Allowing More Play (Don’t stay so serious!)

Playfulness opens us up feeling good. 

Play is the essence of life and moving life forward. Play is another way of saying it’s ok to make mistakes. Play allows us to relax enough the expectations and demands we have. Play gives us a break from our judging mind, and from our nay-saying ego.  Play is really (really!) good for us.  

Today’s invitation is to play more. It could be literal play with others, in the form of games. It could be having a fabulous conversation with someone that has the opposite view to you. It could be getting out your sewing, knitting or recipe book and deciding to throw yourself into some ‘making’.  It could be playfully challenging yourself to do certain things physically, mentally, or emotionally.  
 
Dancing around the borders, or playing around the edges of something that you don’t let yourself have, but know you’d like to. Stretching the boundaries. All of these are play.  

Most people I work with and even some I hang out with have forgotten how to play or have put it to one side. They don’t allow the spaciousness or time to just dream, slow down, or make mistakes. Staying in the playfulness of life allows for more. EVERY TIME.  

So, just for today, allow yourself a little more lee way to put something in that doesn’t seem to be a full contribution to your to do list. Put some play in – it will set you up and on the road to the doing those things on the list with more ease, even if that’s just mind ease, because you’ll be more relaxed and open – because of the playing you’ve done. The mind works best rested. Play can allow the mind to rest. It all makes sense.  
 
How will you play, I wonder? I’d love to know.