“Everything is waiting for you.”
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Yoga Practices for Children —
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Breath of the Bee - Breath Awareness for Children
You Are a Start - A Bedtime Meditation
Simhasana (Lion Posture)
Following, are some of my favorite, and most often recommended, books.
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“When parents don’t take responsibility for their own unfinished business, they miss an opportunity not only to become better parents but also to continue their own development. People who remain in the dark about the origins of their behaviors and intense emotional responses are unaware of their unresolved issues and the parental ambivalence they create.”
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., is an internationally acclaimed author, award-winning educator, and child psychiatrist. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions and communities. His books include Mindsight, The Developing Mind, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Parenting From the Inside Out, and The Whole-Brain Child. www.drdansiegel.com
“The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a conceptual framework and practice for developing love for ourselves and each other. www.selfleadership.org
“It’s likely that when you were hurt, the people around you gave you some version of the message “Just get over it,” for example, or “Stop being so sensitive.” For these young parts, that’s just adding insult to injury. The injury came from the event and then you insult them by abandoning and imprisoning them.”
“As Siegel has said, of all the variables that encourage the development of secure attachment in a child, the single most powerful one is the degree to which the child’s parent has made coherent sense of his or her own story.”
“Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain.”
“Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.”
“Think of denial as an acronym for Don’t Even Notice I Am Lying.”
