Is it possible to navigate the difficulties that arise in divorce and co-parenting from the peaceful way of being that’s known in meditation? John and the questioner explore how to live and move from all-weather inner peace.
Topic: Parenting
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June 7, 2020
“Where you lack intimacy, your mind will rule. Where you are seated in intimacy you are being more than your mind.” * Online Interactive Meeting What livestreamed meetings offer, compared with meetings in physical proximity Having intimacy and presence in all of the little…
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April 18, 2020
“Instead of being focused on what you’re doing in your life, be the intimacy within that’s connecting everything that you’re doing. Be the connective intimacy. That shifts you from your activities to the intimacy in all of your activity. That makes you intimacy of…
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February 27, 2020
“If you’re going to consciously participate in bringing another being into a body, you would want to consciously create an environment of the same.” Is it selfish and egotistical to bring a child into this world? When you were in your mother’s body: a…
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February 27, 2020
“You be and do from within the deepest that is clear to you, first without regard to your person, your self and your life. From within that depth of clarity, you’ll do what you can to take care of what is in your care….
Q: Since my baby was conceived I’ve seen how grounded my self is in certain beliefs. I’ve moved into what opening and softening really is in connection to the baby, and it’s something very different. What does it truly mean to be a mother…
Q: My daughter is seventeen years old and I’m wondering what I can do for the best to heal the ways she may have been hurt by us whilst growing up. How can we parents become truly one with our children for everyone’s sake?…
This woman feels the responsibility of bringing a child into this world and wants to know how to raise a child without doing harm. The best parenting is not what we may have thought. Here’s what a child really needs from its mother.
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November 1, 2019
“A part of you wants to be honest, likes being honest, and another part of you doesn’t want to be. It’s like there are two of you – awareness split in half. The one that enjoys and loves honesty and responds to what it…
Q: My question is to do with my daughter. Sometimes I think I’m too judgmental and don’t accept her personality. I’m always thinking about what others think of her, wanting her to be a certain way. It’s hard for me to accept that she…
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August 26, 2019
“The mystery keeps pulsing and flowing into the two of you. It’s telling you the truth. It’s telling you what really is.” Pregnancy and what real parenting is Two beings receiving the codes of how to be together in two different bodies A love…
In this dialogue with an expectant mother, John describes how best to nurture her child both in utero and after the birth, describing the gift of being-to-being connectivity available to her in pregnancy.
