Where in your life do you play? Play or being playful adds energy to your life and to what you are doing.
Play is crucial for childhood development, and it’s also important for adult development and health. Play helps to activate the neocorectx or new/ human brain (including the frontal lobe which is activated in Network). It also reduces stress hormones and promotes neural flexibility and growth.
You might hear me making sound effects while entraining. This is one of the ways I stay playful at work. It does nothing for the actual entrainment, but it’s fun for me and adds free energy to our interaction. I also play at home with our kiddos (A LOT) and I am playful at jujitsu.
Play can be different for everyone, but in general it involves letting go of being serious even for a few moments. Andrew Huberman has this to say about play”…how it changes our feelings, thoughts and actions and indeed, how it can rewire our brain to function better in all contexts.” You can watch his podcast about play here https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/using-play-to-rewire-and-improve-your-brain