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every challenge: love disguised
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The Sun is shining beyond the clouds.
In earlier postings I talked about “seeing through” the illusions that appear to us every single day. They look like anger, betrayal, love lost, being broke, business failure, sickness … fill in your own blank here with your current blinding and overwhelming challenge.
But I have a story I want to tell you about Love Revealed.
Years ago my son was certainly a challenge. On all fronts he was ‘trouble’ or so it seemed. At nearly every turn he was determined to go counter conventional and do it his way, which was not endearing to the whole of society or at times to us.
Yet, somehow, there was something within me that kept on not believing what he showed us. I’d say things to him like, “I believe in you”. “I’ll know it when I feel it”. Those small voices within me kept me in his game and see it through – even when I wanted to quite, resign, or bolt.
He has been one of my greatest teachers through the process that I call ‘evolutionary parenting’. For every time he would do something that was “not good”, I had to let go of whatever held me apart from just loving him. He constantly and consistently referred responsibility for my feelings right back onto me. I had to stop resisting his ‘behaviors’ and come into alignment with Love.
This is no small task when 7 highly degreed educators are sitting around a conference table pointing the finger at you as the responsible party for your 5 year-old’s behavior. In that moment I knew that he was teaching all of us. Just what I hadn’t a clue. However, I knew enough to trust that in the paradox and irony was buried Wisdom and Truth.
Now it is 25 years later. We have shared a very roller coaster journey together. Periods of not talking; periods of long talks. In more recent years as I’ve come to see more clearly. Through the illusions, I simply ‘held the space’ for him, refusing to take part in focusing on the appearance of his being ‘lost’. I simply held the vision of him awake, joyful, successful (in his own definition of it) and most of all happy. I stayed my focus of him right there.
This week we had the most amazing talk; just before we hung up after laughing and sharing for quite awhile, I had the most magnificent realization. I said, “Did you ever think we’d find our way here to this shared joy? What an extraordinary gift we have to awaken together. That all that ever was Real was the Love?” It was one of those replete moments. Full. Complete. Nothing to add; nothing wanting. We were in the Zone together. Illusion dissolved.
It was only ever a hologram of our co-creation.
So what’s your ‘challenge’? What is your Love/Joy in disguise? See it this way and watch it dissolve.
That’s the work. Just do it.
My son. The Avatar of Love. Bless you!
Thanks for reading,
Kath
are you ready for Love?
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Everyone deserves to love and be loved. Everyone! No exceptions. And it is absolutely possible.
Yet why do loving relationships evade us? I’m speaking not just to the singles, but to the myriad marrieds who find themselves disappointed in their relationship.
As Valentine’s Day fast approaches again, we have another opportunity to realize the misperceptions, false beliefs and wrong premises that we each carry around with us that are creating the ‘real life’ experience that we are living. Make no mistake, we each are the creator of our daily reality bar none.
So while you might be able to point to “him” or “her” and say, “He’s a jerk” or “She’s too demanding”, you, my dear friend, hold a belief about yourself that is limiting your selection to these types of people...conditional.
However, it’s the conditions within your own mind that filter and sort who and what is allowed into your experience. This is simply how the world works. This is how it is set up. That which you believe is that which you will attract. It’s managed by the Law of Attraction.
For awhile after I would break up with someone, I would step out of the love game. I remember clearly thinking that unless I understood how I was showing up in relationship to cause this, I would be forever doomed to keep repeating it. Then I realized that the core beliefs within myself had to shift. Then, I got to work on myself.
Every single one of us has been playing the “not enough” game in one form or another. We either have the experience of not enough love, money, time, health…all variations on the Game to hide the Truth from ourselves. What Truth is that? We are actually Source Energy having a physical human life. It is a Game where we hide from our Self. So when we meet up with something that doesn’t feel Good, it’s a clue. We have run smack dab into a bold faced lie that we think is true, but it is not True. Hint. Hint. There’s something More here. Now what could that be?
A lover leaves. It feels rotten, because you think you’re not enough. Hint. Hint. Dig here. The Truth is just the opposite.
This is the Ordinary Heroes Journey. In the course of an everyday life, a common ‘human’ event like a divorce or being alone on a Saturday night, our negative feelings point to the Real Truth – you are Love and you are enough. You are deserving and worthy. What you believe about yourself in your human mind is all that separates you from the realization of Love in your human physical life.
