Healing Your Heart, By Changing Your Mind: A Spiritual and Humorous Approach To Achieving Happiness (The Happiness Series Book 1) by Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian

Author:Dr. Jeffrey L. Gurian [Gurian, Dr. Jeffrey L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Happiness Center Publications
Published: 2017-10-14T00:00:00+00:00

We get off on watching other people play for us, instead of playing ourselves. And we appreciate them so much, we pay them exorbitant salaries to do what we don’t let ourselves do anymore, . . . play, and have fun.

You don’t think every sports star secretly thinks it’s hysterical that he gets paid millions of dollars a year to play a game that he loves? And when I use the generic “he”, I’m referring to women also. Believe me, Serena Williams is laughing as loud as the men, . . . if not louder.

Not everyone can be good at sports, but there are other ways to play, just like we did when we were kids. Boys and girls alike used to color with crayons. We used to build model airplanes, until the 60’s when kids realized they liked the glue more than they liked the airplanes.

We used to play ball. Rubber bouncing balls made by a company named Spalding, that we called “Spaldeen.” Those little pink rubber balls that even girls had so they could play the “turning over” game. You know like “A my name is Alice, and my husband’s name is Al . We come from Alabama, and we sell apples.” And you’d go through the entire alphabet that way, while bouncing the ball, and crossing your leg over the ball without banging into it. If you banged into it you were “out!”

Girls jumped rope, and played games like “Pottsy”. We had all kinds of street games, that I’m sure no longer exist, except maybe for stickball. What happened? We grew up and got much too serious.

Except in my comedy films, you never see CEO’s of corporations skipping or hopping down the street. But you do see lots of them playing golf? Do you know why? Because golf is a “safe”, socially acceptable game to play. It’s playing . . . in a “legal” sort of way. Plus you can be competitive, and not look like “some jerk who never grew up!” They’re still just playing, but they don’t realize it. It’s an accepted game for adults.

The problem is that somewhere along the way, also without realizing it, we lost the connection to our inner child, and we’re suffering for it.

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