628 thoughts on “It’s All Just Child’s Play – Or Is It?”

1. Learning to complete and then be open for ‘what’s next’ is a beautiful foundation and preparation for unfolding through life.

2. When I read, ‘choose to use silence as a form of punishing them’, reminded me of a past relationship and receiving the silent treatment was painful. Because in that silence my mind would think of everything and anything, and play havoc that I was the worst criminal, so to speak. This silence is no different to someone verbally abusing us. It is a projection of another person’s hurt and we are all carrying these hurts, in one form or another, and it is no criticism or judgment on anyone either.

   If we truly sit with children and be with them, they communicate so beautifully if we just allowed them to speak freely, they possess such wisdom. I used to love observing children play, the joy and light heartedness that was there, placed a smile from deep within me.

   We have much to learn about life, it’s not all it seem to be, everything is a teaching and revelation for us to evolve, nothing more, nothing less.

3. “There were times when I would feel hurt, but instead of being honest, I would go into blaming someone else and choose to use silence as a form of punishing them. I would become righteous. All this was simply in order to not feel the hurt that had been exposed.” Ouch! What a great paragraph offering us all the opportunity to be deeply honest about how we store hurts and divert attention away from what’s playing out when they come up, and stay in the stagnation and repetitive cycles of not healing by blaming others.

   1. Going into silent running as I call it was my way of dealing with not being heard or understood and so I would switch off and just not bother. But this way of dealing with life is very limiting and damaging to our health. Thankfully I was introduced to Universal Medicine and by using the workshops and presentations as support can now express what I’m feeling without the need to withdraw from life. As a consequence life is so much richer.

   2. I agree Melinda, that honesty is super important, it allows another to receive that reflection to reflect to another, and so forth.

4. No matter what our age, young or old or in between, there is so much to learn from life and so much to reflect to others in terms of the the lived wisdom that we too hold and have to offer back to life.

5. Being ordered and organised does bring simplicity to life and this also prepares us to be ready for what is to come next.

   1. Having order in my life is essential, ‘order that brought simplicity.’

6. Completion is an amazing feeling – it is that part of us that knows to finish what needs to be finished and leave things in a way that allows a fresh new start with space for more.

   1. This blog is a great example of completion, and how it can leave us feeling, ‘It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day. It was one of the loving things I could bring to me.’

7. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.” Beautifully expressed Christine. Re-imprinting – with quality – feels so important. That’s why I love Esoteric Yoga – the repetition allows me to deepen further into stillness.

8. I am sure they can feel it if they are allowed to – if they come from a household where clean up is not a factor it may take a little longer to learn!

9. ‘What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.’ I love watching young children play – it is so telling as to how they are feeling and what their life experience has been thus far.

   1. I love watching young ones too – just being fully in their bodies – with a seemingly endless supply of energy….

10. Thanks Christine, as we can remove the boxed in way we consider our life could it be, by having everything organised to flow from one aspect of our life to the next seamlessly, then we are not attached to an out-come so we are evolving?

11. ‘What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.’ This is a gorgeous observation – so important therefore for kids to be given the space to simply play like this. This makes me want to ponder on how we are eroding this opportunity for healing when kids are allowed to ‘play’ so much on computer games lessening their time with more creative and spontaneous play.

    1. Play is an important part of our lives, ‘I have come to realise the profound healing play offers.’

12. As you say observation is the key Christine. I love observing people and little people change their ways in simple everyday activities, this I have also observed within myself. Such Fun!

13. “The time comes after many tries that the games we have been playing are made redundant and our connection to who we are”. How true Christine and it does not matter how long this may take, because step by step we gradually let go of old patterns and return to a new ways of being within.

14. Thanks Christine, what you have observed with children playing out and expressing what’s held in their bodies to be released and completed is a good reflection for how we adults are engaging in life, with much more on offer in the school of life than what’s occurring on the surface.

15. Living in comfort may feel familiar and safe but it does not support us to grow. We are being offered so much more, much more than what we realise and all that is needed is to surrender in order for us to become aware and to let go of those movements that hold us back from deepening the expansiveness and love in the body.

16. “God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new.” We are so beautifully held and supported to unpack from our bodies the unloving poison we have taken as being us and then allow for the inner to come out and joyfully imprint Gods love on earth.

17. Tears came to my eyes reading this today. Thank you. A deeper appreciation that I am playing with a big box at the moment, sifting through, exploring, playing and when I am done, I will return it and get another box. Life is amazing.

    1. Love it Sarah, life is certainly a beautiful experience of sifting through the boxes and then completing things – sometimes the boxes we get are not that fun to sift through but they too play an important role in teaching and revealing those things to us that are so needed. The key in this is “opportunity” and as I too learn to see each box as an opportunity for growth and learning, then the blessing is undeniable and the joy comes from embracing the true growth.

18. I was talking with a friend recently who had a pattern brought to their attention that left them feeling quite vulnerable and hurt and a little rejected. I could definitely relate as well, but I can see that it comes from us holding onto that part believing it is who we really are. However, we could see it as a gift, something that we now don’t need to continue repeating if we see it for what it is.

    1. Appreciation comes in here because if we can appreciate what we are being shown or what is coming up we feel so differently it opens up the space for healing.

       1. So true Elaine, if we looked at our experiences with more wonderment and appreciation imagine how much we would evolve from the learning offered.

19. Life is the perfect opportunity to learn – if we approach it that way – no matter what age we are.

20. Many lessons in life are learned in play.

21. I have noticed that children love to play with their toys and will invent new things as they play, however as adults we often hang on to old patterns because they work, but are we not missing out on the possibilities that are open to us because we would rather stay in the comfort of what we know then allow ourselves to do something different.

    1. Sally I agree with your comment as we get older we become more set in our ways, which restricts the possibility of allowing ourselves to experience something new that could offer different possibilities that could change our lives completely.

22. We can return to our old patterns, as you say, or We can attend to the detail of life and allow the evolution of the new

23. Hmmm… something happened while reading this – I actually felt that I wanted to be a child again and have another go at growing up. This has taken me by surprise as I thought that I would never want to come back and do it all over again.

24. We educate our kids about movement in the house. We pass on to them patterns of movements we find acceptable/normal. So, it is our own concept of normal what is at play here. Different normal lead to different patterns of movement and not all of them holds the kids equally for them to evolve. Some patterns create a lot of frictions and problems that have to be dealt with in the future. Others do not do that.

25. i relate completely to this way of supporting children to understand follow through and responsibility. I am one to keep things organized, and with my toddler we always pack things away together to the point where now she knows it is part of the whole experience. It brings a balance and sets the way for them as they grow.

    1. What a great way of showing our children the loving cycle of completion and the foundation that leaves for the next play to unfold.

    2. To me it was always important for my children’s toys to be packed away at the end of playtime, so I would help them, or they did it themselves, leaving a feeling of space and completion.

26. “…and then I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity” – and with it the ease of living too.

27. Order and simplicity, these two can definitely go hand in hand.

28. This blog reminded me of a conversation I had with a teacher at a primary school yesterday. She was telling me how the children in the first year used to learn by play and the adults would teach them maths and order while they were playing. Now they are already into the books at the age of five without the playing.

    1. Because we hold knowledge based learning (memory and recall) as king the learning that play offers is being dismissed, but play is a more whole body approach to learning.

29. What I’m learning and what is confirmed in this blog is how powerful the old and comfortable patterns are and how that more often than not override the wisdom we hold within us. It’s like they are a configuration that has held us in its grasp for so long that the thought of moving in another way simply doesn’t get a look in. To re-imprint the old way of moving can take time but it is a process that is so very worth the patience and the commitment.

    1. Ingrid Ward I agree with you that we do not realise how powerful the old and comfortable patterns are and how we do not even know we are in them until someone with great observation comes along and exposes them. I feel I am in an old configuration at the moment. By reading everyone’s comments I have given my self permission to feel that I have been fighting this age old configuration to try and get out of it, rather than just letting go and allowing myself to deepen. It’s another lesson to understand we cannot fight the Astral plane and the impositions they place on us. The only way is to deepen within ourselves.

30. Love that you drew firm and loving boundaries to support spaciousness and order in your home.

31. We need to set standards for children to follow, supporting them to be responsible early in life is a great foundation to be offering them.

32. What you bring to me in this blog today Christine is the awareness that life can been seen as our playground, a possibility to relearn how to live as a human being on earth, a human being in the true sense of the word, a divine being in a human body living its true power with love as its foundation.

33. I do more and more understand that we have to correct and clear all the abuse we have brought to life and dumped on our planet. We will naturally do so when we do reconnect to the divine soul we once separated from, the separation that allowed us to make this mess in the first place.

34. We are perfectly designed to breathe in and then out, to play and then clean up. But where many of us go off track is not bringing the quality of stillness and connection first, beforehand. What a mess we make when we dash about without having a base of love on which to stand. Thank you for the reminder Christine.

    1. The stillness you speak of Joseph Barker is space, when we move with space then everything falls into place. when we move with our minds we are empty and baseless as you say.

35. When there is a supportive and truly nurturing daily rhythm, there is a grander sense of everything being order and the body is aligned to a greater universal order that is an simple antidote to the stress and complication of rushing about in a disorderly way.
    “I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity.”

36. When we allow those old patterns you speak of Christine to come up for us in a playful and light-hearted manner it is a much simpler way to let go of and resolve our past.

37. ‘The time comes after many tries that the games we have been playing are made redundant and our connection to who we are, our connection to others, our connection to God is much clearer and the props are no longer needed. We have returned home to the truth.’ The truth is we are all Gods and as I heard again today being shared by a very wise man, often deciding to be and behave UnGodly.

38. You also describe the power of completion in your blog, Christine. With cleaning everything up after our ‘play’ we make space for the next experience with more learning on offer.

39. Righteous blaming is certainly a heady mix that never really leads to any kind of understanding, in my experience anyway…

40. What a beautiful description of how as children we know how to be fully in the moment, complete it and then move on to the next.

    1. Spot on Jennym – as children we do know how to be in life and in our body and how to complete and hence to it is a process of re-learning this as an adult if we have forgotten it temporarily.

41. “I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity.” This is so true. Without the order of the Universe there would be chaos

42. Beautifully shared Christine thank you, I have had a pattern of giving myself away, always being there for others, this has been changing for me as i re imprint that way of being and become much more responsible for me and not for others, just the other day i had a revisit of this old pattern, a deeper realisation of more to let go of.

43. I just love the simplicity and order here. I have a young child and I tend to like to tidy things after she has played with them and I had the same thought – am I being controlling – but then I realised that I am reflecting to her the responsibility of cleaning up after play.

44. I love the sureness of the fact that God has it all sorted and that love is the way that is already laid. This does not mean that we sit back and wait; it is our responsibility in the way we live to activate these facts now, bring the certainty to the present… because it is our delay that simply holds the future off.

45. Children have no issue with using play as part of their learning and what they do playfully learn is more organic than serious, stressful cramming, recall and box ticking. Makes me wonder how I can bring play more into my life.

46. “As adults too, we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work, sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.”- I can certainly understand and relate to this pattern of returning to old patterns out of comfort, but I am now pondering on why we really choose this pattern just for the familiarity of it. Personally, it has something to do with not wanting to stand out and stand up for the Truth no matter what, as many times I have become the target of other people who may not be holding themselves up to the same level of integrity, especially at my work.

    1. There also has to come a point in life michaelgoodhart36 when we say enough is enough I’m sick and tired of leading a life of misery, condemning ourselves to the same patterns, ideals and beliefs of many life times. If we are genuine in saying enough is enough, then we will be given the way out of the miserable but comfortable life we have fallen for that could be life times old.

47. Children nowadays seem to have so many more structured activities so there is less space and freedom for them to process what is happening in their lives. Thank you for starting this conversation – your blog deserves to reach a wide audience.

48. I love how you connect to the purpose of play for children and how this continues into our adult lives in less obvious ways as we try to make sense of why we are here. Your instinctive choice to set a framework for this play is so supportive – my daughter used to set out elaborate constructions which I sometimes left because of all the work that had gone into them but then I recognised that she never went back to them as they had served their purpose.

    1. I love children’s ability to complete without attachment. It is our investment as adults, teachers and parents to collect up and keep artwork, photographs etc. that builds complication into the natural flow of life.

49. How easy it can be to slip back into old patterns that we think we have deleted from our lives. But it makes sense as these patterns, in the main, were so ingrained, so familiar, very comfortable and often a trigger that can shoot us instantly back into the past. I have found that with a solid commitment to releasing these patterns that when they do endeavour to pop in I clock them very quickly, ask myself why they have returned and then make the choice to let them go – well most of the time!

50. ‘we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work, sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.’ Until such time we feel it is not comfortable at all and are ready to take the step that feels less familiar but is true for our evolution back to the divine beings we are.

51. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.” Very true Christine – there is always a chance – and a choice – to return to reimprint areas where we have lived ‘less than’.

52. The love of order and simplicity is not perfectionism but lets one moment make room for the next moment without impediment or imposition.

53. Many people behave in the way you describe rather than express the truth, and it only adds to the hurt, ‘There were times when I would feel hurt, but instead of being honest, I would go into blaming someone else and choose to use silence as a form of punishing them. I would become righteous. All this was simply in order to not feel the hurt that had been exposed.’ Feeling our hurts, healing them, and expressing the truth are important principles for life.

54. We can get taken out by those thoughts like ‘am i being a perfectionist’ etc… and often they are there to mask the truth…which in your case is that order brings a simplicity. It is important to build a relationship with the truth so you can determine what is true and what is not.

55. I love what you have shared here Doug, thank you.

56. ‘ I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity.It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day. It was one of the loving things I could bring to me.’ Beautifully said Christine, and hugely important .

57. We are so beautifully held by God’s love in all our choices, going around and around until loving choices become our way of life, and all that is not love is healed.

58. It’s in the order we find expansion from the space and it is this quality that allows us to simply be as we are. That is the joy of play from our bodies expressed through the simplicity and purpose of our movements and it’s where true exploration begins.

59. I love order, and simplicity, and can relate with what you share, ‘I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity.’

60. I recognise this in a few ways I am living, and I am choosing to address and heal these patterns with support,
    ‘we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work, sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.’ It is challenging me, and equally, I know there is huge healing that occurs when we let go of things that no longer serve us.

61. I am reading this again tonight and am humbled by the wisdom that is shared here. The reality that our lives are a game, that we choose to either repeat or re-imprint is so very real. For how can we expect our next moment to be different, unless we have made it so?

62. I love your analogy with play and the mess we create and how this can be reflected in our life, but at the end of the day we will come back to the simplicity and order that is our natural way, it is the way of the Universe.

63. “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.” I love your analogy with the children’s toys. it feels so true. I explore one area of life and then move on to another, maybe to return to explore the first one some more, until no longer needed.

64. We can get super serious in life -make it about systems, functions, time and chores but we forget about people and our bodies in the process. Learning to play in life, enjoy how our bodies move and our connections with others makes for a much more joyful experience.

65. There is a little part of me that resists the organised play that you describe. I can see how in many ways it teaches us to focus on one thing or area of life at a time and also as you say keeps things fresh for the next time that box is taken down!

66. The order brings simplicity everywhere and allows us to see and feel what is important and true in our lives and life in general.

67. Everything is everything – and all offers learning and the opportunity to heal and to grow.

68. ” It’s All Just Child’s Play – Or Is It?” . Yes for sure its child’s play but we make such a fuss about it , that we have to keep re-incarnating to get to learn its all just a silly game of illusion.

69. I like how you have described the purpose of play on so many levels Christine. There is so much on offer for us to learn about ourselves and life as we go about our daily activities.

70. I love your blog Christine, it explains beautifully the ebb and flow of cycles and the endless opportunity and space we are offered continually to learn and re-imprint.

71. Deeply appreciative of life and the divine presence that holds us all in love – In truth we are everything already and it is for us to trust the simplicity of life and all that it offers.

72. I love feeling the impact that simply ordering the toys have in the children who play with them. I can see you in this acitivity as God’s hands in their lives, caring for the whole order for them to find their own too. The space, respect and wisdom is deeply felt in this simple, silent and loving act. What a beautiful offering for your family and all of us..

73. Your sharing brings a beautiful understanding of how life works, thank you.

74. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.” This builds self-esteem and self-worth from the inside out – however long it takes.

    1. I have just started on a new phase of letting go and re-imprinting, still very challenging area, I am watching it unfold.

75. I love your analogy Christine. ‘Like my beautiful children and my amazing grandchildren in their play, we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.’

76. I totally agree Christine that order brings a simplicity and teaching this to children through the power of play is a beautiful way to inspire and support them to choose this as well.

77. Thank you Christine, and yes, eventually those old patterns do go!

78. The simplicity of order how that brings magic to the flow. I too find order really supports me in my day, I love clear and orderly that allows me to feel the space available.

79. It’s magical to watch how innocent and tender young girls and boys are when playing and in general, a real sight to behold.

80. I love that there is an order to life and yet in some ways I question is there also order in messiness? What can we learn from the clutter and or messiness that presents something for us to observe or explore more deeply that we maybe holding back in our lives? The moments we allow ourselves the opportunity to look at these pockets of life, allows us to see the beauty in cycles. Because we may have a cluttered or blocked area at some point but in time when we are ready it will be clear and flow will be restored. Showing us that we all have an order, that ebbs and flows along like a river: The beauty of movement at its best and the surrender to the natural flow, it’s when we fight against the current that we get caught up in the clutter and allow ourselves to be consumed.

81. I love the space you allow the children to play in. Teaching them responsibility as well as allowing them to teach you or remind you rather, that we need to constantly be re-imprinting our ways and starting new cycles when we know the old comfortable cycle doesn’t work anymore.

