into our next moments. Conscious spirit-embodiment requires the understanding that beneath the thunderous waves (external real- ity) lies a connection to a deep source, all-knowing, pure, and true (internal reality), and the realiza- tion that liberation and grace within a physical body stems from marrying these two perspectives.
It is important to teach your chil- dren the immense value of visiting their inner world often. If one simply remains on the surface of the wave, he will be continually pounded by the outside world. Indeed, there may be some calm space in between waves, but eventually another wave always crests. Children can be taught at an early age to dive deeply into their own consciousness to dis- sect and explore beliefs, patterns, priorities, thoughts, words, deeds, perspectives, emotions, reactions, focus, expectations, intentions, habits, and overall energetic input and output to make conscious choices that are in alignment with who they really are as authentic, spiritual beings and enable them to live with grace. All parents can train their children to take full responsibility for their created reality. Through the decipher- ing of natural consequences, children begin to see that they are the cause not the effect of what is reflected back to them in physicality. The physical world mirrors the interior world of each individual consciousness mingled with overall mass consciousness, no exceptions. For our world to change, all participants, including our children, must learn through
the example of other conscious individuals to become keenly aware of themselves as creative beings. It is important that they realize that while they do not solely create world events, they are soulfully accountable for their vibration entire that emanates at all times from them into the world at-large.
Grace is a state of being. It is a conscious knowing that you are in this world, but not of it. Grace is the capacity to uncover the gems hidden in your humanity coupled with the ability to utilize them to propel you toward your highest potential. Grace is the inner sens- ing that obstacles on your path in the form of setbacks, disappoint- ments, and pain offer unparalleled opportunities to expand and evolve as a soul. In teaching your children that they have the capac- ity within them to exhibit every possible universal human trait and its polarity, you offer them a start- ing point to accept themselves as a whole being here to create from their own unique lens. In doing so, you invite your children to accept their divinity as a spirit-embodied individual and create their reality from the inside out. The merg- ing of universal humanity with a natural state of divinity leads to an expanded self-awareness and heightened perspective.
Ultimately, model for your children that GRACE is the freedom to live your truth, be your truth, and offer your truth to the world through your life lived. Children must be encouraged to value their own truth as they
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utilize what resonates with their soul to create future moments of their choice. Always encour- age your children to release what does not serve them. Through continual open discussion in the family, children can be taught to listen to their inner voice to know whether to partake or to pass on a life experience, relationship, or situation that presents itself to them; no fanfare needed, simply an act of inner knowing and free will. Grace is modeled within a family when family members become fully awake to their infinite and eternal nature as an integral aspect of a divine whole so magnificent, so creative, and so unconditionally loving that it liter- ally blows the mind wide open to create space for the ever-present invitation from the soul.
A modern bridge between the mainstream and the mystical, An- nie Burnside, M.Ed. is a soul nurturer specializing in conscious relationships and spiritual develop- ment. Her first book, Soul to Soul Parenting, won the 2011 Nautilus Silver Book Award and the 2011 Indie Book Award. She lives with her family in Chicago, IL and writes a blog for The Chicago Tribune.
www.annieburnside.com
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