Encourage Your Children to Stay Connected to Source Energy

“If you encourage your children to stay connected to Source Energy, they will remain clear-minded; they will remain optimistic; they will remain enthusiastic. They will remain balanced; they will remain flexible. They will remain in a state of grace. They will remain in a state of Well-Being. And they will make wonderful choices." - Abraham (Esther and Jerry Hicks)

Of course, this principle doesn't only apply to children; it applies to everyone. If you stay in tune with your Source Energy, Inner Being, Inner Wisdom, God, Higher Power, Higher Consciousness, or whatever you may want to call it, your life is likely to take a different turn. You will begin to trust; you will begin to relax in the knowledge that all is well, and everything will be all right. Stress will evaporate from your daily life and will be replaced with a beautiful and constant serenity. 

So often you get caught up in the soap operas of your life, that you forget to reflect on your higher purpose down here. You are a spiritual being having a human experience, not the other way round. Ask yourself when you are so absorbed in a problem or dilemma that you forget to live:  "Will this matter ten years from now?" Young people think about life and love, working, studying and having fun. As you get older, you tend to enjoy yourself less, as you worry about stupid things, like not having enough money:"How am I going to pay the bills?" 

When you allow children to be themselves, you give them the most precious gift. You don't thwart their growth, but encourage them to be who they want to be (which might not always correspond with what you want them to be!). They know what's best for them; you don't need to tell them. As they grow up following their own heart and their own intuition, they will become well-adjusted adults, who feel loved and secure in the world. What else do they need? Very little. If they feel that way, the world will be open to them, and they will have a joyful experience in it.

This is our most important job: to realise that they are gifts from Heaven. To make them feel that they are wanted and loved; exactly as they are. As human beings, we all deserve love. Not because of our extraordinary deeds, but just because we are alive. Just because we exist. Love doesn't need to be earned. It is as vital and freely available as the oxygen we breathe.

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Painting: "Children at Play" by Chris Neil Smith

Your New Inner Power is Emerging!

"Look well within thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

Little by little, as you begin to get more and more in touch with yourself, and accept who you are, totally and unconditionally, it dawns on you that you do actually have power, when you doubted that you had any.

You thought you were dependent, when in reality you are independent. You thought you were weak, when in reality you are much stronger than you would have ever believed. In the face of obstacles and adversity, you have developed endurance. In the midst of despair, you have cultivated hope. You begin to feel your power like a light inside yourself, flimsy like candlelight at first, until it becomes a blazing fire. 

You are a spiritual being having a human experience. As you clear out the garbage of addictive and counterproductive habits, you uncover your precious soul that's been lying dormant for so long, under layers of lies, self-deceit and pretences. You finally decide to put a stop to self-abuse, and you discover that the person you harmed the most in the past is yourself.

Now you are ready to become alive and in tune with infinity, with the Divine. Everything feels easier, and your life is finally flowing like a gentle river. You no longer want to control everything, and you allow the current to carry you where you are supposed to go. You stop offering unnecessary resistance to what is. You become united with the Universe, and this feeling of wholeness is not an illusion: it is your new reality, as you give birth to your inner power.

This power has nothing to do with having influence over others. It has nothing to do with scheming or manipulating or getting your own way. It does not come from being able to make others do certain things, like following your lead or buying your products. It is  the power of letting others be what they wish to be, without trying to whip them into shape.

Your new power is a very personal one, much stronger and long-lasting than anything you have enjoyed so far.  People will turn to you and imitate you, not because they are intimidated by you, or because they want to bathe in your glory. All they can see is that you are leading a meaningful life. They can see that you have peace of mind.

Once you are in touch with the light within yourself, do not hide it. Allow it to shine!

"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house." - Matthew 5:14-15

Painting: "Still Life Candlelight" oil and pencil drawing form the Colonie Central High School Art Gallery