82. We are certainly God’s children playing but at present we are not playing together very lovingly.

83. Such deeply restoring words of truth Christine. We are all God’s children and thus we are given adequate space in which to play and to re-learn how to return to our full expression of this love. All of this within the Body of God, the Universe we live within, a never-ending series of cycles that forever afford us the grace in which to re-imprint the space with all that we truly are, if all we have been living has not matched this beauty.

84. I love the rhythm of cycles you are describing here, showing the importance of completion in the sense that there is a rhythm to everything which, when we allow for it, brings flow to life that holds a natural unfolding.

85. In connecting to our bodies we realise that our every move is impulsed by a quality of energy that we choose, magnifying what we choose through our bodies, imprinting the earth. And so we have the opportunity to re-imprinting every step we take and every move we make with the Divine quality we are within through the way we live, take care of ourselves, walk, speak, eat, sleep, work and every relationship we are in. The beautiful thing is that, much like the wonder of a child playing with the same toys again, every day we are offered the opportunity again and again to bring awareness to what it is we are choosing, to deepen our relationship with the Divine.

86. Your words about children’s play and what is expressed and playing out signals how all of our moments can be opportunities to release and uncover more. There is much going on below the surface beneath our superficial movements and activities.

87. ‘….it was the order that brought simplicity.’ And when we make life simple, we create space to be who we are.

88. I am really noticing the difference when i fully complete an activity or job and how that makes space for the next thing to be there. I was a master of have a million things on the go and never really completing anything fully.

89. I love how you expose your own doubts as to whether the way you were doing things was true or not. We can so easily make ourselves wrong rather than seeing things as they are and appreciate ourselves for our own inner knowing and what we bring to a situation.

90. We may think we are ‘playing’ on this planet of hours, taking all these toys out of boxes, creating a mess, but it is about time we start learning to put things back into where they belong to and understand there is an order, and it is well past our bed time and the dinner is getting cold back at home.

91. I like your analogy with God and the mess we make, and the tidying up. Life may have complications, but like the children and the toys we can create that responsibility in how we address life’s challenges, and top of that list could be, how we engage with other people, how much mess do we bring to the conversation, how much baggage from our lives, or how much have we tidied away, and effectively dealt with our own dramas and experiences, our hurts.

92. This blog never fails to blow me away Christine. Today what I received was the clear understanding that true order flows not from restriction or rules but from a quality of flow. And then on top of that you expand the subject to show how the universe is perfectly arranged too so we get to see exactly what is needed to heal, in perfect synchronicity. As long as we stay open to whatever comes, take responsibility for what we feel – then soon, the play and the fun will come along again. Thank you.

93. So true and very beautifully shared – ‘God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.’
    It’s just up to us to be open to the learning that’s on offer, if not, it just takes a little longer and the ride has a few more bumps in the road.

94. I love this Christine, you have beautifully explained a rhythm that we are continually offered. It’s these continuous cycles that offer evolution if we chose to re-imprint next time round.

95. Sooner or later we have to look at the repeating patterns that we all have and make a choice to heal the hurts that keep us repeating the same things over and over again. There is huge healing that occurs when we let go of things that no longer serve us.

96. Indeed we are being asked to feel into our playfullness and if not lived were it has gone, as we all know it and have lived it before. Hence it is a matter of choice and how much value we give it , that we allow ourselves to feel it again – and so live it again, it is not nessarily child’s play, but actually this is a play age-less, just more allowed when we are young. But that has been a choice, nothing more.

97. This is a blog that I always seem to come back to which would suggest that I need a reminder … “I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity.” Being prone to waves of messiness I realise that order needs to be something I build consistently in life in order to support simplicity when life is busy. Day 1 of the commitment and building consistency!

98. Comfort versus truth… a life lived in comfort that was actually deeply uncomfortable with the constant sense of everything being way off track, versus exploring an innate feeling of truth inside that makes so much sense of our world, the current discord and the simplicity of building true relationships and unity from the ground up. These days I am choosing the latter.

99. Christine, I can feel how as adults we are re-imprinting and working on things and evolving from them. I noticed yesterday how my family and I were playing together and working on our relationship and that we were learning as we were playing and being with each other, expressing to each what didn’t and did feel loving and so letting go of some of the ways we are that no longer work and instead finding new, more supportive and loving ways of being together and so I can relate to this being like child’s play; learning, expressing; letting go and evolving.

100. I love this Christine… I had never considered what you have presented about children playing but it makes complete sense… for life is constantly offering us something to work our way through to uncover a little more of who we are and children are not free of the life lessons there to support us to evolve.

101. Everything is a reflection and what we choose, what we participate in, how we understand what is happening and then how we are in that moment reveals or exposes how much of ‘us’ we have chosen to bring ourselves to. The question is – Do we live from our innermost in all these moments that the play reveals, do we hold stillness in observation first and bring space to life? God’s plan is fail proof, all we have to do is bring all of ourselves.

102. This is really gorgeous Christine. The way that you support and bring understanding to children is truly wise and loving. The way you share your wisdom and what your observations mean for us all is brilliant and deeply appreciated.

103. I am someone who appreciates order and supporting children to take responsibility for things and contribute to spaces by keeping things in order. I think it is great to encourage their self responsibility with this and recognising the part they play in the family and what they can do to support the whole.

104. I love the many layers of this sharing Christine. What it all comes back to for me is how life is not about the toys or the box, but very much about the way that we choose to play. Do we experiment or just repeat? If we honestly reflect there’s a strong comfort in experiencing things that are the mostly the same. But that route is effectively like wearing self-imposed blinkers all through life. Then we stunt our growth and fight our light.

105. “God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new.” Just how beautiful we are held by God, we are allowed to play out what ever is going on, he just is there holding us to find our way.

106. “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.” The ability to recognise what is not working each time it comes around, and to not beat ourselves up for ‘playing the game’ over and over is a gift in itself.

107. It is indeed extraordinary that we can, if we so choose, reconfigure ourselves totally at any time, and that the universe is there to support us … always

     1. It is humbling when you start to see the grandness of the support that is given to us by the universe every moment of the day, the support to deconstruct and reconfigure our lives to return to soul, that way of being we once lived before.

108. I love the simplicity and order here and the responsibility it offers at such a young age! What a gift for a child to grow up knowing this and knowing true order. That is almost more important than the toys – it is how they play with them and how they are when playing, knowing they will have to clean up afterwards and it is all part of the activity and not separate in any way.

109. I have created my own ‘mess’ (choices that are not loving) and the observant love of God allows me the space and time to realise this and the impact my choices. The more I understand this truth the more I connect with my responsibility to make each thought, feeling and interaction one of loving purpose. I don’t hold this all the time however I am so appreciative that I have this foundation to return to.

110. A beautiful appreciation that we are all children of God learning through play to live in harmony with each other and our surroundings.

111. Lovely what you say about a ‘clean slate’ and play, it is so lovely to feel that clarity and freshness, that supports a child to explore what has occurred in life and re-imprint, a new beginning each play, healing indeed.

112. It’s beautiful to understand the way energy works Christine, and that by you ‘cleaning up and clearing’ the kids space, it was fresh for them to come back to and find a whole new way to play together in it. The effect of the imprints we leave behind in our daily goings-about have such an influence on our ability to change patterns of behaviour we might want to… or rather not change them. If this simple law of energetic imprints was understood, we could instigate a great deal more change than we actually manage with relatively little effort.

113. I love how you have observed how much children learn from playing and how that it can be an out play of what is happening in their life, and by observing this we can support them so much more. I love the simplicity of order but I know if there is any element of control or wanting it to be a certain way then it is no longer order, but me controlling how I want life to be. This something I am still learning as control does not to allow another to just be.

114. Awesome that your children kept coming back to enjoy the toys in different ways – kids are super creative, and this is a powerful tool to have in life.. It means that things, situations and people can be observed and addressed in different ways, and that nothing can stay small or isolated.

115. I love the order you encouraged with your children, I was the opposite, chaos and mess all around, it did not matter where they left their toys nor when they played with them. This did not support my children to respect what they had nor did it allow any clear space.

116. I like this part about cleaning up for a clean slate, and how tidiness leaves space for everyone to just ‘be’. Historically I have been a very messy person, but the more I take care to look after my surroundings, the more settled I feel and able to handle the challenges of life. These are precious lessons that I feel the children in this blog are gaining.

117. Putting toys away at the end of a play session. A beautiful metaphor for adult life too. Reimprinting an area after a tidy-up or declutter allows space for new things to unfold.

118. I love what you say here in your first lines and through out your entire blog, order brings simplicity. Very true, we see that society as it is functioning nowadays is out of order and full of complexity. When we bring an order, we bring love and things start to become simple and true again.

119. I really like this sentence – “God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new.” Just goes to show how much we are loved by God, and that all that is needed is to let that love in.

120. Yes we sure do like to hold onto patterns that are not good for us, that do not allow us to evolve. Yet we will defend our behaviour to the hilt, even if we know it isn’t right. Learning about these patterns, what we need to let go of, due to hurts or whatever it may be, is always our responsibility.

     1. So true Raegan, we complain about the undesirable behaviours but rarely seek true counsel to understand them enough to actually shift them. It goes to show we choose the patterns for a reason and you have nailed it… in order to not evolve. And to not evolve we are avoiding deepening and embracing more of our natural divinity. It makes no sense left at that, and so there must be something we gain from ‘not evolving’…

121. I am enjoying a growing awareness that my mistakes and wayward choices all fit in with a bigger plan. That when these are approached with understanding, curiosity and responsibility, they are incredible opportunities to learn and to break old patterns of cyclical damaging choices and behaviour. This has allowed a shift in the way I view and treat myself; there is no shame or desire to cover up my mistakes, there is more honesty and openness about them and therefore more acceptance of myself as a willing learner with lots to offer.

122. God has an amazing plan for us all, not just as kids but also in the big sandpit of life. If we can connect with the essence of ourselves, be willing to express ourselves fully, and tidy when we make a mess, then we can join in this grand adventure and understand better our place in this grand plan.

123. Does there need to be a difference between work and play? Many people like to get all their work done so that they can play. Suppose you treat everything that you do as play? A child does not differentiate between the two, it just does what it feels. I am “working” at surrendering to life and it does not work, I need to just let go and be a child again, open to what this amazing world is presenting to me.

124. This is a beautiful confirmation that we are all the children of God, here on Earth to learn how to return to the great love that we are. There is much we need to be responsible for and with this a great joy when we learn to make life about the eternal unfolding of our love. In play, our greatest work is accomplished and there is much work here to be done, playfully so.

125. What you present here is very profound. Knowing this to be true brings a new dimension to what we all go trough in life and feel that challenges us, it is for us to make the choice to learn from every situation.

126. The more I read your blog Christine the more sense it makes. To be organised in our lives means that on all levels it brings great rewards. We also know just here to reach for something physically and mentally. This means that there is more time spent on the joyful and loving interactions with others.

127. “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are.” I love this line Christine because without play and the constant there is on offer, we would not be able to enjoy the learning all around us. It is from this learning that we expand and explore the joy’s of living and evolving through our organised play. Thank you.

128. Wow if we were all to look at our issues and hurts in the lightness of child’s play whilst still remaining real with their implications, there would be more openness and honesty to allow the healing that is needed to take place.

129. Some of us never learnt to play as children creative play can be such a great way to work through and let go of hurts and reconnect with our innocence.

130. I love how you show that by clearing things away we can then start anew and not have the past still lingering on the table, so to speak. The remains of yesterday can distract us or pull us back into things and ways of beings that are no longer truly relevant for us. A great way to delay our evolution .

131. I love order, it bring such a feeling of space in my life.

132. I love the support order brings into my everyday life… And on that note I’m off to clean my room!

133. A loving order is the foundation of simplicity – and simplicity is one of the most delicious flavours of life that gets rid of old clutter and unnecessary baggage.

     1. Moving house has been the most amazing opportunity for me to really review what I carry with me in terms of material possessions and take a careful look at my willingness to move on super simply and unencumbered.

134. I agree Christine what I have noticed is how complication arises from lack of order, and when there is order there is a simplicity about everything.

     1. So true Sally, with simplicity and order I feel like I am showing up and saying I am ready for whatever’s needed.

135. “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.” Indeed this is a good summation of the real meaning of time, for as we go around and around the sun we are given endless opportunities to play, to move, to re-imprint more of who we truly are.

136. I love the relation of the world being a playground, for us all to play and learn together

137. So much simpler to see things clearly when they are kept simple…

138. Thank you Christine – a great reminder that life is indeed a playground and a learning, a school in itself.

139. I love that completing one thing before starting another, tidying everything away so that there is a clean slate so to speak for the next ‘play time’ to unfold.

140. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.” How true is this, love this statement. It is in the awareness we build to then be loving in the way we re-inprint, not to be hard or harsh on ourselves, but to be open to the fact we have lived a certain way, made choices, then with more awareness, we can make more self honouring choices.

141. There is so much more to life than what it appears on the surface – Life is spherical and there is an abundance of learning on offer in every moment.

142. I like the idea of teaching children to be responsible for their belongings and teaching them how to have regard for things- this is a great learning and discipline for life.

143. I loved reading about the order and different coloured crates – it felt like play to me to put everything back in its place. Also that no crate is better than another, but simply to be with each one in that moment.

144. Children offer us a great example of how to appreciate and interact with life. The simplest object becomes untold treasure, a day is endless and infinitely spacious and there is a natural ease with the flow of life.
     Do we allow our children to just be, in their natural essence – or do we impose on them conditions, time constraints and attempt to fit them into our rhythm and pictures and disrupt their true connection to life?

145. It might feel comfortable to keep returning to our old patterns and ways of being for they are so familiar, but when they are not loving and supporting us they can be a trap to keep us in the status quo and prevent us from growing.

146. Order around me leaves a space for me to live. When there is clutter, or things incomplete, it seems like I am dragging a proverbial ball and chain around with me.

147. A great parallel you draw between child’s play and everyday life – when we get a chance in every moment to start again, re-imprint and leave the old behind.

148. Viewing life as play to resolve what is held in our bodies does not diminish the reality of life but does gives a perspective that makes life more understandable, less overwhelming and fun.

149. To me this actually highlights how children and young people find order and consistency supportive for them, from observation my feeling is we tend to think the opposite of this and so seem to let go of order and consistency in a positive supporting way. It is more being consistent by letting them spend hours on devices!! It is also great and super supportive for your grandchildren that you have a deeper sense of awareness with regards to what they are acting out or playing could possibly be something that needs to be released from their bodies ‘sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.’

150. I love this blog because it reminds me that there is so much more at play in our every day. It feels like there is a bigger order and I have to get out of the way to let it all happen, meanwhile being joyful and content , knowing I am the son of God.

151. Christine, through what you have shared you offer a beautiful and powerful testament of how our movements are always reflecting how we are choosing to live, and equally so are always offering us an opportunity to evolve.

152. Bringing order and consistency into our lives and how we live supports and steadies us immensely to live in a harmonious way: with order there is a flow, grace and simplicity to our lives, and with consistency there is trust.

153. A great point you make here Christine, ‘Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.’

154. What a beautiful analogy for the cycle of life you present here, Christine, and the title is so apt – “It’s All Just Child’s Play – Or Is It?”

155. I am slowly rehabilitating order in my life, after years and years of being in total resistance to this. Nothing feels better than clutter cleared away and simplicity. I now know why my life got so complicated and out of control for many years- i was ignoring a basic aspect of life.

156. It is amazing to observe children play and the joy in their bodies and movements where nothing is an issue as there is that deep connection and quality at play.

157. The beauty of play is it is the opportunity to express freely who we are and what is happening for our children. We can read so much about our children by the way they play, it is very revealing and healing.

     I remember playing as a child, it was so joyful and magical! I lost that quality for a long time but now I’m reconnecting back to the inner quality within me and i sense the same magic, in my daily life, which has become my larger playground.

158. Life is also a play for us as adults, but how do we play? Do we learn, develop and move onto knowing ourselves and life more deeply or do we stay in our play repeating the same old, same old, where life loses that sense of freshness and newness as we open up to love within more and more?

159. The simplicity of order sets the space for us to be us.

160. I love this sentence Christine, ‘What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.’ I’ve never really looked at it like this before the power of play. I work in an industry where sometimes children attend ‘play therapy’ who have suffered trauma and as you have stated it does offer an opportunity for children to express their life experiences and what is going on. But in addition to that you have stated it releases energy in their bodies, which offers healing.

161. To me order has always been important, I now understand more so why I taught my children to clear up their toys at the end of the day.

162. We really can act in quite unintelligent ways at times, and keep coming back to the same ‘pattern’, until we learn that really is not working, and finally let it go and choose something that is more loving, ‘we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work, sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.’

163. It is common to blame mess on having kids, but do we teach our children that cleaning up after yourself is part of playing? Not as a rule but to educate them of a greater responsibility.

164. When I was a single mother and my boys were very young, the house would be very messy, toys everywhere, it added to my overwhelm. At the end of each day I would tidy it all up and I have memories of it being late at night and me still cleaning up the days mess. Looking back I see it was a fools move to pack all that up for them, I was not teaching them responsibility and I was overwhelming myself. The beautiful thing about getting your kids to pack up as they go, is that you get enjoy a tidy house all day, that order plays a big part in reliving stress. When I met my now husband he introduced me to making sure that nothing new could be started by the kids until the last thing was packed up, it really does work!

165. Order brings simplicity, how simple and profound is that, thank you Christine for highlighting this reality.
     To live in simplicity and order is a divine gift, a gift I am learning to deepen and appreciate.

