We are children. All of us. Only we do not always feel so.
Sometimes in life we drift further and further away from our innocence, our joyfulness. We become influenced by our teachings, surroundings, friends and families, societies’ standards and we start to lose our way, our path and our true happiness.
Perhaps we are lost, forgetful, fearful or clouded in our lives. We may give over to adulthood and grown-up years and think that the two cannot go hand in hand, that we cannot grow up and remain young at the same time. But we are as young as we choose! As happy as we wish to be! I challenge age as being a deciding factor of what we can and cannot be, do, say and live for. At any moment we can choose to see ourselves as children and recognise who we truly are.
Like a Child
Like a Child we can exude happiness and smile wholeheartedly from ear to ear.
Like a Child we are free to use our incredible imaginations and creative tools.
Like a Child we can run, skip and play with delight.
Like a Child we can draw and paint all the beauty that we see.
Like a Child we can sing at the top of our voices and dance the night away.
Like a Child we can practice handstands over and over until the sun sets.
Like a Child we can fall over and then pick ourselves straight back up.
Like a Child we can light up every corner and room with our presence.
Like a Child we can cry tears and then laugh the very next moment.
Like a Child we can have hearts of gold.
Like a Child we can speak wonderful words of kindness with enthusiasm.
Like a Child we can stay up all night chatting with the people we love.
Like a Child we can swim, splash and float on water.
Like a Child we can be nurtured, cared for, loved and nourished.
Like a Child we can heal our wounds so quickly.
Like a Child we can make our dreams come true.
Like a Child we can be present in everything we do.
Like a Child we can be glowingly healthy.
Like a Child.
By loving, caring for and embracing ourselves as children we can truly awaken to our great potential thereby creating wonder all around us. We see how a child enters a space and by simply being present and alive positively changes it’s appearance, feel and nature.
With a soft and gentle approach we can help bring health into our world.
Ask yourself these questions – how would you nurture, care for and love a child? What environment would you create? Gestures would you make? Words would you say? Nourishment would you provide?
Do you give these things to yourself?
We all know so well, almost instinctively, how to look after a child, yet often we neglect ourselves. Our standards seem to fall when it comes to the way we care for ourselves. It’s as though we are not as in need or worthy of health and so we deprive ourselves. We may give away what we really need.
See the child that you are, that is yearning for your touch, your care and set high standards for the way you treat yourself. What words you say, actions you make, things you put in your bodies. You are as worthy as everyone else in the playground of life. However much time you have seen pass by, your heart is still the same, your being, your essence. You owe your inner child, yourself, your dreams to come true.
Aging can be a wondrous thing if we make this choice.
Let us not forget how special we are, how to treat, speak and inspire ourselves. Let’s be done with using age, adulthood and maturity as our excuses for not living our dreams and playing for the love of it. And let us bask in it’s glory instead.
Let us all tap into our hearts and connect with our inner child. Smile and love this child.
We decide what growing older means for us, how we want to be in the moments, days and years to come. Nothing says that we have to stop playing outside, running and skipping excitedly and freely. Nor do we have to let go of our wishes and our ambitions.
Take yourself gently by the hand, just as you would a child, and give yourself a warm and loving hug. Stay here with this feeling. Like a Child you are precious. Like a Child.
