Floating Mind

Have you ever thought of your mind as a playground? Happiness and sorrow stand in as the seesaw, swings belong to Mood & Co.? Here, you aim to keep in balance, by staying centered. The way up to a goal is always longer and harder, than the achievement itself. You may aim and shoot and yet not score, you must try again. Sounds like so many life lessons along with the laws of gravity and integrity, can be learned by time spent at the playground and can be harnessed in ones adult life, where the playground becomes cerebral. When you play in the mind's playground, lessons are learned and tested by the most talented teacher called Life. Life balances these tests as it takes us from youth into age and gives us seasons, nature and the power to experience. In order to allow for a full set of learning life allows for the test to present itself, to create an ebb and flow of happiness and sorrow. Life then steps in to lend a hand by creating movement catered by time. Time, the bri

I started to assess my life as a parent and the overall parenting paradigm which is so heavily based on love, sacrifice, giving and nurturing. I love being a parent, my greatest accomplishment, however what was eye opening was the one dimensional giving. As a parent we are so motivated to give to the offspring that we often forget about the 'Self' that allows for all that giving to be possible. Most parents spend a lot of time guiding children and making plans for what they should do next to carefully craft a well defined future. We enroll them in classes, we train them on so many life skills, we open their mind and help balance a point of view that will allow for far reaching success. Although financial stability is very important, and may be a prime focus for many, my question is where and when possible, why as a parent do we have the tendency to be just a teacher to our children?  As a parent who is also a teacher, teaching their child to be more and do more, why are