Speaker 1
So there are many things that I know I have met quite a few teachers over the years who are already bringing that into their classrooms. But so far mostly on an individual basis. It's rare for it to become a ready part of the official curriculum that's still relatively rare. Although there are some schools now also, I don't know what schools they are, but they may be private schools. They teach mindfulness, I don't often use that term, but basically mindfulness to be present in what you do, I don't use that term because it implies that your mind is full. So I'd rather not use that. But they teach mindfulness. So for a parent to encourage the child not to get lost in conceptualization, to encourage the child to continue to interact with nature. If you can't have an animal in the house that is nature to a cat or dog, encourage the child to look after the animal, to relate to the animal. Animal presence can be very important in a home, especially for children. So it requires teachers to finally establish the teaching of presence as part of the curriculum and that implies also that signifies help children to become aware of their emotions, that one of the most vital things. And if it's not taught at school, the parents have to do it. Well, the parents should do it anyway. But the children to become aware of their emotions because the emotions can wreak havoc with the child's life and sometimes they get amplified in teenage years when many adolescents become very hostile and they're consumed by negative emotions, by self-hatred, by hatred of others, by hatred of everything, very destructive emotions. So the most vital thing that a child already at an age of four or five needs to begin to be taught to observe his or her emotional field rather than be always taken over by it. Many children, almost all children, already have pain bodies, some stronger than others. And that's another important point here where when you observe the tantrum earlier in the previous session today, somebody said their mind sometimes feels like a total less tantrum taking place in their mind. Yes, the tantrums of total loss can be quite violent. They may throw themselves on the floor and scream or throw. And that is the pain body. So I would highly recommend, and this should be done at schools as part of the curriculum and there should be children. There are a few children's books that teach that also teach the child to be aware of their pain body, not while it happens because nobody will be listening to you. You cannot make up even an adult. You cannot make them aware of their pain body in the middle of a pain body attack. That does not work because the only person who will be speaking to is the pain body and the pain body won't like it. But afterwards, the next day, this said, talking, talk to the child, what happened yesterday when you threw yourself on the floor? What was that?