CREATE | PLAY |
CREATE | PLAY |
Each of us is born to be playful. Play is joyful and engages the brain and body in ways that science and medicine are only just beginning to understand. Play hones the senses, sparks intelligence, boosts sensitivity and spontaneity, and spurs the imagination into creativity.
Play:
• Creates Healthful Social Connections. Studies show that having many meaningful personal and social relationships actually prolongs life. It also reduces depression, increases happiness and promotes overall physical health.
• Bolsters the Emotional Well-Being of the human being. Being playful insulates us all against the day-to-day stresses of life. When you genuinely enjoy what you do, life is more rewarding and productive.
• Provides an Energized, Fun Atmosphere. Devising tends to generate a good amount of laughter among the participants, and science has shown us that laughter lowers blood pressure, engages the body’s immune system, reduces stress, and soothes anxiety.
But over the course of a lifetime we often get pushed farther and farther away from that source of creativity by a society that teaches us that logic and reason, and hard work and seriousness of purpose are the most important values to live by.
“Life without play is a life without books, without movies, art, music, jokes, dramatic stories. Imagine a world with no flirting, no daydreaming, no comedy, no irony.”
— Stuart Brown, M.D., Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, 2009, p. 6
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