Mindful Parenting is a contemplative practice through which we become more mindful of our children and, in doing so, experience a more joyful life.
The Morning Sip: Sit Still And
Find Your Child In The Cosmos
The joyfulness to arise out of the
practice of mindful parenting is the product of a lifelong endeavor.
With every passing day lived mindfully, seeds of joyfulness are
nourished. Better said, with every passing moment lived mindfully,
seeds of joyfulness are nourished. And when we are aware that
these seeds have sprouted, we delight in continuing to water and nourish
them.
When we shine the light of mindfulness on our child, not
only do we penetrate more deeply into their being and see them
as who they really are, but we open our hearts to feel greater
joy through greater connection.
Can you feel the feeling?
Recite this verse sometime today:
Where in the cosmos
Is my child?
As you recite this verse, think big.
Visualize or sense the enormity of the cosmos -- galaxies and solar
systems and, somewhere amid the vastness, our sun, and within our
solar system, Earth. Keeping in mind the broad perspective,
drop down through the clouds circling in the Earth's atmosphere to
mountains tops and then to trees and then to people. People,
as it has been for millions of years, are born and die, and somewhere amid
it all is your child.
This verse can help ground
you in awareness of your child's existence.
Breathe
deeply and sit still. Your child exists in a place truer than their
bedroom, or in college, or watching television or doing homework. Sit
still and sense that place.
The Mindful Parent is an organization devoted to sharing with
parents and other child caregivers ways in which to enhance the many
joys of parenting. By mindfully attending to our children, both
when we are physically present with them and when we are physically
separated from them, we can enhance our sense of connection to them
and, in turn, our connection to the cosmos. This makes us a
better parent, a happier person, and a more vital human being.
To
facilitate a more mindful approach to parenting, The Mindful Parent
publishes on its website, and in its bi-weekly
newsletter, mindful
parenting
verses and commentaries. The Mindful Parent website
also serves as a community forum that encourages and supports a mindful
parenting dialogue and the sharing of mindful parenting experiences.
In
the spirit of developing a mindful parenting community, we encourage
you to
submit a mindful parenting experience through verse,
commentary, and imagery to share with others. We believe that
through our collective experience, we can help each other develop
a deeper and more meaningful mindful parenting practice.
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