The work to let go and shift those false beliefs is yours to do. The pain you feel is the opportunity to free yourself of your limiting ideas.
On Tuesday, January 24 at 6 PM EST, Katherine Woodward Thomas, LA Times best selling author of Calling in the One talks with me on my radio show, A New View of Life. You can listen live and even call in and ask her questions directly. Katherine wrote the book and developed a 7 week course to help everyone realize more Love in their lives. This is a rare opportunity that you should not miss if you’re still waiting for Mr. or Miss Right.
You will be amazed at how simple the process is to be just a wee bit more mindful, use your emotions to clean out the wrong ideas you’ve been living with, and how empowering the whole idea is that you’re the one creating your own reality. For when you’ve become a vibrational match to Love (which is who you already are) – it can flow into your experience as naturally as the air you breathe.
Let this be the year of Love for you! Join us at 6 PM EST. on A New View of Life. You can also listen later in the archives or download it from itunes. Just do it. You deserve Love, absolutely.
Thanks for reading,
Kath
internet radio and freedom
Posted by: | CommentsIf ever there were a technology that supported the concept of “we the people” and freedom, it is internet radio, which is my attraction to it. As you know, my radio show – A New View of Life – is moving to VoiceAmerica Variety Channel internet radio on January 10, 2012 at 6 PM EST . With my announcement on Facebook, Twitter, my Facebook Fan Page and to other groups, I am being asked, “What is internet radio? How do I listen to internet radio?”
This is the beauty of the internet and the new devices – ipad and other tablet devices, smart phones as well as the ‘traditional’ pc’s, macs, and laptops. Internet radio is streamed live over the internet which is global. Is this technology not amazing? And for those of you who would like a peek into the future – streaming television is coming (actually it is here already).One really great aspect of internet radio is that it can and does combine the concept of ‘podcasting’ with live streaming which means the episodes or shows are recorded and archived (saved) and uploaded to itunes. Listeners are able to go to the archives of the show anytime and listen to past shows over and over again as well as have the ability to download the show to a phone, pc, or mp3 player and play the show whenever you choose (like jogging or in the car).
For advertisers this is an amazing boon. Revenues spent on sponsorship of an internet radio show are played to the consumer every time the show is heard from the first live stream and also on every subsequent playback unlike terrestrial radio where the advertisement is heard on the show and then gone forever.
My personal favorite of internet radio is the global reach. Currently Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s creator, is vacationing in communist Vietnam to soften the ground for Facebook being allowed there. Unlike broadcasting in a local area in a particular geographical zone, internet radio is available wherever there is an internet connection or cell tower with bandwith to access the internet on your smart phone. Information is disseminated freely and without censorship, interpretation or dilution which is truly empowering. This gives people everywhere the ability to listen and weigh up information for themselves and to learn, grow and expand unlike traditional media. We are truly becoming a global community.
VoiceAmerica has nearly 3 million unique listeners every month and is growing by leaps and bounds. They have been the pioneers in this new field for 10 years holding a vision for the rest of us of information rich programming across all disciplines and fields of interest available to everyone who can access the internet. See why I love the local library and the public pc’s?
Freedom of information is the most powerful gift of all the current technology. Wise people will take advantage of it, appreciate it and promote it for the Good of All of Us. It’s the best thing that’s happened since fire, the wheel and blogging.
Thanks for reading,
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finding community: you don’t have to be alone
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I was watching the movie, The Beaver, with Mel Gibson and Jodi Foster. If you haven’t seen it, do. This is not going to be a film review. It was simply the catalyst for my epiphany…which didn’t come until the very last part of the movie with the phrase, “You don’t have to be alone.”
This was a big one for me. All too often we think we have to be alone whilst we do this “spiritual” work and inner growth.
After the movie, I went for a walk under the night skies with all the stars twinkling at me whilst I pondered this, because I could FEEL its importance to me. I thought about how we, as humanoids, are conditioned as we grow up. We are told to leave the best parts of us at home. Don’t be too exuberant. Don’t shine too brightly. Be who we want you to be; not who you are….you get the drift. Well after enough of this, we either distance ourselves from others (physically) or we put a big armor around our hearts so they can’t hurt us anymore. Most likely we do both. This is how the ego mind endeavors to ‘protect’ us; and this is the very stuff that we have to dismantle as we choose to awaken and become more fully ourSelf. This is the ordinary heroes journey stuff.
