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Publisher notes
The past month has been really exciting. I have been
busy with all the things I love; my family, my coaching practice and
my creativity. The article I am sending this month is something I
wrote awhile back and is on my website, so my apologies to anyone
who has already read it. Life has been so good to me that I ran out
of time to create a new article for this newsletter. Maybe you can
help me out for next month by e-mailing me any parenting or
relationship question you might have. I would like to start an “Ask
Tracy” kind of format and would like to make it as pertinent as
possible to my readers. Please send any questions to
tracy@transformingfamily.com. Thank you for your continued
support!
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Mindful Parenting
The Buddhist concept of
mindfulness can be very helpful to parents. It can help us see our
children as whole and beautiful in each moment. Mindfulness means
moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness of our children. If we
practice mindful parenting we will refine our capacity to pay
attention, with intention to the present moment. We will become more
in touch with our lives as they are unfolding.
Mindful parenting has the potential to help us see past the
appearances of typical behaviors and allows us to see our children,
as they truly are, beautiful and whole. If we stay in the present
moment and practice mindfulness we can act with some degree of
wisdom and compassion. When things are difficult and we stop and
center ourselves in the truth, that our children are right where the
are supposed to be, the more our ability to be mindful deepens.
The hardest part of shifting the paradigm is being aware of those
old patterns that so often rule our behavior. The patterns that we
want to change were probably passed down to us from our families and
have nothing to do with what’s really happening today. Consequences
of unconscious parenting can reverberate through the lives of our
children and further our grandchildren.
I look at parenting as a spiritual practice. It’s a wonderful gift
to stop and ask myself; what am I feeling? Why am I feeling it? What
is my child feeling and what’s it like from his or her point of
view? The real work of any spiritual practice is to come to a deep
understanding about what it means to be human. Where else can we
learn more about being human, than by looking at our children with
these new pair of glasses? We have our own little Zen masters living
right under our roof. The door to enlightenment is right in front of
you…I hope you’ll walk through.
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