Ignite your play spirit!
Do activities all year round, simply because you enjoy doing them
Play!
#playspirit365
JOIN THE FUN!
Play, just for the fun of it and hashtag a photo of yourself when you are enjoying your favorite activity with #playspirit365
Do activities all year round, simply because you enjoy doing them
Play!
#playspirit365
JOIN THE FUN!
Play, just for the fun of it and hashtag a photo of yourself when you are enjoying your favorite activity with #playspirit365
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IGNITE YOUR PLAY SPIRIT
Enjoyment is associated with the intrinsic value of action. When you feel enjoyment, it also influence your willingness to persist in the activity. The enjoyment factor has a motivating force for you to stay active throughout your life. If you experience that skiing or running or climbing or hiking is fun, it will contribute to a continued urge to play and be active - and that urge to keep going is what I call play spirit. Let us shift our focus from being active for instrumental reasons to value the pleasure inherent in the activity. To feel, to master or to learn new movements can be pleasurable in itself and your play spirit will ignite.
PLAY
THE PLAY SPIRIT FORMULA
Inactivity is a major concern for humans in the 21st century, and this is why this question has relevance; "how can we increase the urge to stay active?" Enjoyment has tremendous impact on the motivation for behavior. When you experience an activity as enjoyable and fun, it reflects the generation of intrinsic motivation. When intrinsically motivated, you willingly persist in the activity, even when there is no external reward. You are externally motivated when you participate in activities to become healthy, skinny, look good, be praised, or other types of rewards or avoiding negative reinforcement. Once the mindset shifts from enjoyment and play to more external reasons and rewards to behave in specific ways - you loose the focus on the inherent value in the activity. At what cost?
THE ENJOYMENT FACTOR - A LITTLE BIT MORE FUN INCREASES YOUR WILLINGNESS TO PERSIST IN THE ACTIVITY
When you perceive the activity as a little bit more fun, your urge to persist in the activity will increase exponentially, even when the bodily pain such as stiff muscles, a sore knee, muscle cramps and other unpleasant sensations in your body remains the same and the mental pain such as boredom, repetitiveness or other frustrating mental conditions. associated with the activity stays the same. When you enjoy an activity, you may perceive the effort involved as less strenuous. This is known as the "enjoyment-effort paradox." You might find yourself pushing harder, enduring longer, or exploring more challenging variations of the activity without feeling overwhelmed.
THE FORMULA
The enjoyment numerator is powered to the second degree to illustrate the importance of enjoyment for your willingness to engage in the activity.
YOUR PLAY SPIRIT= ENJOYMENT FOR THE ACTIVITY 2
BODILY PAIN + MENTAL PAIN
What happens to your play spirit (WILLINGNESS) to keep going when you participate in an activity because you feel you should, and you do not feel enjoyment (example 1)? or because you enjoy it (example 2)?
To illustrate the examples, we will use numbers between 1-10.
Example 1: Let's say that your coach, teacher or doctor tells you to start doing interval training because you need to improve your endurance and get in shape. You do not like running intervals, so your enjoyment is 1. You have moderate pain in your body because your lungs hurt and moderate mental pain because you are bored.
1/5+5 =0.1 Play Spirit
Your Play Spirit or urge to keep going in the interval training is only barely above 0 (luckeley you might sustain in the activity for a while because it might be important to you to become more healthy).
Example 2: Someone explained the Play Spirit formula to you, and you decide to choose activities you enjoy. You used to play soccer, and love the game. While playing, you might still experience some pain in your body because your lungs hurt, and mental pain because you had to use quite a bit of time getting enough people together to be able to play. It is fun to play!. and your enjoyment number is 8 (8x8=64).
65/5+5=6,5 Play Spirit.
Your play spirit is really high compared to the first example, and it is much more likely that you will sustain in that activity.
