16 de Agosto de 2012
I was wondering the other day while listening to my
son laugh, what is to children that everything is fun for them? What makes them
laugh so hard, so long and with such sincerity? Well, I got into the search for
answers in my favorite site Baby Center. I came across this short article that
tells that the sillier things are the ones that make your 3 year old laugh his
heart out.
I recall one occasion I was practicing my Ashtanga Yoga moves, which I have began to master quite good, and during my downward facing dog, my son crawls to my face and stared wanting to say something... I played along, I looked at him more serious than usual, and waited for him to talk... no words came out from him, he just stared at my eye. Trying to hold my balance and getting to a state of concentration so hard not to fall while looking directly into his eyes. I couldn't stand it. I laugh so hard when my son burst into a continuous cackle. He then crossed "the bridge" underneath me a couple of times. I warned him "I'm comming down, I'm closing the bridge, I will catch you!" "Mommy, horse, horse!" he said. We had a great time together that afternoon.
I really don't mind my child comming up to me and interrupt my workout. I have learned that time is one of the most valuable assets one can have, and that one has to appreciate and embrace with candor and joy. Because life happens in an instant, one momment in space, one circumstance, one event that will not repeat itself ever. One needs to get a hold of it and LIVE IT! Yoga will always be there later.
The laughter of your son resulting from a stare, or a transformation of you into a horse in an instant will make your day, I promise. And children need so little to have fun. Everything for them at the tender age of 3 is exploration, and all the new things they see have the potential to teach them important leassons. From a small ladybug in the rose garden, to the biggest Iguana you have seen in your entire life (I live in Puerto Vallarta, and believe me, here are HUGE Iguanas), gives them perspective on things. Our job as parents is to make it fun while teaching them to appreciate and care for their suroundings.
My idea of fun is to do cross training, yoga, swim a couple of miles, run on the beach, watch sci-fi shows, write in my journal everytime inspirations comes knocking on my door, and cook vegan or vegetarian meals whenever I have the time. Of course, as one gets older, you tend to complicate things a lot more and perhaps the silly things are small and insignificant. I have keept in mind that youth is withing us most of the time and our children appreciate us more and get to know us better when we listen to our inner child, when we are silly and pretend everything is insignificant.
I use to be so complicated. I use to belive that I needed to have all the answers to all the "important" questions in life concerning personal relationships, the existence of love and the importance of ones character. I grew up to be sooooo serious, so uptight, so "conservative" so other adults respected me, listened to me. I got too serious and it only made me ill. Now all is bliss. When you realize that nothing really matters, "love is all we need" as the song says, you center yourself and just let things go. The fear disolves and the only thing that you get at the end is peace of mind, peace in your heart. After that, I have made my goal to remember I was once a child too.
I recall one occasion I was practicing my Ashtanga Yoga moves, which I have began to master quite good, and during my downward facing dog, my son crawls to my face and stared wanting to say something... I played along, I looked at him more serious than usual, and waited for him to talk... no words came out from him, he just stared at my eye. Trying to hold my balance and getting to a state of concentration so hard not to fall while looking directly into his eyes. I couldn't stand it. I laugh so hard when my son burst into a continuous cackle. He then crossed "the bridge" underneath me a couple of times. I warned him "I'm comming down, I'm closing the bridge, I will catch you!" "Mommy, horse, horse!" he said. We had a great time together that afternoon.
I really don't mind my child comming up to me and interrupt my workout. I have learned that time is one of the most valuable assets one can have, and that one has to appreciate and embrace with candor and joy. Because life happens in an instant, one momment in space, one circumstance, one event that will not repeat itself ever. One needs to get a hold of it and LIVE IT! Yoga will always be there later.
The laughter of your son resulting from a stare, or a transformation of you into a horse in an instant will make your day, I promise. And children need so little to have fun. Everything for them at the tender age of 3 is exploration, and all the new things they see have the potential to teach them important leassons. From a small ladybug in the rose garden, to the biggest Iguana you have seen in your entire life (I live in Puerto Vallarta, and believe me, here are HUGE Iguanas), gives them perspective on things. Our job as parents is to make it fun while teaching them to appreciate and care for their suroundings.
My idea of fun is to do cross training, yoga, swim a couple of miles, run on the beach, watch sci-fi shows, write in my journal everytime inspirations comes knocking on my door, and cook vegan or vegetarian meals whenever I have the time. Of course, as one gets older, you tend to complicate things a lot more and perhaps the silly things are small and insignificant. I have keept in mind that youth is withing us most of the time and our children appreciate us more and get to know us better when we listen to our inner child, when we are silly and pretend everything is insignificant.
I use to be so complicated. I use to belive that I needed to have all the answers to all the "important" questions in life concerning personal relationships, the existence of love and the importance of ones character. I grew up to be sooooo serious, so uptight, so "conservative" so other adults respected me, listened to me. I got too serious and it only made me ill. Now all is bliss. When you realize that nothing really matters, "love is all we need" as the song says, you center yourself and just let things go. The fear disolves and the only thing that you get at the end is peace of mind, peace in your heart. After that, I have made my goal to remember I was once a child too.
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