Today I was talking to a client who’s son I’ve also worked with, and she told me this great story. I wanted to share it because I feel it represents where parenting is going, and can go. She gave me permission to tell it.
Her son tends to have emotional issues about his birthday and Christmas. She’d said to him he should think about what he wanted to do for his upcoming birthday, so that it would be a happy day for him. He came back later, very emotional and she suggested they do some EFT about it. They worked for a half hour and shhe said that worked really well. She also said to him at some point, “I know you are a very empathic person, and I think sometimes you can pick up other people’s feelings about things. So it’s easy for you to sometimes carry an issue that might be mine or your father’s.” Later he came back and said he wanted her to work that afternoon with his dad to clear the father’s issues about his own birthday!
I thought this was so great — that she was able to help him emotionally using these tools, that it could be relatively easy, and that he could act on what he knew…this was at least in part coming from his parent’s issues, and he didn’t want to carry what wasn’t his. Now who would you be if your parents could have been this conscious, and as a child, you were given permission to stay in touch with your emotional and spiritual process?
May 6th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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