166. Hello Christine and I love how children are. One minute the world could be ending and the next they can be skipping through a field of flowers. We may say they ‘need to grow up’ or they are ‘innocent to the world’ etc but there is something we, as adults can see from this. We aren’t meant to carry things around, in other words let go of things they have hurt or upset you and carry a clean slate to the next moment. Have you ever noticed that children find it hard to remember things that have upset them? Sure there are significant things they remember as they grow but is that them ‘growing up’ or is that them starting to carry the world on their shoulders.

167. It is a joy to watch children play and the many life lessons we can learn from them, very often we forget and disconnect fom the love of God and make life about complexities and issues when life is about learning from all experiences to know and express who we truly are.

168. It feels true Christine, that life is just a game where we through play play out what life is actually about and do return slowly to the natural order we belong to by discarding the ill patterns we once have allowed our bodies being filled with.

169. Working in a school nursery I love watching the children clear away after their play sessions. It shows me that the ability to work together is natural as at 3/4 years old they are fully able to bring order back to their environment and demonstrate care for themselves and each other.

170. All areas in life can be seen as such a play. Each life-time we come again, are given space to unfold another round of play to rediscover who we are, then it’s all packed up again to repeat another round in our next life.

171. It’s so beautiful to feel how even the big messes we make as adults will one day be let go of and no longer gotten out of the play box. Those who no longer play show everyone else what is possible. I know there are things I no longer choose to play with and many more I am learning I no longer need out of the box.

172. Thank you Christine, your blog feels like 10 blogs in one, it covers so much ground in such a profound way. I stopped and felt what you wrote about the way children process when they play. As a child I was fascinated by Barbie dolls and would spend hours upon hours living out very adult dramas between them. Now that I have allowed myself to be aware of the absolute truth of reincarnation I look upon these ‘games’ very differently and the way I played makes much more sense to me.

173. “As adults too, we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work, sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.” So true – even when we do know our old ways are not working – like hitting our heads against a brick wall.It hurts but we keep on doing it. Until someone can show us a new way (thankyou Serge Benhayon) and we don’t have to continue doing that, but can step out in a more honouring way – of ourselves and others also.

174. I love the simplicity of order and finishing and clearing what you started. It is part of self-care to me.

175. “The time comes after many tries that the games we have been playing are made redundant and our connection to who we are, our connection to others, our connection to God is much clearer and the props are no longer needed. We have returned home to the truth.” And this is what life is about: to all return to where we come form.

176. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.” If we keep distracting ourselves our bodies tell us by illness and disease. And if we look at the world today we are clearly not taking responsibility for our choices.

177. “As adults too, we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work, sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.” That is why we live in circles of 24 hours, week, month and year: going around and around the sun to learn and have the opportunity to make new choices and grow from there.

178. I very much agree with you Christine order does bring simplicity, and to live in simplicity is a gift to have.

179. This is a beautiful example of how through play children unpack and play their way through the issues they have brought into this life time to resolve discarding the old and reimprinting their new livingness.

180. A great observation Christine – and this goes for every one of us too. ‘What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.’

181. Letting myself feel the significance of every moment, including the patterns of behaviour that play out when I am on auto pilot in life, shows me so much about how I am going and the quality that lies behind my activity. When I am willing to be this ‘self-detective’, I am armed with honesty and a view on life that makes the next steps clear and purposeful. It is also from here that I can sense God’s plan.

182. The order and rhythm of our life truly does support us to flow with more harmony. I was sitting in a doctors surgery a few weeks back and there were kids toys strewn everywhere in the room, but no children in sight. Everyone was stepping around them. I then felt to bring some order to them and create some space, which completely changed the flow and feeling in the room.

183. This is a beholding love we are held in and with, “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.” Beautiful Christine.

     1. And if God offers us this grace and space in our understanding that we are always learning, then it is churlish and irresponsible of us to reject it.

184. Life is indeed one big playground for us to learn and return back to who we are, god is allowing us to take the steps we need and gives us chunks he knows we can handle. Giving us all the freedom to fail, make a mess, and get back up afterwards. We are given so much, but in our lives often forget this and go into the struggle we deem life to be, but that is only of our own creation. We always can choose to get back to the plan that is there for us, provided in unconditional love.

     1. Very beautifully said Benkt. This is lovely to read as it allows me to feel how supported I am at all times.

185. Order certainly brings clarity and this sustained clarity brings a cosistency that we can trust, we know where we are. This really supports, at whatever age, to connect more with our own inner knowing that can guide us truly in life. Since I have brought more order into my own daily living this has certainly been true for me.

186. I love the sense here, Christine, that God allows us to return again and again to the same learning opportunity until we heal our hurts. His infinite patience is staggering! I know that frequently in the past I have gone round in circles receiving the same reflection over and over again, yet I was determined to remain identified and limited in my perspective. Now, when something comes up to learn from, I open up more to the bigger picture, knowing that the reflection is no coincidence but a clear communication from God and my soul.

187. The real learnings we all have in this life if appreciated are amazing and we really can learn the true responsibility and love we all have to being and living all we are. A beautiful blog offering so much we can all learn from as and with children and the importance space and flow which are so naturally a part of our lives if we choose it instead of the chaos and confusion otherwise on offer.

188. Sometimes we all need someone to come and shift our toys, we get stuck in our patterns and our issues and find this comfortable and although it is not nice in many ways to shake up the comfort, it offers the space to heal and clear what may be not truly flowing in our ways of being

189. When we allow ourselves the opportunity to engage, play and learn through life we begin to see a beautiful flow and surrender to being in and with life in each moment. It also brings a real sense of joy and wonderment to how we live similar to that of a young child, we too have these qualities. Thank you Christine.

190. Beautiful Christine simplicity , order and play and the surprise in each box of toys .

191. When there is chaos in our lives there is no fun or play, when we bring order to life we start to see and feel the games that are being played underneath. And like you shared Christine once the games are finished we are left with connection to ourselves, others and God, no matter how many games we play we end up at the same point.

192. I love the title of this article. How much do we dismiss as insignificant because it is ‘just child’s play’ – I know I have embedded lots of ill habits and behaviours on the back of ignoring what I thought was inconsequential detail.

193. When you feel the true grace and power of being connected to God – LITERALLY nothing else compares, after all it’s who we innately are, and what we’re here to do, all the little human games and troubles seem insignificant compared to the majesty that is available.

194. This blog has brought so much understanding about both child’s play and adult behaviours…”Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves…” Thank you Christine.

     1. I agree – it is amazing how things keep coming back for us to learn from. Something like with putting things away – we then get to notice the difference when we do and everything then flows more freely in the room and you do not trip up on things or have constant thoughts of I need to do this or that as it is already done!

     2. Totally agree. It also reminds me to focus on one thing at a time rather than worrying about an endless list of things that I know I need to clean up.

195. Oh how I appreciate order and the simplicity it brings. This can often be described as anal or controlling, which it can be if it is not about quality, but more often than not it is a way for people to avoid feeling they have become comfortable living amongst a level of disorder and complication that is often outside of their awareness.

196. It is great to have parents who are loving and who know how to be practical about it. It seems rare, though.

197. As we play we learn and understand. Not many of us choose to play. Most of us choose to cope and suffer. What drives such a choice when there is so much more on offer? Unfortunately questions like this are not taught in school, instead we are taught to let go of our playfulness the further we let ourselves be drawn into the education system.

198. What a beautiful responsibility one has and sharing with children and all they learn from us as adults also willing to learn and open up to all we are offered joyfully from them also. The simplicity and structure you offer your children and grandchildren feels so solid so strong and a real platform for life.

199. I remember as a child playing with the same toys over and over, reinventing them daily to fit in with the day’s games. I did not need constant newness, for each day was filled with novelty.

200. ‘After a while the children returned to the same area and began to play there once again but in a different way. It was so clear that they had returned to now re-imprint the area with something new – a new way.’ – I love how children can be such amazing reflections of simplicity, to them ‘a new way’ is natural and easy.

201. It is beautiful how order brings simplicity. The key things to simplifying the way we live and the choice we make .

202. “Did I have a problem with a messy house or ‘struggle with clutter’?” and then I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity. Beautiful, Christine, yes, if we have order in our lives, then there is far more simplicity to be enjoyed. That is truly great common sense. When we let the house become messy, then all sorts of complications are set up in our lives. And how beautiful it feels to have an ordered house, the flow on effect of this would be a far more harmonious household for all living in that home. A great sharing, thank you.

203. “There were no rules around their play but they all knew that once the play was done with that particular selection of toys, they were responsible for picking up all the bits and putting them back in the crate.” I feel that was not a case of perfectionism, Christine, but actually a common sense way of teaching the children to be responsible. A wonderful way that you chose, simple, and by doing that as each selection of toys was no longer required, and put away, then the room remained tidy. Far better than leaving the house strewn with articles all over the floors at the end of the day. How awful it is to get up the next morning and face a messy house. Through their experience in early childhood, your children would have learned how to organise themselves and their days, a great foundation for how to live a more simple life, and avoid complication. I particularly like the idea that you put the toys in their crates up in the cupboard, far better than the boxes I had on the floor. Much more of a conclusion to the use of the original choice of toys. And out of the reach of the children so the toys do not again become strewn over the floor when you turn your back.

204. The thing that needs de-cluttering the most in my life is my head! Round and round those thoughts go until I pack them all away in boxes, thus keeping it clear and simple for my body to impulse me. If some thoughts however, seem particularly irksome, I shelve them until I can deal with them, perhaps when I am less tired, this seems to work for me, although it is ongoing, as how those thoughts just love to try and distract me from what I am feeling in my body, and as the body is the marker of all truth, I know that it is my body that I need to pay heed to, not my head.

205. I loved reading your blog Christine, you have deeply honoured your children through your understanding of their need to play without rules, allowing them space, but also with order and consistency……. and the loving discipline expressed through your system of choosing crates, stored on the top shelf of the cupboard and then packing everything away is truly inspirational… not only less stressful for yourself but at the same time teaching your children values to take with them throughout life.

206. I love returning to this blog, Christine, and the analogy of how we process our emotions through playing things out. There is no judgement in your words, simply understanding that sometimes what is held in our bodies needs the chance to be expressed and cleared, so that we can come back to being ourselves in full. It is so supportive that you have had that awareness with your children and now your grandchildren.

207. The world most of the time works on the chaos theory, that we are affected internally by small items, the butterfly effect. The attempt to create perfection is a case in point; it is a doomed effort from the start.
     Now order is the way to keep chaos in balance.

208. Christine, I love the analogy of how when we clean up after playing and keep things in order it allows space through God for the plan to unfold.

209. There is so much wisdom in this blog, thank you Christine. To give children the space to process their day and whatever is held in their bodies that needs to be expressed, feels deeply honouring. Having this understanding of ourselves as well, reveals how important it is to create space, to give ourselves the opportunity to connect back to the foundation of who we are in our essence.

210. Are we all just playing a game too? Creating, building, destroying, pretending until like you say that game, or those patterns are done, all the while God allows us to play it out until we choose to drop all the games and return to who we naturally are.

211. Very interesting to realise that actually order and consistency when done in a loving way is not confining or constricting or dogmatic or restrictive, but actually creates a space and freedom to be who we are and express ourselves.

212. I have noticed with my own kids how they naturally respond to order and a rhythm in their lives and feel very supported by it.

213. I have also noticed how different our house feels when things are tidied up and put away when we are finished with them versus leaving stuff out. When there are things left out or not put away it feels like a disturbance in the whole flow of the house which even affects how we move and think and feel in the house. Order feels very important to sustaining a quality of presence.

214. Christine, this is an amazing lesson in responsibility and the simplicity of starting anew with a clean slate each day. I can feel the excitement of the children as they were able to start fresh for each days adventure and were free from any imprint of yesterday.

215. I have become so much more aware of my movements as an adult and how they impact how I feel and effect the people I am with. It makes sense that our movement through play as a child have a purpose as well. Not just for physical development but to prepare us for our expression in this world.

216. What an incredible insight you have into how children play and act out the energy in their bodies- its incredible to have this appreciation of what is going on. There is never a time when energy isn’t being expressed in some way- and so wonderful you can note it and support whatever needs to be released.

217. Learning to order ourselves not from discipline but from a loving way to support ourselves with the order that we can return to, is very supportive in our lives. It gets us to focus on the small details that do truly matter, and encourages us to continue in a similar way.. because it works.

218. This is a beautiful analogy Christine that makes so much sense.

219. This is a great blog showing how order combined with love is very supportive of children. Order without love feels quite different to this.

220. It is true that adults lose a child’s natural ability to play early on, our current education system is reducing play at an alarming rate. When we understand the deeper level of purpose to play we would allow a lot more of it in every facet of life!

221. It is a true mark of divinity to be able to watch us humans go around and around and around unpacking issues, putting them away bringing them out again reimprinting or not! That sort of understanding and love can only come from an divine intelligence that holds a big picture of what is truth.

222. What a beautiful understanding of play and the importance of it in life and the healing it truly is. In the honouring of this it feels so fundamental to our lives and our development and way of living and is to be much appreciated along with bringing order and responsibility into our lives lovingly with this also. This is great reflection and inspiration to read thank you.

223. As adults we have lost this notion of play – we can be so serious at times, which is one of the reasons that we love children so much, is that they reconnect us to this lovely sense of play. If I think about starting a new job/task, how freeing would it be to think about it like getting a play box down from the shelf, so curious about what is in it, and what we could create from it and leave all the baggage and heaviness that can come about starting a new job/task (will I get it right, what’ needs to happen here, will it be well received etc…).

224. I find children naturally want to copy what adults do. When I start to tidy up, my grandson loves to help and he will often ask me if there are any jobs to do. I know he asks because I like to involve him with the simple everyday things that happen around the home.

225. Christine, I loved your way with the children and your order of play. You can really create the space and theme the order of play while allowing them to express in full and thus reducing any conflict. This is a masterful way upholding the responsibility equally of everyone who lives in the house no matter the age or gender.

226. Order = Simplicity
     Attention to detail = Spaciousness
     I willingly accept and embrace this but know that we can mess with the ‘purity’ of these ‘equations’ by the quality with which we approach them. Drive, perfectionism and keeping up appearances create the opposite of respectful, caring and honest responsibility.

227. Wow Christine, every time I read this article I notice something different, there is so much in here to ponder on, this time what stood out for me was ‘we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.’ It is great to see life in this way, that we are here to learn and re-imprint, it makes life feel simple, purposeful and playful.

228. In the experience of life, we have been given the amazing gift of expression, where every tension and disharmony we can choose to express back to its harmonious state with our commitment and deepening. This is a forever on-going process without perfection but simply deep joy, the joy of being closer and closer to our Soul, where love and harmony reside.

229. This is also a blog about the true intention of time and reincarnation. Time is for us to revisit situations and heal, re-imprint them and change the behaviour – this is evolution. However, if the situation is, like the toys, simply scattered everywhere and we walk all over them without being aware of them, we do not get the full opportunity to re-imprint or change the behaviour.

230. Children often approach life in a fresh new and playful way whatever the task, as adults we often move, walk and behave in a serious and fixed way, repeating the same movements and way of doing something over and over again, which can take the joy and freshness out of life. Children can teach us about being very present with what we doing, and having a wonder and appreciation for life as we have much to learn.

231. I find by cleaning up after myself or my child, there is a completion of that task and it leaves me free and available for what is next to do, otherwise there is a trail of incomplete things in the house, that pull and drag me down and also use up my energy.

232. God holds us in un-conditional love, allowing us to ‘play out’ or ‘act out’ what ever we choose and also experience how those different choices affect our bodies, lives and all others on this planet, so being energetically aware of this fact that all we do has an effect is important.
     We are all part of a bigger grander plan which we are all inevitably re-turning to, by delaying this we cause great suffering to our bodies and all others.

233. This is a beautiful and truthful way to look at our lives Christine, that we get to play out situations act out our hurts and reactions with other people, again and again, until such time we choose understand and let go of that behavior or pattern and move on to the next scenario that is required for us to play out.

234. Sometimes we play a game too long, a game that doesn’t serve us and is there to teach us something if only we were to open our eyes and see it. The game goes on even when it is past its “use by date”, and so part of evolving in life is knowing when the game is done.

     1. So true Heather, well said.

235. We are provided opportunities to learn and develop continually, and as you say, once we are finished with that game, or that particular development, the machinations are all packed away and no longer required.

236. I love that you put the toys on a shelf that the children cant reach, its like it calls them to a responsibility in the way they even approach the play. I once took a couple of my children to visit a child psychologist and noticed that she kept the toys well ordered and organised on a shelf. Each time we went back the children never got sick of the toys, it was remarkable because the toys were not special or in fashion. I now realise that it was the deep respect and care in the way they were placed there that attracted the children to want to play with them over and over. Thank you for this beautiful sharing.

237. I can feel the beauty of simplicity and order. The more order and simplicity there is around us, the less we are able to be hooked into the comfort of repeating behaviours.

238. I really enjoyed how you describe children play out their expression and energy in games and then move on. That’s exactly what it is like. And how important is the responsibility to clean away the scenarios for them to be reimprinted because energy is evolving all the time. It feels stale if the toys are left out. They need to be tidied away so the next evolving play can occur or else we are stuck in the old energy.

239. Christine-I loved your attention to detail in observing your grandchildren playing and how they played out the tension still held in their bodies. When dealt with, the toys no longer were wanted and packed away, and ready for another opportunity to reimprint their bodies with love. All from just being playful.

240. It is just a game we are playing and it’s a pretending that we are not divine and individual beings. This game has lasted too long though and it is time we grow up, pack up our toys and return to where we come from.

241. I used to be a bit messy and chaotic but have found how beautiful it is to have order and rituals in my life, they support me in being connected, in feeling space and in being able to simply flow in in the day.

242. Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves. These teachings of the ancient wisdom are something I am appreciating in my life more and more in every moment of every day . Thank you for an amazing sharing .

243. As children, we know so much very naturally, as you say Christine, the energy of our bodies is expressed in play. As adults, we think we become more clever but we lose our sixth sense of feeling this energy and we distract and complicate life. To return to this order and simplicity helps us to return to our true selves, and our true presence of being us.

244. I know for myself, if I start to get serious and can feel this in my body, being more playful and light, totally changes the way I hold myself and how I move.

245. Returning to old patterns of behaviour, even ones we know can be destructive, is a comfort I agree Christine. In what you have shared about life being the playground where we have the opportunity to play out’ such patterns and move on, this is a great way to view life and connect with the truth that ultimately, we will always choose to move on, or be moved on, even from the most stuck patterns.

246. I love this blog. Child’s play is so much more than play. It can be so easily disregarded as something that kids just do and so adults have little connection to it, yet it is something that adults could do with and it’s an opportunity to bring a little play time back into our lives.

     1. Yes, as adults we all can do with some lightness at times. Through connecting with play and light-heartedness we are connecting with or true way of being, expressive and expansive in essence.

247. Lovely how you allow the children space to play and make a ’mess’ which is not really a mess until they have finished the game. During the play, though it might seem that things are strewn everywhere, there is an order in it and no coincidence as to the placement of objects. However, once the game is done it is crucial that it be cleared away to make space for the new. Otherwise, if it is allowed to stay it blocks the flow of expression and you find that children will start to get bored and get into fights or arguments as a way of releasing their frustration. I loved how you put the toys away in coloured crates and when you brought one down for them it was like “greeting old friends they hadn’t seen for a long time”.

248. I like the title of your blog Christine: It’s all just Child’s play – or is it? Child’s play is an essential part of growing up – a way to explore the environment, process things in the body, ‘a profound healing process’.
     Children easily get overwhelmed with any clutter lying around and they lose interest in playing with things that have been stagnating on the floor. Cleaning up the toys leaves space for a fresh start which provides the opportunity for letting go of old patterns. It also supports children to take responsibility in life.

249. I love the feeling of what we express in play is no longer in our bodies. A great reminder to be playful in our days, for the natural healing it offers.

250. It’s great to hear about your observation with children being able to let go of things all the time, and through something like playing, they release all that needs to be released and move on. Just this observation alone can teach an adult so much – as we tend to hold on to everything, when really there is such an importance in letting things go.

251. I too find having true boundaries and order as being really supportive, it doesn’t have to be done to control or suppress but as you say Christine it assists the quality in the way in which things flow and the clarity within us.

252. There is such an honouring (of self and others) in tidying a space at the completion of an activity, and leaving a clear spacious area for the next task or next day – starting afresh, a whole new blank canvas for inspiration. In the past I didnt see it this way, thinking that there was perfectionism in it, but also knowing that I loved a clear uncluttered space I would do it anyway.

253. What I have come to accept and embrace is that as I work on being me, listening to my body and attending workshops with Universal Medicine, is that I just cannot stay the same, I have to evolve and that sometimes unsettles people that know me. Like a child changes much with each passing year, it feels like as I learn to be me again, all those ways of living that were not and never were me, need to leave and so to others it appears I am different, but in truth, I’m just revealing strengths and characteristics that were hidden for a long time.

     1. This so beautifully said Matthew. We have lived with the false perception that everything we achieve, develop, grow or add to our list of what we can do, only serves to hide our beautiful, loving, transparent, inner presence. I love the revealing and how a beautiful clear space allows for all of you to be revealed.

254. A timeless and beautiful blog! I am forever amazed at how children can play and set out their own scenarios and let their joy unfold from within. It certainly is a lesson for us all, when we consider God, who is holding it all together all the time, allowing whatever choices are going to occur to occur, but never wavering in his immanent and divine presence.

255. Everyday gives us the opportunity to deepen the relationship with ourselves and with others whether playing or doing something else.

256. I love your claiming of the fact that order can bring simplicity. We can judge ourselves as being control freaks for wanting everything ‘just so’. But this is not necessarily about perfection, it is simply a way of managing a situation well to allow a natural flow in which everything has its natural place and order. Your care here is simply awesome.

257. I love this Christine, it is so profound to consider us as children that have to play out their thing, just because it has to be played out, then when finished we have to clean up our playing field and continue with what comes next for to us to play out and learn and evolve from. Seen from this angle you can say that life is just a play garden where we do experiment and play to find out and return to who we truly are and belong to. We are forever students you can say.

258. Allowing play and allowing space to work things out is important for all of us. Creating this safe space and renewing it each time means you are allowing these little ones to grow and learn and yourself to grow and learn with them. I find it is so lovely to watch and play with little ones. There is an honesty in their play that is so joyful to feel and see.

259. I find the order helps to create space around things… the space is always there, but I see it / connect to it better when it is tidy.

260. Patterns and the games we play can be super time consuming and distracting in our daily lives. Allowing the way things play out when they need to though, to clear and move on for the next thing to unfold and then the next seems like a gorgeous way to spend life- forever learning and returning to more of who we are 🙂

261. I LOVE the way you have described how your children have played- super simple and responsibly, with packing their stuff up at the end.

262. This feels like such a lovely ritual Christine. I can feel the excitement and adventure in your children choosing which box to play with today and then rediscovering each day what is inside. The imprint of starting over each day with a blank canvas is so freeing, nothing that happened yesterday can be held against us, it can only be used as inspiration on this new canvas.

263. Every time I come to this article I am struck with the spaciousness I feel within me by reading about the consistent order, clarity and simplicity you provided by the way you took care of the whole process of play. It is flagging to me how supportive it would be to apply more of this in my life. Will be looking at that. Thanks Christine.

264. Thank you Christine, this is a very inspiring blog. The old adage silence is golden simply doesn’t work any more. When I got the under standing ‘expression is everything’ my life opened up to that, which has allowed me to truly feel what was going on and there was never any true silence, I was just not speaking! Expressing the truth without ever imposing on another has opens me up to a whole world self-healing.

265. Why do we grow out of play time?

266. I also love how what you’ve shared here can apply to any activity we undertake in our day. Do we truly allow things to complete? What difference does this make to the next activity and how we go about it, and what difference does it make to repeating the supposedly ‘same’ activity…? If we clean up, complete and pack things up, in preparation for a new experience ‘next time round’, then it has the opportunity to be truly fresh and new – unladen by what is unresolved from our past.
     Again, just love the wisdom in your blog Christine. Thank-you.
     (And how blessed are those children!)

267. This is truly beautiful to read Christine – thank-you for sharing your wise words… I can’t help but think of the ‘wheel of life’ – the opportunity we have to keep ‘doing it over again’ (whatever ‘it’ is that is there for us to learn, heal and complete in our return back to all that we are), until it is done and ‘resolved’, and ready to be packed up, that we may move on…

268. Child’s play is an interesting topic as I was just discussing this with my daughter yesterday. I was marveling at fact that all my children had eventually made careers out of their favorite games. When the girls were very little we lived by the sea. My daughters and their cousins loved playing at making sand pies and sand food and they had a friend who used to be a constant companion that also played for hours with them. All are now owners of cafes even though none of them showed any interest in food prepping for dinner before they left home! My other daughter even though she played along with them was more consistent at her game of offices and would go to lengths to fashion seats and phones out of the sand and then she would interview the others. She now works in her own multi media business and an office, on the phone constantly and is also a natural journalist and a great interviewer of the people. My son when he was very young loved Lego so I thought he was perhaps going to go into architecture but instead he discarded the Lego and then developed a love for making movies with his friend across the road and today also has his own media business making and editing movies including the fabulous interviews his sister does. They all loved to put on performances for me and would have me watch them as the audience and these days they all perform on stage at many events, presenting, singing, dancing and playing instrument in the case of my son. So is a child play also preparing us for the life we have chosen to live? Are we sometimes playing out our past and sometimes preparing for our future?

269. Wow Christine thank you for sharing such an interesting insight. Also I wish I had thought of putting the toys out of reach when I was dealing with my four children. It is a great incentive for children to pack up what they are using before moving on to the next thing. This really encourages completion as well as all you have mentioned above.

270. The comments in this blog about using silence and becoming righteous ring very true with me. I have done this a lot in life and as you say Christine, this is about not feeling the hurt that is there. It is a form of protection and a way of punishing others for what they have done. It does nothing to heal the hurt – just keeps it under wraps and then we can be hurt over again. Healing our hurts makes much more sense doesn’t it!

271. The sense of having a clean slate is something akin to Grace to me. It is as if whatever we do, Grace comes along in the very next moment and wipes that slate clean for us to move on. It is like the sea washing over the sand at the end of the day, leaving the beach ready for the next day, the next play, the next scene in our lives – until perhaps we learn to live Gracefully and we become part of the cleansing rather than the disturbance.

272. I have observed my children play and it is clear that they let go of and explore experiences that they have had in recent days. It does feel like it supports them let go of stuff that has worried or impacted on them. They actually go and choose play as a way to process and let go, either they want that together or alone to do so. They have told me how it feels great to let stuff go.

273. What truth and Love are when lived, are very different from what I have thought they are when I lived through all of my hurts. Healing many of those, and knowing that I am not in truth my hurts, has changed my perception of life. I have some habits that still play out and I can now feel how exposed they are and they are not of me. Surrender is big subject for me at the moment, surrender to myself, my own feelings of stillness and connection and allowing the plan to unfold…

274. Trust in the plan, I can feel that I am still tiptoeing in what is not the plan and yet I can feel the plan, I can feel being held by God and my connection and giving of God and the plan “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.” I felt a deep trust and a surrender to the plan through reading this article.

275. I am inspired by this blog Christine to keep looking at all the areas of my life where I need to re imprint old worn out routes and behaviours. The signal I feel is to look at what feels comfortable and uncomfortable because some of these patterns have become so automatic I do not consider or realize that they represent the old protected me who avoids dealing with my hurts.

276. I can feel the allowing you offered your children to just be and play in giving them their own space and toys. This is such a gift in parenting and supports children to develop their own play and not have to fit into any box or way of playing.

277. There is so much to be appreciated in keeping things simple so the flow of life can occur. For example it takes so much less effort when everything is in its place. Complication on the other hand can involve things being in the way, working or moving in clutter or just scheduling more and more in the day so I dont have moments to stop and feel the quality I am moving in.

278. Life can seem so serious, so hard and difficult at times yet every day, in every way, we are being shown that it doesn’t have to be so. I love how you illustrate this Christine with the simplicity of young children playing. For there is no wrong, no bad move, no reason to be hard or blame ourselves, no new toy that we need to have or no mess too big to be addressed. All there is just to have fun and grow. So thank you for this playful lesson.

     1. Yes, the more fun you have, true fun, the more you grow through play. A wonderful invention.

279. This article is divine, it is a gift and expression from God, thank you for going there and working through the ‘mess’ to express this “God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new.” I have read this and I feel, let it be, observe, surrender and feel the quality of God that resides within us all. So precious – Thank you.

     1. I agree to feel the depth of holding and understanding that is God’s unconditional love for us all is very precious and beautiful.

280. A whole new awareness of ‘play’ has opened up from reading this blog for me. Play is in everything if we make the choices that keep confirming our truth and let ourselves surrender to the grace of all that is taking place.

281. “It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day. It was one of the loving things I could bring to me.” Beautiful appreciation Christine, it gave me a moment to do the same. Thank you.

282. Just gorgeous Christine, it was beautiful to feel the opportunities that are continually on offer to re-imprint our past choices. It gave me a reminder to be gentle on myself when I have moved in an unloving way, as my next move can always be moved with love.

283. ‘Love this, beautifully said Christine – ‘Like my beautiful children and my amazing grandchildren in their play, we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.’

284. Beautiful Christine. ✨ We are all God’s children playing ‘the game’ until we no longer choose to separate.

285. Thank God we have the opportunity to re-imprint things. We constantly have an opportunity to grow and develop, it happens in every moment if we dare to choose it.

286. Christine I too find that if there is less clutter around and the house is in order, there is a flow and it feels my spacious. This allows for clarity of thought and more spontaneity.

287. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have been not been true to ourselves.” I love this example of how our cycles in life can be worked with Christine.

     1. When we start re-imprinting those areas we have not been true to ourselves, then our life changes for the more harmonious and quickly, too.

     2. It is a wonderful cycle that if we are observant we can really feel those areas in our life that are not coming from our inner essence, they do not feel good or part of us. And yes we can then make the choice to let go of them. This is where the inner essence shines more bright and takes up more space and so exposes and illuminates more of what is not us. It is a beautiful cycle and this article details it exquisitely.

288. “It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day. It was one of the loving things I could bring to me.” So true Christine I have found if my house is messy and unorganised I don’t settle into my day as there is no real flow to it and this can often lead to complications. I know my desk is an area of my life that does not have the same order as the rest of the house and your blog has made me realise that this has an affect on the rest of the house. Your analogy of the toy crates can be taken to my office, bringing in the playfulness and joy to this area of my life.

     1. Alison, I have also recognised how uncomfortable it is to have a cupboard or drawers that are neglected or messy, even if everything else visible in the room is ordered! It just goes to show how much we do feel everything and how everything has an effect on everything.

     2. Alison, I also feel that one area of my house being unkept creates a dis-harmony through the whole home, indicating that nothing is separate, but every part affects the whole.

     3. Great point. I even have one room which I ‘temporarily’ have designated to be a place for my piles and other stuff to-be-sorted-out. But I haven’t done it yet. For weeks it has been messy, I can see it everyday when I pass it to gave a shower. I can feel it, even when I have the door closed. Lovely reminder to clean up the room after writing this blog. So thanks!

289. Holding onto behaviours because I want to remain in my comfort and then blaming another for the discomfort I am in is simply avoiding responsibility. I am learning that every situation, I am the one that has created it and therefore, I am the one that can make a choice to surrender and relinquish the ill behaviour.

290. Having a place for every toy in the toy room I have found to be extremely beneficial for my well being. I have also noticed how clearing things out from time to time allowing an order and therefore a simplicity to be supportive and self loving as the feeling in my body when there is order brings about a lightness and an ease.

291. Christine, I find your article very helpful, what you have written here is really interesting, I had not considered play in this way before, ‘What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.’

292. Less is so much more when we de-clutter our life’s. The list of things that clutter our lives is physical and mental. De-cluttering also gives us all that lovely space to expand and grow, like pulling out the weeds that we were cultivating within us.

293. “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.” Organised play allows us the opportunity to see life with a light hearted touch, for everything we choose can be played out and a learning can be found. we can choose to carry on with the same pattern or way of seeing things and get stuck for a while, but what’s always beautiful to note is that when we are ready to explore a different way of playing or seeing things we can change the order of play to evolve and return to who we are always.

294. Gosh this is gorgeous and reminds me of my afternoon yesterday in relation to the order aspect. My husband and I had just moved house and were surrounded by a zillion packing boxes. I started putting away rather a lot of cans of tuna and other food items on the shelf. I found myself stacking them all up (they fit on top of each other) so that every label was in exactly the same position as the one below and all facing the same way. I ordered all my cupboards in this manner, and beautifully colour co-ordinated and folded my clothes. It felt so gorgeous, loving and harmonious and that is the imprint that greets us every time we open our cupboards.

     1. Adding to my comment, it is not just the visual harmony that greets us but the love and care in which I was doing everything. There was nothing obsessive about it, it felt very playful, joyful and natural to do things in this way. I was also very aware in this amazing new house of how I opened and closed cupboards. I felt a reverence to our new home and the quality of life that we are building in it. I can feel if I was ever rushed “or out” in some way when I went to the cupboard, this loving imprint would greet and support me to come back to myself.

295. It is so true Christine, that children do learn through play, and by simply moving something or changing it up and adding things, re-inspires them to play with the activity in a different way. And they most certainly play out situations at home and in their lives, through their play.

296. This make sense how you say playtime allows children to process and clear what they may have taken on from their bodies. As an adult when I have fun and enjoy myself it is much more easy to accept everything that is happening both within and around me.

297. What I felt in your sharing Christine was a wonderful process that not only supported you and your family, it also demonstrated the importance of order for your children which is such an important support as we develop our patterns and rhythms in life. There is so much in this blog about responsibility, order, learning and appreciation and much more!

298. “God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new.” God leading by pure loving example – showing us how to have the infinite patience and love for ourselves and each other that he has for us.

299. “There was always the question there – “Was I being perfectionistic?,” “Did I have a problem with a messy house or ‘struggle with clutter’?” and then I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity.” I’ve finally realised that a lot of people struggle with simplicity because it means that they have to take responsibility – they can no longer hide in the drama and complication of their own creation. At times I’ve been accused of being anal simply because I appreciate the clarity that order and simplicity can bring and in the past have taken it as a criticism – now I see it as a compliment 🙂 and am learning to understand and appreciate this about myself more and more.

300. I am touched by your words of Wisdom Christine. As I can so clearly see that my daughter’s teaching me how to be (!!!) playful. How simple it is and how delicate and loving it is to play together. There’s a lightness, a joy and wonderment in playing together. Especially the wonderment is something I thought I had lost (forever). Everything we’re playing, I’m surprised in how many different ways we can play the same. And that it’s actually building on the last time. Super inspiring! Which has brought back the lightness also to other areas of my life. Which is Truly beautiful. And when I tell her that I’m learning this from her – she just confirms – because she knows. Like she’s learning other thing from me. How absolutely AMAZING is this. Thank God for the inspiration and the ‘brilliant Plan’ that will unify us all – no matter how long it requires.

