Our Child Within has been groomed to listen to others but not themselves

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHVdjGxhpkwGYrvGwjufakyWcbIh8wq9vq0nEBpnxkU9dz5-kT5vJrn9DPrMmctl9fWaBKow6jv-DBWSeMwdrJLnnqNJvmioSBXSsxYxMjEP9fpE4_gT0AZm5aseHK4fi0fxn2JkRpbdI/s1600/The+TEN+STAGES+OF+RECOVERY.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="850" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYHVdjGxhpkwGYrvGwjufakyWcbIh8wq9vq0nEBpnxkU9dz5-kT5vJrn9DPrMmctl9fWaBKow6jv-DBWSeMwdrJLnnqNJvmioSBXSsxYxMjEP9fpE4_gT0AZm5aseHK4fi0fxn2JkRpbdI/s320/The+TEN+STAGES+OF+RECOVERY.png" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our Child Within has been groomed to listen to others but not themselves, certainly not to their feelings. Feelings are to be distrusted. We are trained to think out and then over-think our actions and fear spontaneity—to inhibit instinctually acting from feeling. </span>

Our Child Within has been groomed to listen to others but not themselves

Our Child Within has been groomed to listen to others but not themselves, certainly not to their feelings. Feelings are to be distrusted. ...

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Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyOLMPQYfv8-f_ytgEaD4bkBz5waisq5G_u86V148rYlC8c-hHcZCFEoJ5AMNZZPOYDTx3DpMclVGKivtQZbanqu3f_l2bBE1eASVDH7NdlbeC9uHwBDhtbG-o_UewWp8z1QoPXOyChjR9/s1600/18057639_924286604379707_8866164788376405157_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyOLMPQYfv8-f_ytgEaD4bkBz5waisq5G_u86V148rYlC8c-hHcZCFEoJ5AMNZZPOYDTx3DpMclVGKivtQZbanqu3f_l2bBE1eASVDH7NdlbeC9uHwBDhtbG-o_UewWp8z1QoPXOyChjR9/s320/18057639_924286604379707_8866164788376405157_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself you are the child within.</span>

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think ...

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Child Within was born bathed in a feeling state, this deeper intelligence that connects us to our dreams and creativity, to the subtleties and beauty of instant life.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwU5T6b0JBBF04A1zEPgL-OUYamtIJKWRF7Bc7jbCo0LMhnDFiBnJxOyar4SS54BETaLVjYynI_NxlXvOGRksmAAa_BOXaJQgfh8TG-ww6e4B28QNRn7YqRmC2NhoLlopxBARXMXN0Owxh/s1600/26345_585369158157447_359005087_n+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwU5T6b0JBBF04A1zEPgL-OUYamtIJKWRF7Bc7jbCo0LMhnDFiBnJxOyar4SS54BETaLVjYynI_NxlXvOGRksmAAa_BOXaJQgfh8TG-ww6e4B28QNRn7YqRmC2NhoLlopxBARXMXN0Owxh/s1600/26345_585369158157447_359005087_n+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Child Within was born bathed in a feeling state, this deeper intelligence that connects us to our dreams and creativity, to the subtleties and beauty of instant life. But then eventually they are separated from it and we call this education; we call it preparation for the “real” world. Quickly, we “ready” them; we tell them to “grow up” in many direct and indirect ways. But what we’re really doing is getting them to migrate upwards above the neck away from the ancient wisdom stored in their body, to rise from heart to head allegiance.</span><div> <br /></div>

Child Within was born bathed in a feeling state, this deeper intelligence that connects us to our dreams and creativity, to the subtleties and beauty of instant life.

Child Within was born bathed in a feeling state, this deeper intelligence that connects us to our dreams and creativity, to the subtleties...

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Our child within, is in no way shackled by the linear, disconnected routes most adults restrict themselves to

