Hi – Sue Blaney here with your Parenting Tip from Parenting Teens Info.com
My tip this week is: Use your energy positively >>Listen
Okay, so this 2 minute tip may be a bit out there for some of you, but actually there are thousands of years of experience, evidence and even science behind me on energy work, so give this some thought. As you know there are numerous energy-based healing modalities… and even though our western culture has been slow to recognize their validity, this is changing. There is acupuncture and shiatsu, therapeutic touch and polarity therapy and numerous other areas that are based on the body’s energy systems.
This can be highly relevant to your parenting because you can develop the capability through energy work to directly impact how you feel physically and emotionally. And you can use this to influence the energy and in interactions with your family members. This can be very helpful when living with teenagers!
While the study of this can get very involved and sophisticated, and I’m not going to be the one to lead you there, I can give you a quick exercise in four steps you to help you tap into your heart energy in a way that will enable you to use it in your interactions at home.
Step 1: Close your eyes and center yourself. Tune out the world around you and tune into your heart. Sit quietly and focus on this until you can feel the love centered in your heart.
Step 2: Envision your heart encased in a bubble of love. Now gradually expand the size of that bubble… bigger and bigger until it encompasses your body and extends several feet beyond it. Feel your love expand out into the space that surrounds you.
Step 3: Don’t say anything; at first, don’t let words interfere with feeling the energy field. Just feel it. Feel your heart connection filling the space around you. This may take a little practice to maintain, so play with it over several days on your own. You don’t need to tell anyone you are doing this.
Step 4: As you feel you can maintain this field around you, spread it further so that it includes your family members. Communicate not just with your words, but intentionally tap into this non-verbal heart energy and send it to your teenager. Allow this energy to fill the air and the environment when you are with your teen.
As you may know, I’m not living with teenagers anymore, my kids are now in their mid twenties. But I did just bring home a new 8 week old puppy, and I’m experimenting with this energy work with her and getting interesting results. Her responses to me change visibly as I encompass her in my loving energy field.
Have some fun with this… and let me know how it works!
Thanks for subscribing to my 2 minute tips for parenting teens. ‘Til next week, I’m Sue Blaney.