When we’re babies, we spend a lot of time in the beginning on the floor. It looks like you’re not doing anything, but of course nothing could be further from the truth. On the floor is where you start to feel what’s yourself, and what’s the envirnoment around you. And we need to be able to sense that to come up, to change orientation, we need to be able to push into the floor. That long process uses chains of muscles, that over time, ready us for the next developmental stage.
Whether you did it back in your childhood or not, revisiting these movements can help a more coherent and holistic use of yourself emerge. If you have discomfort sitting on the floor or on a chair, standing for any periods of time, coming back to, and playing with these developmental movements can help you improve your movement health. With an easier physical sense of yourself come other areas of ease. Emotions are body states after all. Body-and-mind is a unity. It’s not just closely related. It’s one thing.
There’s a reason most of us like playing with children at times. It allows us to let go of our adult responsibilities and enjoy life in the moment, even if just for a little amount of time. From a learning perspective, coming back to play is also the most efficient way of learning possible.
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