Self-Expression and Freedom
In order to better understand our children’s perceptions, it helps to understand our own, by understanding our minds.
All human beings have a subconscious mind and an ego mind. Our subconscious mind is our natural mind, the mind we are born with. It is connected to our heart. It has innate natural behaviors.
Just like spiders innately make webs or dolphins innately swim in oceans, the subconscious mind’s innate behavior is to self-express and be free. Self-expression is a quality of freedom to be able to express the way we individually listen, think, speak, and act.
We can verify that we innately have this quality of self-expression and freedom by looking at the way children think and act.
Have you ever:
witnessed a child building a fort out of comforters?
experienced a child’s fearless nature of playing in the mud and dirt?
wondered how a child notices the most subtle changes?
These are examples of self-expression and freedom within their innate nature. In other words, they didn’t learn these behaviors when they entered this world. They are examples of a child’s imagination at play, without knowing boundaries or specific ways of being or doing things.
On the other hand, as adults, self-expression in the same kind of play may look like:
forts only being built out of large rocks.
mud and dirt feeling sticky and dirty.
small changes having minimal to no importance in life.
How is it that our curiosity is so vastly different from our children’s curiosity? How have we defined our curiosity in absolute and concrete ways, for example, where forts are only built out of large rocks, yet our children see these ideas so freely?
Are you wondering if we were this self-expressed and free when we were children too?
I’ve opened registrations for my live 3-month Group Coaching Intensive, The Foundations of Conscious Parenting.
It is tailored for moms of children between three to eight years old, who have a yearning to understand themselves, so that they can better understand their children. Would you be interested in learning more about it?
Would you be interested in learning more about it?
