Change Your Mood with “Silly Walking”
by meditative - October 23rd, 2011.Filed under: Mindfulness for Parents & Children.
Inspired by Jan Chozen Bays, M.D. ~ “How to Train a Wild Elephant”
Can “silly walking” really influence your mood? Not only your own state-of-mind, but how about those watching you? This can be an extremely fun exercise for both you and your children. Tap your imagination and create your own “silly walks”. The body is a great tool to help us develop skills for both coping and transformation. The mind-body connection can be very effective in altering how we think and feel…
In addition, this exercise can help us to look at ourselves a little more lightly, and to take the “workings” of our minds a little less seriously. Monty Python’s “Ministry of Silly Walks” provides some good working examples to get you started. Have fun and be creative…