This article is from The Sedona Journal of Emergence

For the Children, Part 2

Greetings, dear Lightworkers! Have you been feeling the surprising and swiftly moving energies which are affecting your evolving world now? Very few people have missed the time effects that leave most of you wondering if life could possibly move any faster… Well, pilgrim, it can and it will so hang onto your hats! If you wonder why time is changing so dynamically, think of it as the precursor to living in ‘no time’. As you become more used to the speed at which your lives unfold you also become more focused and conscious of how you want and choose to use your time. As you become good at the focused and conscious use of time, you prepare for a world in which time is truly irrelevant. All we wish to add to that at this time is: study well and practice, practice, practice… change is here!

We wish to finish the topic of channeling which we began with last month’s article… There is, indeed, one last focus we would like to examine, and that is:

For the children teach them ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’… both forwards and backwards… in fact, teach it to them backwards first!

Why backwards first? Because it is vital to give your beloved children the gift of self love, self worth, self appreciation. Without those attributes they will have little understanding about giving love and almost no ability to love their ‘neighbors as themselves’. Without true self respect a child’s positive ego becomes undernourished and their negative ego strengthens.

Have you ever met someone who insists that they don’t know how to feel love? Chances are that, as a child, they were not taught how to do that. Why?

“Because, after all, it would be wrong to feed their egos. That would make them spoiled and self-centered!” But actually, when you teach a child to feel loved and worthy the opposite occurs. It’s when they are taught to seek that same feedback from outside themselves that the imbalanced, emotional and greedy ego of the spoiled child dominates.

There are several aspects to this concept which are worth focusing upon. Looking at the statement above: When you teach a child to feel loved and worthy…

First, some psychologists believe that a child’s personality has been fairly well developed by the time they are three years old, while others assert that the age of personality completion is closer to five or six. Additional personality development  thereafter results from life experience and tweaking. Add to this the very fast maturation of today’s youth and you can see rather quickly that the window of opportunity available to teach and mold a child with a healthy, balanced and happy personality is small.

The next word of focus is feel. What is feeling? Is it simply an arrant emotion? Or is it perhaps a tool used to add vibrancy and color to life? Yes to both! But the way we would like to use this word today is as a synonym for prayer.

For most of humankind prayer has become a weak shadow of its former self… What was intended as a powerful tool of manifestation has been allowed to atrophy. This is partly due to misunderstanding and partly due to selfish power issues which will not be discussed at this time.

True prayer happens, not as words, songs, chants or text… true prayer happens as the result of feeling. If you would like to learn more about this way of defining and teaching prayer, we suggest you read the books of Gregg Braden. Or, if you would simply like to learn how to pray effectively, then develop your own skill to feel your prayer… then blend with that feeling until it becomes part of who you are… and then take action from that perfect preparation.

Please remember that prayer begins as a ‘talking to’ energy. It is a mode for talking to the Divine. Where people lose their ability to pray powerfully and effectively, is:

First, when they deny their own divinity and connection to All That Is and thereby remove themselves from receiving the fulfillment of their prayer.

Second, when they don’t feel they are worthy of the successful realization of the prayer, they say, “Hear my prayer, dear Mother-Father God, and I’m grateful for your consideration, BUT I understand why you won’t grant me this dispensation.”

Third, they don’t feel the thing they are praying for. For instance, many will practically beg for the end of illness rather than feel healthy and give thanks for renewed health. Prayer is that simple! The feeling is the prayer. If you feel the sorrow of illness, than your prayer is for more illness. If you feel the flow of health, your prayer is for health.

It fascinates us that people in most (but not all!) societies on your planet spend many hours admiring and loving newborns. It is normal and accepted to tell all babies how beautiful and perfect they are and how grateful their families are to have them join the group.

And then as the toddler emerges and begins to move about and verbalize, those same loving families begin to teach absurd humility. Rather than telling them repetitively that they are beautiful, a new message begins… they are dirty, messy, noisy, out of control, little monsters, advanced, disabled, healthy, sickly… the list of defining words is long indeed.

There is an old saying, ‘Little pitchers have big ears’. We would like to change that slightly to ‘Little Souls hear all!’. Your children, even the newborns, hear and sense all the words said in their presence and their subconscious minds believe, take in and remember  each and every one.

And because your toddlers learn who they are from the people around them, their personalities form accordingly.

When they are babies, you win their love and trust as you care and nurture them. As toddlers they develop their self image and a large portion of their personalities from you as well. Imagine the result when a toddler is called ‘little monster’ or overhears a conversation in which they are called ‘unwanted’ or ‘slow’ or… And then imagine the result if the same words of love and beauty that blessed them at the time of their birth were to continue throughout their growth years! And then imagine the kind of adult those words of love and support would help to create!

For the children imagine that you have lived your entire life enjoying the support of loving words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Imagine that who you are today was formed in this way.

Strangely, many of you who are reading these words will deny the above process by calling it untruth. We, however, call it choice. For the truth is that the Divine has always supported you with loving language and heartfelt prayer… the people who raised some of you with words, thoughts and deeds that did not nurture were simply the unawake and unaware personalities or egos who merely disgorged the same vocabulary used to raise them. ‘They knew not what they did’.

Does their behavior sound like hazing to you? We hope so, because that’s basically what it is. And it’s time for all hazing to stop.

In order to teach your children ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’ in a way which serves and heals the world, the children must love themselves. If they hate themselves and practice this Golden Rule, then they will give hate (which is the way they feel about themselves) to their neighbor. If they disrespect themselves, they will disrespect their neighbor. If they fear their own internal process, they will offer fear outwardly, too.

For the children use only words that you would be delighted to hear coming from their lips at whatever age.

For the children think thoughts which you know are nurturing… about them, certainly, but also about yourself and all things! Nurturing thoughts are prayers. Nurturing thoughts create a nurturing reality.

For the children feel love for them, yourself, and your world… not because it has been earned but because you know the truth of who you all are and that every single Soul  deserves this basic appreciation.

For the children act in ways that make this perfect world even better. And not just sometimes… but always. By your actions you teach them to act as well. Delightful!

Today’s children will inherit this wondrous world. What do you want your bequest to be?