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Awakening our Children
 
Can you think of a greater gift for our children than the possibility of allowing them to grow up in a world full of conscious development and potential? 

You can do this, even if these wonderful options were not available to you as a child. As parents, we can give our children the gift of an awakened life.

How easy it would be to bequeath the gift of the awakened life if those who raised us were exemplary models of liberated self-confidence and insightful creativity; and if they raised us knowing that the evolution of consciousness and culture were the most important aspects of life. How easy indeed!

But, many of us were raised to unwittingly honor and respect limitations. And there is nothing wrong with this. Yet, your own awakening often reveals that the True Self and the universal ego-mind were seamlessly entangled without your even knowing. And after all, those who instilled self-interested drives in us did so because they loved us dearly, and only wanted the best for us. In most cases, our forefathers were unaware that those same conditioned ego-directives were also guiding their lives. The discovery of previously concealed conditioning is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as we remain aware of its presence.

Here is a simple guide to the evolution of awareness in our children with some suggestions so that you may respond to them from an awakened perspective:

Age: 0 - 1 year: Though in the early months, a child’s awareness is completely fused with physical reality, they quickly learn to differentiate between their own bodies and external objects. Physical boundaries are set. Also at this age children assume that what they feel is what the world feels. And, while the formation of self-organizing principle of the psyche - the Freudian Ego - is already underway, the ego-mind or separate self-sense has not yet developed.

Parental role: Support physical differentiation, appreciate the conflict the children may experience because of emotional fusion and give lots of love and security.

Age: 1 - 3 years: The emotional self now begins to distinguish between what it feels and what the world feels and realizes it’s not necessarily the same. Enter the ‘terrible twos’. 

 
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Mick Quinn is the author of The Uncommon Path and Poder Y Gracia and the founder of Choice for Enlightened Living Foundation. Mick's work is quoted in The LA Times, Yahoo!, CNN Living, and Woman's World.  Gary Renard, the best-selling (Hay House) author said this book is "informative and gripping". Raquel Torrent – Psychologist and founder of the Spanish Integral Association said, “Mick Quinn’s style is clear and direct - like silence making music”. Mick lives in Utah with wife Debora. For upcoming events visit: www.mickquinn.com