The Conscious Parent

we never embark on the true adventure of life, instead playing it safe, well within the box. Of course, be ...

Preoccupied with his lack of power over his stepson, Christopher entered into conflict with Jaden on ...

manifests intellectually as a black-and-whiteness concerning just about everything, these children are often sn ...

YOU CAN TRANSITION OUT OF EGO I have found that it helps parents to differentiate between essence and ego w ...

wholeness of life itself. Our ego can be activated in a split-second, placing us in its clutches before we eve ...

children’s ability to be who they are, binding them to our psyche in a way they don’t need. The undermining ...

moment, and enter the experience of consciousness. What a gift, then, to have our children in our lives s ...

B CHAPTER 5 Is Your Child Growing You Up? eing absorbent, our children soak in all our inanities and insani ...

how we embrace them each morning, how we react when they break our favorite vase, how we handle ours ...

Nevertheless, because our children are vulnerable and mostly powerless, we feel free to blame them for our r ...

emphasize that no one could evoke such emotions in us were they not already part of our shadow. Not ...

situation. We regard them as an enemy only because of our inability to understand and master our internal s ...

both parent and child, where every moment is a meeting of spirits, and both parent and child appreciate ...

because we refuse to accept life’s as is form. The reason for this is that the ideal view of ourselves to ...

them to where we want them to be. Do you see the simplicity of embracing the as is of parenting? Even ...

dictators themselves, hostile in their reaction to the world, and perhaps even violent. As mentioned earlier, ...

feelings. To the degree we live in a state of falsehood, our children learn to squelch their feelings an ...

learned. By silently witnessing our thoughts and feelings, we learn to accept them as they are, allow ...

own and that of others. If we want our children to master their emotions, we have to teach them to su ...

she was made to believe that if she changed her outer appearance enough, her peers would accept her. In this ...