A question that was posed to me, by a client.
We’d been talking about parenting, and kids. And worries about kids. As is often the case, I was sharing anecdotes and metaphors, as a means of pointing to the universal principles that govern our experience of life… and that of our kids’ lives.
We got to a nice reflective space, and then the tables got turned on me.
“If it’s ok to ask… Do you worry about your daughter's future?”
It threw me for a moment, as it’s not something I’ve really spent any time thinking about. Not specifically, like this.
I got quiet, and ‘searched my soul,’ so to speak, concluding,
“No, I don’t. And here's why.”
It all boils down to those universal principles. How we experience the world. Who we are, and what we’ve got going for us.
Of course, my daughter’s physical safety (like my own!) is paramount.
So she’s been heavily schooled in crossing roads safely, will no doubt get many lectures from Dad in the future on ‘getting into cars’ and she learns more and more about kitchen safety and stuff like that, as she gets older.
But beyond the physical, in terms of ‘the future’, I know what she’s up against, and I know she’s got it covered.
Like me, like you, like every being on planet earth, the experience that she has on a moment-to-moment basis, is of a thought-created perceptual reality.
And beneath, or behind that thought-experience—powering it, in a way—is Innate Health. Wisdom. Common sense. Intuition. The answers she needs, for wherever she’s at.
And that’s it.
In terms of whether she has a happy, fulfilled life—just like me, and just like you—it all depends on how she relates to those pictures of the world being created, and what her mind has to say about them.
Supporting her in that, is kinda what I see as my main job.
And I don’t worry about that, no.
💟
Giles
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Post-script: This conversation really stayed with my client and when they came back, two weeks later, so much had changed. Better relationships, better work, better sleep, less worry, more contentment, it was a joy to behold.
The power of principles at work!
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