Playing is fun. It also reduces stress, improves brain function, stimulates the mind and boosts creativity, improves relationships and your connection to others, keeps you feeling young and energetic. To play means to engage in an activity for enjoyment and recreation.

 

During childhood play, kids learn about verbal communication, body language, boundaries, cooperation and teamwork. I think some of us stopped playing a little too soon! In adults play teaches cooperation with others and can heal emotional wounds.

 

Developing a playful nature can help you handle stressful situations with humor, break the ice with strangers, make new friends and form new business relationships. 

 

Playfulness is an outlook that is the cornerstone of mental well-being. It’s part of light-hearted daydreaming for relaxation. It’s the positive and hopeful outlook that fuels resilience, the curiosity that catalyzes learning. It’s the energy that fuels creative expression. The ability to play is critical not only to being happy, but also to sustaining social relationships and being a creative, innovative person.

 

 

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