The Presence Of Playfulness In Your Life

Consider the level of playfulness in your life. Do you allow yourself to have fun, and play? Are you so wrapped up in your past, other’s lives, work, or something else, that is blocking you from having fun, living more fully, and being playful in your life? Do you enjoy being entertained, or do you feel it’s a waste of time or frivolous?

Dig deep on this. The answers to these questions are what defines where your life is going at the moment. Yes, it is a challenge to dig deep. However, it is so essential in this day and age.

Have you become bitter, are you just walking through life, or do you still have that child-like energy to play, live out loud, entertain others, and be entertained yourself.

There are also deeper aspects to the presence of playfulness in our life. Has play disappeared because you are now in over your head and can see no way to move beyond where you are? Are you stuck or trapped in your life? Are you a person of great insight, wisdom and understanding, yet you are not filling your life with enough entertainment, fun and play?

What is your true opinion of yourself? Do you show one face to the world and another to yourself? Do you present who you truly are or become what you think the person in front of you wants you to be?

Do you hold guilt or shame, or even the inability to admit that you may have been the party that wronged, mistreated or even offended another, and is that holding you back from playing? Or were you mistreated, wronged or offended and you hold that grudge and don’t feel worthy of play?

Life is playfulness…We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us ~ Flora Colao

Again, these questions are to make you think, to bring a depth out of you that helps you to grow. They are forcing you to look at your life and whether you are allowing someone else to define who you are, how you feel, and what you do.

There is a new sense of direction that comes after you do this kind of self-work. It shows you a possible new direction or change to make, instead of the path that is currently blocking you.

You may have a person in your life that pushes all the wrong buttons. Walk away. Yes, it’s not always that simple, especially if that person is your child. So many people hang onto the wrong partners, friends, or family members, and allow them to abuse them in so many ways. Mental, verbal and emotional abuse is as bad and sometimes worse than physical abuse. Words stay in your head. Things that someone did, or didn’t do, stays in your head. It is truly in your best interest to face any challenges you have in this area and move forward. Of course, sometimes the ‘button pusher’ is a life lesson that is sent to challenger you, to help you to grow. Don’t bow down to it, but learn from it and then move forward.