When we are presented with something that is new and completely foreign to us we are faced with something outside of our comfort zone. We are taught through socialization to mistrust the new and different. We teach our children to learn from the adults and their wisdom yet we forget as adults that we too need to learn from the children. In attempting to learn to be an adult we forget the wisdom of being a child.15121512There is great wisdom in trusting ourselves and following our spontaneity to express itself in the world. We allow the elements of our inner boundaries, 1512fears and beliefs prevent us from permiting ourselves to embrace the joyful and playful inner child. By having more fun and letting out this inner child 1512we may believe that we will be laughed at or ridiculed by the adults around us that take life “seriously”. We, like the other serious adults around us, have accepted the dogma of not enjoying life and its acceptance as normal, especially when we see others not enjoying life. As adults, many have lost touch with a deep and ever-present need to experience lightness, glee, trust 1512and simple fun. We have all but forgotten these basic elements of a life of well being.15121512When you are eighty years old you will not remember the day-to-day working hours, but rather you will remember those moments when joy smiled upon you.  Start now, cultivate and nurture your quality of abandon and remember what it is like to be a child. Let go of the resistance to remain an adult and open up to your joyful inner child that exists within.