Just For Fun...

Remembering Childhood Joys
As adults, we often get so caught up in "grown up" business that we
can forget how to have pure fun. This isn't the kind of fun that
comes from doing a specific kind of activity or being in a specific
mood for fun. Rather, this is the fun born from the state of pure
being. You see this kind of fun in small children who are so busy
being fully present to their lives and in their own bodies that the
glow of fun radiates from them just because they are alive: the
delight that flashes across the eyes of a child who discovers that
water flows with the turn of the tap knob or the squeal of pleasure
from a young baby whose tongue is being tickled by cold ice cream;
then there's the full, infectious laughter of a child watching the
same hat trick for the fiftieth time.

Back when we were children, this experience of pure delight didn't
have to come from a heightened, heady event in order for us to feel
like our day had been made; and it can be that way for us again - if
we are willing to remember and reconnect with that part of ourselves
that knows how to be in the flow of fun. You can begin this process
by reminiscing on what was fun for you as a child. Think about what
caused you to giggle in delight or wriggle in pleasure or burst into
endless laughter that you couldn't sit up straight no matter how much
you wanted to. Try to spend a few moments with each memory, and
really feel what it was like to be in those experiences – allowing
that feeling of pure fun to wash over you. It lives, in you – that
feeling. It can't be bottled, manufactured, or sold. You just have to
call it back up in order to experience it again.

Pure fun happens when we are fully engaged with ourselves and our
world in each moment. It is the spontaneous delight that bubbles out
of us when we let go long enough to bring it through; it is the
experience of natural, organic pleasure that springs up from our
bellies, through our souls, up through our faces, and down to our
toes. We've naturally known how to have pure fun since we were babies
and the flicker of lights caused us to jump to attention from the
sheer enjoyment of being able to see. Approach your life today with
the knowledge that pure fun isn't something that is given or done to
you; rather, it is something that you allow yourself to experience.

........by Maggie Craddock