Comments on: Being Present as a Parent http://innatewholeness.com/mm-collection/being-present-as-a-parent Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:47:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amy Christine Bush http://innatewholeness.com/mm-collection/being-present-as-a-parent/comment-page-1#comment-92 Amy Christine Bush Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:21:36 +0000 http://innatewholeness.com/?p=1442#comment-92 Walls are created to protect. We learn to protect at very early ages and part of parenting is healing our inner child or true self or whatever label you choose to use for the part of ourselves that feels fear. Sometimes they fall quickly in healing, other times there are many layers, but you can be sure once you set the intention to look at them they will appear for you to work with and dissolve :). Yes, compassion, forgiveness, grace, all of that. If the judgment fits, it fits. Do be gentle about it... that is key. "Hate cannot drive out hate, only Love can do that." Martin Luther King Jr. Walls are created to protect. We learn to protect at very early ages and part of parenting is healing our inner child or true self or whatever label you choose to use for the part of ourselves that feels fear. Sometimes they fall quickly in healing, other times there are many layers, but you can be sure once you set the intention to look at them they will appear for you to work with and dissolve :) . Yes, compassion, forgiveness, grace, all of that. If the judgment fits, it fits. Do be gentle about it… that is key.

“Hate cannot drive out hate, only Love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.

]]> By: Anna http://innatewholeness.com/mm-collection/being-present-as-a-parent/comment-page-1#comment-90 Anna Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:21:01 +0000 http://innatewholeness.com/?p=1442#comment-90 wow, I've been letting my daughter's angry and hurtful outbursts affect me and control how I have been dealing with her. I've set up a wall against her hurting me, keeping her out. . .and I see she has done the same with me. . . ..somehow a lesson on compassion and forgiveness. How much we need gentle grace. . .and this . . .I have tattooed on my arms !! see, the judgment! to think we need grace is a judgment, perhaps. wow, I’ve been letting my daughter’s angry and hurtful outbursts affect me and control how I have been dealing with her. I’ve set up a wall against her hurting me, keeping her out. . .and I see she has done the same with me. . . ..somehow a lesson on compassion and forgiveness. How much we need gentle grace. . .and this . . .I have tattooed on my arms !! see, the judgment! to think we need grace is a judgment, perhaps.

]]> By: Tips to begin parenting in the present http://innatewholeness.com/mm-collection/being-present-as-a-parent/comment-page-1#comment-79 Tips to begin parenting in the present Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:26:23 +0000 http://innatewholeness.com/?p=1442#comment-79 [...] good first step is in feeling what it is to be present. Reading the article Being Present as a Parent will give you a nice basis for that feeling, as will connecting with the life energy inside of you. [...] [...] good first step is in feeling what it is to be present. Reading the article Being Present as a Parent will give you a nice basis for that feeling, as will connecting with the life energy inside of you. [...]

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