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Nurturing self-understanding in our children – interview with Dr. Kathryn Jefferies

Hello friends,

To all you parents and/or educators out there… today I have the honour of sharing a conversation with you that I had with Dr. Kathryn Jefferies (certified facilitator for the Work of Byron Katie and author of ‘Awake – Education for Enlightenment’).  As a parent and educator, I often have the desire to raise my children and teach in a way that encourages self-awareness.  In this conversation, Kath asks us to look at that very desire and gives a profound perspective on the most authentic way this can actually ever be carried out.  I know you’ll enjoy it… unfortunately, the video got cut off, but the conversation continues in the audio link below.

We would both love to hear your feedback and if this resonated so please leave a comment or question that we can bring some attention to.  I highly recommend a visit to Kathryn’s website to find out more about her book, her counselling, educational consulting, etc.

interview continued – Dr. Kath Jefferies

Thank you for listening – and as always, I’m holding the space for each of us to live and act from our deepest truth.

L.

 

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Catalyst of Awakening

Eli Jaxon-Bear is a beautiful teacher.  He was a totally unexpected catalyst of awakening for me. I sat at his (and Gangaji’s) feet once, exploding with astonished laughter and tears. No words could possibly express or explain what I’d dipped into…he just smiled and smiled, nodding.

After a few months, the bliss of that recognition seemed to sink below the mental tendencies that had seemed to reassert themselves. Naturally, I started grasping for that experience again – I tried to replicate it and desperately tried to ‘find’ it within me again – as something to hold onto. But it is so clear now that that ‘searching’ is a step in the wrong direction. It is the mind looking for an object to hold onto – to claim and know and be ‘secure’ in. This searching is rooted in the belief that ‘awake’ is something other than what I essentially am.

What’s alive in YOU is so beyond what the mind can fathom or ever describe. In moments of forgetting, I find it helpful to just rest my attention on whatever it is that is alert in my being – what is conscious? Just rest there – no searching, no analyzing, no trying to figure out something as though it is cryptic or hidden. Just a rest in that silent alertness.

Stay there.  <3