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Friendships, Relationships, Self-Relationship 890 Comments on Hanging Out to Simply Be Me

Hanging Out to Simply Be Me

By Marika Cominos · On September 18, 2015

I was pondering about why children and teenagers love to just ‘hang out’, ‘chill out’ and just generally get together with no particular purpose per se. It occurred to me that these were just modern day expressions of what is actually quite natural for us all…

  • To just simply ‘BE’
  • No agenda
  • No ‘to-do’ lists
  • Simply BEING and connecting with others

Children often amaze and inspire me because when they are just being themselves they connect to people with such openness, ease, presence and playfulness. The innocence in their eyes and their body just melts any hardness that comes their way.

Children are so inspiring and we have much to learn from them, for when they are just left to simply be themselves, the sparkle in their eyes is bright, the expression is full and they know in their hearts what true love is and what it is not.

So what happens to us when we get older? Where does that sparkle go? Do we forget how to just ‘hang out’ and ‘be’ with each other? We all were once a child with that sweet innocence and honest connection with ourselves.

As adults, how often do we truly connect to this? Yes, we catch up with friends and spend time with family, but are we truly allowing ourselves to ‘BE’ and connect with each other – heart to heart? Are our accumulated protections, hurts and mistrusts stopping us from truly meeting and connecting with each other? Have achievements, goals, and recognition become more important than true connection – leading us to always be ‘doing’ something?

These are the questions I have been pondering on lately as I appreciate and observe the sweet innocence of a child – an innocence that is naturally within us all, should we choose to re-connect to it.

The innocence and openness I re-connected to within myself recently felt so heavenly and natural; in the past this had felt very raw and ‘naked’ to me, which is why I would rarely allow myself to go there as an adult. But there was nothing ‘weak’ about being in my innocence, quite the opposite. The more I allowed myself to stay open to this, the more I could feel the power of my expression that came from this connection of deep presence and stillness.

I then took myself for a walk with my openness and innocence. My chest and heart felt so different – I felt so open to people and the world and my chest and heart felt like it was 1 metre in front of me. This was definitely new to me!

I realised that what I was experiencing was what it would feel like to let people in, to let the world in, to not put up a guard to protect, to allow myself to be fully seen in my sweet natural innocence.

Gosh the world felt so different!

All I had to do was surrender and ‘JUST BE ME’.

In our innocence we are so open and precious and truly divine.

Forever inspired by Serge Benhayon who inspires me to JUST BE ME.

By Marika Cominos, Melbourne

Further Reading:
Serge Benhayon: The Natural Philosopher
Inspired by Universal Medicine… Just Being Me
The Natural Love Of A Child

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Marika Cominos

Based in cosmopolitan Melbourne with a love for long luxurious baths, butterflies and gas cooking. I ditched my 20year performing arts fame as an acrobatic (but not my gorgeous curly hair) for a more inner approach as a Yoga & Esoteric Therapies Practitioner and all things wellbeing. I have a BBA in Management & Marketing and am now working on another BBA ­ 'Bachelor of Being Awesome!

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890 Comments

  • Amparo Lorente Cháfer says: April 24, 2020 at 12:57 pm

    I love what you bring here Marika, as makes me appreciate even more the easyness of children in their encounters… the openness and immediacy (without judgement or any filtering) in their expression. Something indeed very natural and completely available in all of us regardless of our age.

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  • Mary says: January 21, 2020 at 4:36 pm

    I met a child recently that was full of love and innocence; I could not take my eyes off this child as I was fascinated by their presence. I could feel that when I was young I felt the same but the intervening years had changed the openness to harness protection. I cannot abide that we take away the one precious thing we are born with our connection to God and the Universe and we have made life so intense that even young children are feeling the stress of living in the unsettlement that not being with God brings. We collectively have a responsibility to allow all Children to grow up nurturing their connection to God and not crushing it as we currently are.

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  • Annoymous says: June 30, 2019 at 6:18 am

    “Children are so inspiring and we have much to learn from them, for when they are just left to simply be themselves, the sparkle in their eyes is bright, the expression is full and they know in their hearts what true love is and what it is not”

    We could all learn lots from children the way they so innocently see life is so very inspiring.

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  • Annoymous says: May 1, 2019 at 6:22 am

    Children are so much more aware then what we care to realise.

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  • Greg Barnes says: April 15, 2019 at 5:09 am

    Thank you Marika, definitely our awareness of how play-full we can be as an adult certainly changes many thing in our life and turns our strengths or True power towards being delicate, precious, tender, fragility and sacredness all of these becoming Loving attributes that deepen our sensitivities or clairsentience, which is our ability to feel and read life.

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  • Lorraine Wellman says: December 28, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    Lovely to hear about your walk with openess and innocence, ‘I realised that what I was experiencing was what it would feel like to let people in, to let the world in, to not put up a guard to protect, to allow myself to be fully seen in my sweet natural innocence.’

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  • Leigh Matson says: December 18, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    I’ve been dating recently and found that the best way to get to know someone is to walk together. No focus on an outside activity or getting to a certain location.

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  • Elaine says: December 17, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    There is an illusion that we connect more when we drink alcohol or do drugs but what and who are we actually connecting to?

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