew itself. If we are never in that parasympathetic nervous system or only when sleeping, we will have health issues. Our body was not meant to run on 24/7 crisis mode. That's a fact. Most are living there waking hours in a energy or stress state that feels like the world will end. Yes, you can push it but you will pay at some point. Many don't even get a good nights sleep which increases your odds at illness.
So lighten up. Find some fun for that will promote healing to your body, mind and spirit! Better yet, be the fun! Bring out your humor! Show us your charm and swag? Laugh your ass off! Remember the fun of the last gather you had with friends? There was laughter, humor, flirting, jazzing and all kinds of play. Bring it on in every day! What do we need to be sooooo serious about it all? In a few years it will still be doom and gloom in yet another way. We will all find something to get up in arms over. It is part of an evolving, changing world.
Consider looking at life from a lighter perspective. Play alittle with all the insanity around you. My imagination has such grand humor about so many things. Even the boring mundane every day tasks can have some creative humor in them. Find moments to be peaceful amongst the this and that of life. Not thinking incessantly or judging or planning or going over the past. Just being. Just noticing all the blessing. Adding humor where ever and whenever you can. Every one has a child like nature so bring it out.
Play is healing! It shifts the tension our of our body, the holding in posture and that releases energy for us to do our tasks. It adds such joy to life. The older I get, the less serious it all becomes. Part of age I think. You know there will always be something or someone in crisis and you just realize you must live anyway. It becomes more about enduring and finding joy and lightness in it, than changing or solving it all.
The world is on its own growth mission. We are all part and it is a clog of all kinds of wheels. Evolution happens over long stretches of years. We know change in our own lives takes some time and it will in the world as it has always been. So we might as well have alittle fun in the meantime. Atleast until some real action steps are shown or whatever that is to you.
So......Loosen up, Catch the Vibe! Crack a Joke. Laugh your head off! This vibration that is created in your body, infects others bodies, in fact the whole energy field! We could use some lighter influences. It is the spring awakening! Wake up and Play with life!
Beauty and Grace through Pleasure and Play
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