“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” is a famous proverb.
So to be an energetic, healthy person…
Please note playing on the phone or any digital screen not encouraged here.
First let’s know some benefits of Play:
- Relieve stress: By the release of natural happy hormones which make you feel good called endorphins.
- Improves Brain function
- Stimulate imagination: Help you adapt and solve problems.
- Improve relationship: Sharing laughter and fun can foster empathy, compassion, trust, intimacy with others.
- Play can boost energy and vitality and even improve your resistance to disease, helping you function at your best.
- Develop and improve social skills, cooperation with others
- Help to cope with emotions and Heal emotional wounds
- Active play helps kids with coordination, balance, motor skills and spending their natural energy which inturn promotes better eating and sleeping habits
- Help kids understand group dynamics, learn to negotiate, compromise, deal with others’ feelings
……………………………………….. and lots more…..
Is play only for kids? Play is for the whole family…
George Bernard Shaw quoted “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
So Spend some family time together through play…
Some Outdoor games:
- Badminton
- Hopscotch
- Lagori
- Four Squares
- Blind man’s buff
Some Indoor games
- Board Games such as Snakes and ladders
- Puzzles
- Chess
- Carrom
Also Let’s Re-check if we are working on all our previous resolutions since January…
- Early to Bed, Early to rise..
- Greeting the Sun, Rewarding the Sun
- Move your Body
- Hydrate yourself
- Breathe
- Eat Healthy, Eat to live
- Practise Self Awareness
- Grow your Food
Have you felt the energy each of the above gives? Now let’s Add Life to Life with this months Resolution