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAqkkGTRUEs2f9NJwe0D1MpiN4uz9ZFGmF1zv3VgFQx2lJXXBxsXDknj1HlG3qSuuIJDrK7xKpcxYtBBj5KfOVcXCPSh5ZaWyvfQbmY-VYk1dVQPF0onVf0HbO47TRqnbER8j6o_RjupL/s1600/553237168-Zen-Child-Quote.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="745" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAqkkGTRUEs2f9NJwe0D1MpiN4uz9ZFGmF1zv3VgFQx2lJXXBxsXDknj1HlG3qSuuIJDrK7xKpcxYtBBj5KfOVcXCPSh5ZaWyvfQbmY-VYk1dVQPF0onVf0HbO47TRqnbER8j6o_RjupL/s320/553237168-Zen-Child-Quote.jpg" width="221" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our child within, is in no way shackled by the linear, disconnected routes most adults restrict themselves to, comfortably adventured across the conventional chasm separating seeming strangers and into a friend’s heart. For the child within this is no big deal. There is no such thing as “stranger” in the mind of the child within, just as there is no such thing as race; such is the openness of their buyout hearts, such is there wonder. There is less, if any, of a wall separating the child within from you, the owl, the Cedar; there is less separating the moon from the stars. The Child Within can travel freely from one star to the next, from one dream to another, from their heart to yours, across seas upon seas most dare not travel and most separate themselves from. <br /><br />This is the unbridled spirit of adventure children embody so well—sinuously going where their hearts take them, across seas that have no edges, no limits, into the hearts of others, into the Heart of Existence. <br /><br />This is the gift of the child within bring—living unscheduled, unbounded by time and space, thus available to the timeless, boundless nature of our spirit. And in this, they invite us into wider winding passages where we become more alive and where the distance between you and I and all of life fades. </span>

Our child within, is in no way shackled by the linear, disconnected routes most adults restrict themselves to

Our child within, is in no way shackled by the linear, disconnected routes most adults restrict themselves to, comfortably adventured acro...

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Our child within once awakened is excited to wake up in the morning.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGenOp-TJkD4_kcL9jz4rQlHlCktVUVV-QiWJdXwu3m-inee8znrYzaRiZhO27qJ4WiHF6Xw8pXya2a3T0pdnUIlYOlI42R9U4RyUTIzBQr8NnRhHRa_Q0pHrBrNMAHf2wzRtR8Qoe223R/s1600/17951786_1606386992722320_2824258045027435548_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="960" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGenOp-TJkD4_kcL9jz4rQlHlCktVUVV-QiWJdXwu3m-inee8znrYzaRiZhO27qJ4WiHF6Xw8pXya2a3T0pdnUIlYOlI42R9U4RyUTIzBQr8NnRhHRa_Q0pHrBrNMAHf2wzRtR8Qoe223R/s320/17951786_1606386992722320_2824258045027435548_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our child within once awakened is excited to wake up in the morning. Open to surprise,  wandering through our home drawn to the next thing capturing our attention. Maybe it’s the dog, or a new toy, or the bright golden dandelion blooming through the sea of green grass. Each moment is filled with wonder for this child within, has recaptured a bubbling awe leading us from one fascination to the next. Each moment is an unfolding adventure. We are back in the land of Intulexia<br /><br />As we have departed the wonders of childhood for the predictabilities of life, however, adventure fades. The tedium of responsibilities—going to school, paying bills, buying groceries, cleaning the house, ensuring children do their homework—becomes life. Instead of traveling like an eager explorer along wide-open seas of surprise—taking in the glimmering leaf, imbibing the poetry of birdsong—adults settle for narrower and narrower passages, the same pragmatic passages they navigate every day. <br /><br />What makes the loss of adventure particularly acute is the diminishment of our senses, our feeling nature. A child attunes to the magic of life not through the limits of rational thought, but through the fluidity of felt experience. The eyes see the moon, the ears hear the raven, but the heart feels the aliveness that bridges the child to both and into their sentience. The heart perceives not from separation, but from unity. It feels the livingness that ensouls, entwines and gives rise to all of life’s seemingly separate parts. </span><div> <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></em></div>

Our child within once awakened is excited to wake up in the morning.

Our child within once awakened is excited to wake up in the morning. Open to surprise,  wandering through our home drawn to the next thing...

