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Mindfulness for children of all ages

I am a HUGE fan of mindfulness, and especially for all kids. Mindfulness is purposely being aware, in the present, without judgement, cultivating aliveness and connection to all experiences, people, events, circumstances and ourselves. It encompasses all aspects of our “be”-ing. I truly believe it is one of the necessary skills a child should learn by example and practice enabling them to create their own wonderful life. After visiting my grandchildren yesterday, I was inspired to find something for them, and for all children. I searched for a video children can use a tool, giving them information, giving them the “what and how” of mindfulness in brief, but very impactful at the same time. I found this video , Mindfulness In Action, by Sherry-Lynne Kirschner , which actually brought tears to my eyes. It may not create tears for you, but just seeing how children learning mindfulness can make their lives so much more joyful, is amazing. View Mindfulness in Action, and Let your children view this video often to give them a taste of what mindfulness is and how it can help them. I hope you, and all of your children of all ages, enjoy and learn from this video. There is a plethora of additional information available about mindfulness online and offline, so don’t hesitate to find our more, or contact me if you like with your questions. Your comments/likes/sharing of this blog post, and subscribing to my blog, are super-appreciated!To all of the children: I love you and want to help you all become wonderful creators!


Kids growing up made easy

I want to share why I started writing books, and why I started Kids On Autopilot. When I was growing up, there were a multitude of situations, events and circumstances that I faced continuously, as I am sure you all experienced as well. For me, there was no backbone of my being, and there was no solid positive feeling(belief) in my heart about life, about people, about events and circumstancess that happened. It seemed everything just came along, and I just had to figure it all out as each new experiences occurred, based on the beliefs I formed while very young. Yes, I had wonderful parents there to guide me along; they did the best they could. My siblings and I were very loved. I was never abused. In general though, looking back, much of my childhood I viewed as a struggle. Growing up was not easy. Many things happened that I wasn’t prepared to “deal” with, things that resulted in me reinforcing ill feelings and beliefs about myself and others. I went into adulthood continuing with all of those subconscious feelings and beliefs. I constantly worried about being accepted, being judged, not believing or knowing my own ability to create a life I wanted. I married and had three children of my own.

As many other parents, I then went through the process of raising my own children, still without that backbone, without a knowing in my heart about myself and my life. Still, my children got through it, with me doing the best I knew of for them. Over time, my marriage disintegrated, and ended, and I continued with those same subconscious self-defeating beliefs and feelings in my heart, but I was yearning for much more out of my life. I had no idea at the time, that I was creating the life I had based on the subconscious beliefs I formed at a very early age. I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

In the past several years, I’ve experienced a huge change in myself. I’ve been learning and seeing how self-defeating my actions have been for the most part all along, from the time I was just a little kid. What I’ve discovered, has caused me to finally start creating my own life as I want it, to finally start “being” who I truly want to be, to work on eliminating all of the negative, self-defeating beliefs and feelings in my heart, replacing them with new neuropathways and beliefs. This is still a work in progress, and will be for the rest of my life. Finally, though, I am enjoying the journey, as much as the attainment and realization of my dreams. I will be 60 years old this year. Wow! What a long journey to get where I am today!

All of this change has come to me over the past several years at an astounding rate, and I began to think about how much easier it would have been if I had been exposed to and absorbed much of the inner, heart-based beliefs and feelings, the sense of “knowing” in my heart what I know now, if that had been part of me from the very early years in my life, how much differently my life would have played out, how much differently I would have “dealt” with my experiences, what a joyful journey it would have been from the beginning.

As I’ve said, my parents did the best they could, and I did the best I could with my own children. I determined that for the most part, we all do.

One day, I was driving around doing errands, shopping and such, and my mind was racing, as it often does while I’m driving, and I was going over in my head, “Just why does the world have to be so difficult for people to manage and why wasn’t it easy for me to grow up?” Then it struck me, my aha moment! I said out loud, “Children’s Books!” and from there my vision was born. I decided that the best way to change the world for all, was to begin with the kids, the younger ones, giving them knowledge about life, about themselves, about the world they exist in, things that will allow them to have wonderful, joyful journeys through life by their own heart-knowing creation, automatically.

And so, here I am, going with the purpose I have found to help make this a better world for ourselves, our children, and for all future generations of kids, to enable our kids, to be kids growing up easy. My children’s books, and my website, will be my contribution to the universe, of expanding heartfelt knowing by sharing what I now KNOW, and what I’d like all kids to know from very early in their lives. These things I want to share are foundational knowledge that kids need to become their own creators, automatically, and to enjoy the journey all along the way.

This is now my passion, and I hope that all who are exposed to my children’s books and Kids On Autopilot, will bring these children’s books into their lives and kids lives, creating little ripples that grow and grow until there is a wave, and each wave creates new ripples and new waves, and begins a tidal wave of change I’d like to see. I hope you will join me and enjoy your journey!

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