Friday, 24 June 2016

Emotional well-being for children and their parents/carers.


                                        

In the new millennium what do we want our children of the future to be like? What lessons do we want them to learn?
 You have a duty to yourself to care for yourself first and nourish yourself, so that you can care for and nourish others, including your children.

Emotional well-being:  What is emotional well-being?

Laevers’ (1994) ‘Sound well-being results from satisfaction of basic needs – the need for tenderness and affection; security and clarity; social recognition; to feel competent; physical needs and for meaning in life.  It includes happiness and satisfaction, effective social functioning and the dispositions of optimism, openness, curiosity and resilience.’

How do I feel as a parent, carer, teacher?  How you feel radiates out into the world.  Children are very sensitive to your emotions.  To reach higher consciousness and vibrations within the body is to feel love, joy and peace and be flowing in life.  As humans we rely too much on external factors for happiness.  If we do this then ultimately sadness is the opposite and we live in ‘duality’ of the two.  A conscious person uses ‘awareness and response’ and not ego and reaction.  Teaching ourselves and our children to think before they speak and act is vitally important.  In addition, we need to not blame others for our circumstances and choices we have made in our life and teach children ‘ownership’ of their behaviour.  

Yoga practice can help in developing these good virtues to live by.

Tracey (Yogamotorskills).

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