Spiritually Resistant Daughter.
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
My seven-year-old daughter has a strong resistance to all things related to spirituality. When our family visited cathedrals in France, for example, she wanted to leave immediately. She has acted similarly upon visiting a Buddhist temple or being in the presence of art with a strong sacred theme. She is also very much against any mention of prayer. We first started noticing this when she was about age 4 or 5 and we are not sure of its roots.
We are not a “religious” family, however, husband practises yoga and we are both interested in meditation and spiritual topics. As parents, we would also like to help nurture our daughter’s spiritual awareness. She is a shy, very sensitive child, but overall healthy and happy. Do you have any ideas? P.S. She does love fairies and mermaids.
Response:
Your daughter may not like churches and temples and religious art, but that doesn’t mean she resists spirituality. It could be that she has some preexisting aversion to orthodoxy, ritual and imagery. You can talk to her about how all these forms and traditions of the divine come out of an unmanifest, formless, timeless experience that is her own deepest essence. But one can have this spiritual content of life without having to rely on the external forms. If she prefers a bare bones spiritual experience, you can tell her that there are simple practices, not prayer, that allow her to directly experience this core essence within. If she’s not interested now, that’s fine, but if she is, then you can have her instructed into a silent meditation.
Love,
Deepak
I took a look at all the different responses to this post and 1 or 2 of you seem to have a clue. A quick question for you... what are the favorite cartoons she watches.? Not just movies but on TV. What type of games does she play? Also , old buildings creep me out. Too many scary movies. Not just about spirit all the time. But there are so many different reasons for it. Here is a solution. Talk to her like a person with a brain and ask her to give her ideas and reason. She knows. The worst thing you can do is shove religious beliefs and misinformation at her. Once you find out what she feels and comprehends then proceed with teaching and understanding.
I took a look at all the different responses to this post and 1 or 2 of you seem to have a clue. A quick question for you... what are the favorite cartoons she watches.? Not just movies but on TV. What type of games does she play? Also , old buildings creep me out. Too many scary movies. Not just about spirit all the time. But there are so many different reasons for it. Here is a solution. Talk to her like a person with a brain and ask her to give her ideas and reason. She knows. The worst thing you can do is shove religious beliefs and misinformation at her. Once you find out what she feels and comprehends then proceed with teaching and understanding.
I took a look at all the different responses to this post and 1 or 2 of you seem to have a clue. A quick question for you... what are the favorite cartoons she watches.? Not just movies but on TV. What type of games does she play? Also , old buildings creep me out. Too many scary movies. Not just about spirit all the time. But there are so many different reasons for it. Here is a solution. Talk to her like a person with a brain and ask her to give her ideas and reason. She knows. The worst thing you can do is shove religious beliefs and misinformation at her. Once you find out what she feels and comprehends then proceed with teaching and understanding.