I personally distanced myself from the rest of humanity. I moved into the back country up in the mountains where I could feel unmolested by the world. Not a bad move nor a wrong move, just what I did. However, I took it to the extreme. I moved even further away from ‘the things of man’ until one night in Nye, Montana I realized that I could turn 360 degrees and not see one light…and more significantly, I felt excruciatingly lonely.
So I moved back to San Diego. However, the “protective” armor I now used was in by way of keeping people at a distance – emotionally. Not too close! That’s far enough! I picked relationships that were long distance and which appeared to give me my “freedom”. I declined to say how I felt in a relationship, not telling my truth. I kept the gap wide and broad even though I was physically present. A good start to moving back into civilization, but obviously I had much more unlayering to do before I was ready for community.
Then 2 years ago I decided to leave the back country and move to Ohio – to a city. Holy smokes! However, the Universe is benevolent and gave me a home facing a wild preserve so that I could feel like I was in the country, although I am definitely in the midst of an urban setting. After awhile I could “see” that I was still isolating myself. All around me people were engaged in life, and I was spending most of my days either alone or in anonymity.
It’s been a herky jerky kind of motion re-entering community. The watching The Beaver, I put it together for myself. I write this because I know I’m not the only one who has tried isolation as a means of getting though life. It doesn’t work well for a being of Love.
It works for awhile, until you can sort out what is yours and what is theirs. It works when you really need to be alone with your own Voice. It does not work as a way of life. It’s unbalanced for beings who are Love, who are Source Energy and who came to play with each other on the planet, which is each and everyone of us.
So here’s what I recommend as a recovering Light Being isolationist :
1. Carve into your daily practice time to be alone with yourSelf. Make some part of each day your special quiet time with just You. Honor that and never give it up – for anyone. Perhaps it’s an hour in the morning or a couple of hours in the evening, but devote that time to You, for You, with You selfishly. If you’d done this in the first place, you’d never have had to choose isolation in the first place.
2. Find community. This is not as hard as you might think. It doesn’t mean settling for any consciousness that comes down the pike. It is rather consciously choosing to become engaged in something that you enjoy that get’s you out from in front of the television or the computer and into face to face real interactions. Maybe you work at Starbucks instead of alone at home. Perhaps you join a writers group, or a photography club, a book club, a bowling league. It doesn’t matter what you join, as long as it is SOMETHING YOU LOVE or it seems interesting or intriguing to you. It must feel Good. That’s the only guideline. Go!
3. As you choose friends and they you, be honest about who you are and what you’re up to. You have to be vulnerable. Tell these friends as far as you know about yourself..your dreams, hopes, aspirations and what you’re ‘working on’ within yourself. You tell them you’re enlisting cheerleaders for yourself. You don’t expect them to do your inner work for you; but they can lift you up, dust you off, and remind you of Who You Are and What You Are Up To when you forget. And of course, you must be up to doing the same for them.
4. Play with these people. By ‘play’ I mean exchange the flow of Source Energy with them, much like a game of catch. It takes a pitcher and a catcher to complete the equation of Love. These exchanges look like and sound like encouragement, great conversation, laughter, jokes, fun, affection, caring, kindness, and outright support as in, “I believe in you and I hold the space for you.” They are your spiritual community. They can be online; or they can be right next door as I found.
Years ago a friend gave me a little slogan which said, “People of the same family rarely grow up in the same household.”
That’s the funny thing about a spiritual path. You learn that Love is matter of the heart, a feeling place and it can be found anywhere – in your birth family, online clear across the globe or right in your neighborhood.
Oh, one more thing. Don’t try to make everyone you meet your “spiritual family”. Let the Law of Attraction bring them to you at just the right moment; but in the meantime, get out there and play with humanity and have fun. You do not have to be alone.
