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Societal mindset, traditional education, and loss of authentic self.
Traditional education often reinforces this limited definition of success by focusing primarily on grades and test scores, rather than fostering a love of learning and helping children to develop their unique strengths and interests. This focus on external measures of success can have a detrimental effect on children's self-esteem, sense of purpose, and authentic self-expression.
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Suffering due to non-acceptance.
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Suffering due to non-acceptance.
When a child is born or even with the excitement of when a pregnancy is announced, a parent envisions what kind of future they want for their child. This may be a particular hobby or sport they really enjoyed themselves as a child, taking over a family business or the ambition of a successful career that they want their child to have as they themselves may have not been able to reach that goal or did reach that goal and find it to be the only way life should be lived. This way they already pre-determine their child’s future with all the things they want for their child. However when…
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Societal mindset, traditional education, and loss of authentic self.
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The self-limiting beliefs of our society.
There is a belief system in our society that keeps telling us through the most subtle and also some quite obvious ways that we are unworthy of love and acceptance for being who we are and how we need to conform to fit the norm to be accepted, which is far from our authentic and true self. It actually leads us astray trying to find happiness through obtaining external materials and sources, which is not only unsuccessful, but also conveniently coincides with keeping our capitalistic economy afloat. Growing up in a traditional household, this is what I learned to believe and live by most of my youth, adolescent and some of…
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The Shadow
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The Shadow
The word “shadow” in this context, was what analytical psychologist Carl Jung defined as the suppressed parts of ourselves in our unconscious. The part that is largely running the show in our day to day lives, and what we tend to call “fate”. The shadow part of ourselves forms in early childhood through parental and societal disapproval and conforming to what is accepted. The inherent and authentic parts of ourselves (the negative and positive parts) that weren’t accepted, we then pushed away out of our awareness into our unconscious “shadow”. That’s were our authentic being would become fragmented as we only start operating with the aspects of ourselves that we…
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The self-limiting beliefs of our society.
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Why child-led learning?
As I shifted my perspective on life and raising children, my thoughts on our educational system also drastically changed. Even though I grew up going to public school myself and won’t deny that I had some great experiences there. I am not saying that there is something particularly wrong with the western educational system as I do believe it was created with the right intentions. However I believe those intentions came from our collective unconsciousness. The awareness of the possibility that forcing an education diminishes the child’s own natural curiosity of the world around them, is simply not there. As well as the utilization of fear-based discipline that is not…
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What is a Spiritual Awakening?
First we should clear up the idea that the word “Spiritual” is or should only be associated with religion. Rather defining something “Spiritual” as all-encompassing, that what is beyond anything physical or material in our existence. A Spiritual Awakening is the crumbling down of the “ego” and reconnecting with the Higher Self or Spirit. The “ego” is the identity that we have created over the years, layer upon layer through our experiences in life to keep us “safe” from perceived threats and through the mundane conditioning since birth. It is the part we call the self or “I”. As we go through such an awakening, which is in a sense…
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A new perspective creating a new approach to parenting.
Through introspection and the changed perspectives on life and how we all have been living, comes also the question of how we can integrate this new knowledge into our parenting journey. The traditional way of parenting, that many of us have known as the only way to raise a child, has been passed on from many generations. It is a hierarchical and authoritarian way where the child is seen as inherently incapable of growth and achievement by himself and often a great deal of control is used to get a child to behave in a way that is acceptable according to their parents beliefs and they are shaped to fit…
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Hello and welcome to my blog!
Here I will be writing about how a spiritual awakening has changed my life. It led me to question everything from our western society’s norms and values to child rearing and how I am best able to integrate those changed perspectives on life into my and my family’s life. It sure is not an easy task to change our ways of living from what we’ve been doing (unconsciously) for so long and it sometimes also means I will take a step forward and two back. It is a journey in and of itself and certainly isn’t a race. I will also share my thoughts and views on the meaning of…
Raising children and living life intuitively
