Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents

Conscious Parenting is AoL Mindfulness Training Book 5, a mindful living course designed for parents. A UN report tells us that one million animal and plants species are to be extinct during the next few decades, more than the number of living beings extinct through thousands of years of evolution. What do you think of that?!!After we incarnate on this little planet, we take decades of schooling to develop fairly low level memory of the intrinsic matter, and we are left guessing properties of the primordial / spiritual matter.Our parents' circumstances, family history, relationships with the friends or enemies, our priests, teachers, journalists, contribute to our conscious and subconscious leanings. Yet, whether we like it or not, the strongest physical mechanisms within our emotional or a mental body is the hormonal or chemical input our brain receives, as part of our survival instincts.The ancient Greeks portrayed Unconscious within their MythologyA snake killing the children of Laocoön or as a myth of Icarus that dies burnt for flying too close to the Sun, In Greek mythology, Icarus, ¿a¿¿¿, is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, living in Crete, the creator of the Labyrinth. Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete using wings constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus' father warns his son of the complexity of the endeavor, yet Icarus fly too close to the sun, melting the wax, falls and drowns.Teenagers and Collective UnconsciousnessThe cruelty of the renewal that see no other but It's-small-self of teenagers is symbolically represented by the pelican parent feeding the children with own blood. Our teenagers have a strong response built in their DNAs of miss-trust, challenging the family's habits, standards, norms. As a teenager, my 11 year old boy, mistrusted my interpretation of Everything, and with a reason, for the truth is tremendously multi-layered.Molding Sub Conscious Mind within Ancient Indian Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Reading his wisdom sutra that "the mind states are five and are subject to pleasure and pain" we came to conclusion that these reflect as 4 (four) elements as:Voices of Earth, security based instincts related to food, death, injuryVoices of Sex, based on longing and fulfilled longingVoices of Action based on the Karmic group, profession, winning or losing, short-term focusHeart based loving vs. hating; giving vs. takingOne-pointedness towards GoodnessThe power of the Soul can be intuitively or consciously observed through the daily life. However one has to give full respect towards the element Earth that runs through us as the hormonal and chemical balance of a specific age-group, or a specific disease, that physically changes our brains. Within the basic crude our water intake affects waves of "water" layers within us; our breathing affects the gusts of "air" currents or winds, solidifying further the products of "earth" or where we are within the food chain, affects our physic, the flames of "fire" are the life force we get from Sun rays. Activities such as music, painting, sports, reading, all fall under the Patanjali's "esoteric meditation and study", two of three spiritual growth methods of liberation from the negative Mind Chitta, the third one being Service. The self-indulgent behavior patterns, obsession with food, mobiles, gossiping or hate, all waste our life-force. Activities such as meditation use Willpower to detach from a thought-form, or chose a more inspiring mind-chitta.Pulsation, vibration, rhythm exists everywhere as Akasha / Sound / Waves and we hope to reach the vibration of wisdom embedded Logic or Love Enlightened Intelligence transcending our microcosmic limitations. The kids resonance is supreme, they tune into subconscious "security" fears of humanity, "food" indulgence, "society" acceptance, all important "survival" instincts.