opportunities to become more patient, humble, and compassionate. For
this reason, we ought to explore with our children questions such as:
How has this experience opened you up?
What needs to happen for you to surrender to this experience?
Is there something you are resisting, or something of which you are
afraid?
What will you carry from this experience into your next experience?When our children watch us process our experiences and deal with life
as if it were full of rich meaning and opportunities for growth, this is
how they will approach their own challenges. They will learn to befriend
their experiences and trust that these experiences exist to take them
closer to authenticity.
Approaching parenting with such a philosophy, we impart to our
children the assurance that life isn’t to be feared and resisted, but that it
possesses infinite wisdom in all its shapes, colors, and dimensions. We
teach our children to embrace situations without reacting to them,
fighting with them. In this way they learn to become peaceful co-creators
of their life, viewing it as a partner to grow with, not as an enemy to
conquer.
Life is here to be our teacher, our guide, and our spiritual partner. We
are here to uncover our unconsciousness and integrate it. For this
purpose, our past reappears in our present. Our ability to release
ourselves from its shadows will determine how free our future will be.
Every experience appears before us to teach us more about ourselves.