In summary, the importance of enjoyment in physical activity cannot be overstated. It fuels motivation, encourages consistency, reduces the perception of effort, creates positive associations, enhances mental health benefits, and promotes long-term adherence. By finding activities that you genuinely enjoy, you can make physical activity a rewarding and sustainable part of your lifestyle.
Join me on intagram @heddadrberntsen
Enjoyment is associated with the intrinsic value of action. When you feel enjoyment, it also influence your willingness to persist in the activity. The enjoyment factor has a motivating force for you to stay active throughout your life. If you experience that skiing or running or climbing or hiking is fun, it will contribute to a continued urge to play and be active - and that urge to keep going is what I call play spirit. Let us shift our focus from being active for instrumental reasons to value the pleasure inherent in the activity. To feel, to master or to learn new movements can be pleasurable in itself and your play spirit will ignite.
PLAY
THE PLAY SPIRIT FORMULA
Inactivity is a major concern for humans in the 21st century, and this is why this question has relevance; "how can we increase the urge to stay active?" Enjoyment has tremendous impact on the motivation for behavior. When you experience an activity as enjoyable and fun, it reflects the generation of intrinsic motivation. When intrinsically motivated, you willingly persist in the activity, even when there is no external reward. You are externally motivated when you participate in activities to become healthy, skinny, look good, be praised, or other types of rewards or avoiding negative reinforcement. Once the mindset shifts from enjoyment and play to more external reasons and rewards to behave in specific ways - you loose the focus on the inherent value in the activity. At what cost?
THE ENJOYMENT FACTOR - A LITTLE BIT MORE FUN INCREASES YOUR WILLINGNESS TO PERSIST IN THE ACTIVITY
When you perceive the activity as a little bit more fun, your urge to persist in the activity will increase exponentially, even when the bodily pain such as stiff muscles, a sore knee, muscle cramps and other unpleasant sensations in your body remains the same and the mental pain such as boredom, repetitiveness or other frustrating mental conditions. associated with the activity stays the same. When you enjoy an activity, you may perceive the effort involved as less strenuous. This is known as the "enjoyment-effort paradox." You might find yourself pushing harder, enduring longer, or exploring more challenging variations of the activity without feeling overwhelmed.
THE FORMULA
The enjoyment numerator is powered to the second degree to illustrate the importance of enjoyment for your willingness to engage in the activity.
YOUR PLAY SPIRIT= ENJOYMENT FOR THE ACTIVITY 2
BODILY PAIN + MENTAL PAIN
What happens to your play spirit (WILLINGNESS) to keep going when you participate in an activity because you feel you should, and you do not feel enjoyment (example 1)? or because you enjoy it (example 2)?
To illustrate the examples, we will use numbers between 1-10.
Example 1: Let's say that your coach, teacher or doctor tells you to start doing interval training because you need to improve your endurance and get in shape. You do not like running intervals, so your enjoyment is 1. You have moderate pain in your body because your lungs hurt and moderate mental pain because you are bored.
1/5+5 =0.1 Play Spirit
Your Play Spirit or urge to keep going in the interval training is only barely above 0 (luckeley you might sustain in the activity for a while because it might be important to you to become more healthy).
Example 2: Someone explained the Play Spirit formula to you, and you decide to choose activities you enjoy. You used to play soccer, and love the game. While playing, you might still experience some pain in your body because your lungs hurt, and mental pain because you had to use quite a bit of time getting enough people together to be able to play. It is fun to play!. and your enjoyment number is 8 (8x8=64).
65/5+5=6,5 Play Spirit.
Your play spirit is really high compared to the first example, and it is much more likely that you will sustain in that activity.
In summary, the importance of enjoyment in physical activity cannot be overstated. It fuels motivation, encourages consistency, reduces the perception of effort, creates positive associations, enhances mental health benefits, and promotes long-term adherence. By finding activities that you genuinely enjoy, you can make physical activity a rewarding and sustainable part of your lifestyle.
Join me on intagram @heddadrberntsen
