Now more than ever parents have an urgent need to assume the role of spiritual teachers of their children. The laws of the operation of nature are not confidential, they are applicable to everyone and everything. Therefore, understanding these laws is not only a way to help a few people, but it is crucial for our society and even for civilization. The seeker is a child who has gone from needing his parents' love to needing God's love, from wanting toys to wishing infinite creativity. Children must know from the beginning that desire is the most basic impulse of human nature. The title of the article can be understood in its two forms, such as that we have seven spiritual parents and therefore seven laws, or that earthly parents have to apply the seven spiritual laws in the education of their children. In this article I will try to show parents how their children can best fulfill their desires and successfully achieve what they want in life, and I will try to explain spiritual concepts as best as possible to make them available to children.
SEVEN PARENTS | SEVEN LAWS |
The father of the race. The Manu The father of the globe. The father of the chain. The system's father The constellation's father The father of the galaxy: The father of the Universe: The One. | 1. The law of vibration 2. The law of cohesion 3. The law of disintegration 4. The law of magnetic control 5. The law of fixation 6. The law of love 7. The law of sacrifice |
The family could be defined in the same way that God is defined in the Bible: "It is the one in whom we live, move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). The purpose of family life is to take the child to a point of full realization of total self-awareness and complete knowledge. Religion as a doctrine that synthesizes the whole culture has transmitted us a sacred family model: Father, Son and Spirit. Mary represents mother nature, Jesus the earthly son and Joseph the godfather who contributes to the formation of the moral personality of Jesus. Paternity is what makes possible the creation of a State, a company, a family. Motherhood is what makes possible the gestation of beings. The fraternity is what makes possible the birth of consciousness, by the fusion between the love offered by the mother with the wisdom shown by the father. They can keep the fixed schedule in the refrigerator, next to the class schedule, so that relations with the laws become habitual.
WEEK | PARENTS | COLOR | SOUND | QUALITY |
Sunday | Sun-Apollo | Red | Do | Power |
Monday | Luna-Selene | Orange | Re | Sensitivity |
Tuesday | Mars- Ares | Yellow | Me | Action |
Wednesday | Mercury-Hermes | Pink | Fa | Intelligence |
Thursday | J piter-Zeus | blue | Sun | Benevolence |
Friday | Venus-Aphrodite | Indigo | The | Love |
Saturday | Saturn-Cronos | Violet | Yes | Reason |
1. Law of pure potentiality.
God is the light, the bible says so. God is the light, Paul repeats it. God is the light, look for it and see: in chapter 1, verse 5, FIRST OF JOHNOn Sunday, tell the children Everything is possible .
On Sunday the family concentrates on the idea that anything is possible. The ground in which everything is possible is the spirit; He is our source. Everyone carries the seed of creativity inside, which can sprout in any direction. Nothing limits us, except ourselves, because the most real aspect of each person is their unlimited potential.
By connecting with our source we activate all the possibilities in real life. In practice this implies allocating time to experience the silent space of pure consciousness. It is necessary to teach children that silence is the home of the spirit. All other voices speak loudly, while the spirit communicates without emitting any sound.
Being in touch with the terrain of all possibilities implies that we are our own point of reference, that is, when we seek guidance we look within. Self-reference leads to an accomplishment of the spirit that is not possible through material success. The reason we yearn for success is to fulfill our potential for happiness and wisdom, not just to have more and more things. Sunday is a good day to cement all the week about these notions.
With children it is usually more effective to use the vocabulary of the heart than abstract words as potentiality. "Listen to your heart, he knows" is a good way to start, along with phrases like: Put your heart into becoming everything you can be.
Anything is possible in the heart. You know with your heart that things will come out in the best possible way.
If your heart is pure, you can get what you want. Regardless of what seems to be happening around you, you will know with your heart that you can achieve what you set out to do.
It is also important to clarify that the heart is not synonymous with emotions. The heart is a spiritual center that contains silence and wisdom. There is no doubt that the heart is the source of the most true emotions, such as love and compassion, but we must try to make our children identify the heart as the place where the sense of "I am" resides. It is the seed of inspiration from which all possibilities flow; It is our connection to the ground of pure potential. Every person who has known success feels it at the bottom of his heart.
The three activities for Sunday are to meditate, appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature and learn to see new possibilities in familiar situations.
