I am reminded of a 14 year old girl I met with her mom some years ago. As a family therapist, the mom brought her daughter to me because the school "was having trouble with her."
With the two of them sitting in front of me, the mom explained the difficulties the teacher was having with her daughter Nancy. As the mother talked, I noticed Nancy starng at the floor, and occasionally glancing up to look at me, or around me.
After a couple of minutes, I gently interrupted the mother and quietly asked Nancy if she was seeing something.
"No," Nancy said almost inaudibly.
"If you are seeing something," I asked, "I'd like to hear it." .
My voice was inviting rather than probing.
"Well, I do see something."
"Even though it might not make sense to you," I asked, "what do you see?"
Nancy's head raised up, her eyes widened, energy poured in as she sat up straight. "Well, I see colors around your head."
"What colors do you see," I asked.
"Well, I see some violet around the top of your head, and some blue down lower.........."
And she continued.
"You are seeing the energy field, the aura, around people. That is your gift. It is real."
I went on to describe the aura.
Nancy smiled a big smile and looked at her mom. Her mom was smiling too, although she knew little about energy fields or the aura she understood.
They both cried.
The next day, the mom searched out a school with a teacher that also saw energy fields and the aura.
She withdrew Nancy from her current school that day.
Monday, October 26, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
ALL CHILDREN ARE HONOR STUDENTS
"All
children are honor students. Why not? All children belong here. They didn't come here to make trouble, or cause disturbance, to be mean, to be labeled slow, to constantly be compared
to others, or even be required to compete against friends.
Children are not deficient in anything, except maybe some specific vitamin.. Deficiency is someone elses belief of what should be. Could it be that children, including us at one time, maybe even now, simply want to connect with people, to use themselves in their own way....a way that is creative, of value to others, and ultimately appreciated for who they are inside, not how they perform for the approval of others?
It seems, and probably really true, that what the world requires is the ability for children and big people to see through not only their own eyes, but through the eyes of others, to care about relationship more than being right, to feel comfortable with difference, and to value trusting oneself –
thus, possibly avoiding the next war, or belief that “they” or “them” out there are an enemy.
Maybe even the people closest to us don’t need to change either. The change could simply be our own. That would be a relief."
Children are not deficient in anything, except maybe some specific vitamin.. Deficiency is someone elses belief of what should be. Could it be that children, including us at one time, maybe even now, simply want to connect with people, to use themselves in their own way....a way that is creative, of value to others, and ultimately appreciated for who they are inside, not how they perform for the approval of others?
It seems, and probably really true, that what the world requires is the ability for children and big people to see through not only their own eyes, but through the eyes of others, to care about relationship more than being right, to feel comfortable with difference, and to value trusting oneself –
thus, possibly avoiding the next war, or belief that “they” or “them” out there are an enemy.
Maybe even the people closest to us don’t need to change either. The change could simply be our own. That would be a relief."
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