301. We set up our lives up in a way where we can choose to use each interaction (our play) to learn, to heal and evolve, or we keep playing out the same patterns over and over again until we finally make a shift and choose something new. Each day, every situation is like the child’s play and it is our choice how we approach it and what we learn from it.

302. Order does bring simplicity. It has a feeling about it where everything feels like it is in place and then this supports us to surrender in our bodies and from this settlement we are then able to connect the purpose of what is needed next to be done to support not just our own lives, but us as an equal part of humanity.

303. Amazing rich blog – which sheds a true light on playfullness and patterns. It is amazingly explained and compared in this blog ; showing us how we can cope with things in life from old patterns or new ones.. Getting ourselves out of the comforts, like kids can do and are adventured to do so.. Thank you for sharing!

304. I love how order brings simplicity to my life. How my clothes are placed, how the lounge is organised and how my kitchen cupboard are tidied and organised all add to the simplicity I love so much in my life. As you have shared, Christine, simplicity is so supportive in our livingness.

305. Love how observing children at play becomes a point of reflection for us in our own ‘organised play’. That God has a plan and we experiment our way towards it, I realise the essence of me is known and that the way I express reveals the more of who I truly am to become a real player in the plan.

306. I love how you observed that the children all knew what each box had inside and they would unpack them like they are new presents each time. This level of appreciation has generally been forgotten – I have observed when children have many toys that they have access to 24/7 where they are not taught to respect and look after them and then these become toys that they no longer interested in. Their becomes a dismissiveness in the way they are with what they have. What this is reflecting to us is the what the children are looking up and their role models and that they are living in the same quality.

307. Thank you for sharing your insights of a child’s play. It has made me appreciate and understand that there is more going on when children play with their toys. Its interesting how as adults, we may not have the ‘toys’ as such, but the outplay of patterns and behaviours, the use of entertainment and gadgets, are quite easily, the ‘grown-up toys’ that can keep playing out until at some time, we do out-grow the use of, not needing them to entertain. Perhaps a lesson learnt therefore not needing the behavioural pattern, gadget, entertainment?

308. It’s just awesome to bring the whole concept of ‘play’ into our lives.

309. Knowing that there is a plan that is greater than us, a plan that constellates the world reminds us of who we are.

310. Finding space in our day, whether that be through time, through an orderly environment, or through being able to breathe gently, changes everything.

311. My grandchildren searched for ages to find a missing jigsaw piece which they found under the settee, and were so delighted to complete the jigsaw. I have been learning the same message in a different way recently getting some organisation with my computer and emails, it makes life much simpler when things are easier to find because of the order they have been left in.

312. Reading this blog for the second time I have found myself reflecting on how as adults we don’t always get out a crate, tidy it away before getting out another, or at least I don’t. On reflection I feel that we have a habit of getting out more than one crate at a time, not fully appreciating each item in the crates, leaving them incomplete and then trying to remember what goes where and hurriedly tidying this away. Causing for ourselves, complication, confusions, stress and distraction. The metaphor for dealing with adult life in the same way as play and with such crates is super supportive in understanding that structure can support simplicity, learning and unfolding that which is available to us in each step.

313. I am really learning to treasure and appreciate the beauty of order in my everyday life and the disharmony I feel throughout my body when there is clutter and dissorder around me and inside everything also. A beautiful blog with such an inspirational way of seeing children play and life and the foundation order can bring to us all. True education and a gift to take away for life.

314. You talk about the old, familiar and comfortable ways and how you would at times blame others for the hurt you were feeling and “choose to use silence as a form of punishing them”. It sounds familiar and being silent is only one of many possible retaliatory measures – forgetting all the while that we actually hurt ourselves first and foremost when we do that.

315. Last night I spent some time with a little girl I used to babysit for – at only 1 1/2 years old, she was already learning how to play in some ways – there was still a lot of freedom in her, but in something she had learn and been shown how she should play. It is this performance that we learn from very young and carry with us as adults – that we have to be and act in a certain way to do something properly.

316. I love your organisation of play! It creates an order to it that allows for true play. It would be very easy for play to become messy and for it to continue longer than necessary, but with your order it enables it to last just as long as it needs to and then come to a natural close. I’m sure the children who have experienced their play time with you have flourished because of it.

317. This is just a beautiful expression Christine – “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.” And the wonderful thing is, we can choose any moment all the time to re-imprint whatever needs re-imprinting, assisting and supporting us to return more and more to our lived truth within.

318. I also find that living my life in an order and rhythm that I can maintain, everything flows much easier and ‘disturbances’ can also be dealt with quicker and less disturbing for the sense of peace that normally is present.

319. ” … and then I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity.” – Yes yes yes so true, order brings simplicity, great expression and now I know this too as I also like that order so things stay simple and clear.

320. Great analogy Christine – ‘Like my beautiful children and my amazing grandchildren in their play, we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.” I love how you so easily put this example in connection with our patterns and how to deal with them …

321. “After a while the children returned to the same area and began to play there once again but in a different way. It was so clear that they had returned to now re-imprint the area with something new – a new way.” This is a gorgeous observation in your children and how it shows development and evolving…it applies to us all in all areas of our lives as we finish something and come back to it taking it to a new level.

     1. So true, constant cycles and constant learning. Everything comes back round for us to deal with in a much more honest and loving way.

322. Being clutter free is providing ‘an order that brings simplicity’, which is a great statement, that also helps build a rhythm that supports our for-ever expanding way of life!

323. I love the fact that it is “the order that brought simplicity”, something I can relate to. It’s also great to reflect on the freshness that children play with, the new approach and the way we as adults are also doing something similar in our own way.

324. Thank you Christine for your blog it sparked something within me about my childhood. It seems normal for children to have a play box of toys these days, which I don’t remember having as a child…a go to box where you can share and play with your siblings. I can see how important this is part of growing up and I can feel from your blog that order supports this play. It has taken me a long time to recognise that if I don’t have order in my life then it starts to become complicated and it looses its natural flow, so your experience with the toy box was very revealing to me.

325. “As adults too, we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work” This has to be the height of insanity really, that we stubbornly choose to hold onto patterns that don’t work for us, somehow expecting a different result from the same habitual reactions to life. Meeting Serge Benhayon was a massive turning point for me, as it is for thousands of other people. Serge is continually bringing us back to the paradoxes we create for ourselves, the choices we make, the language we use, perpetually exposing the old patterns that don’t work, urging us to ask ourselves what are they really delivering. The more we examine the ‘toys’ of every day life with this awareness the more opportunity we give ourselves to chose a new way of being, a new way to honestly express ourselves, a new way to support our bodies. Consequently what we choose to put back in the ‘crates’ becomes a process of assessing what truly supports us rather than what we are used to. We can then perpetually build a new selection of toys that really uplift and evolve us, as opposed to keeping us going round in the same old ineffective circles.

326. ‘I loved the fact that this way of playing with their toys allowed order and consistency within the family. It allowed space for each of us to just ‘Be’ and especially for the children to just ‘Be’. It was clear how it all worked and that everyone was treated the same’ ….. I so enjoyed reading how you created the order and space for your children to play in this way. I can deeply appreciate how supportive it would have been and continues to be so for your grandchildren. There is such a difference between feeling into how to best support others versus imposing an order that is controlling.

327. God in our playrooms… there are so many incredible lessons to learn alongside our children. Being open to the possibilities is all that is required.

328. What is central to the teaching of Buddhism is; the more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. We start life by living this way, and we allow life to erode fun from it. We are meant to explore and discover life and having a good time enjoying the journey on the way is an important part of it.

329. Christine, I love what you share in this blog, on so many levels, this really stands out for me, ‘It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day. It was one of the loving things I could bring to me.’ I have found this too, that if my house is tidy and ordered then I feel I can work much More efficiently and joyfully, if there are toys and mess around I am aware of this and I do not feel so light and lovely and my work seems to flow less, I also notice this working in other people’s houses, I love working in an ordered, tidy home, it makes my job much easier.

330. “It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day.” I love to have a clear desk as this too allows me to be clearer and in the flow of the day. When I have too much on my desk it feels like I get lost in the clutter of it all and it affects my work flow. I love coming into work in the morning to a clear desk as it feels like anything is possible for the day.

331. “Like my beautiful children and my amazing grandchildren in their play, we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.” Wow, l have never looked at it like this before. lt is an incredible analogy and brings much food for thought.

332. ‘The time comes after many tries that the games we have been playing are made redundant and our connection to who we are, our connection to others, our connection to God is much clearer and the props are no longer needed. We have returned home to the truth.’
     The games we play are just distractions from truly being connected with ourselves, but the games are so ingrained that we think they are normal. This is beautifully written, when our connection to God is much clearer the props are no longer needed.

333. As one who always loved order even as a child – I used to alphabetize my books and every toy had its true ‘home’ – I have come to know in recent years how bringing order to a living space or thing truly does bring simplicity, and it is through this simplicity that I feel the real me.

     It’s deeply profound really, and at the same time also often overlooked and dismissed. I am still learning to appreciate that true healing – and true living – really is found in simplicity and not in complexity.

334. Christine I loved re-reading your words again as I feel they offer so much in allowing us to understand not only play but the way we can ‘play out’ situations over and over again in life. What you share sheds a light on the fact that in each of these situations we are offered an opportunity to go deeper to choose potentially another way and when we are done playing it out what we come back to is simply ourselves. Underneath it all we come back to seeing that we do not have to be caught in all that stuff but simply be who we are.

335. “…I had always been one for cleaning up children’s toys at the end of the day, leaving everything clear and ready for the next day…” This opening statement stopped me in my tracks as it made me ask myself… Do we clean up our daily stuff/mess/deal with issues that have happened during the day, so to have a clean slate for the next day? Or do we leave it unattended (like leaving children’s toys out over the floor) and get met with it the next day when we wake up?

336. I love what you share here Christine, there is such joy watching children totally immersed in playing with their toys and and I agree when you say that play can offer children profound healing. My daughter can draw extraordinary pictures at times that support her to release tension from her body and allowing her the space to move forward.

337. Great analogy here Christine, and if I were applying this to my own life, I’d say for a long time I was although I was playing with different crates of toys, I was always looking for the toys (aka life) to be the solution to my issues and so I pursued the path of trying different toys, keeping some (just in case), discarding others, experimenting with new ones, finding some complicated etc Although I was wanting a different approach to life, inevitably the patterns of looking for something outside of myself to be the ‘answer’ were the same and so although there may have been external changes, how I felt about me and life essentially stayed the same…It has only been since I’ve begun to develop a more loving relationship with myself that the way and the quality in which I approach life in has begun to change so it’s not me expecting life to deliver me something, but me delivering ‘me’ in life. And so in this way, it’s not necessarily the toys (aka life) that is changing, but how ‘I’ am ‘in’ life and my approach ‘to’ it!

338. Life can get intense for us all at time. What I love about this blog is that it shows the simplicity of how all the intensities can be released in a light hearted way.. there is so much we can learn from children.

339. I enjoy the ritual you describe here Christine, of packing up the toys after each use, and before bringing out new toys. Keeping things in order, certainly deepens our appreciation for what we have and keeps a freshness in the way we approach play and everything in life.

340. I really get what you are saying Bryony, I offer decluttering and interior styling services through which I continuously witness the exact thing you are sharing about – The way objects are placed in a room, in a cupboard, on a table, desk or dresser, they are are arrange in any space create energetic configurations that allow energy to flow in a certain way. This flow is effected by and affects everyone engaging in the space as we quiet unconsciously return to the energetic patterns we left behind when we last used the area. It’s incredible to feel the difference in a room when you move the furniture around or even swap the arrangement of objects on a shelf. The shifting of objects can assist breaking the patterns we live in and also in relationships. It’s quiet extraordinary.

341. Thank you Christine – I could really relate to the organisation and the rhythm of the toys being in the boxes and how kids too love this ritual of taking one box down at a time and re-discovering their long lost friends. There is a magic in such a process, the magic of re-discovery and the waiting with patience and the respect in organising it to be packed away for the next time. There is order in magic, and a ritual too which brings it all alive. Some people feel this more acutely than others, but in the end it is something we all ‘crave’ and deserve in our lives.

342. True growth and evolution comes not from the things that we build or the new toys that we buy but from the quality and way that we play, every day. And what comes across clearly in your words Christine, is that every time we are in a space we imprint it with an energy that carries on to the next person who comes along. So when we make life about caring and tending to the ‘small’ things that we do we are actually setting a platform for Love to build on, to support everyone.

343. It is this re-imprinting that has allowed me truly look at my behaviours and whether they are still serving me or not. I find it refreshing that just as a child continues to learn that I, as an older adult am also continuing to unfold and learn different ways of living to support me. A great reflection, Christine.

344. It brings great pleasure to watch children play and the way they interact with either themselves or with each other if there is more than one child. I feel it’s because I’m much more connected to myself these days and recognise the connection that is just so natural in children.

345. I love that when I am living my life in my rhythm and with order there is not only a beautiful flow to it but also a gorgeous sense of space.

346. Absolutely gorgeous Christine. Your blog also reminds me of the interplay with order, rhythms and cycles we all have in life and the beauty and learning we can choose to have in every moment. That is the true joy of life allowing ourselves the chance to play, learn and explore.

347. Great point Christine how you say that God gives us this organised space to play out what we need to evolve or not. This is very evident in nature and all the Laws of the Universe, like the Law of Reflection. We are inside a very very structured and well organised scientific bubble of expression and even though we are free to be and express, we are still confined to the Laws.

348. I’m feeling inspired to treat my office desk in this way – at the end of the day, perhaps even before a lunch break to put everything away into draws so that when they are taken out again I have re-imprinted them with a new level of service. It cements in another ritual for the day and space to be present in my movements.

349. I like the analogy that children’s play is similar to the way we are in life, how we keep coming back to the same experiences and patterns until we finally clear them away for good. Each time one of these patterns is let go of there is more space within us to feel God and truth of who we are.

350. I loved what was shared about the children working through their experiences and constantly releasing what they need to through play. Looked at in this light, play is a profoundly healing and purposeful experience. It made me reflect on the lack of play in most adults lives and how the things we do to work through our experiences of our day often bring numbing or distraction rather than understanding and a healing.

351. I love how much care and attention you put into sorting and packing the toys away into coloured crates each day but I must admit I did wonder why you felt it necessary to put them out of reach.

352. Children playing is much more intricate than I realised. Thank you, Christine.

353. I love to watch children play – there is a freedom and innocence – before they have learnt how they should play or the rules we put in place, when they simply play from their bodies. Children can actually teach us a lot.

354. Christine I love the order, structure and organisation that you write about. This hasn’t come naturally to me, but I am now definitely embracing it as a way to support me in my life. It’s very solid and everything else flows from it.

355. Life really is like a playground, a school – every turn and every moment is an opportunity to learn in a new situation. What your children and grandchildren’s play reflected to you is awesome – kids get so much from being free to be themselves and play how they wish with out rules or ‘colour between the lines attitudes.

356. I love how much reflection you have brought to your childcare Christine, it is beautiful to consider the order that is there in the play, and how the children are releasing patterns, expressing what needs to be let go. As adults we can often look at children and I know I have been guilty of seeing someone less capable, but in fact there is a simple genius at play and it is my own dumbing down of my intelligence that makes me find it hard to see that. There is always so much to learn from children and it is our responsibility to give them the space that allows this to shine through.

357. I see more clear here after reading this blog: To re-imprint we have to clear up first and create some space.

358. Thank you for this blog Christine, for me it is a timely read and offers me a welcome reminder of the beauty in being playful in our lives as adults. I am currently experiencing a changing time with work and have found that there is the potential to be drawn in to the situation rather than to stay in connection to me, what is true and the bigger picture. Being playful is a great way of supporting ourselves to experience and learn from that which we encounter without absorbing what is not us.

359. Christine this is a great blog, I love watching children play, and how creative and inventive they are with their toys, and how that reflect back to us, each and everyday the same things are around us yet by choice we can make them different.

360. What is most beautiful in what you are presenting is that there is no difference between an adult and a child, we are equal in our unfoldment no matter the age.

361. ‘We too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone’ – Well said Christine, and it’s amazing that we’re constantly given the opportunity to re-imprint the old pattern.. It seems that these boxes keep coming around until we choose to really look at them and re-assess our relationship with whatever is being presented in/by the box.

362. Returning to our old patterns even when we know they don’t work sounds such a ridiculous thing to do but that’s exactly what I have done in the past. It’s the illusion that it feels like there’s a large clear motorway I can cruise down to repeat those patterns and nowhere to make a turn but in truth I know I can simply stop. It’s a choice of energy to stay in the same old route or make a change.

363. I have always been a very messy and untidy person and can now see the complication this brings, not being able to find things when there is no order is such a head ache. So whether it is play, work or home life it all flows better when things are tidy and in order.

     1. Having order is so supportive. I have always felt the complication messiness brings with it and how disturbing this is to my body.

     2. I always saw order as a drag, something that people with nothing better to do would do. Now its an essential part of my rhythm thats supports me in all I do.

364. This blog reminds me of how important it is to re-connect to the child within and be playful in life. Those repeated patterns we would like to be rid of can be converted into a playful game. And when it seems we’ve made a wrong choice, or lost the plot, we can knock down the bricks and start again.

     1. I love what you are saying here Kehinde, to simply allow us to approach life in playful way, that it is okay to make a mistake and that once we have noticed we can make another choice, without any big drama, just starting again with the same zest for life and love to explore as before the mistake.

365. Christine I love how you use the analogy of children playing to adult life. Everyday is like we take down the same crates of behaviour patterns and ‘stuff’ to play with until we have learnt all that we need from them and they are no longer required. Then “God knows there will be no more messes, no more boxes tipped out, no more carnage left over – just the presence of our pure ‘Being’ – LOVE.”

