It’s Time To Micro-dose
With everything going on in the world right now and the impending Christmas pandemonium it’s easy to feel the weight of the world on our shoulders and to lose sight of fun.
Did you know that fun lowers cortisol levels, blood pressure and allows us to be more present and live more authentically?!
As we get older and spend more time adulting we spend less time, or even no time, in the cultivation of fun.
In the first year of the pandemic I realised I had lost sight of all of the things that helped connect me to fun. I had become obsessed with yoga, with teaching, with building my one-to-one business. I was also starting to feel like I had lost the essence of me.
I realised I needed to bring back into my life the things that really spark joy for me:
Dancing - spontaneously at home, at a club or festival or even learning choreographed sequences.
Dressing up - this is often also related to dancing too - who doesn’t love a good 80’s theme party right?
Being out in nature - swimming, surfing, running, cycling.
Being silly with friends. Connecting with those that allow my playful exuberant child to come out.
Being creative either colouring, making or baking something.
Swinging on swings, hand standing in the park.
And now skating!
Fun allows us to transcend our self critical mind, to expand our movement repertoire, to enhance neuroplasticity, and to find something new.
Kylie Rook Skating Nationals 2023, Shipwrecked Festival 2023, 80’s Dress up