Parents rock! We were reminded today of the inspirational story of a brain scientist whose own stroke taught her how powerfully our ENERGY affects others, and how her mother’s energy helped her heal. You see where we’re going with this.
Brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke that changed her life and her work. The stroke damaged the left side of her brain and left here without language; like a baby in a woman’s body. She didn’t recognize anyone or anything, but she was extremely sensitive to everyone’s energy, especially the nurses who were caring for her. “I needed them to look me in the eye and touch me and to just bring their hope and their energy to me as opposed to taking it away from me,” she says. “I needed people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they brought me.”
Perhaps that’s what all children, especially challenging children, want to say to adults.
Dr. Taylor credits her remarkable and full recovery largely to one person: her mother. Though she didn’t recognize her mother, or even know what a mother is, “all I knew was this very loving, kind, generous spirit wrapped herself around me and just took ownership of loving me–and that was the new beginning.”
What a compelling definition of parenthood from the child’s perspective: “Taking ownership of loving me.”
Dr. Taylor routinely asks, “Are you taking responsibility for the energy you bring into a room?”
If you’ve learned ENERGYPARENTING, you can confidently answer, “Yes.” Even more importantly, you know how to use your energy to create transformational relationship that ignites greatness NOW.
We hope you’re practicing on yourself, energizing your own successes right along with those of your children. We trust that you’re learning to de-energize negativity too; it’s the combination, along with clear limits that is unstoppable in pulling a child into success.
To Taking Stock of Your Energetic Reality!