i can tell every parent out there
watching that most of what they want for
their child in the child's best interest
sadly comes from their own yes own
brokenness right
oprah had shefali on her show seven
times and she's written three
groundbreaking books including the new
york times bestseller the conscious
apparent she merges western psychology
and eastern philosophy she's worked with
thousands of families what is
interesting about what she's going to
share is that it's unconventional
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our children are sovereign beings they
are
spirits if you will or their own essence
their own unique individual energies
that are in the shape of this body that
come through us and because you know we
biologically conceive them we think that
now we own them
what is the holy grail of parenting
disciplining your kids think about it
what is discipline it's supreme
unilateral
control traditional parenting is about
fixing the kid producing the kid
creating this masterpiece and really
it's a control based paradigm
and conscious parenting is always about
connection before correction
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every parent seeks and yearns and longs
for connection but the traditional
parenting paradigm tells us we're going
to get connection but they do it through
correction and correction can never get
connection
parenting is the most sacred act we can
ever endeavor to participate in this
journey with our children has the
potential to awaken us like no other
journey but we're not prepared for it
you have to learn some skills and that's
why i do the work i do to teach the
skills to connect to your children i
wanted to get this out to as many
parents as possible because when we can
raise our children as souls
who are having their own sovereign human
experience i think that is the greatest
gift we can do for our kids
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