Let the Child Come Out and Play
Your Higher Self is telling you to go out and play.
You are learning to play. You think you’ve been playing around for your whole life and that it is now time to get serious. The truth is, if you approach life in its correct form you will always play. Work is not work. Responsibility sits hand in hand with joy and with play. Until you understand that play and discipline, or play and focus, do not compete but are cooperative energies, then you will move from one to the other like a pendulum – one minute looking for rest/play and the next minute needing or feeling the pressure to get back to work. Finding the play in your life is what you are now being asked to discover.
When you understand this there will be no question of choosing a job you don’t like because you would choose what you value, not what brings you money. In your current work, would you remain engaged if there was no money involved? Or is money the only factor that keeps you employed? Finding your joy is what links you with your Source, with your inner core, and together this brings you the energy of playfulness and the fulfilment that you are seeking in all aspects of your life’s journey (including work).
Choose to look at the game of life in its true form. The best games always have rules. When we master these rules we advance, have fun and become winners in the game. One of the rules in life’s true form is around respon-sibility. At the moment you’re trying to work out what you’re responsible for. There are many who are immature, who will not take responsibility for themselves. They tend to rely on others to take responsibility for them. And reversely there are many who take too much responsibility for others thereby encouraging those who have little responsibility to remain irresponsible. The hero – feeling needed – runs in to save the day by rescuing the helpless. The helpless – looking for external love – feels validated when someone swoops in to help, taking this help to mean someone cares. In either of these cases there is a dance of codependency (which is not a ‘rule’ in life’s true form). In this parallel game both individuals move between the roles of child and the parent; the parent and the child balancing between the existing needs (helplessness) and being needed (hero).
Indeed, there are times to be responsible for others – such as for children, for elderly parents, for those who are sick, and so on. However, it’s important to see how these dependents, if possible, are capable of being responsible for aspects in their own lives and of being independent (even if this indepen-dence is limited). Only when both parties take responsibility for their own domains is the right balance found in this exchange.
As you work through this card to find that for which you are to be responsible, begin with what you think and feel. Being aware of what you think and feel allows you to navigate through the rules of life. Simply stated, what you feel is what you manifest in life; what you feel links you to your inner core and Source; what you feel can also disconnect you from source; what you feel is what you can heal. Those are the rules. For instance, in your desire to please your parents you may have chosen to be an athlete. You therefore chose a path – feeling responsible for being on the team, for being a team player and wanting to win – that knocks and scrums with an underlying struggle. When you are true to yourself you acknowledge that you do not like sports. You would prefer to be a writer or an artist.
Which feeling will lead you to your true life purpose? It is your choice – and the responsible choice, the choice which follows the rules of the game of life in which you feel the joy of connection. You either force yourself beyond what you feel by choosing to be good at sports where you do not like the path forward, or you take the path of your feeling state, in this case, as an artist. On that path you enter a state of flow and joy – thinking I want to know more, do more, and learn more because it’s my craft. To find that true joy within you must indeed listen to your inner state and there you take responsibility.
The minute you know how to adjust your feeling state according to these rules you become the author of your own reality. It is time to experience the dance and playfulness of a considered life. It’s time to play in its true form without looking over your shoulder. Release your childhood wounds with joy. Choose the toys of your dreams and celebrate. Play and laughter heal.
