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Hi, it's Sam here and welcome to Radio Headspace into Monday morning. So I've been playing

a lot of games lately and my husband and I host game nights where we play different board

games like Seddlers of Catan and Scategories. And as I looked at all the games we have,

I realized that we have quite a collection now. As a kid I was a big collector. I mainly

collected keychains, stickers, and rubber stamps and I had one stamp in particular that I truly

loved. The stamp was a lot bigger than my tiny Hello Kitty stamps and it featured a playful

gesture in mid-air with confetti surrounding him and it said, life is mysterious, don't

take it serious. The message felt so true even though as a child I couldn't understand

the extent of how true it really was. I still think about that message often as an adult,

especially when teaching mindfulness to children. I've always loved working with children

in adolescence because of their candor, their brutally honest, and they're playful. Almost

all of my sessions involve some sort of play. Sometimes we'll play Simon Says as a way of

introducing the importance of paying attention on purpose or the Hello Game where we'll

look into each other's eyes and describe what we see as a way to connect with each other.

I'm a playful person and I find it effortless to play with children, but adults are much

harder. We never really know to what extent we can let our play flag fly and so we hesitate

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