Adults need to learn to un-learn and free their inner child again.

Last week, by co-incident, two times I stood face to face with playing children. While they were in their carefree and creative world, parents where connected in and with their mobile devices.

A child still is a free soul. Parents need to empower their soul to exercise its own will. Taking some time to watch this pictures you can see it as children who are really exploring, creative creating, learning by doing, connecting. Learning at the ‘street university’ to improvise more and more in a professional way. They (still) have a free and open mind.

How different their parents. The picture of the two playing children I took of them playing in a stream of a wonderful waterfall nearby the place where I live. Two couples and all together three children. The parents payed the entrance fee and watching them I think they did not even see the magnificent waterfall. Only connected in their mobile phones. Not supporting the children, not teaching the children, not empowering the children, not inspiring their children at all.

They were in their world of suffering and worrying. Discussing, a bit furious, things that showed up on their devices and showing the screens with comments to each other. What a difference. Trapped in their own created prison of desires, without space in their mind. Their mind, as a garden, full of a chaos of impressions. Not able to guard or to garden their mind. To create some space to be at ease and at peace with themselves. Running away from their selves. Trying to avoid a kind of inner war, afraid to come home to themselves. Not listening to their inner child that still is available but tired of calling…

There is so much to learn from children. A young child is not afraid to shine, to show what it is capable of, to hug itself and to say it’s great. Creative, at peace, space in mind, joyful. The older the child becomes, the more its listening to the environment, the more it gets different desires, the more it is toxified by marketing, by money. Telling him/her there is a better way to live life and to be more happy.

Actually parents empower children, - not to be available for them because they are busy with their own suffering and worrying life -, to follow the same idea. To become an actor in their own life.

Un-learn and learn from children. They can be the teachers of and in your life to love yourself more. Not to be disturbed by what the world wants from you or what you think other people are thinking of you. Being and developing yourself more in interaction with your inner self instead of only with the outside world.

If we are able to free our child inside again and love ourselves more, we give room to Self-esteem, Self-respect and Self-expression. We become fuller, more compassionate people who are able to enjoy life intensely and connect to others on a deep level.

We create space in our mind. Are more playful, creative and at peace with ourselves. We start to breathe again and discover that only we are responsible for our anger and the war within ourselves. 

We become, as a child, a free minded, connected an more free and happy adult!

Learn to un-learn. 

Frans Captijn

Host / Catalyst / Talenteer at Captijn Insight

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