2. Law of giving.
Because giving is how I receive, forgiving is how you forgive me. SAN FRANCISCO DE ASISOn Monday, tell the children "If you want to get something, do the same."
On this day we focus on the different ways we can give others. Since there is no giving without receiving, we complete the cycle taking note of that aspect as well. Thus, giving appears as a current in constant motion, the circulation of everything in creation. Creating something involves taking a seed or an inspiration and giving it life. In the act of giving, the seed grows, the fruits multiply and the inspiration takes shape.
On the spiritual level, success depends on attending to the laws that govern the functioning of nature, and the law of giving is one of the most valuable. Many spiritual teachers have taught, as modern yogi Shivananda explains, that "giving is the secret of abundance." There is no mystery in this; It has always been true that to obtain love you must first give it, and that God gives everything for love. When we give, we show understanding that the spirit is the source of all gifts.
It is not always easy to resist the temptation to drink and monopolize many things. The reason for that tendency is ignorance of spiritual laws. Children love to give and when they start not doing it, they are reflecting the attitudes they see in adults. Even if an adult constantly repeats things like: "Learn to share", "Be good and give your little brother a little", "Be good and you will receive a prize", he could be communicating at the same time, on a deeper level, his fear of lack and scarcity, and the need of his ego to possess and hold on to things. These notions, so ingrained in our thinking, defeat the spirit of giving. Devoting this day to the spirit of giving is much more important than what you give in material terms.
Except for the little ones, Monday is the day of attending school, so it is necessary to talk about the law of giving at breakfast and dinner. In the morning we set the day's program; During dinner we share what we have achieved and learned. The same applies to all other laws that are practiced during the school week. (It is worth remembering that the minutes of silence that are practiced on Sunday should be repeated every day, during the morning and afternoon moments that you devote to your meditation.)
The three activities for Monday consist of giving something to another person in the family, receiving with gratitude and performing a brief ritual of gratitude.
3. Law of karma.
On Tuesday, tell the children, "When you make a choice, you change the future."
I have enclosed the word "karma" in quotes because it is a specialized term, but in reality "karma" is everything related to the cause-effect phenomenon. Questions such as “Why should I choose this instead of that?” Or “What will happen if I handle the problem in this way instead of it?” Are presented in children's lives every day. Our children should know that Every decision they make will create good or bad results for them — in other words, every decision changes the future. In vulgar terms, karma is usually understood as the fact of attracting prizes for good deeds and punishment for bad ones. The parents translate it into a system of reward and punishment, but without teaching the most essential: that nature itself deals with this matter.
People often say cynically that "life is unfair", when in reality it is quite the opposite from the point of view of karma - life is completely fair. But life works on very deep and hidden planes, and the effects can be the result of causes of different levels. It is not our business to judge the result that an action deserves but to carefully observe the way in which the cause and effect relationship works and then adapt our behavior according to it.
Here the seven spiritual laws seem to conflict with generalized opinion, since the law of karma says that there is no injustice, accidents or victims - that all things are ordered according to an inescapable cosmic system of cause and effect. Karma is not fatalism; It does not establish that people have to suffer, but that free will is absolute. There is no divine power to protect us from bad decisions, nor is there an escape clause that nullifies the universal law according to which "we reap what we sow."
Thus, karma implies awareness in several fields: observe the way decisions are made, evaluate their outcome and hear the heart, that place where subtle emotional signals indicate whether we have done right or wrong. All these strategies can be communicated to children by teaching them to choose. Making choices, with all its complexity is a fundamental element of success in life, since success is nothing more than the name we give to the favorable results we want to obtain through our actions
All activities for Tuesday are focused on talking about decisions - the way they are made, the way they modify life, the results we hope to get by opting for one way or another.
4. Law of least effort.
Let your dreams be waves that go away, free as the wind in the middle of the sea. DREAMSOn Wednesday, tell the children Don’t resist, go with the flow .
The law of least effort asks us to recognize the freshness of life allowing its free development. It tells us that we must live in the moment, seek the help of nature and stop blaming others for external things. In its flow, active intelligence organizes the millions and millions of details that sustain life from the infinite processes required to keep a cell alive, to the enormous complexities of the evolving universe. When we connect with the spirit, we navigate with the organizing power of the cosmos and take advantage of it.
However, for many adults the concept of less effort is difficult. Although our technology is constantly looking for ways to save work with more efficient machines, translating that into the human plane is not easy. The biggest obstacle is our work ethic, according to which the greatest effort brings more rewards.
Although it is very difficult for us to go with the flow, for the child it is very natural. The instruction required by children in this regard before the age of six is minimal, since children always take the path of least resistance and reach out for take what they want, say what they have to say, express the emotion of each moment. In addition, its main activity is not work but play. Older people can be taught related ideas such as not opposing resistance, not being defensive and taking responsibility for the way we choose to work. The least effort is related to the law of the lever (the point of support) and this in turn, with efficiency.
Acceptance is a key concept because every time we oppose resistance we waste a lot of effort. Helplessness, or not being defensive, is an attitude related to acceptance, because the fact of having to defend our point of view creates conflict and chaos, which represent a huge waste of energy. a.
Thus, the law of least effort brings us faith and patience. We have all been taught that the path of success is sown with struggles and battles. Actually, it is much more important to have faith in our desires. If we believe that others exist to close the way to the realization of our desires, we have no choice but to be constantly on the defensive. Therefore, it is of great value to teach our children that there is a power that grants our desires, which is far beyond the power of other people.
The third element in the law of least effort is responsibility. Children should also be taught that success and realization come from within and that the only thing that matters is the inside. We are all responsible for what we feel, what we want and the way we face the challenges of life. The way to fulfill the highest responsibilities is not to work until tired, but to perform the work of the spirit with an attitude of joy and creativity. This is the only way to make a life without struggle possible.
The three activities for Wednesday are to find fun in an activity, reduce work and identify ways nature helps us.
5. Law of intention.
Your natural instinct is to beat your rival. You have to fight for a star Get the cup of courage with honor To survive and fight for it. Sing Ricky Martin .On Thursday, tell the children "Every time you want something, you sow a seed."
The essence of success is to make wishes come true and this is something we all learned to do in childhood. Desire is a complex matter. Ask hidden questions about what we deserve, how good we really are, or if
God desires success for us, etc. There really are so many questions that no parent can clarify them all beforehand. Success and failure are extremely personal experiences because of their intimate relationship with what everyone thinks they are at the bottom of their soul.
Therefore, as parents we must try to establish a firm foundation of self-esteem in our children, so that they can face the innumerable experiences of success and failure they will have as they grow. On the spiritual level, desire is never negative; We were born as creatures of desire. Without it, we don't burn grow. Other creatures do not need to want to grow, because in them the process is genetic; but for us humans, the desire to grow pushes the mind towards the source of love, peace and infinite power, which constitutes the very goal of life.
Children must learn that desire is the path to God, and that intention is their main tool to travel that path. What we crave determines what we get. Although it seems paradoxical, it is necessary to have a vision of the future so that the future can surprise us, because without visions, life stagnates in ritual and repetition. A future that simply repeats the present will never be a source of wonder.
The spiritual process by which desire comes true is not as spontaneous as desire itself. It is a process that must be taught. The absence of success in life is mainly due to mental confusion. For example, we do not perceive how contradictory our desires are and how they lead us to send confusing messages to the universe.
A person who wants wealth without wanting to accept any responsibility is basically sending contradictory information to the cosmic computer, and usually does not realize it. Two wishes coexist in that person: "I want to be rich" and "I don't want to see my situation as it really is." Lack of awareness then leads her to blame someone else's failure or circumstances, when in reality nature has granted both wishes. What happens is that desires are weak, blurred and contradictory to each other.
Being aware of what we want is such an obvious and paramount step in the process of wishing that it is surprising to see how many people are not. Children have many levels of desire that they may not have become aware of, and the same goes for adults. Desires do not always manifest themselves clearly and rarely do so individually; They are always freely mixed with fantasy, dreams and projection.
In addition, wishing is a process that comes in continuous waves that overlap one another. We all dedicate ourselves to realizing great desires that take months and years to fulfill, while we work on smaller desires that take days, hours or minutes.
The more concrete about their intentions the children learn to be, the easier it will be to order their lives, since order begins in the mind.
The three activities on Thursday focus on clarifying the mechanics of desire: enumerating or enunciating desires in the most specific way possible, releasing desires to the universe, with full confidence that the mechanics of creation will generate a result, and remain alert at the present moment, which is where all the results occur.
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6. Law of detachment.
God is love, the bible says so. God is love Paul repeats it. God is love, look for him and you will see: in chapter 4, verse 8, FIRST OF JOHN.On Friday, tell the children "Enjoy the trip."
"Enjoy the trip" is a positive way to express an idea not very popular in our society. Words have different values in different cultures and there is no better example of this than the term detachment. For thousands of years, especially in the East, detachment has been a positive term whose connotation is the ability to find happiness beyond the game of pleasure and pain. But in the West, our intense fixation for achieving material goals has imposed a negative connotation on the word, associating it with indifference, apathy and lack of commitment.
There is no doubt that the Eastern attitude can degenerate into fatalism and lack of initiative, but in its pure meaning detachment implies immense commitment and creativity, only by giving up the result. The two components are necessary for happiness: intense commitment leaves us the happiness of using creativity; Renunciation is the way to recognize that all results depend on the universe and not on our limited ego. The wise man lives detached from the drama of the material world because he has the attention placed on the source in which all the dualities of light and darkness, good and evil, pleasure and pain originate.
It is not easy to teach the principle of detachment because it is very contrary to our culture. But we can start by teaching what is not detachment.
It is not detachment to manifest lack of interest. It is not detachment to say that something is not our responsibility when it is. It is not detachment to ignore the needs and feelings of others. It is not detachment to always be number one.
Teaching children to avoid these attitudes is a good way to start them on the path of detachment. Most of the time, we are tempted to stick to something, and in those situations the "I" and "mine" are always involved. The attitude of clinging to our things, our work, our opinions, our pride, etc., is a product of fear. We fear that the universe is cold and indifferent and that is why we concentrate all our energy around that "I" that is supposed to protect us.
However, that contraction of the ego prevents precisely the free expansion through which we find the connection with the spirit. It is what is usually described as the difference between the self and the self. The self is the isolated ego that clings to its small reality; the I is the limitless spirit that can afford not to cling to anything. Detachment means that "we live of the I" instead of "in the I".
Childhood is the critical stage to learn about the Self, since it is the period during which the ego and all its needs and fears begin to develop. When a child succumbs to the ego, it falls prey to the total illusion of "me, me and mine, " from which it will be difficult and painful to detach when you reach adulthood. The ego must be tempered with the notion that "I" does not necessarily mean ego; "I-ity" can be a sense of unity with the terrain of all possibilities or what has been called the cosmic ego. Thus, by teaching them detachment, we invite our children to join us in cosmic dance.
Detachment is the point of view that allows us to enjoy the journey of life. That enjoyment is basic to success.
The three activities for Friday involve seeing the world with greater detachment through the following: recognize that the "true self" is spiritual, accept that uncertainty is inevitable and should not be subject to fear, and learn to find balance in losses and profits.
7. Law of dharma.
I have a reason for my things, I have a reason and a reason. I love you my life because you are beautiful, the same pretty rose of creation. REASON AND REASONOn Saturday I will tell the children You are here for a reason.
Dharma is a written word that means several things: duty, purpose and law In a sense, the day of dharma is the day of the law the culmination of a whole week dedicated to spiritual laws. This day we reflect on how well we have fulfilled the spiritual law, how in tune our existence really is with the harmony of the universe.
Today we remind our children that they are here for a reason. The spiritual law is to serve us, as we are to serve it. The law serves us by demonstrating that lasting happiness and fulfillment are possible, in reality inevitable. There is a hidden purpose that works for our evolution in every event, every action, every thought. The highest goal in life is to find that purpose and live in accordance with it.
Today we measure our success according to the fullness of the week, the tranquility and the opportunities that it has brought us, the new opportunities and the new knowledge that we have noticed. Then we project all this on our children. The notion that life is unfair seems valid only to the extent that we experience the crush of others, who are not always able to share the most levels. It is high in consciousness that the spirit tries to inspire.
The purpose is activated only when there is receptivity. Consciousness is the key to achieving what the universe has planned for us. The family is the right environment to reinforce that life is always fair. Dharma guarantees us through the force of the spiritual law. To say that life is unfair implies that it is random, empty, capricious and dangerous. In other words, it lacks spiritual laws. Thus, this day all these impressions can be counteracted by demonstrating how fair life is indeed and that what makes it fair is the fact of having free will to express ourselves with every ounce of creative power that we have at our disposal.
The three activities for Saturday focus on the purpose of life as it unfolds before children. Let us ask our children: At what point are you right now?, let us emphasize that each of them is unique.
EDITOR'S NOTE
This article is a product of the thousands of letters that Deepak Chopra received from the readers of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.