{"id":143,"date":"2014-02-24T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stargardenparenting.com\/inspirations\/?p=143"},"modified":"2014-02-24T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:07:33","slug":"imitation-and-prenatal-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargardenparenting.com\/inspirations\/imitation-and-prenatal-parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitation and Prenatal Parenting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"christmas2\"<\/a>In my life experience I have found that raising children is one of the most inspiring opportunities you may have for spiritual initiations.\u00a0 Every child is a recent arrival with the latest news from the spiritual world and that gift lies within the being of this tiny individual who is a seed baby ready to grow and blossom.\u00a0 Rudolf Steiner has shared that the angels were intimately involved with child rearing in earlier stages of\u00a0\u00a0 human consciousness . The necessary evolutionary development of our intellect has left us without the intuitions which the angelic world conveyed to us in times past to assist in parenting.\u00a0 He also offers a pathway to develop these intuitions and reestablish a relationship to the angelic world to assist us in guiding the children.<\/p>\n

This intuitive process begins to develop when we consider with an open mind that every child has come from the spiritual world and alternates between life on earth and life across the threshold. They are children of the creator,\u00a0 gifted to us to love and cherish, to guide and learn with as they mature. A family is chosen by the soul and higher being, the I AM THAT I AM, with particular ancestral traits and possibilities for a constitutional body.\u00a0 This provides\u00a0 a vehicle offering the best options for developing and living a life which allows the destiny to unfold. Based on past life experiences\u00a0 and the insights of\u00a0 the higher being, these characteristics serve the evolutionary needs of the child\u2019s soul and spirit.\u00a0 The feelings and attitudes which the mother has about this unfolding miracle play a central role in the development of the child in the womb.\u00a0\u00a0 Awe and wonder, joy and serenity affect\u00a0 the body chemistry of the Mother so that she can create a welcoming environment for the feelings and organs of the infant to develop in a healthy and life embracing way.<\/p>\n

A dialogue can also begin with the child\u2019s angel with a request to guide and assist one in creating an environment in the home which will support health and well being for your child, in a way co-parenting with the wisdom and insight higher beings can offer.<\/p>\n

The relationship with the child has already begun as well.\u00a0 Steiner shares in one of the volumes of \u201c Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies\u201d that we have been together in the spiritual world before our birth and in\u00a0 past lives, not necessarily as parent and child.\u00a0 Thus a possibility exists that parents and children may evolve together.\u00a0 With these thoughts in mind the child who is held in joy and wonder,\u00a0 before and after birth, has a very different feeling than one who is surrounded with worry, fear or doubt about any aspect of childbirth and child rearing. This is an important aspect, for the child is affected a great deal by the feeling world of adults.\u00a0 Of course, thoughts and actions have an impact, but it is the feelings the child perceives most strongly.<\/p>\n

From birth, when the child\u2019s perceptions are first experiencing physical earthly existence, the child is mainly connected to the parents and foremost the mother.\u00a0 Steiner spoke of the dominant capacity of imitation in the young child and this is what is most prominent in the relationship. In the spiritual world the child experiences a deep feeling of devotion and brings this into the physical world in the expression of imitation. This is not the basic concept of imitation that I raise a hand, the child raises a hand. Rather, the young child\u2019s imitation is one that is visceral and\u00a0 all encompassing as the child\u00a0 experiences not so much what you say or what you do, but instead who you are, your \u201cBeing\u201d, which expresses itself in what you think, say, do and particularly what you feel.<\/p>\n

The predominate mode of imitation in the child makes the parents the prominent role models for the child at the deepest and formational levels of the body and psyche as well as a guide for how to be in a physical body and function in the material world.\u00a0 When the relationship develops with this understanding of the child\u2019s experience one strives to be a role model worthy of imitation. This developmental and age appropriate understanding supports \u00a0the child\u2019s sense of self in growing with a deeply felt experience of being understood and honored .Note that the emphasis is on striving, for we all learn a great deal from making errors and the child benefits from this as a model for being human.<\/p>\n

In the future I hope to further explore imitation and the role of guidance as well as other aspects of parenting as I continue to develop the work with prenatal parents.<\/p>\n

I am very happy to have people forward these blog articles on to other parents and request that you acknowledge where they originated and\/or link to my website.\u263a<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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