When it comes to love and life, healthy attitudes are taught at home. However, 'teaching' healthy attitudes is not enough:
As denial is a stealthy little critter, you can be sure to find more along this train of thought in posts to come. In short, had I known at a younger age what I know now, I'd have attained certain goals with less pain in less time! And as this teacher is eager to pass along insights, which enhance my sense of self awareness, I think you may benefit from 'seeing' those times when I'd pointed fingers of blame for my pain at someone else's head when, in truth, the head in need of examining had been mine.
At this point I believe that once you 'see' defensive walls blocking me from identifying negatively focused traits engrained within my brain, it's possible that you may clarify your own.
And I can't help but feel that once you watch me shine a light on the reality of how often denial blocks us from seeing ourselves as we are, common sense will suggest that self imposed blindness may be working against you, just as subconscious fear had blinded me from 'seeing' why certain heartfelt goals remained just beyond my reach until humility and courage set my fearful ego to one side. Once fear had been exposed, allowing the most intelligent side of my brain to operate on it's own, my eyes opened to negatively focused, and thus unhealthy, attitudes in need of change within me. And that change made all the difference in terms of making short work of achieving long range goals :)
Attitudes that you hope your children will adopt must be modeled.
You see, it's one thing to 'learn' healthy attitudes. It's another to 'live' up to them. More later, concerning the ways in which our young absorb attitudes, not from listening but from 'watching' behaviors taking place, day after day, at home. If you don't believe your little monkeys do what they see you do then may I suggest that you seriously question where your brain may be fooling you? (For example, how did they learn to mimic: How big is the baby? Pat-a-cake? Bye Bye? Need I go on?)As denial is a stealthy little critter, you can be sure to find more along this train of thought in posts to come. In short, had I known at a younger age what I know now, I'd have attained certain goals with less pain in less time! And as this teacher is eager to pass along insights, which enhance my sense of self awareness, I think you may benefit from 'seeing' those times when I'd pointed fingers of blame for my pain at someone else's head when, in truth, the head in need of examining had been mine.
At this point I believe that once you 'see' defensive walls blocking me from identifying negatively focused traits engrained within my brain, it's possible that you may clarify your own.
And I can't help but feel that once you watch me shine a light on the reality of how often denial blocks us from seeing ourselves as we are, common sense will suggest that self imposed blindness may be working against you, just as subconscious fear had blinded me from 'seeing' why certain heartfelt goals remained just beyond my reach until humility and courage set my fearful ego to one side. Once fear had been exposed, allowing the most intelligent side of my brain to operate on it's own, my eyes opened to negatively focused, and thus unhealthy, attitudes in need of change within me. And that change made all the difference in terms of making short work of achieving long range goals :)
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