Go on now! Get out there and smile at someone! Take that first little step. It’s a new adventure in your continuing expansion. The real fun of it is that you never know what gift is right there in front of you until you see it.
a thought bridge: every business is spiritual
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Bridging Status Quo Thoughts to New Thoughts
I’ve come to realize that I’m a consciousness bridge. That is thinking thoughts that bridge the status quo mindset into new thoughts. It’s not a job that someone applies for; I think you’re given it before you arrive here. My mind just works that way, so I rather live in three worlds at once: where we’ve been(history), where we are (status quo), and where we’re going (New View).
You see, most folks need to take consciousness (thought) one small step at a time. And this is quite good, because quantum leaps don’t stick. Quantum leaps are rather like leaping tall buildings in a single bound, and most of us take the climb one step at a time. As a matter of fact, it’s how we pretty much get anything done here – one moment at a time, one step at a time, one new tiny thought at a time. After awhile, we have embraced a New View without angst.
The bridge I’m building right now has to do with the traditional status quo mindset of business. More to the point, it is addressing the idea of spirituality and business being thought of as mutually exclusive. It has a corollary mindset that materialism and spirituality are also mutually exclusive. So let’s take this on.
Every business no matter how small or how large is a spiritual entity. In order to build the bridge to this new thought we have to begin by slightly adjusting the idea of spirituality from one of mysticism and a large voice booming from heaven, to nonphysical Energy – Source Energy, to be specific. Spiritual is nonphysical Source energy; spirituality is your personal relationship to and with this nonphysical Source Energy. If spirituality is a personal relationship with nonphysical Source Energy, then it is only a question of how much Source Energy each individual allows through their individual unit into physical expression through their thoughts and creativity.
A business, therefore, is a spiritual creation by virtue of each individual who participates within it. The question then becomes how much Source Energy does each individual allow into the business environment at any given moment through their unique unit (mind and body).
Since Source Energy is the highest, fastest, purist frequencies – the fullness of all potential, it would serve any business if leadership as well as staff and workers were fully connected personally to Source. What would this mean?
For anyone to be connected with Source, he/she must be allowing and relaxed to achieve alignment with Source. The intention must be in place to be in alignment. Imagine a garden hose as conducting the stream of Well Being into the individual. Imagine stress as the kink in the hose. Imagine resistance as a kink in the hose. Imagine status quo beliefs as a kink in the hose; and we all know that when there’s a kink in the hose, there is resistance. And where there is resistance, there is limited or no Flow.
A business as an entity does not become a more spiritual entity, rather the individuals within it become more fully connected, more consciously aware and allowing personally. Then, as a collective they create a more Living organization much as each individual grain of sand put together with all the others creates an entire beach.
If you are a business leader, you can only begin with yourself. If you are a worker within an organized business, you can only begin with yourself and take your own spiritual journey of bringing More of your True Self into your mind, and then into your creations at work. The Universal Laws pretty much handle what happens from there. Either people around you are influenced and begin to follow your example by becoming the change you wish to see, or you move to an organization which appreciates your Becoming More of You. If you’re the company owner or CEO, you can encourage others by your own example. You cannot impose your values onto others and force them into a spiritual journey. That’s been done without much success in previous centuries of religious conflict. In the spiritual journey, you realize there’s room for everyone and everything under the sun; and that they all organize and reorganize themselves around the frequencies of thought by Law of Attraction.
Spirituality and business have always been hand in hand, part and parcel, we’re just now beginning to understand how. Tend to your own Call to Adventure. Tend to your own expansion of consciousness. This is the greatest leadership of all whether you’re CEO or janitor. The influence is in your personal vibrational countenance wherever you be in the boardroom or on the trading floor. The true Value and Pure Frequency of your consciousness will then be naturally expressed in your every thought, word and deed – your creations. It has always been this way; it is just now that we are becoming consciously aware of the process.
The upshot, the bottom line is this: tend to your own vibrational frequency.Tend to your own spiritual journey. Tend to your own consciousness expansion into Self. Your first job no matter where you are is to be in alignment with Self, Source. From that alignment you influence everything to expand and become More.
“Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies, you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.” – Abraham
the ordinary hero’s journey of parenting
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Children Are Wise Giant Spirit in Small Bodies
What would it look like to be on your own Hero’s Journey and also be a good parent? It is the quintessential job of leadership by example. Children know when your actions aren’t matching your words or your vibration (thoughts, beliefs and intentions). They have really accurate Internal Guidance System; and this is what messes them up – your vibration gap.
