Share CNN covered the story of a young man, Kirk Murphy, who as a child underwent a government-funded experimental research program, often referred to as the “sissy-boy experiments” at UCLA, aimed at eliminating his effeminate behavior in order to promote better adjustment. Kirk Murphy hung himself from a fan in a room in India at [...]
Share “Observe your mind. Watch your thoughts.” These are the typical words at the start of a mindfulness session. Simple in sound, yet maddening in practice. Our thoughts are like bubbles, disappearing the minute we touch them. “Return to the breath” the teacher says. “Breath, what breath, where breath?” We focus on this thing called [...]
Share Life moves through us, bumps against us and sometimes, slaps us across the face. This is just the nature of Life. Just the way it is. Life just happens. One day we have a cushy job and the next day it is gone. One day we have a house standing and the next, a [...]
Share We all want to change and become more mindful. Little do we realize that the first step to this mindfulness is an understanding of our thought patterns. In order to do this, we need to become aware. In order to become aware we need to become still. Let’s work this backwards now… When we [...]
Share We are highly reactive beings. We create a lot of noise. A lot of it is perhaps necessary in order to get along in this world. After all, we need to talk to others, relate, laugh. But what about all that other noise. The noise we create simply because we are conditioned to? Are [...]
Share Each of us comes with a unique temperamental and energetic blueprint. It is with this blueprint that we seek to engage the world. As children, our parents provide us with our first mirror of this way of being. It is through their eyes that we develop an understanding of who it is we are. [...]
Share There is nothing that creates a greater inner schism than an emotion that is dismissed, or worse still, denigrated, and invalidated. As adults we know exactly what this feels like. We have all encountered situations where someone says something to us or does something to us that completely nullifies our sense of self. For [...]
Share The world is ready for a new paradigm of parenting. Our children are thirsty for it. The old model of the parent-child relationship is dated. Parental dominance and hierarchy create a sense of separation between ourselves and our children. Our children in turn internalize this separation and project it onto the world around them. [...]
Share Our children are our clearest mirrors. They reflect back to us our purity. And our spiritual immaturity. They truly do mirror our best and our worst. This is why they are our greatest teachers. It is with these beings – those we dare to call “ours” with a possession and righteousness that often goes [...]
10 Steps Towards Conscious Parenting
Step 1: Accept that journey begins with us - the parent
Step 2: Set the intention to raise ourselves into the parents our children need us to become.
Step 3: Act on need to change the...