366. Thank you for writing this, it made me reflect on how our children played and how we organised their toys, and the ways in which that is reflected in our own lives. In the past I put different aspects of my life into different boxes, and would play a different role in each one. Now I am learning to be consistently me in every aspect of my life, whether at work, at home, volunteering or shopping, in or out of uniform, dressed smart or casual – it’s all the same me.

367. Order brings simplicity to life, how true! Decades ago in a re-curring dream, I visited an attic room full of junk and in disarray and could not get in to find what I wanted. It took me a while to relate the dream to the disarray in my own life. Now I value order in my life: it keeps me present with myself, supports me and in this way can truly support others.

368. ‘Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have been not been true to ourselves’ I love that we are forever presented with opportunities to re-imprint when we’ve lost our way. Never give up, simply choose a different box of toys.

369. The fresh start to each day and each play session of life feels so great to appreciate and learn from and the way you present the importance of playfulness from a clear new beginning is beautiful and something to take and treasure into our lives from this beautiful simple and very foundational blog thank you I love it.

     1. Yes I love it too and all the gems it holds.

370. Thank you for this blog Christine. Order allows for space to express and release which makes me wonder about the areas in my life that lack order which it turn restricts movement, space, understanding and ultimately release. In our stubbornness we can knowingly keep areas of our lives in chaos and dis-order, but our bodies know everything and can and do tell us the results we get for such dis-order. We live within such an awesome barometer for life with this body of ours.

371. Thank you, Christine, for sharing your experience and wisdom. Perfect timing for me to read this blog, as I have just been looking into the rich potential in therapy of using toys, figures and animals for young people to express their feelings. This sentence captures something very powerful – “given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.”

372. Christine I love how you felt the order and flow that was needed in play, so often play time can be seen as a chaotic stressful time but by bringing order at the end of it, by putting the toys back into the crates it gave the play time a structure and a completion. Reflecting this as being part of life is gorgeous, I can see the most times when I struggle in life is when I have let go of the order and the flow is lost.

373. Christine, this article is wonderful to read, ‘When the crate was put back on the shelf, a second crate could be selected’, I love the order that you have with play and how supportive and clear this is for you all, it helps me understand why I find it hard to live with having lots of toys around and why order and tidiness feels so much more supportive and loving.

     1. Order, organisation and rhythm are so loving to have in our lives.

374. Absolutely it is the order that brings simplicity along with not having any images of what that looks like! Order brings in a wisdom so you become much more focused, aware and appreciative of all you have, just like the toys are renewed each time and fully appreciated. It is the same with re-imprinting our lives, we all have that opportunity, feeling the love in an area that has been left lovingly is life changing. Great blog Christine, with so much lived experience that you share, and there is much more depth of wisdom yet to be explored in your post!.

375. Even from when we are small children we are learning from and processing life. From your observations Christine we don’t teach children anything as it is clear that they already know a vast amount. For all of us though it is more about unlearning our ways and habits so that we to can have a clean slate from which to explore.

     1. Absolutely Jennifer. They are always learning and providing life and they are very connected to the truth. By us setting our homes in a true and supportive way aswell as the way we are with children, we are supporting them to be all of them in life outside of the home as they grow up.

376. It is lovely to look at life like this… that we are just children at play… ‘building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around’ until we learn what is needed, evolve and move on until there is no more play needed and we are left with the true essence of who we are.

377. In this process God has no requirements of us or expectations we are given the grace to make the choices that we feel to at the time, some maybe in connection with God and others that are not. This absolute grace that we are given also known as free will lets our evolution evolve at our own rhythm. What I find fascinating and enormously inspiring is God is completely and fully surrended and knows that one day we will all return back to our original divine source.

378. Christine, I loved your way with the children and your order of play. You can really create the space and theme the order of play for children while allowing them to express in full and thus reducing any conflict. This is a masterful way upholding the responsibility equally of everyone who lives in the house including the children.

379. ‘God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new’ … when we are in the ‘mess’ it’s very easy to get stuck, to feel the victim, to want to blame other people. However, if we choose to take responsibility for our part in the ‘mess’ we can move on so much more easily, learning from our actions, saving a repeat of the same situation. From this learning we can appreciate that it was something we indeed needed to understand, enabling us to view the ‘mess’ quite differently, again helping us to move on. With this appreciation and understanding we learn to see the next difficult situations differently, allowing ourselves to learn more quickly and then move on …. we become far less reactive, less protective, more open and spacious, more accepting of God’s divine plan.

380. Yes there is a huge difference in the quality of the order depending on the impulse behind it. If it is borne out of control (normally ably backed by fear) then it is restrictive and stifling. If it is borne out of love and respect for all of our learning and unfolding, it is spacious and evolutionary.

381. We can ‘uncover a little more of who we truly are’ when we become a willing part of God’s plan rather than trying to ‘go it alone’ and write the script from a point of individuality. I experience resistance in me as this process unfolds but this is nothing to the amazing feeling of getting closer to who I truly am.

382. ‘Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have been not been true to ourselves.’ …. so true, Christine, this opportunity is there for us in each moment, it’s up to us to feel the impulse to want to do this, for our own evolution and that of mankind.

383. Christine, I love it that I can re-imprint my life every single day as life will offer me always the perfect tools to do so.

384. Indeed Christine, it is all child’s play as we all are children of God. since we have fallen for the world of creation and have to return from that we have to ‘play’ our way back to where we originally come from until we have nothing left in the world of creation and have returned to our original state of being, being the sons of God living the love that we are and with that restoring heaven on earth. It is just child’s play…

385. What a great blog! It is quite profound to recognise the parallel between ‘child’s play’ and an ‘adult’s actions/patterns’. This makes me consider that growing up is not the cessation of playing with toys, but evolving from patterns and habits.

     1. What a great way of looking at things.

386. This is such a practical example, I love how you have helped me to see the patterns of interaction I might fall into based on the imprints I leave behind. Responsibility,Responsibility,Responsibility.

     1. Being totally responsable sounds like a great practical tool!!!

387. Christine I can’t put into words how profoundly beautiful it felt whilst reading your exquisitely written blog. It felt like an ocean of wisdom washing ever so gently and lovingly over me. Thank you so much for this divine and precious gift to all.

388. Now i realise why i love order and have a better understanding of self. Thank you for your sharing,

389. Christine, such a beautiful sharing for us all to feel how you held your children and now your Grandchildren in this very supportive way. You can feel the power of order here and I can also feel the deep wisdom of the elder energy at play within you very strongly. This I feel you had even at that time when your children were younger. A very honouring and truly loving quality you have brought into their lives. How blessed they/we all are. Thank-you.

390. I love that children can naturally unfold and complete their processing simply by playing. As adults, we need to let our own processes also ‘play out’, albeit in a different way.

391. I’ve often wondered about times when I used to play as a child. There was a definite sense of something, quite literally, ‘playing out’. In recent times it’s occurred to me some of these episodes were related to previous lives, or more precisely, specific moments from previous lives, perhaps there strongly as a momentum or not fully resolved.

392. I recall as a child going to my grandparent’s place and always asking to see the same toys and items over and over, as if they were brand new. I was particularly fascinated by a ornate jack-in-the-box with a wind-up key, out of which a tiny bird would pop up and sing. I love that capacity children have for wonderment, and re-imprinting, as pointed out here.

393. I love the discipline of the crates Christine. Bringing simplicity and order into the home can only be a good thing. I feel it helps us to feel calm and balanced, mentally and emotionally and in a bodily sense.

394. This is a lovely analogy for life – and a beautiful observation of the way children are doing their ‘work’ through their play – as we all can be in life.

395. So much learning in this and in watching how children make choices. They make more a lot more sense than us adults do at times.

396. I am a big fan or order in the home. It allows for a clarity in which we live, a clarity on a physical level that extends to the energetic. Walking into a clear home each day means we have the space to deal with what is in front of us, we are not having to catch up from the day before. The effect of this on our bodies and life is quite substantial.

397. This is so beautiful Christine, the quality with which you have observed both your children and your grandchildren is such a blessing, a tender acceptance of the processes they need to go through in order to clear their experiences and how once done, they bring a fresh quality to the same space. a constant reminder of how we constantly have the same opportunity to address, express, re-imprint and move on. Life is one big wheel constantly re-presenting us with the same opportunities so that we can make different choices and bring to a resolution all our issues that we have packed into our own coloured crates.

398. Chrstine, what a beautiful blog and analogy. When I view life like this – getting down a crate of toys to unpack, it no longer has such a hold. Whatever I may be going through is there for me to unpack, sort through, re-imprint and then I can either leave the mess out to wade through, or tidy it up.

399. That’s great Christine, I love how by clearing everything up and putting te toys away in an orderly manner they felt like new and fresh when taking them back out. Unlike the usual discarded feeling we have when something gets old. I have found the same goes for when I put something away or make the bed – when you return you it you get a fresh start.

400. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have been not been true to ourselves.” when you put it like this it feels like we are been giving a blessing to go around and around again! God has infinite grace.

401. We are Sons of God eternally so. Until such time that we have mastered living and breathing this truth, where our movements are no longer in separation to this truth, we will continue to return to learn to live and so re-imprint our Love through our every move. As this is our Divine way.

402. Yes the games we play over and over again, stubbornly so often not even being willing to see that we are at the heart of the matter, the common denominator. When we are willing to lift our head and hearts up we can see much more clearly and start to make different choices, but it has to be from the willingness to know and appreciate that their is another much more divine way to live.

403. I really appreciate the acceptance that order is indeed important, so many people who are naturally ordered feel they have to apologise for being a perfectionist or obsessive compulsive rather than appreciating their natural feeling for order and harmony and how that supports everyone.

404. I often confused play with having to provide entertainment, but simply leaving kids to make up their own games without overwhelming them with the latest gadget or too many options. This was bought to my learning recently when I had a mother come to my home with her daughter, I immediately started to get out all the things I figured a child needed to be entertained and to the mothers credit she stopped me and said the child would be fine. And she was… for hours playing with a screwdriver and a napkin, pretending it was a baby. Big lesson for me, now I see very clearly I was imposing on the evolutionary path a child may have been on and allowing others to just be.

405. I love how you have observed the play of children and the order the boxes allow for them to be able to work life out through the discovering of the box etc.

406. Comfort is such an illusion, a trap that we ironically choose to escape to through the path of dishonesty and the willingness to ignore what is true. Yet the truth is inescapable, and it is the unsettlement from our choice to ignore the truth that drives us to seek more and more relief from the unsettlement that will continue to disturb the state of the false sense of comfort achieved. A convenient distraction to delay us from surrendering to the Oneness that we are, and are from.

407. It is easy to feel that you are being too uptight about keeping order. I find the important thing for me is feeling how and why I am restoring order. I was realigning the weights at the gym the other day and it felt quite playful like a child sorting through her favourite toys. But I also knew that the next person would be supported by me taking the time to carefully place the weights rather than throw them down.

408. I have appreciated the order that I can bring to my home and workspace for some time. I find when the space around me is cluttered, it is a reflection of my mind and how I am being. Clutter means there isn’t space to move smoothly through my home and my day. I find mess almost like a picture that isn’t hanging straight. It has a jarring effect of something being out of harmony with the rest of the room that I just can’t walk past.

409. Inspiring way of supporting children to play and grow that is showing us all the way we can live to constantly heal and evolve.

410. We are given packages in life for our healing, learning and development. We work through one and then there is another. The gift to heal old patterns is always there and we are given the tools and support to do so.

411. This is gorgeous Christine. If we are honest we will see that there are many comforts (some obvious an some more subtle) that we seek to keep us from accepting the responsibility we all have for choosing to live in connection to who we are and the purpose of why we are here; to evolve, to return to Love.

412. Christine, I am appreciating how you highlighted the importance of expression through play. It is often something we just allow for children, but its got me pondering on the importance of ‘play’ and being playful as adults; exploring and learning is still just as important in our own development.

413. Christine you have also highlighted the importance of play for us all, having the time to play out a scenario and get to resolution, but it has me ask the question what are we allowing when our children are playing computer games or watching TV, are we disrupting their natural plan to play out there evolutionary path or are we allowing other energies to infiltrate and change the game.

414. I love the awareness of order bringing simplicity. That tidying things up, clearing things away even if to bring out the next day gives us the opportunity to re-imprint, to relearn. I do this with my house, with my bag each day at work, with cooking. Sometimes I repeat what’s not loving but I give myself an opportunity to start afresh each time I say, hoover the floor and can start afresh with new steps of quality.

415. Thank you Christine for a really beautiful blog, I am definitely in the tearing down and digging deeper phase, returning to re -imprinting old patterns. I love the simplicity and order in the way your are with your children and grandchildren.

416. ” What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.” This is such a profound observation of the way we play out our learnings all the way through life, we set up the game which gives us the opportunity to go through it and learn and when done move on to the next game, having been given the opportunity to learn the lesson or as often is the case, it is presented to us again and again in many different games for us to finally get. To understand this is what we naturally do, is to appreciate that we are always given the opportunity to evolve

417. ‘The time comes after many tries that the games we have been playing are made redundant and our connection to who we are, our connection to others, our connection to God is much clearer and the props are no longer needed’ I love the analogy you have presented Christine that takes it to the bigger picture. When we look at how children play and then move on over time we can see that we do exactly the same. We in effect grow up too – leaving behind the ‘games’ we have outgrown because we know they no longer serve us in truth – they are simply the stepping stones to deeper awareness and appreciation of who we are and where we are from. How long we play those games for however are completely up to us.

418. The innocence of children is a beautiful reflection we can all benefit from, the opportunities are endless.

419. ‘What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released’. This insights you have into play make for super interesting reading. When we consider the fact that everything is energy and that kids need to release the negative stuff (just as adults do) then play isn’t just play but has a definite purpose to support a child to keep returning to who they naturally are. It makes me realise that I need to ‘play’ more too!!

420. Christine you have bought a deeper level of understanding to my love of order, it allows for simplicity which supports my body to move through whatever the next part of the plan is, if I don’t have order it feels like a level of disregard has been allowed in.

421. I love how the order you encouraged in your household allowed your kids to feel a full sense of completion with each play session and toy, so much so that they when they saw the toy again it felt like a fresh experience. This is incredibly inspiring. There is something happening with order here that supports with a continuing evolving and deepening – gorgeous. This isn’t just about being tidy – something else altogether!

422. This was such an interesting blog to read Christine. I engaged with it at the beginning because I can so relate to the order in which you supported your children’s play. This appealed to me because I love order and find that without it things definitely feel complicated. The statement you make “It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day. It was one of the loving things I could bring to me” I feel completely the same about. One of the most loving things I can do for myself is ‘to be’ in a clean and tidy house!

423. So in playing lies the key to surrender, heal and evolve. Rather than in drives, indulgende, (self)abuse, seriousness, bashing ourselves and others, etc. Something new? Yes! This is so clearly written and in FULL honour of the children’s Power and Reflection to us adults. We are to learn from our little being who are still so full of Love, yet often talked about as if it’s just ‘playing’, where there’s so much Wisdom in the play. Through reading this blog a new perspective arise. This will never be the same from now on. Thank you Christine.

424. This is beautiful poetry and an inspiring essay expanding on the fact that we are God’s children.

425. Beautifully said Christine ‘Like my beautiful children and my amazing grandchildren in their play, we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.’

426. I had never considered children’s play in this way before. Upon reflection I can feel what a beautiful way it is for them to release ‘whatever needs to be released’, as it is an opportunity as adults to re-imprint patterns of behaviour with love.

427. I love the tender love, care and honouring that is expressed in the way that you approached your children and grand children’s play time. The order, the consistency and the deeply considerate attention you offered feels amazing. I feel inspired to apply this way of being to all aspects of life.

428. Order brings simplicity – so very true. When I surrender to the fact that even when it feels tough this is also part of an order, another opportunity to evolve and re imprint a moment with more love, the simplicity is always there waiting.

     1. A great way of looking at how the world and situations unfold, often which don’t feel harmonious. There is an order, one for us as individuals to evolve from. Gorgeous.

429. Christine,I love how you write about Play. This is a simple and clear way to understand on both how life can ‘play’ out, and how we can see what we do as ‘play’ in a conscious, deliberate way . This sentence is really making sense for me right now- “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have been not been true to ourselves.”
     Thank you!

430. I love to see life as a big playground which invites us to learn. We all learn every day and it is up to us if we keep on returning to the same play, or that we make other choices and therefore can start playing something else, with a whole new set of toys.

431. This is such a beautiful blog. I love the revelation of play that we all have had as children being a parallel to the way we live as adults.

432. So often the slate is wiped clean for us. The key is recognising it, appreciating it and moving on; instead of choosing to go into autopilot or recreating the same game that is in fact no longer there to be played.

433. I often observe children playing because there is so much that can be learnt about their home life and how they see the world around them as they will play out different scenarios they are exposed to. I observe my own children as they play as well and see areas where I may need to make changes in how I am parenting them or areas where I can support them to come to a greater understanding. Observing play is an amazing evolutionary tool. It even works when you observe adults and their behaviours as well!

434. Life is indeed a big playground and we play our games for how ever long we choose to until it is time to return home.

435. “Like my beautiful children and my amazing grandchildren in their play, we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.” I can really relate to what you share…the box I have just opened is an age old box called “making myself lesser”. I am currently digging around and clearing it out ready to make a new box called, “being equal with everyone”!

436. Wow Christine, I absolutely love this blog. I love the order and organisation that you share and feel how supportive that is for everyone!

437. Christine, you article brings a beautiful understanding to the process of learning and evolving that is life. Letting go of judgement or being hard on ourselves is absolutely key.

