PLAY LIKE A KID!!!
I read this Article called reclaiming your creativity
written by William Grace Frost co-founder of Ekastasis and of the Butterfly Peace Path. I encourage you to Google
him. The
article presents several good
suggestions on how to energize your creativity. The two suggestions that stood out to me were to
fine tune your awareness and to do something new every day. Fine tuning
your awareness is about being present in the moment that you are in. Staying
present is hard to do if you have worked yourself into an everyday routine. I
mean you can literally coast through your day on auto pilot. I read in another article
that the best way to practice being in tune or present is to practice being completely aware of your surroundings for a minute every ten minutes. I also liked his
suggestion to do something new every day. Again, this breaks up a hum drum life.
Try a new flavor of ice cream, buy a stranger some lunch, go planking or owling.
Do something you have never done every day and I am sure it will give you new experiences
which will jump start your creativity.
The suggestion that Frosts presents in
his article that really caught my attention was to play like a kid. How many
times do we drop everything we are doing and challenge the person next to us to a
race. Sounds crazy right? What about playing a game of kickball, dodge ball,
twister, hide and go seek, or even tag with a group of adult friends. Kids get real joy
and laughter when they are playing. Adults need to play sometimes. I think as
we get older we forget how to have real wholesome fun.
Fun is not always in the
night club. It might be on a big open field with a water gun in hand. I think I’m
going to try Mr. Frost suggestions which are being present, doing something new
every day, and playing like a kid. I can’t wait to see what creative energy I am going to stir up. You try it to and comment.
Be Virtuous
~Chi