You’ve all heard the phrase, “Don’t Do as I Do; Do As I Say?” or How about this one, “Because I’m your Mother/Father, and I say so.” Well, that’s the old parenting paradigm. These are the old dictatorial and unconscious parenting style. In other words, the parent doesn’t have to be held accountable for being in alignment and congruent with him/herself…but the kid is held to a higher standard for the parent.
Recently I did a radio interview on Unity.fm. It is a “conscious parenting” show where they endeavor to raise the children with awareness and intentionality. You can listen here
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In this time of awakening, this is the perfect moment or situation where the parent gets to ask himself, “what would I need to shift or change in order to become congruent with mySelf?” For example if the parent is telling the child to turn off the television and go do his homework, and the child says, “Why do you get to watch television?” This is the moment where the conscious parent would stop and reflect, “Just why am I watching television or surfing the net or watching videos online?”
In the Hero’s Journey we are always confronted with the opportunity to do things differently by growing ourselves into the person we want our children to become. In this instance the assumption is that the parent wants the child to be well educated, self determining and self motivating in good, productive ways. Is it too late for the parent to shift? Of course not. This is the Hero’s Journey where the parent then reflects on the deeper issues involved in the child’s question as it pertains to her. Our Ordinary Hero stops and reflects: Why am I doing this? What (if anything) am I avoiding? What would I rather be doing that would serve me? Gee, I haven’t read a book in years. I would love to get back to my watercolors. I haven’t written in my journal for quite awhile.
The Hero Parent uses the information for their own personal growth and personal development, thus modeling to the child the ability and willingness to continue to expand and evolve personally. This is an example of conscious parenting; seeing the child as unique, valid being capable of reflecting back to you wise information if you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear. Knowing that just because you’re “grown up” and they are not, doesn’t mean you have all the answers and that they could very possibly have a clearer insight than you do.
When my elder son was a little guy, generally he was a very happy contented child. Very quickly I realized that the only time he ever cried was when I was out of alignment: I had shouted at him or misjudged a situation or was being unjust. In those very humbling moments I had the opportunity to “wake up”, get back into alignment with mySelf and do it over. I could breathe, apologize and open my heart back to Love. I could then reflect on why I got so upset. What did I think that meant? What could I let go of that closed my heart with fear?
The Ordinary Heroes’ Journey is everyday and every moment with whomever is in front of you at the moment – including your children.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
PS I will be doing a return interview on Unity Family Matters on May 12, 2011.
looking for love in all the wrong places?
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What’s love got to do with…money, relationships, health, your experience of life? Everything. Anything or anyone who feels unloved isn’t presenting in the world in a nice way. In fact, evil is simply the absence of love. Illness is the absence of Love. Poverty is the absence of love. Why? Because Love is Source Energy, the Fullness of all that is Good, which is the True Self of all of us.
We all have “stories” about our lives. My folks didn’t love me; my spouse abused me; my family didn’t do this or that…and we carry these stories around like badges, recreating them over and over again…living the same experiences over and over again with different faces; but it’s the same old story. I didn’t get enough Love. In every act of everyday we are trying to “get” more Love. What’s weird about that is that we ARE Love and the place where we aren’t getting enough love is from our Self. We are Love; yet, we don’t know it; we don’t realize it, therefore we don’t have the EXPERIENCE OF IT, because we keep playing the same old tunes repeatedly searching for Love in all the wrong places: out there when it’s in here.
There is nothing you cannot let go of if you know how to “drop it”. You want a better relationship here and now, stop telling the story of how “unloved” you were as a kid. You want more Quality Life experiences right here and now; then stop telling the stories of your miserable low quality experiences back when. It’s history. It’s long gone. It was never Real; merely real.
Most of all, start loving yourself. Gather together all those unloved parts of you and bring them into your fold. They are like long lost children waiting to be heard, loved and honored in your inner world. When your mind is racing negative thoughts of doom and gloom, it’s those unloved, unrecognized and abandoned parts of you that are clamoring to be LOVED. And here’s the really Good News: once you love them, their stories dissolve. There is nothing on Earth that more Love won’t fix or cure. Nothing. For Love is the stuff, the glue, the common denominator of us all.
