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.
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.
It's one thing for a father to say, 'Oh, my son is great.' But to have others say it - that's the true reward. Robbie's one of the smartest people I know. He's made such fantastic movies.
I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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