You may feel like enjoying the simple delights of life today as if you were a child. Being free and unencumbered by the problems of life might be the result of your connection to the innocence you once felt as a child. Perhaps you remember the times when you spent hours with your friends at play, without a care in the world. Bringing that sense of joy and purity to your life may help you regain that sense of wonder today. Engaging in play with the intent of getting fully into the sensations of what you are doing can be one way to recover your childhood. Running in the rain and dancing and letting the water bathe you, tickle you, and cleanse your spirit is an example of how you can infuse your life with the richness of total play.

Feeling and being fully aware of physical sensations help us to claim some of the innocence we had in our childhood. Living in our heads and analyzing our world is a large part of our current life for many of us. When we were children, however, our sense of the world relied on touch, and we processed things based on how they felt physically to us. Learning to be in our bodies now brings us back to that time when we used our senses to intuit the world, when we lived totally and without concern for the past and future. By using your five senses fully, you will feel more lighthearted, present, and alive today.