438. “As adults too, we can keep returning to ‘old’ patterns or ways of being because that is what we know, even when they don’t work, sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.” – haha, I know this one too well. Interesting how we can hold onto the familiar – stubbornly so at times – despite the discomfort it causes.

439. One of the most amazing revelations is to realise that work and play are one and the same thing.

440. Fascinating article Christine. I have found that, no different to cleaning up the toy box, returning things to their place when a task is complete allows a space for you to feel what is next, rather than walking back into something that feels unfinished or incomplete.

441. Thank you for sharing the true purpose of play and the fact that clearing the way after we have been in old momentums supports us to come back to life refreshed and renewed.

442. I love this blog Christine, not only in the fact that it highlights the importance of play, but also in the fact that what you share reflects a much needed awareness for me today. We will as you’ve shared continue to play out old patterns and behaviours until we stop, feel and clear the momentum we have been in. Clearing the space allows us to re-imprint and heal old ways, allowing us to come back to feeling who we are in truth – what an amazing opportunity God presents us with everyday. Thank you for this deeply healing and profound blog.

443. Thank you for sharing the way you have approached life through the observation of children at play, and how that plays out in our adult lives. If we take into consideration reincarnation as well then we would bring many of these ways of being with us and therefore our need to change some ideals and beliefs we have held for many lifetimes.

444. Taking life playfully releases us from having to get it right or being the best or conforming to rules. Any child would get bored with such conditions very quickly. There is a natural harmony to being playful, which allows us to support each other and learn and change as Christine has shared. Playfulness has a hugely significant purpose.

445. I saw a young fox a few days ago and was reminded of how animals when young, and still in a litter, play together in a way that is preparing them for life and their ability to survive and thrive in a very often threatening world. They are also kept “in order” by their mother. As you have so clearly shown Christine, that early experience benefits our children for the rest of their lives in a world, (especially our Western self created world) that is often strange and difficult to manage. It is so important that our children be given these tools of order and ritual, that way they can develop the full potential of themselves.

446. Playing with purpose.

447. I love the solidarity and reassurance you know all the pieces will come together once again.

448. We create the point we return to until one day we will surrender to the fact that this is what keeps us away from ‘home’.

449. What if an ‘ order ‘ generates action that retards everybody from recognising that there is an order to which we all belong and are part of?

450. Beautiful blog Christine, I love what you have shared. I was particularly struck by your words that told of you realising that out of order flowed simplicity. A great reminder for us all.

451. “separating their toys into plastic, coloured crates worked well, with each crate holding a selection of bits and pieces.” I find this sentence interesting for what it brings. Essentially you can either leave it as the kids left it or encourage them to make order. If you opt for the first option, the kids simply returned to the same configuration of energy they left behind. If you opt for the latter, you offer them the possibility to start a new, leaving where to go totally up to them. You offer them the possibility of learning responsibility.

452. Christine thank you for your perspective of children playing and the packing away of the mess. The re imprinting when it was time to play with the toys again. I didn’t understand this to this level until you have explained it. This is so true. I put things away and tidy up and love order. I didn’t know why, but I seemed to have more clarity and able to function better with whatever situation presented. And as you presented children and adults we “move things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.”….Who would have thought? Thank you for your observation and having shared this. This understanding is very enriching for me.

453. Beautiful Christine. I couldn’t agree more, it feels incredible when a space is clear. It allows for us to settle and to just ‘be’ ourselves without feeling an imposition from those things around us. I use to think that perhaps I was a perfectionist, but now I know that I have simply been feeling energy and feel the support that order offers.

454. I work in a shop and it is the forever task of the staff to clean up the mess people leave behind. Of course it varies greatly from customer to customer, how they behave, but no matter what when they return the next day they will find a clean store again and a fresh choice for a different approach.

455. I more and more appreciate what order and a clean environment can do for us and how it can hold and support us. I always loved order, but never truly appreciated how much I love it and how important it is for me. It feels great to really honor that.
     And I have to add, I love your system with the colored crates Christine!

456. Thank you for sharing Christine! I also am a person that has always loved order and was often put into that basket of being perfectionistic, which I was, however that innate knowing that order supports us was there as well and the perfectionistic attitude was something placed on top of that. Today I need to discern what is my innate knowing of order and where do I place unnecessary strain with wanting to be perfect on myself and others.

457. Thank you Christine for an awesome sharing on your observations in life. Working in nursery I watch the children play similar games each day and then they change to something else. This blog has shone a whole new light on what they are actually playing out and highlights the importance of not interfering as adults. I love how you then reference this to our lives as adults.

458. This is beautiful Christine. Your sense of how to proceed with the crates and the children’s play, how to pack up at the end and leave a clean slate, and how the children begin again on a crate they have played with before yet now anew, all mirrors the daily round of the earth, and its relation to the sun which repeats over and over again until we ‘get’ it. I love the order and rhythm you speak of. The children would love it too.

459. I like your analogy that just as the children chose from a variety of different toys to play with, we are offered opportunities in our day to bring truth and our individual skills/expressions to thousands of situations, conversations and people, who can all benefit from us not holding back and being ourselves.

460. I love how you connect that both children and adults use play to re-imprint the areas where we have not been true to ourselves and how we can be supported to do this in a more organised way rather than getting lost in chaos.

461. I love that I tidy up at night so that when i come down in the morning there is a clarity and welcoming feel in my kitchen. And likewise at night I go into a room that welcomes me for rest and recuperation.

462. Christine – the sense of order shared here is very beautiful – that we can continuously re-imprint our behaviours, and therefore nothing needs to be held onto. What an opportunity to see each day as a gift rather than a continuation of an old momentum or pattern. We can learn a lot from children.

463. Christine what a beautiful blog and how you have shared how we play our life out just the way the kids do. We keep playing the same games until we are done and ready to move on. We constantly have the opportunity to play and re-imprint. Our every moment will support us in our next movement and choice.

464. “God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new.” This is beautiful how God allows us to play out our lives the way we choose and the allows us the space to clean it all up, for the next play. God is so loving and non judging, how beautiful this is he is waiting for us all the time.

465. I love this Christine. I relate very much to the order and to seeing children play. It makes me uncomfortable to see the games we continue to play as adults convincing ourselves we are not, but I love the simplicity and truth of your last paragraph that eventually we will cease this and return to our natural joyful selves.

466. In God’s playroom, staying connected with ourselves and being who we are is all that is required for us to evolve together.

467. I did at first question that the children can not reach the toys and so are limited in their play, but that realized that children are not limited at all – even with no toys. They take what is there and make everything out of it. The ‘things’ are just a tool to experiment and to express. And the order gives a space that supports.

468. What a marvellous idea for play with children, as children it is important they have the freedom to play, but I also love the responsibility you teach through how they must tidy up. I have seen many times children overwhelmed by the number of toys they have around them. Children love to tidy and help with cleaning, it is all down to the imagination we have as parents and carers whether we use this love they have to make things more ordered and more supportive for the child’s development, or if we create disorder though the idea that children are just messy.

469. This gives me the picture of my inner cupboard with boxes full of patterns, ideas and believes. Unfortunately I am not always so disciplined to use just one box…specially in my past I did use all the boxes at the same time and mixed them – what brought me a mass of chaos and pain. I’ve got lost in that chaos. While with the presentations from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I brought my inner boxes not just into order, but also cleared them by and by. So that now I have nearly all boxes are clear and I could give the cupboard to the bulky waste…gave me much more space … to play differently :).

470. What i can feel about your blog is how fresh children are when they come back to their toys, never holding onto the last game or trying to build a picture of what they did yesterday – each day is a beautiful clean slate – there is so much we can learn from this outlook, the lack of investment, the trust and primarily the joy in a new beginning.

471. You remind me of my very similar behaviour with my own children many years ago Christine, if there wasn’t the order in the children’s toys, they would often not play so well. And if there was a jigsaw piece missing, they would search and search until they found it, wanting the completion. Without the order, there would tend to be chaos. But despite knowing that play was preparation for life,and how it’s repeated, I hadn’t thought of this in depth in the same way as you describe, bringing it to our lives today. We get the opportunity to replay something until we re-imprint it and release the patterns of behaviour we can get stuck in. Time is on our side, allowing us these opportunities until we learn.

472. There was always the question there – “Was I being perfectionistic?,” “Did I have a problem with a messy house or ‘struggle with clutter’?” and then I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity. I absolutely agree Christine, my husband and i are both hugely supported by order and have found that if the house has a simple order then our three children can play supported by this, explore toys, games, materials that allow their creative expression to wander yet at the same time know that when it is packed away it will support us all to use the space in a different way, allow for new and further unfolding.

473. Christine has a beautiful way of not judging herself or anyone else, which comes across in this blog as she describes the path that we all take through learning about ourselves.

474. “Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have not been true to ourselves.” Love this Christine, the fact we can re-imprint everything – given a second – and third – chance to reimprint with love. It can be so felt too – after a tidy-up or a deep clean – walking back into that area feels very different, clearer and cleaner, not just physically. We can do this with everything – our bodies and relationships etc.

475. This blog just goes to show that we can learn so much from watching children, and at the same time apply that learning to our own lives. It makes sense that we can still have a fun time and play with our children but there is still order and appreciation for the toys at the same time.

476. Each life we live is a crate of toys we play with.

477. I have enjoyed reading this analogy of the children playing with their toys, in the same way we have a new beginning each day to choose a different coloured box with familiar toys that mirror our expression and behaviours & by the nature of picking the pieces up & putting them back we are able to reflect and read situations that have played out, a moment to discard a game that no longer serves.

478. Wow Christine, this is gorgeous, I love what you have shared and feel very inspired, I have a 5 year old son and find tidy up times rather a tense time, it does not flow and is not fun, reading your article what I can feel is that the toys and storage lack order, there is not really a designated place or boxes for them to go into and that if there were this would make tidying up very clear and easy and so there would be no need for stress and tension, this feels very supportive for everyone in the family, thank you for sharing.

479. A timely blog Christina, as I observe myself playing with an old pattern and returning time and again, I know what’s going on and I look forward to a shift within me which means I pack away this crate of self-limiting patterns, never ever pick it up again.

480. “It allowed for me to be present with less distraction in the flow of my day”. For some people it is the other way around, the flow of the day is set up in such a way when we step into ‘stories’ that disrupt it all the time, to the point that the distracting ‘stories’ become points of reference for our life. Self-created and self-consumed misery.

481. From observing our young grandchildren and other children, it is apparent that they have an innocence and honesty in their expression if given the space to be playing in this way. A joy to see when not controlled by adults as to how things ‘should or must be be’.
     “By allowing this organised play, and the release through expression in play, what is deeply held in their little bodies is finished and what needs to be resolved has been resolved and is gone”.

482. There are orders… and orders. Ones are generated out of the movement of simplicity… others from a different movement. That is why in the latter you have situations like: you are trying to find that crucial paper where you wrote a really important number that you did not place over the desk, an obvious place where other people would store it right away, be told so and reply, ‘It may be messy for you but this is my order and it works’ fact that is confirmed when 30 minutes later your daughter asks you to go to the kitchen to go over the shopping list and discover that she is writing on the other side of what you have been looking for… These orders, are not only are of different natures and morphology; they also invite us to move in a different way as well. It cuts both ways.

483. We are all God’s children choosing which box of life to play with until we tidy that one away and choose another. As we learn how every piece of the different jigsaws fit together we will be ready to share the toy box of life with other children of God.

484. ‘Life is the perfect medium for allowing us to become more aware of how we allow ourselves to be distracted from what is true and to ‘keep returning’ to re-imprint those areas where we have been not been true to ourselves.’
     Life is such a playground which offers us in every minute new opportunities to learn and grow. Thank you Christine for sharing this deep insight.

485. Christine, something so simple you share about here and yet greatly profound. I enjoyed the fact that you exposed your thoughts as once wondering if you were a perfectionist, as I know I have thought this before too; yet when we are direct in our detail and purposeful with our movements and placements of objects the benefits this simplicity and space provides us is actually quite huge.

486. Great observation and real out play of how at any age it doesn’t matter where you are or what you are doing, that inevitably we are all on the same journey, discovering, letting go and expressing what we are living and experiencing in life. What I love about your sharing is how when you created space, simplicity and order that it supported deep healing and opportunities to re-imprint the way we have been living. This is super cool.

487. I would question myself about the pull to tidy up a messy area for children, yet in your blog you share the healing that the way you were with your children’s play and toys bought. It’s quite amazing to see the difference that made to the quality and way in which your grandchildren now played. What I also find really interesting is reflecting this back to my life as an adult today, looking at the areas of life that I leave messy so as to return to the comfort/pattern rather than have the clean slate to be afresh in.

488. What a great analogy of how things get played out in our adult lives. It’s a reminder for me to be more playful, as I can get oh so very serious with life, and to remember that there are toys I should no longer be playing with, and also ones I have not yet cleared away. Great fun Christine.

489. On reading your blog, I got such a feel of just how much we are cared for and supported to learn what we are here to learn, and that no matter all the different games we all like to play and keep repeating, the moment or opportunity presents itself to choose a ‘ new way’ of being, and when we do the re-imprint takes place. This can feel so wonderful, yet simple, that we can then continue re-imprinting other areas of our life, which eventually brings us back to our essence: Love.

490. ‘ we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone’. So very true Christine, I love how you have described this process that we all go through until that old pattern or behavior is redundant and we re-imprint with a new choice.

491. Life should be child’s play! The more complex the world around us becomes the greater need for living simply, and there is no better way than to be playful.

492. The common interpretation of play is seen as taking a time out, not being connected to the daily necessary tasks, having a “good time”, etc.etc. when play in children is basically practicing life and being in life and not something that we switch on or off or find a specific time for. Little children approach everything the same way and they don’t feel more joy in one task than in another.

493. A great reminder for me of how important it is to play even as adults , and how our playing in life’s games allows for us to evolve if we don’t choose to get caught up in old games .

494. It feels important to see the likeness in our patterns and movements as adults in the play of a child, as we are playing in life yet we so often forget this and it all becomes so very serious. Our movements are playful yet profound at the same time, for we can choose to just ‘do whatever’ or we can recognize the purpose of it all, uncovering the patterns that are not in fact who we are and choosing to re-imprint with the conscious awareness of our love.

495. Christine this is a beautiful and very claimed piece of writing.
     I love the organized play that you arranged for your children, and now grandchildren – the fact that you were present to watch them as they played and observant to what they were playing out, and not busy with something as I have often found myself as a mother.
     I love returning things to their place at the end of the day and supporting my daughter to do so, but having the boxes to bring down brings another level to this; it feels that the order and predictability is much appreciated by the children.

496. I love the way you layer meaning here Christine. This blog allows for much reflection on so many levels. The way you end it allows me to feel where we are going and the choices we will need to make to get there. Thank you.

497. Christine the sense of order that you describe and the support that it gives you is something that is crucial for me in my life. Order and sequence are like velvet gloves that pass me through my day. I feel the loving support of the order that I bring in everything that I do. The supports that I put in place are like loving scaffolding that I continually keep coming back to. I go into a room at home and am met by order, I go to work and am met by the order that I have put in place. Sequencing as well is incredibly supportive, it allows flow, minimal chance for things going wrong and basically invites harmony into all that it touches.

498. Christine I whole heartedly agree that ‘God has an amazing plan for us all’. Currently we act as if we are completely unaware of what that plan is. We blunder around, creating havoc and atrocities, seemingly oblivious to the fact that it is us that is creating them. Little by little we shall remember the intricacies of how life works and as this happens we will be able to live life in a completely different way. We shall make different choices and be instrumental in engineering the life that we want, rather than pretending to be at it’s mercy.

499. Christine such a delightfully light piece of writing that shares some very deep wisdom in a wonderful way.

500. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Christine, I loved hearing how you organised play with your children and now your grandchildren… it is the sort of thing that might seem small, but would have been very impactful on their freedom of expression, their development and ability to be responsible for their own ‘messes’ and also the understanding of ‘cleaning up one’s messes’ as we go. Very profound life lessons inherent in all that for sure.

501. Christine your words about play, toys and reimprinting reminded me of how I keep my house. Do I clean, organise and display it in a way that allows me a fresh slate each day to reimprint my life, or do I allow it to be a certain way to hold me stuck in patterns and not move forward? Thankyou.

502. Amazing how we keep playing with our same lot of toys over and over and over, getting engrossed and mesmerised with the outplay and the mess – eventually to grow out of it to join the hands that clear out and open the space for whatever next to unfold.

503. There is so much wisdom in this blog Christine, I love your analogy realising the similarities between children at play and the way adults choose to play the game of life and the opportunity we have in every moment to choose to re-imprint those areas that have been holding us back from being more of our true selves. “The time comes after many tries that the games we have been playing have been made redundant and our connection to who we are. our connection to others, our connection to God is much clearer and the props are no longer needed. We have returned home to the truth”.

504. Beautifully expressed Christine, allowing children True non directive play therapy.

505. Christine I love the order bringing simplicity. I find that when I have order without needing to control or going into perfection, it creates an ease and simplicity in my life that is truly amazing.

506. I enjoyed reading this analogy of play and how life is like that- a constant learning, unfolding, bringing of understanding and letting things go.

507. How wonderful and agreed Christine, “the order brings the simplicity” – i certainly know for myself that clearing away things like washing and drying up after cooking, or applying order to my work desk, re-ordering this at the end of each day ready for the next, brings a freshness and inviting-feel to the coming day. And importantly i can also feel that when this is not done, it feels out, or odd and my day gets affected. Angles have the same effect, where tweaking something is as if everything else is getting tweaked in the process too. It’s no perfectionist as you also share, just understanding of how everything affects everything else by way of a grander order – at play.

