Since we’re on the verge of Mother’s Day I was reading chapter 4, Children and Parenting, in The Soul Truth: a Guide to Inner Peace. Amongst topics like ‘how to raise a spiritual child’ and ‘does the soul choose its parents’ I found the following excerpt on living in the moment inspiring.
We are always fascinated by the group sessions we’ve done with children. It is beautiful and enlightening for us, as adults, to listen to their questions and see their connectedness. What advice do you have for parents to become more childlike in this way?
“To open the heart, to live fully present in the moment to moment experience as a child does. An adult is too far into the future or too far into the past and not living in the moment. If one is having difficulty being in the moment, it is then to be aware of what one is speaking, or what one is hearing. To breathe, to feel the breath in the body, allows one to be more fully present in the physical structure. What is one tasting if one is eating? Draw the self back to the experience of that moment. For if you think, “I am thinking about this moment”, it is already past, and it is not truly living one’s life. If one is in the future, it is not living in the moment and it’s passing by a precious gift. If one is too far in the past in the memories, and living only in the memories, one is not in the moment of the present. Ultimately, the memory of the past is tainted because they have not been living in it in the first place. It has been happening to them. So to live one’s life fully, it is to be moment to moment expressed and experienced, and that in itself is a childlike quality. This is not to say not to have plans for the future. Set those plans, those visions, and let them go. And do what comes moment to moment in your expression and manifesting externally, as you have placed intent on the future through the moment-to moment expression of life. As all have experienced, as a child, five minutes, thirty minutes, one hour, one day, is an eternity at times. And a year is as if a lifetime. That is full presence that a child has of their life experience moment to moment. Be that aware.” - THEO
THEO has also said in the past…
“If you are eating an apple, how does it taste, what is its texture? If you are speaking to someone, listen fully to what they are saying. If you are listening to music hear every note.”
Enjoy the music.
Cathy
Tags: live, parenting, present, Present Moment