When you were little, you probably played with joyful abandonment! Your imagination soared as you transformed yourself on a regular basis. One day you were a princess. The next day might have found you playing cops and robbers. Instead of obsessing over your next meal, you toyed with your food and couldn’t wait to finish eating so the fun could begin again. Never once did you doubt that your dreams would come true. The sky was the limit, and you were the star of your own show.
How quickly things changed! You became all too serious and self-conscious as you worried about looking foolish, being inconvenienced, embarrassing yourself, displeasing others, and being judged. Romping in the rain turned from a joyful experience to something that would make a mess, get you sick, and require you to do your hair all over again. Exercise changed from playing tag, taking dance lessons, or climbing hills to running on treadmills at the gym and keeping up in aerobics class, which you enjoy more if your body looks cute in spandex.
Whether it was making a fort out of sheets, blankets, and pieces of cardboard or changing Barbie’s clothes to suit the occasion, your imagination knew no limits, and you entertained yourself for hours. You didn’t feel guilty for “wasting” your time.
Are you feeling a bit of nostalgia? Well, it’s about time you listen to your inner child. “Grown-up” doesn’t have to mean lifeless. How do you reconnect with that imp inside of you who wants to have fun?
Follow these tips, and you’ll be well on your way:
1. Make a list of playful things you’d love to do – dance, take a walk, read a book, watch a cartoon, ride a horse, learn a language, draw, paint, color, cook, listen to music, flirt – play can mean different things to different people.
2. Schedule time for fun into your calendar.
3. Make a decision to have one new experience each week.
4. Spend time with young children.
5. Ditch the self-consciousness – it no longer serves you!
6. Limit the amount of time you spend around gloom and doom – in the form of the news, television, other people, or your own thoughts.
7. Make a wish list!
8. Pursue your passions!
9. Make a mess!
10. Take time to daydream!
11. Have a pajama party!
12. Have fun and celebrate your life! It’s the only one you have!
Copyright © 2008 by Holly A. Cox, L.C.P.C., C.D.C.®
Holly Cox
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/take-your-inner-child-out-to-play-553821.html
Its going to be a cracking summer, is your big inner child screaming to get out?
I wanna go play up the mountain but my missus won’t let me. Its now 75-80 degrees i just want to play up the mountain and come back for my tea. Do you think she should allow me to go play outside or should i just take the huff and deny her sex this week?
I miss my space hopper, does that count.
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I cant wait for the rain to come back…
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try buying her some sparkly red shoes and trifle , works for me x
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Play outside? That’s what I’d do in the Autumn, Summer is way too hot to be out in the sun!
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I KN0 WUT UR TALKN 0UT. I’M ALWAYS G0NNA BE A BIG KID MYSELF. 4GET HER…G0 0UTSIDE N ENJ0Y. PUT UR F00T D0WN…UR SUPP0SED 2 BE WEARN DA PANTS IN DA RELATI0NSHIP. SH0W HER WH0′S B0SS L0L
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you bet ye it is
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What?I’m nearly 55 years old now! Get real!-EG
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common sense
take her as well and romp through the woods, ….
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i think it is,i am gonna escape.You make her suffer for not letting you get your way,dont let her have hers,lol.then she might just kick you out to play.
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Let me OUT!
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Always
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WHAT? that’s shameful! DENY HER SEX.
no
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yeah,im currently doing my exams at the moment while it’s hot and sunny outside i have to revise which is not fair.I’ve left school but only coming in for exams and revision sessions.Today i had one free session which me and a two of my friends went to a local play area which sounds sad but it was great fun.We were on this trampoline (which is new to this park) and me and my friends were on it [at the same time]. I’m the smallest at of the two so i kept flying.We were having so much fun we didn’t realise there where alot of kids queueing up. Anyway i’m 16 so my childhood is nearly over whereas they have years ahead of them.
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yes
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