Putting down the roles we play...

We all have identities we put on every day - being parents, teachers, children, students, employees or authority figures - but at times, it is vital to make space to relieve ourselves of the roles we play everyday. To carve out solid time in which we can simply be, simply observe and simply exist - without performance, without contribution and without production.

The body demands intervals of deep rest. It equally calls for moments of reflection, resonance and tenderness. When we chose to soften, to reduce and to put down our duties and responsibilities - we might invite a sense of wonder, an expanse of flight and ease: valuing rest, respite and the reduction of performance.

We all need to relate to one another - to which roles are assigned over time. Still, it is essential to have a malleable and fluid relationship with the names we are called by and the names others call us. In this way, it is vital that we feel able to lay those names down - to connect with our own bodies and unique essence without expectations. Lightness and playfulness is after-all, quintessential to a rich and fulfilled life.

Ultimately, we cannot always be the things we are expected to be, or that we expect of ourselves. So map out moments, days or pockets of time in which you are just you - outside of what you contribute to the world - and carve out time in which are simply enough just as you are: outside of the roles you play everyday.

This might be on long walks, a horse-ride, a canoe or a lie-down under the Spring sun. Whatever and whenever you find space to put down your chosen or given identities - remember this space is for you - to reconnect with something deeper and greater: your innate self, your being and your wonder for life.