508. Thank you Christine for this very inspiring blog. I can feel the simplicity and order you live and share with your family, and now sharing with us all to appreciate and learn. I love that we are given the opportunity to return to re-imprint these areas where we have not been true to ourselves and others. Life is a constant learning and building of our awareness to allow us to live connected to our essence, to people and to God.

509. Each day can be like child’s play when we approach it with the wonderment of a child. Children are so full of the joy of discovery.

510. Order and simplicity create space for us to breathe and reconnect to our natural rhythm of life, to feel the love we are and are held in. What a joyful play this is.

511. Christine I love what you have shared it is so so expansive yet so clear and simple. This is beautifull and very cute ‘The children never seemed to grow tired of their toys and getting down the crate seemed like getting a new present each time. It was like a surprise all over again and sometimes it appeared like the children were greeting old friends they hadn’t seen for a long time.’ Wouldn’t it be amazing if we were all to see as you do, even though I understand and know about re-imprinting and releasing what you have shared has helped me see this in a completely different way. Thank you.

512. We are all God’s children and the same energy is at play or playing with us, whatever our biological age!

513. Life certainly is the perfect medium ‘to re-imprint those areas where we have been not been true to ourselves.’ Super blog Christine Hogan.

514. Great analogy Christine, when we can see through the game of our creations within creation itself.. as enticing as they may appear, we no longer need these props and can play within it without being affected by it.

515. This is a great blog showing why neglect hurts children as they keep meeting their old imprints, making it difficult to move on and to evolve.

516. I can really feel the love God holds us in as we play. Some play isn’t so pretty but here we’re presented with the fact we can choose to learn and resolve things so that we have no need to bring those things out to play again, we’ve moved on towards ourselves.

517. This really has me reassessing the way we can provide a space for others to be in, and bring change to their bodies and the way they feel. I know for sure that when I have ordered a room, I absolutely love popping back in there to feel the space and ease it offers.

518. Wow, what we can learn from the wisdom of children! Thank you for your amazing observations.

519. I love the parallels you draw between how children play and how we can conduct life – I can certainly feel this tendency in me to want to hang on to something old because it is familiar and has provided a level of comfort that I think I don’t want to let go of. After reading your contribution this behaviour feels like leaving some of my old toys strewn around the room and not having the opportunity to start afresh and with a clean slate when I return to that room.

520. The time comes after many tries that the games we have been playing are made redundant and our connection to who we are, our connection to others, our connection to God is much clearer and the props are no longer needed. We have returned home to the truth. And what a gorgeous return it is proving to be Christine. Thank-you for your beautiful sharing.

521. Simplicity and order reflects the willingness to be aware. A lack of space and mess reflects the choice to not want to know.

522. Play is the truth of life. Every aspect of life is play to re-correct and re-imprint patterns that do not reflect the truth of us. When something new comes in for us to deepen our connection with ourselves, no matter what it brings up, there is deep joy, as the truth is there is no greater joy than to be walking closer back to Soul. And thus, going back to old patterns simply feels impossible and it is our responsibility to now move in a way which reflects this deepening. Life is absolutely amazing, I’d say bring it on.

523. Just as our children use play to discover and learn, as adult we are all ‘playing’ in our own way as we are presented with opportunities to learn from. To see my day in this way invites me to be more playful, relieving the heaviness that comes when things get too serious, thank you, Christine.

524. I now understand more clearly how children can become hyperactive and chaotic when they are given too many toys for them to cope with at the same time and have not been given that guidance of one set of toys at a time within its own time frame, to be tidied away before another set is produced. I can quite see how overstimulation from the lack of order can lead on to a stressful life of carelessness and lack of respect for themselves and things around them. I see how it can lead to many emotional and psychological disorders later in life. The example you give with your children and grandchildren Christine, is such a beautifully supportive way for the rest of their lives, there is such beauty in the order you gave them. I wonder how they remember it thirty years later, and how they are in life now? Can you recognise that early training in the way they respond to life now?

525. ‘The children never seemed to grow tired of their toys and getting down the crate seemed like getting a new present each time. It was like a surprise all over again and sometimes it appeared like the children were greeting old friends they hadn’t seen for a long time.’ …… what a beautiful way to start to the new day, to feel the delight in the new beginning of what can be.

526. I love order and love the analogy and was thinking about my work load today and each thing I do to work on today, I am going to picture taking down the box, lovingly unpacking it as to what needs to be done, work on it, and then tidying it up and put it back to work on the next.

527. Today I had the opportunity to observe to young girls playing together, freely expressing themselves and playing out their experiences of life, it was so gorgeous to watch as these girls were being totally themselves and how with each new phase of play it too felt like there was a new imprint.

528. I love your link, Christine, between children playing with their toys, then putting them away and the choice we all have to tidy up at the end of each day, to support us in our fresh start for the next day and how this clearing creates more space and freedom for the new day, rather than staying in a rut and repeating learnt patterns that keep us held.

529. Thank you, Christine, what a beautiful expression of how joyful our ‘learning’ can be. When we ‘clear away our toys’ each day, we can start afresh, without attachment to any outcomes and just allow the space for the day to unfold with all that there is for us to feel and learn.

530. How order is always there for us: as a way of being in the beginning, then as a support to grow and as a way of being at the new beginning.

531. Children can teach us so much about themselves and ourselves through their play. In my work with families I find that the value of play is often underestimated, yet as you have shown through your blog Christine, there is so much more happening than just a few toys getting scattered around. I can see how we adults also find lots of ‘toys’ to make sense of our lives. When I consider life in this way, it actually simplifies a lot of the struggles we can get ourselves needlessly caught up in. Time for me to pack up a few of the ‘toys’ I have had scattered around for a long time because I agree – organisation opens the door for simplicity.

532. Dear Christine,
     I love how having order, a clean slate gives us the opportunity to change our ways, constantly. Wether we take the opportunity offered is up to us, but the fact that God is forever holding us cannot be ignored, for once we accept an offering, another one is immediately offered for consideration, and it continues to be offered until we accept it. And so it goes. The order and simplicity that you describe keeps us clear to feel these subtle suggestions from God, from our own inner hearts.

533. Having read your blog again, I realise how in life I have gone through times of being a bit messy but most of the time I have always loved order. I used to think or was told even that it was because I had worked on the super yachts, so I had it trained and ingrained into me to have my home like a show home but what I have come to realise is that I just love the order, I love having things in their space and how that has an effect on the whole house or my work place and how that effects me and everyone in it. I love leaving a space in order and then appreciating the feeling I get when I return to it. I return to what I left behind so I love playing around with that and experimenting with what I leave and how it makes me feel.

534. Christine, I like how you present that we have an opportunity to continually unfold and let go of patterns of behaviour that aren’t really true to us, and in that build more of the love we are originally from. We can be constantly deepening our awareness and understanding or stay in a familiar rut…

535. I sometimes look at life as one big game and within that, all the games that we play, some I know I have been playing for way to long and they really don’t serve me anymore and are really not representing who I am today but out of habit and comfort, I find myself back in them now and then. It is great through to be honest and see them as a game and also know that I am a game changer.

536. It was interesting reading your blog, at first I didn’t like the idea of controlled play and that the children couldn’t reach the boxes and felt that if I were them, I would like to be able to reach and choose myself but I do understand that lovely feeling of order, once every thing is tided up. I love that feeling that it is all fresh to begin with again, like a new day.

537. This is a great insight Christine, it is truly felt. The way life is constelated is just right for us to learn what we need to learn, and see it as an organised play makes it all very simple. Life is a great place to learn, and God is allowing us to Learn the way we need, giving us the opportunity to see for ourselves what works and what doesn’t.

538. When you put it like this Christine, life is the same as this child’s boxes of toys. Every day we are presented with the similar places and themes, for us to unpack. Just like a child it is not the flashness or newness of the toy that is key, but the joy and delight we find in the play. And so as we unpack what life has to offer us, are we remembering that we are here to have fun? For ultimately the ‘mess’ gets simplified and restored to order in the end. This blog gives a new sense to the phrase we all have a ‘part we are here to play’.

539. “God has an amazing plan for us all; he knows that, given the space for this organised play, we will play out what needs to be expressed and in that play uncover a little more of who we truly are – the essence of which is already known.” Beautiful, Christine, and God is so patient with us, he has given us free will and it is up to us how slowly or quickly we eventually choose to uncover more of who we truly are, what a loving Father we have who can give us this space to eventually come home to who we truly are, side by side with God. I love how you have related this sharing of the way we play with the truth in our lives, with the way that little children also uncover parts of who they are through their playing with their toys.

540. What a wonderful understanding you offer Christine – thank you. The lightness and simple clarity you share on how as adults we still ‘play-out’ the pent up expression that is there to be released from our bodies. No wrong doing or being bad just the fact that we are all learning and evolving back to our beingness. And the more playful we are with how we are feeling the lighter the play is and the quicker we are willing to discover new games and leave the old behind.

541. Hello Christine and this is an interesting way to look at the ‘play’ or patterns we have as adults and children. I can relate to this, “sometimes stubbornly holding on because the old way is familiar and comfortable.”

542. The way you have expressed yourself in this blog Christine made me feel how there is an order in everything and like you say this gives simplicity but also we can be playful in this and heal what is there before us.

543. What a great way of looking at life, I could always do with a bit more order in my life and also get rid of some of the old toys that really aren’t needed anymore.

544. What a beautiful blog, I am left deeply inspired and touched by your words.

545. I love the innocence and freedom of feeling a child play from their body. It is such a joy to watch and I feel exposes many of the serious-ness and dull-ness of adult life most of us live each and every single day. What you are offering here is a great point to consider, if not take into practical daily life. We all tend to accept that playfulness is only felt as a child and that such simply fun cannot be part of adult life. We generally feel we need more stimulation that what could be offered through such simple pleasures. But that is never the case.. we simply have to take responsibility for the mess we have left behind

546. I love how honouring it feels to read about a framework that shows the next bout of ‘play’ is clearly starting with the crates coming down and then being put to rest with the crates packed up and put away. And also the fact that with your grand children you had the impulse to tidy away the toys when the kids had clearly moved on, so that they could return to a clear space. It occurs to me that I & we could be more honouring about our own daily ‘play’, learning and development, by acknowledging that this same ongoing deep learning in the game of life is taking place and paying attention to how we can support ourself in every way, including having a clear space (physically, mentally & energetically) to return to and continue our unfoldment.

547. Christine what a deeply moving and gorgeous blog. I hadn’t considered life and play in this way yet that is exactly what it is – a continual opportunity to see the patterns we play and to re-imprint how we are until eventually we are just the love we are nothing more. And to feel and know that we are forever offered that opportunity no matter what always and like children we can play using the support of order and the simplicity it brings to allow a new way to knock out anything which doesn’t serve – we are so blessed and so loved, held forever in the womb of God.

548. We have much to learn from children and how they interact with life but often we can be dismissive of what they may be teaching us. Thank you for sharing , Christine. We have opportunities to re-imprint our behaviour patterns where we have not been true to ourselves at whatever age we are.

549. I like this, thank you Christine. What you describe is a great support to understand that we live in cycles and that we are responsible for our actions, something never too early to learn.

550. ’What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.’ Indeed, we as adults can learn a good few things from studying children and how they play and how they move their bodies in a way that naturally releases what is needed.

551. ‘There were times when I would feel hurt, but instead of being honest, I would go into blaming someone else and choose to use silence as a form of punishing them. I would become righteous. All this was simply in order to not feel the hurt that had been exposed.’ – The lengths we can go to in order to avoid feeling our hurts, is almost unreal. I know this so well from own experience, how I used to maintain the facade at any cost no matter what was taking place behind the scenes.

552. Isn´t it marvelous how we are held in God´s unconditional love ?! He knows us for who we are and finally we will know ourselves as well again – of this nature is the design of life.

553. Your analogy is a brilliant exposé of the life we live and with simplicity draws the bigger picture and plan, playing out with or without our consent as we cannot escape who we are and what we are part of, only delay the inevitable.

554. Like playing with toys we create our own world, or so it seems, holding on to it as long as we can before the very rules of the game ask us to clean up the creation and return to that which is without creation.

555. Earth life – a school, a playground, a place to loose oneself only to finally and inevitably find oneself again as we can only distance ourselves so far before we choose to turn around and re-join who we are.

556. The games we play are but a distraction to not feel the lack of love we are choosing to live.

     1. Check sister.

557. This is a gorgeous reminder that we are all children of God and we are given ample space to return to the great arms of love we are forever held in and by.

558. Beautiful Christine. It had never occurred to me before that as children play they are playing out their experiences of life and processing them in ways we may not understand or be aware of or the healing that is taking place.

559. As we grow older we choose who to play with and how much we are going to give in the play pen. It’s already a set play, unless we are honest and feel from our body what is needed here ‘to resolve’ our expression, like the children, to release the play and allow the next round to come. A beautiful science you have uncovered here Christine!

560. What an amazing blog, God holds a space for all his sons, 24 hours a day and lets them make a mess but doesn’t judge, just simply holds the space in love. The Sons in the space need to get their act together and work together rather than trying to make their own mess everywhere and thinking God will clean it up.

561. Every situation is an opportunity to evolve or not. And I remind myself that when I’m in a challenging situation, there is nothing in front of me that I’m not equipped to deal with. And like children with their toys and their play, it is an experiment and an exploration with no prescribed formula in how to do it except to stay connected with ourselve and to be who we are.

562. What a brilliant analogy of life, showing that a child playing with toys, engaging with another child can be seen as the same as an adult moving throughout their day engaging with other adults. It may seem crazy to say these are similar as the immediate thought is playing and learning through toys is completely different to going to work and meeting the daily responsibilities of an adult. The truth is in both examples there is an opportunity to just be ourselves, to enjoy our presence and the feeling of this coming through in all that we do. Being ourselves and bringing the fullness of our power and our presence is more important than anything we do and keeps simplicity and order in what may seem the greatest or most stressful responsibility.

563. A great reminder that we are forever returning to all that we have lived and created, a never ceasing opportunity to rebalance, re-imprint and confirm.

564. Connecting to God and to purpose allows us to explore the magic that is ever-present – child and adult alike.

565. I agree that order and simplicity creates space for observation, discovery and growth.

566. A beautiful feeling of order and spaciousness in your way with the toy boxes and clearing any clutter to be prepared for the next moment and the following day. Thank you Christine for reflecting the simplicity of this!
     “….and then I realised that it was the order that brought simplicity”.

567. Life becomes child’s play when we live the real us and keep life simple.

568. “What I sense is that these little ones are playing out their experience of life. The energy held in their bodies is expressed in their play and they are constantly releasing whatever needs to be released.”A really important feature that you have recognised from your recall of how your children played when they were young, and now see your grandchildren playing out through playing with their toys. It brings up for me the possible problems that some parents are now creating with their young children, with the tendency for many of them to try to teach their children many of the things that were previously left until they started the kindergarten year of school. Many parents now boast of the fact that their 3 or 4 year old can now read, or maybe learning to count up to high numbers etc. etc. There is such an emphasis on what their children can do at an early age, but this may not be letting the children develop at the pace that is natural for them. It seems to me that what they are learning from their individual play may be of greater importance for their eventual development as responsible citizens of this world. Your observations make me feel that is extremely possible.

569. Such a beautiful and apt analogy – children at play and we as adults playing out our stuff in our personal sandboxes until we have discarded all our patterns and returned to our essence. I love your comment that it is order and organisation that bring simplicity – very true 🙂

570. A very playful way of looking at life Christine that really does keep things simple…just like child’s play.

571. So much loving responsibility it is to share with the young and as you have Christine, what a great discipline to take into life! This can only bring clarity to everything from there forward, and creating space is a blessing.

572. I can just feel the anticipation of discovering the next box, what might be in it, unpacking, discovering and reordering. I never really considered it in the way you have shared it here but now I see it so differently.

     1. Yes, the huge benefit of making a conscious choice – I want to play with THIS box – is really helpful and that it takes a bit of work to play with something new by clearing up the previous play is a great idea.

573. Thank you Christina this is the most amazing blog ever and this sharing is so profound deep and meaningful in so many was and so simple and loving. Your way of organising play is so supportive to life and simply makes sense . This support for the games we play out in life is true and real and an amazing foundation for us all. Inspirational ! And there is so much more from this.

574. I love the order and consistency you used with your childrens play, allowing space for growth and change.It can be applied to us so easily as adults too, even though many have forgotten how healing play can be.

575. Christine this is brilliant to see child’s play as God’s play that we are all playing with but are we leaving a mess or are we picking up the toys and re-imprinting our movements and our days. No wonder chaos feels so dis-empowering as if the toys are left in a mess so are our lives, could this be possible?

576. “Like my beautiful children and my amazing grandchildren in their play, we too are constantly selecting the box or area of building, creating, tearing down, digging deep, moving things around until the time comes that it is finished and the old pattern is gone.” How beautifully you have expressed Christine the process of life, learning and evolving through your example of children at play, putting it in such simple and understandable terms that anyone reading your blog could come to recognise these processes as something we all go through as a natural part of change when releasing old patterns, and this building, creating and tearing down is what allows us to uncover a more authentic truer self.

577. I just love these words so much I had to repeat them: “God’s plan allows for the mess, the outplay and, when it is all finished, God allows the space for us to pack it all up and put it away, waiting for the next call from us to play out something new”. When I read this I could feel the biggest smile coming up from deep inside while feeling the endless patience of God as he lovingly observes the games we play and the mess we make, with not one ounce of judgement, but eternal understanding.

578. Thank you for sharing this insight Christine and the wonderment of play. So much is revealed when we observe how we are in the world and the reflections offered all around us. I love that we have a clean slate to imprint in each moment of play.

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