Do you skip down the hallway on the way to the shower?
Do you roll down hills with your children, squealing with delight as you collide with each other?

These are great ways to embrace your inner child. Yet not enough of us truly let loose and explore the benefits such silliness offers.

Embracing your inner child is a great way to ease stress and enjoy the fun things in life.
It allows us to relax, think outside the box, show our love for others and laugh out loud.
It's the simple things, after all, that really matter.

So next time you want to relieve a little stress, take a deep breath, feel the freedom and launch yourself into a world of silliness.

If you're stuck for ideas, here are 10 ways to embrace your inner child:
1. Buy some water pistols and have a water fight in the backyard.
2. Invent and sing a silly song when washing up.
3. Skip to the letterbox.
4. Go to a playground and swing, swing, swing, as high as you can go.
5. Play your favourite song from the 80s and dance around the lounge room.
6. Make and eat fairy bread.
7. Run around like a 4 year old under a sprinkler in the backyard.
8. Make a snow angel (or "grass angel" as my daughter calls them) - that's right, lie down in the grass and flap your arms and legs about in a star shape.
9. Open the fridge and drink from the milk carton - go on, just this once.
10. Pull a silly face when stuck at the traffic lights.

And one more for good luck:
11. Buy tassels for your bicycle's handle bars and ride around the block with a big grin on your face.

Have fun. Play, laugh, sing, dance, create, imagine, be silly. Make funny faces and embrace the little being inside you that's just screaming to get out every now and again.

Thanks to one of my closest, funniest, silliest, most fun loving friends, I was reminded recently of how important it is to "embrace your inner child".

Go on pull that silly face, I dare you!