Dooley Noted: 4/28/2014
As a child, you yearned for the days of being a grown-up.
But when you grew up, you may have lost sight of the important childhood lessons.
You lost the ability to play in a way that benefits health.
You lost the patience of earning stability before mobilizing. You used to crawl before you walked.
You lost how to breathe from the belly, laughing and crying at the top of your lungs with abs so powerful you could be heard two houses down.
You lost the inherent ability to demand what you wanted.
You lost the urge to constantly move – since stagnation was boredom, and boredom is death to a child.
You lost the demand to be strong.
You lost the urge to try new things.
But then again, as an adult you gained some things.
You gained the fear of failing, thus halting your learning process.
You gained a sense of complacency, with your spouse, your job, your life.
You gained security – with all of its compromises to everything indigenously creative in you.
But it’s not too late to learn from the child within you.
You can learn to add functional movement to your exercise.
You can learn to demand what you want.
You can blast through stagnation by emphasizing movement in every aspect of your life.
You can work hard, train hard, and play hard.
You can renew the child within the adult. It’s still within you. Simply dust it off.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley