Welcome to Healing From Within, Your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love is delighted to welcome Marie Delanote (http://mariedelanote.com) author of Acorns to Great Oaks: Meditations For Children with tools to help children cope with real life.
Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories and experiences in order to look beyond ordinary human nature to find an inner more eternal source of wisdom and awareness of our true complex nature as spiritual beings living a physical life. Understanding energy and life with a more illuminated perception is the way for creating health prosperity and enjoying greater love and compassion for ourselves and others and to heal the world.
Marie thinks back to childhood and remembers how shy and sensitive she was and how she saw spirit and knew the world in layers of reality. Marie was born in West Flanders Belgium and grew up with her mother and three sisters. Her early years were dedicated to music (played double bass) Interested in spirituality Oracle cards Witchcraft Entities Palmistry Reiki etc. She met her husband when she was twenty three years old and eighteen months later was expecting her first child. They relocated from Antwerp to Southern Belgium in a quiet rural farming community and she ran a Bed and Breakfast while holding down a teaching job in local schools. Her second and third children were born. In 2011 she relocated to the UK…and on to amazing happenings.
Marie tells us a bit about her new book Acorns to Great Oaks. She shares that feelings are really our GPS and alarm system. They tell us everything about what’s happening in our life. When experiencing overwhelming feelings or anger, irritation …it is our feelings saying, “Stop you have been thinking negative thoughts.” It is important to teach children to stop and acknowledge their feelings. Why am I feeling this way? And then use meditations/visualizations and other coping mechanisms to get to a better feeling place, to lift themselves up before spiraling down. Let me explain this further and show you the link between our thinking and how we feel: When you watch TV and it’s a program which you shouldn’t be watching…it’s violent and unpleasant. How do you feel worried uncomfortable upset….What will you do? Change the channel. So when you change the channel and you find your favorite program how will that make you feel? Happy excited….So what you see on the screen makes you feel a certain way…This is the same for your mind, what you think/the pictures you make in your mind make you feel a certain way. So when you feel anything but happy, it is your body alarm telling you to change your thinking. I then teach children very easy to apply exercises meditations visualizations to make them feel better.”
It is important to feel good vibrations: energy Everything vibrates energy. Not feeling good anger, irritation vibrates at a low level, the same as sickness unhappy people unfortunate circumstances. Happiness excitement vibrates at the same level of other happy people, health and fortunate successful circumstances and your dreams…Like attracts like This is the Law of Attraction. What you think and pay attention to will manifest.
There are many benefits of teaching our children especially sensitive children meditation.
Benefits from meditation include: boost their self esteem, sleep better, strengthen their immune system, increase their attention span, handle stress better, have better control over their emotions, increase their mental strength, enhance creative thinking.
Some delightful amusing exercises from the book and CD that rely on fun and visualization techniques that enhance creative thinking mental strength and self-esteem include:
Ladybugs that eat away unpleasant situations and feelings
Dragons that show how good change can be
Fairies who suck away angry energies with hoovers
Colors to breathe-in and make them feel a certain way
