The Conscious Parent

simply a manifestation of your deeper purpose. Coming from this place,
you no longer engage in one pursuit after another, but instead devote
your energy to awareness of your inner stillness. This inner stillness
manifests as presence, and presence is the core characteristic of the
awakened, receptive, accepting spirit of a conscious parent.
As parents, unless we learn to live from being rather than doing,
listening to our inner voice instead of being driven by external factors,
the parent-child journey will be fueled by anxiety and drama. When we
shift from egoic doing to authentic being, our worldview changes. We
find ourselves no longer focusing on need, but on service; no longer
feeling internal lack, but experiencing abundance; no longer feeling
stuck, but flowing; no longer locked into the past, but present now.
While this is an essential shift if we are to parent consciously, it isn’t
an easy one for a parent to make. We engage in doing because we find it
easier to say yes to those aspects of life connected to our child’s
performance in society than to their authentic being. However, if we shift
our own axis to a delight in simply being, so that all our activity flows
from this childlike state, we spontaneously find ourselves honoring our
children for those qualities that may be less quantifiable but that are
infinitely more essential—qualities such as authenticity, awe, joy, peace,
courage, and trust.
When we are invested in where our children will end up in life, we
impart to them the sense that “time is money,” instead of teaching them
that time is infinite when experienced in the present. Parents who live in
a state of being teach their children to live for their inner purpose, which
is born of their spirit, not for money or image. Children are as content