10. Playing with Spaghetti Brain

A kitten with a ball of string is having fun - and learning - however much of a mess it makes and a tangle it gets into.

Sometimes though, life can seem like being all caught up in a spider's web of sticky spaghetti. String tangled and knotted and partly unravelled all over the place.

It can seem overwhelming.

So what to do to break free? I felt pretty much overwhelm the other day. I've been cramming in information. Listening to downloads of teleclasses, reading blogs, asking questions, compiling responses to telecomms queries I have. It was all just getting too much and I just could not absorb any more.

So what did I do? I downed brain tools and started to play. I cooked - I made chocolate dipped roasted almonds. I made tomato sauce. I made French onion soup. I got creative!

I switched off my intellectual brain (gave it a rest!) and switched on to using my hands and my creative, intuitive brain. I got productive - coz I chose to "switch off" and play ...

A true embodiment of  kitten with a ball of string. And I got to smile again ...

Play - I really recommend it! And talking of recommending, here's a book that really made me smile - is called:

The Hedonism Handbook - Mastering the Lost Arts of Leisure and Pleasure

by Michael Flocker - De Capo Press

Annie