When we don’t play in our bodies with connection, or we use them with the robotic qualities that are often present when we exercise or do many other physical things, and when we are constantly absorbing impulses from outside of us, we can’t commune with our own original, intuitive, inspired self.  We don’t have access to that small child that knew love and laughter and joy and every emotion with pure, uncensored 100% authenticity.

Society tells you which emotions are OK these days,  and which ones aren’t.   And now there are so many pills to make sure that your emotions conform to what is socially acceptable  and politically correct.  If you don’t express your emotions within that range, you get some kind of psychiatric diagnosis, a stigma and a pill to get you back in the box.

We don’t play when we live in that box.  It’s a coffin,

Our lives have become about which pill do you choose?  And there’s a lot more than blue and red.   From my observations, most of them are anesthetizing us into conformity and robbing us of our our capacity to play, to feel, to connect to our authentic selves.

What was that thing you loved to do as a child that you don’t do anymore because someone told you that you had to grow up and act like an adult?   Or being told that being a certain age meant you couldn’t do those things you loved anymore?  Can you remember?

After we’ve had all the joy and the imagination and the unselfconsciousness that comes with being a child removed from us,  we then begin the journey of trying to remember what we knew and to try to retrieve all of that make-believe.  We feel empty and KNOW something is missing.  The workshops, the self-help, the therapy,  all of it designed to help us get back to this part of ourselves.  And it works, in large part.  That’s why the industry is so huge.