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A pregnant woman knows she is shaping her child's future from the moment of conception. But she might not realise that the baby is already talking back.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jvALqJyu1eHkZp7v2Bh_ZaM6y7p4xeeXws6UvowU6KJr9Lx4O0F6xBYS2Wtn7Ku56PE1bof9Z6S0XuhW2kYL94oy0lTrF2ZUsodUpQqZBD5FCvFgnZJ2LCf11A_2CZOLtVeUYZt1Qcjx/s1600/17951786_1606386992722320_2824258045027435548_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="960" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jvALqJyu1eHkZp7v2Bh_ZaM6y7p4xeeXws6UvowU6KJr9Lx4O0F6xBYS2Wtn7Ku56PE1bof9Z6S0XuhW2kYL94oy0lTrF2ZUsodUpQqZBD5FCvFgnZJ2LCf11A_2CZOLtVeUYZt1Qcjx/s320/17951786_1606386992722320_2824258045027435548_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">A pregnant woman knows she is shaping her child's future from the moment of conception. But she might not realise that the baby is already talking back. Mother and child are engaged in a silent chemical conversation throughout pregnancy, with bits of genetic material and cells passing not only from mother to child but also from child to mother. Scientists increasingly think these silent signals from the foetus may influence a mother's risk of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases, even decades after she has given birth.<br /><br />We've known for more than a century that cells from a pregnant woman can make their way through the placenta to an unborn child. Identical twins also can exchange these microchimeric cells through their shared placenta. But it was a surprise when researchers at Stanford University, found a few cells with Y sex chromosomes in a pregnant woman's blood in 1979; those cells had to have come from her son, since women have only X chromosomes. <br /><br />It turns out that all pregnant women carry some foetal cells and DNA, with up to 6 percent of the free-floating DNA in the mother's blood plasma coming from the foetus. After the baby is born, those numbers plummet but some cells remain. In 1996, Diana Bianchi, a geneticist at Tufts Medical Center, found male foetal cells in a mother's blood 27 years after she had given birth.<br /><br />Evidence is building that those foetal cells aren't just lounging around in Mom; in fact, they might be active participants in a mother's health. But as research in this new field accumulates, so too do the perplexing contradictions about these rare alien elements. </span>

A pregnant woman knows she is shaping her child's future from the moment of conception. But she might not realise that the baby is already talking back.

A pregnant woman knows she is shaping her child's future from the moment of conception. But she might not realise that the baby is a...

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Being present in the child withins life always has a double meaning.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAqkkGTRUEs2f9NJwe0D1MpiN4uz9ZFGmF1zv3VgFQx2lJXXBxsXDknj1HlG3qSuuIJDrK7xKpcxYtBBj5KfOVcXCPSh5ZaWyvfQbmY-VYk1dVQPF0onVf0HbO47TRqnbER8j6o_RjupL/s1600/553237168-Zen-Child-Quote.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="745" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAqkkGTRUEs2f9NJwe0D1MpiN4uz9ZFGmF1zv3VgFQx2lJXXBxsXDknj1HlG3qSuuIJDrK7xKpcxYtBBj5KfOVcXCPSh5ZaWyvfQbmY-VYk1dVQPF0onVf0HbO47TRqnbER8j6o_RjupL/s320/553237168-Zen-Child-Quote.jpg" width="221" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Being present in the child withins life always has a double meaning. There's present, as in here, in attendance. And there's present, as in now, a moment of time. What is the child within practice of being present? Being here now.<br /><br />The world's religions all recommend living in the moment with full awareness. Zen Buddhism especially is known for its emphasis on "nowness." Hindu, Taoist, Jewish, Moslem, Christian, and other teachers urge us to make the most of every day as an opportunity that will not come to us again.<br /><br />Also under the rubric of being present is the traditional spiritual exercise called practicing the presence of the child within. This means recognising that our child within is here now moving through our everyday activities, no matter how trivial they might seem.<br />Why The Child Within May Be For You<br /><br />The contrasts to being present are living in the past and living in the future. We do the former when we hold on to regrets. We constantly review things that have already happened, trying to explain them in terms of our own or someone else's actions. Often this kind of thinking leads to guilt or blaming.<br /><br />We live in the future when we make assumptions or fantasise about what could happen and then become attached to those expected outcomes. This habit usually results in disappointment. Whether we are consumed with positive expectations (optimism) or negative projections (pessimism), we are not living in the moment.<br /><br />When you find yourself constantly reacting to your experiences in one of these ways, when you always want to be otherwise and elsewhere, it is time to be present. The companion of this practice is contentment.<br />Daily Cue, Reminder, Vow, Blessing<br />Having the first cup of coffee, tea, or milk in the morning is our cue to be here now.<br />When we sit on a bench, we are reminded of the joys of simply being present to our surroundings.<br />Whenever we experience or witness sickness, we vow to appreciate every moment of our life.<br />Understanding the Perfect Child Within who is ever present within us, and watching its healthy growth into adulthood allows us self autonomy and encourages high self-worth.</span>

Being present in the child withins life always has a double meaning.

Being present in the child withins life always has a double meaning. There's present, as in here, in attendance. And there's prese...

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Beyond Birth: A Child's Cells May Help or Harm the Mother Long after Delivery - Scientific American

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Beyond Birth: A Child's Cells May Help or Harm the Mother Long after Delivery - Scientific American

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