The child
is born whole. This new soul arrives
with spirituality intact. The
developmental work of childhood and then adolescence is to integrate this
natural spirituality into the changing capacities of cognitive, social,
emotional, moral, and physical growth.
Welcome
nature as your co-parent and your child’s teacher.
The
spiritual space of family is about discovering and helping your child see
abundance – the experience of enoughness – rather than the shrinking pie. Gain-gain means we have more then enough to
go around. We don’t need to compete as
if love is a scarce resource.
Build
your ark before it rains.
When we
acknowledge, embrace, and help build a child’s natural spirituality, we build a
pathway through which children can access their knowing from the heart, over
develop a transcendent sense of themselves, other people, and dynamic
relationship with a higher power. With a
felt awareness of transcendence build in, life becomes more.
No matter
how spiritual you may already be, a descent into pain or depression holds the
potential for new growth and opportunity.
Parenting
is an erosion of vanity and of the illusion of control.
Parenting
by its very nature gives us transformative opportunities, which offer up the
possibility of opening us to the spiritual, a clearer sense of our place in the
universe.
Spirituality
as “inner sense of living relationship to a higher power”.
The key
factor in thriving has to do with the habits of living, particularly around
relationships, that we establish in childhood.
These are daily patterns of thought and relationship that become a
stance toward life. Often transmitted
from parents, they continue to surface as latent habits as we grow older. When we were children, did our parents take
missteps or failures in stride and perhaps even as opportunities, or did they
catastrophize or criticize us about them? Did the family celebrate each member
of the family – accept and enjoy one another – or were members judgmental or
critical? Was love an affection unconditional, or was it contingent upon
measuring up to expectations or inward success?
The
parent is an ambassador of transcendence, the guide on the ground who
introduces a child to the spiritually attuned life.
From the
moment of birth, the infant is nature’s most potent catalyst for love…. The
infant upends the world and opens our heart in ways we never imagined
possible. Loving relationships deepen,
opportunities for family reconciliation arise, new people come into our lives,
people we knew reconnect with us in new and thoughtful ways.
Your
connection is your baby’s first experience of relationship with a loving
universe.
The
natural path to enlightenment: feeling connected, empathy, clarity, truth, and
bliss.
