Wednesday Thoughts

We see the world through the lens of our heart

We view the world through the lens of our heart.

What is your heart filled with right now?

Is it love, kindness, empathy and respect?
Or is it worry, frustration, anger or apathy?

We see OUR CHILDREN through the same lens.

Do you see your child, their behaviour and actions through a lens of love, acceptance, compassion and respect?
Do you see their wholeness as a human being?

Or do you see them through a lens of worry, frustration, exhaustion, or lack of understanding? Do you tend to see just the problems?

It wasn't until I became AWARE that the lens through which I see my children affects my behaviour towards, my expectations of them, our whole relationship.

Mindfulness and meditation have helped me greatly to first become AWARE, then to understand that I can choose the lens through which I perceive the world and my relationship with my sons.

The more I understood how my mind works, the patterns of thought it engages with the more compassion I had for myself, my sons and those around us. I was able to drop into my heart and open myself up to experiencing the world on a whole new level.

Mindfulness and meditation are not only great tools to help reduce stress and anxiety, they also allow us to start seeing the world from a different perspective. A perspective which is more positive and more hopeful. This is not fake positivity. This is genuine and is available to all of us.

What do you think?
Have mindfulness and meditation made an impact in your life and parenting? I'd love to hear.

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