One of the things that I love to encourage is for us all to connect (re-connect!) with our inner core essence. That part of you that is so easy to forget, ignore and to temporarily occasionally even lose for a time when we are busy adults rushing through our lives.
There are many ways to reconnect with your inner core essence, and today I’m writing about one in particular: remembering what you loved as a child. When we were all little, before we grew up and got busy into working and responsibilities and sometimes forgetting how to play, we all had activities and things that loved to do and that spoke to our inner essence. That spoke to US!
Think back to when you were small. Remember. As a child, what activities and things did you love and what inspired you?
It might take a while to jog your memory, but persist and try to make a list of a few things. They could be activities or favourite subjects from kindergarten or grade school, or that you did with a family member or a special school trip.
Once you have a few things written down then brainstorm ways that you may be interested in exploring those activities and topics again now that you are grown. Whether it is a matter of “playing” with an activity and enjoying your “me time” or “family time” with it as a hobby, or whether you would like to take a course or workshop on it, or read a related book, there are so many different ways you can discover and embrace your love of that thing, that activity again.
I loved to do arts and crafts as a child, and was inspired by pieces of beautiful fabric of varying colours and patterns that my kindergarten or daycare teacher had supplied for our crafts sessions. I’m not sure where she got them, but these small fabric squares opened my mind to a whole new world and endless possibilities of colour combinations and craft ideas. I must have been about five years old and I still remember them! I grew up and as a mature student completed a fine arts degree and to this day I still do visual arts and crafts including knitting.
This is just an example of something that I loved as a child which I can do as an adult to reconnect with my inner core essence. When I do visual arts or crafts I get into a state of flow, and feel in balance and alignment. If I had forgotten this and was looking to reconnect with my inner essence and align myself again, and thought back to when I was a child what I loved to do, arts and crafts would be top of my list.
Remembering what you loved to do as a child, and what inspired you, is a useful and practical approach to finding ways to be in alignment with yourself and to reconnect with your inner core essence as an adult.
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