The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
Interpretation
Children thrive on emotional support, which consists of attention, appreciation, and affection.
In this quote, Deepak Chopra highlights the fundamental elements necessary for nurturing and positively influencing a child's development. He emphasizes that giving children focused attention, showing them appreciation for who they are, and providing them with affection are vital to fostering their self-esteem and emotional well-being. These three pillars create a strong foundation for healthier relationships and better-adjusted individuals.
In practice
During a parenting workshop to discuss effective ways to build strong relationships with children.
The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect.
It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
I will practice acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are this moment, not as I wish they were.
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
If we are practicing our faith and seeking the companionship of the Holy Spirit, his presence can be felt in our hearts and in our homes. A family having daily family prayers and seeking to keep the commandments of God and honor his name and speak lovingly to one another will have a spiritual feeling in their home that will be discernible to all who enter it.
We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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