I realise I’ve been totally underselling the potential transformational power of play in previous blogs and newsletters for fear of seeming a bit woowoo and that has not been doing anyone any favours.

Yes, I am carrying out research for my book, but over the last twenty years I’ve had plenty of time to gather evidence of how effective it is.

I’m sorry that I withheld just how powerful play can be in totally rewiring our brains and transforming the way you think about and approach everything because I was afraid you would think I was going overboard and all American on you.

Do you want more joy in your life? Play can give it to you.

Do you want more fun? Play can give you that.

Do you want to be more in touch with your creativity? Play can give it to you.

Do you want to sleep better at night? Play can help you there.

Do you want to feel more relaxed and to cope with stress better? Play can do that.

Do you want better relationships? Play can help you there too.

In fact the way our brain works affects everything, so play can pretty much cure whatever ails you!

Can you play on your own at home? Of course. Why wouldn't you do something that's so much fun every single day?...

But will you?...

Do you?...

If you do, fine. If, now that I’ve made you aware of just how much power play has to bring all the good things you want into your life you’ll play often and regularly, great, brilliant. Come round and we’ll play together on the hills where I live.

But for most of us, setting aside time for ourselves is very low on our priorities even when we know just how important for everything else that can be.

How much is it costing you not to play?

Even I, a total play addict forgot to play regularly when life got tough for me. My mom died and the charity I was running with a colleague succumbed to funding cuts. Just when I needed it most, I stopped playing.

My life spiralled out of control. I couldn't get other work I enjoyed, I became very ill, my life was literally draining from me, my finances were in ruins and my relationship was shaky.

Then one day I stuck one foot in a bucket of sand and the other in a bucket of water and from that moment my life improved!

Crazy isn't it that something so simple and so easy created the change? Of course, I remembered once I'd done it exactly what I needed to do, I had the resources and the trust in the process already. I'd seen it work for other people hundreds of times so I understood what to do and how much it would help me. And it did.

Life is now. Are you missing it?

For the vast majority of us our brains are so unbalanced in the way we use them, if we were riding a bike we’d fall straight off!

In the last twenty years I have developed ways of playing that stimulate our underused right brain and allow the connections between the two sides of our brain to get stronger. Playing restores balance within our brains.

There’s plenty here about this, no need for me to go on.

My play workshops give you unprecedented access to me, the creator of these programmes.

The workshops are not chalk and talk. You will be playing and have the opportunity to become fully immersed in your own world of play, reconnect to your childhood innocence and have fun.

You will be fully in the now, as Mike Symes MD of Strand Financial said “there are few opportunities you have as an adult to just be in the moment” and to benefit from the fast and effective power playing has.

This is what you can do to use your right brain and connect your brain hemispheres more effectively. This really can positively change your whole life.

I can't explain how excited I am about this. How passionate I am about play and how powerful it is to restore us all to great emotional health, improve our ability to think, increase our potential and raise our consciousness.

Play works in similar ways to meditation, but it is accessible eaily to anyone. It doesn't matter if you're not great at sitting still, if oyur concentration span is short or you usually can't turn off the voice in your head; play cuts through all that and takes you exactly where you need to go, at your pace.

This is because it is experiential. It isn't a head based exercise that requires you to think or not think. It simply "is".

Like most people you have probably invested in expensive programmes that give you great information, but we’re all in information overwhelm, what we all want is something that works and works quickly.

I’m sure that you, like me have had enough of standardised products in which you get a formulated experience.

These play workshops are an individual personal experience in which you can take exactly as much as you’re able to assimilate.

I'm so excited at the power of play and passionate about helping people by giving them a good time! That's why I decided to come out about just how amazing play can be.

I've used play with people from all walks of life who have been amazed and delighted at the changes they've experienced.

Alice from WImbledon who hadn't had a full night's sleep for 6 years and was utterly exhausted, found she slept better after just one session so continued. After 5 sessions the tossing and turning had gone away completely and she's been sleeping all night every night for the 3 years since.

James was studying Theatre Lighting at Perth College. He felt tired and stressed at the end of the day and was drinking heavily, not helpful when you're moving heavy lights high up on scaffolding.

He did a short series of play sessions and by integrating play into his everyday life and was able to get his drinking under control, finish his degree with flying colours and now has a great job in the West End.

Billy, a stained glass artist felt he'd lost his creativity as a result of the success of his business. The pressure of deadlines had caused a block. His marriage was on the verge of breakup when he took one play session to relax. He found it so helpful, he took a short course and not only halted his decline, he and his wife are very happily expecting a baby, they're  living in a brand new house he designed himself and his business is thriving.

Marie has a highly responsible job at a large bank's head office. Although she had two lovely homes and plenty of holidays she felt she never managed to shed the stress of her job. Her relationships never lasted due, she suspected to her very high standards.

She began to become ill and was seriously worried that her health problems and the time she was needing to take off would mean she'd lose everything. She took a series of play sessions and to her great surprise her health improved. She integrated regular play sessions into her life and began a relationship with someone she met in the group. A carpenter, she'd have been unlikely to consider having a relationship with before. They've recently celebrated their baby's first birthday.

The workshops are not for the faint hearted. Yes, it’s playing but this is hard core transformational process and you will get dirty! Are you ready to make this level of change simply by having fun?

There will be an opportunity at the workshop to discover how you can gain from more in depth playing experiences.

Next Sunday 27th at 11-3.00 I’m running another play workshop in London at Hatton Garden.

If you’re ready to allow having a really good time to begin making the transformation of your entire life that it can  if you just let it, come and join us.

The fee for readers of my newsletters and blog fans is reduced from £97 to £47 for 1 workshop.

I won’t be giving this reduced rate again.