Enlightened

Parenting
with
Swammi Mommi

As my son began emerging from autism at age six he began to speak. What he said most often was "Be Happy At Me."

I began to understand that my son’s willingness to leave behind the buffered safety of his autistic world for the world we defined for him was directly related to my ability to Be Happy.

I discovered that the condition of my consciousness registers directly in my child’s consciousness. My child then shares my experience of well being or distress. I learned that ninety-five percent of a young child’s learning process is developed through unconscious imprinting, therefore my state of consciousness had more to do with the raising of my children than my conscious efforts to “train them” did.

As we live in the ebb and flow of daily life our interactions with our children are significant enough to effect lifetimes of karma, yet as insignificant as a droplet in the vast ocean of time.

Be gentle and forgiving with your own Self and your children, for a single loving healing moment with your child cancels out a hundred painful interactions. Recognize that our children are reflecting our own selves, and realize that the imbalances reflected in all the world's children are coming from the state of consciousness of the world's adults. Then we will understand that the most loving thing we can do for our children is to turn our attention inward to discover what condition of consciousness we are imprinting on them.

And we will discover that happiness is an inside job...

Then we will decide to meditate.

   In the practice of meditation we discover that
          There is nowhere to go.
               There is nothing to do.
                     There is no one to be.

   Our children do not need to become anything . . .
                         They already are.

   Everything they need for their journey . . .
                             They already have.

The path of yoga and meditation is to make friends with ourselves and to celebrate the present moment just as it is and our children just as they are now.