Love yourself first; then watch everything in your personal experience change.
Applied Spirituality offers a self-study audio course that will guide you back home to yourSelf where Love is right here, right now; it’s called You Are Enough...and you already Are.
Enjoy the song, Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places and imagine that the song is about you finding You.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
silencing the human mind
Posted by: | CommentsGood Morning Everyone!
My human mind awoke this morning wanting to drag me into its “story”. What story? My son deploys today, that story. Yammering on, I could feel myself getting dragged down into its negative thoughts. Whoa! It occurred to me that I had several choices here. I could continue letting my human mind drag me from pillar to post feeling worse by the second; I could stop it; I could watch it; I could welcome it; I could release it. I didn’t have to suffer. I had choices.
Well, whatever I chose, it wasn’t going to be feeling bad to worse. I began breathing in to the count of 3 and out to the count of 5 getting a good rhythmic rolling breath going, focusing on my breathe. Poor human mind can only focus on one thing at a time; and I was not about to be the victim to the “tail” wagging the “dog”. Then I decided to “welcome in” these worrisome thoughts, continuing my rhythmic breathing.
“Welcome worry, welcome fear, welcome sadness, welcome longing to be there. Come in for you are welcome here.” Breathing. Breathing.
“Welcome the belief that I need to change, alter, amend, conceal, edit or diminish you in anyway. Welcome.”
“Welcome the notion that these feelings and thoughts are personal to me. Welcome the idea that I alone, little me, i am alone in this feeling; it is mine. Welcome. Welcome.” Breathing. Breathing.
“So, could you let this go?” I asked myself. Breathing. Breathing. Yes.
“So, would you be willing to let this go?” Breathing. Breathing. Yes.
“When might this be?”
“Now.” Breathing. Breathing.
“Now could you welcome in the IMPERSONAL nature of these thoughts and ideas?” Breathing. Breathing.
“Yes.”
“And what is present right here, right now? Is there a separate you that is suffering from these thoughts?”
Breathing. Breathing. “No.”
“So then, what is present right here, right now?”
“Only Awareness. Life. Well Being. Awareness is breathing me. Life is.” Breathing. Breathing.
“How does that feel now?”
“Spacious. Limitless. Oneness. Well. All is Well.”
Thanks for reading!
Kath
conscious parenting
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There are as many ideas of good parenting out there as there are individuals. Just ask anyone and a rousing if not noisy discussion will ensue with everyone defending their view point from the human mind. Recently quite a polarizing discussion ensued with Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. The book is not a user’s manual, but rather a personal reflection of her journey on her parenting style from which she learns and grows in Love. This is conscious parenting which results in the evolution and expansion of you, the parent. What this means is that as things come up you, the parent, have to grow yourself through the course of parenting. Children, because we love them so much, cause us to self reflect, reconsider, change and grow. Nothing else in the world can make us do this quite like our children can and do.
We want so much to be good parents; however, there’s no manual and it seems almost anyyone can do it. There’s very little barrier to entry! This is the field of Love. It gets muddy, however, when we bring to bear our human mind stuff onto the field. Our parents did it this way; or I hated that my parents did it that way; or I’m not enough, deserving or up to the job. These are the stories of human mind (ego) that will come up for OUR clearing throughout the course of parenting our children.
Bottomline: these children are NOT our property, nor are they made in our image. They are individual, unique chips off the old Block, Source Energy. They come complete with their own Internal Guidance System. Their agenda is not our agenda. Our job, if we are consciously parenting, is to keep reconnecting them with their own Internal Guidance so that they feel safe and good in their own hands. During childhood we can offer them a wide berth to practice listening within and then feeling the outcome of their individual choices. Then, once they’re “out in the world”, it will be their natural habit to “check within” first to see how anything feels to them before they act. This builds not only self esteem but self reliance, independent thinkers and adults who are Connected with Self.
I thought you might enjoy listening to Amy Chou being interviewed. It doesn’t matter that she’s Chinese; substitute any other descriptor you like here. Everyone is called to grow and expand in Love: and nothing does it better than our children.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
