If You Have a KID, You Have a GURU!

Lest you become as a little child…

Studies show that by the age of 5, kids have been told in one way or another ‘NO’ 80,000 times, and ‘YES’ in one way or another 5,000 times!  Talk about overwhelming negative conditioning to think and feel in limited ways… kids LAUGH on average 400 times a day- grown-ups choke out less than 25 daily.

Western society has everyone focused on our IQ, intelligence quotient.  But there is something which can determine our potential for success and happiness in life which is by far more important and telling; it is our EQ- EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT. How we express or suppress our emotions has far more consequences than intellect alone.

I believe kids are just NATURALLY connected to the Source, to the power grid of Life.

Aren’t kids just so FILLED with DESIRE, PERSISTENCE, CURIOSITY, VITALITY, WONDERMENT, FOGIVENESS, ACCEPTANCE, JOY- all the characteristics of a vibrant life- so much so, that sometimes we can hardly stand them! LOL!

ALL kids innately have this unlimited vitality.  All kids are so ALIVE and ENTHUSIASTIC and INVOLVED in life- UNTIL those wonderful ways of being that they naturally posses and express get shut down.  Parents, school, doctors and other ‘authorities’ believe that children need to be ‘taught’.  I am clear that I will learn more from my kids than I could ever hope to teach them; hence my documentary’s name, RAISING CHILDREN RAISES US.  Four, five and six year olds are expressing wonderful ways of being that we have most likely already had bred, beaten, educated, programmed and shamed out of us.  Even if you observe a baby, you will see when they start to want solids, and if you give them raw foods instead of those dead packaged grain mushes, they won’t spit it out!  We THINK we have to teach kids about healthy food- that is only actually true if we didn’t feed them a natural raw diet right from the beginning!

About 10 years ago a friend had the pleasure of hearing a talk by Randy Ward and she was so fired up and shared some of the things she learned from him.  He said many profound things and he said what he learned came not from books or adults, but from observing children.  He said children don’t start out in this world with fear- that we teach them that.  “don’t climb the tree or you will fall”  “don’t cross the street or you will get hit by a car” etc etc etc.

Of course we need to be there for our kids to ensure their wellbeing, but how often do we instil fear into our children in the name of ‘safety’?  “Life is a terminal condition- nobody gets out of here alive!” and do we really want our outrageously ALIVE little poppets to just crawl safely to death…? What does it really do to a young child’s psyche to constantly emphasise ‘staying safe’? If you ask seniors in our society what would they do if they could live their life over again, they all say ‘Take more risks’.  Aren’t children already so adept at that?  And doesn’t the Universe reward boldness? We actually live in a SAFE Universe.  But probably no one has ever told you that.  My mother told me basically the same thing your mother told you…

A great teacher once said “Ask, and you shall receive”…we have FREE WILL so our rights and desires aren’t intruded upon.  Realising this, I finally got over my phobia of driving and now drive with effortlessness and calm confidence.  I now ask for and claim Divine protection in and around my car as soon as I put the key in the ignition, and in 11 years have never had an incident, and I know I never will.  My children hear me say ‘white light’ which is my shorthand for asking for and invoking that safety.  We can focus on what we fear and therefore attract it, or we can focus on what we want and therefore attract that!  WORRY, DOUBT, GUILT AND FEAR ARE A PRAYER FOR WHAT YOU DON’T WANT!  The Universe literally rearranges itself to accommodate what you focus on!

See Moms, you gorgeous group of gals, we are blessed beyond belief with these precious young souls in our home.  We can learn more from them than any seminar, book or retreat if only we could get out of our heads and stop thinking they are the only ones that need to learn stuff here.  Just learning stuff isn’t necessarily going to impact anyone in a fundamental way unless it can affect a shift in their being.  Of course we have more experience which can serve our children, but they have youthful reminders of a fresh perspective and a heart/spirit-centered orientation to life which we can learn from.  The power is not in our head, it’s in our being.  You can teach what you know, but you duplicate who you BE.  Who you ARE speaks louder than anything you will ever say.

Let us teach what children need most from us- our faith in them, our approval of their emotions (though we may need to help them limit their actions), our acceptance of who they fundamentally ARE, and our DELIGHT in that!  How much more than that are they really REALLY needing from us, anyway?

And may we learn from our children all the great stuff that any guru worth their salt teaches: wonderment, humility, being in the moment, forgiveness, non-judgement, reverence for life and JOY!!!!

xoShannon