Your Soul. Your Heart. Your Inner Child. Life. God. Reality.
All with you. All as you. But put plainly, look, you’ve got this life, whether you want it or not — so what are you really doing with it? Really. And no shame, no wrong answers, but this is your life. Are you satisfied? Are you being appreciated? Seen? Heard? Nourished? Is the current juice of your life really worth the squeeze?
The answers don’t matter right now. Let’s just play. You and me. And if you stick around long enough, I’ll get all giddy and show you what I’ve learned in my many years of “professional play dynamics.” So let’s go. If you’re in, you’re in. You’re in for the deepest, realest, most profound Life, that will positively effect you and everyone and everything around you. This is experiential fact.
I’ve been working with children since 2014. Many different places. And thousands of them in total. As a child-care teacher, a school teacher, a babysitter, a tutor, a mentor, a coach, an adult role model, and a friend.
Trail-and-error, teaching, observing, note-taking, repeating, refining, and then integrating the distilled results into me. Integrating pure human dynamics of play. (And spoiler alert: children learn through play too). All these years. All these accumulated wild, intense, deep, heart-explodingly wholesome hours.
14,000+ hours of it (yes I’ve done the math).
And my conclusions? Children have undeniably wholesome, life-affirming qualities and perceptions that are intrinsic in them. Qualities that all high-aiming adults on this Earth, consciously or unconsciously, strive to remember and restore, yet most have forgotten or denied these qualities out of daily life. Some of the main qualities: Playfulness. Curiosity. Whimsy. Creativity. Inventiveness. Love, for it’s own sake. And pure, simple joy. These qualities, among many others, stimulate authentic will-to-live. And they return a natural love for life.
Children use the Heart & Soul, naturally, with minimal-necessary mind, and then just PLAY WITH LIFE. It’s in their design. It’s in OUR design. We just need to clear the detrimental & unnatural and expand upon the wholesomely intrinsic. We need to PLAY this life.
Every applicable and appropriate facet. We need to play it. Inner (soul, mind, emotions) and outer (body, home, finances, life’s works, relations, lifestyle). Experiment, question, try, ask, play, push, extend, be curious, be bold, be cheeky, be different, fafo. Or else stay in the same cozy, boxed, increasingly-predictable life that you’ve always known, just keeping things safe and tidy until our inevitable death. Morbid, yes, with a high purpose, yes.
Keep asking yourself, “Can my will-to-live be increased?” And proceed to play with that, as one protocol out of millions, in this Mike Mair content-sphere.
Becoming a complete, mature adult, with your playful soul fully-present, it involves a time and attention investment. Internally, it involves inner budget-cutting and also portfolio-expanding. In all of us, there’s a plethora of detrimental spending, but there’s also plenty of wealth, waiting for investment and returns. Externally, it’s embarking with your current wealth, and investing in your adventures to share and accumulate more wealth. Win-wins and synergy for all involved.
Don’t like analogies? Ok. It’s your immediate life, and the life yet to be interacted with, and you’re going to be enjoying and enhancing it all ONLY to the extent that you’re able to play with it. Full on.
Ask yourself some things. What will I do to affect the world in the way I see fit? What acts need to be fulfilled so that I feel that I’m doing what is truly right for myself and for this life? It’s either that, or living a life that’s half-baked, half-assed, half-hearted, and malnourished because you’re not taking yourself on enough (and perhaps too afraid to go outside of convention, fair enough). But let’s get more real. How many life-affirming facets of “You” are going to be denied and buried with your body at the end of your life? Morbid, yes, with a high purpose, yes. You don’t want sugar-coating. You want true nourishment so that you can play your best life, give your best gifts, and provide that upward spiral of nourishment for others.
Who’s brave enough to take themselves up on this massive offer? I sincerely hope it’s you.
Check out the content, the videos, the articles, the books, and get a real feel for this. Not for me. For you. For your soul. For everyone and everything that interacts with you. Reciprocal clarification and expansion of all that we hold wholesome.
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- Mr. Mike Mair, LHW
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