Playfulness comes into action when we seek room for liberation. The architecture of the conditioned mind behaves like sandcastles, yet we identify ourselves with it. When we suffer from being burned-up isn’t it so that we might have forgotten how to liberate ourselves from who we think we are and who we truly are?
We lose our sense of genuineness when we identify ourselves with the materialistic ideal society holds within our capitalist system. We become addicted to wealth, recognition, social media and the perfect appearance. We lose our sense of safety (re-) experiencing fear, trauma, guilt, shame and unworthiness.
With the given wisdom of self-realization, we learn to define the objectified mental structures, reframing the way we think, untangling fictive beliefs. It takes a huge amount of courage, discipline and self-knowledge to confront the perception of ‘I-am-ness’ and the sense of ‘I’ in its dualistic form. Within this exploration, we can remind ourselves to integrate playfulness with the love for creation discovering the undiscovered.
When we are born our brain is too small with little instinct on how to move its body. It is through movement of the caregiver that the infant learns to stand, to walk and to talk. Our voluntary acts are thus due to neural connections which supports our sensory, motor and cognitive skill and regulate all of our behavior. It takes the infant an enormous amount of imitation, experimentation and repetition in learning how to move. This makes movement within us humans highly adaptable.
So if we can make changes within our cognitive behaviors through movement, why not give more importance to exploring, and reinventing new ways of walking, new ways of moving your joints, new ways of breathing, new ways of repetitive habits, making it playful and joyous. Leaving room for imagination to spark the intelligence of not knowing. We can unlearn thinking beliefs that are harmful to our well-being.
It’s like we are our own seed for the tree we want to become and every day we water the seed while discovering new roots, new leaves, new branches, new connections allowing the wonder of our nature to grow in its full capacity. And then we realize that in every human being lays an eternal seed that is always growing whether they are aware of it or not. We then stop pretending we are any better, yet we do understand that we have to take care of our own seed in order for it to blossom.
Nathalie Ho-Kang-You