Foot on gas and break!
I remember my Dad sitting at the dining room table, newspaper open wide, legs crossed, leaning back into the chair with a glass of red.
I asked for help with my math, but that meant interrupting his time. He would attempt to help me with resistance, and I would leave him to his paper.
Witnessing my cat stare me down, wanting to play as I sit at the computer, reminded me of my childhood negligence.
I feel my inner child wanting to play and my adult self telling her to be quiet.
I stop.
And
Listen to her. That little girl.
She witnessed me playing with my cat and typing on the computer.
She witnessed the look in my cat's eyes when he ( my cat ) knew I wasn't playing with him; I was appeasing him.
I was absent.
I turned to my inner child and said, “ You’re right! “
She explained to me that playing is what loosens the mental grip of having to know everything to proceed.
TRUST in the NURTURE of PLAY.
Playing opens the gates of solutions, ideas, wild imagination, and connection.
Without it, you feel
segreGATED
IsolATED
FrusterATED
ATED- MEANS A STATE OF BEING
When you allow your inner child to be seen, heard, and appreciated for the authenticity within you. You open the infinite sky of:
ImaginatION
ConnectION
AppreciatION
InformatION
IntentION
AffectION
ManifistatION
MeditatION
CaliberatION
EmotION
ExhalitION
ExploratION
PassION
FruitION
An ion is a charged atom or molecule.
Hug yourself and allow yourself to play.
It is the very thing that nurtures all the goals you want to reach.
We forget that we are playful creatures here to create.
Our expression is our inner flower blossoming, and within that creativity, we unlock our authentic signature.
Otherwise, we are stuck in robotic mode, fearing putting down the newspaper, thinking our life solutions are printed on page 2, which was written by someone who is also afraid to look away.
We go through life with one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake, burning rubber going nowhere.
The adrenaline of the torch gives us the illusion that we are going somewhere.
Let go and play.
Your body is begging you to be present.
To trust that playing is part of the equation for having a balanced life.
This allows your heart to open and to finally receive what God has been speaking to you about all this time.
You have been ignoring the nudge to put it down and stop.
Bring out the Tonka toys, the crayons, the scribbler, the disco ball, the tent, the plastic forks. Bring out your imagination and go for it!
Trust that this is part and parcel to everything you desire.
Nurturing your inner child is part of self-love.
Stop abandoning YOUrself!
You will see that nurturing your inner child unlocks the grip of control by reconfiguring the fear settings in your brain to set to heart mode.
When you let your heart take the wheel, you will be guided by faith, not by sight.
You will exhale more often and trust your intuition.
Last one to the swings has to push us all!
Love Gyll xoxo