30/01/2020
A message from Eline
Learn what life is about…..
The best medicine against sadness, answered Merlin, is to learn something. It is the only thing that cannot go wrong. Whenever you are awake at night and listen to the sound of doubts in your wondering mind, learn about this. If the world that surrounds you is being destroyed by crazy or mad people and ruminations keep distracting you, there is only one thing to do: learn! Learn what life in this world is about….. you will never get tired of this and never regret this inside expedition of mind and heart in learning what life is about.
Learning is what we need !
(free translation from TH White Arthur for once and always)
Mindfulness is about this learning! Learning and teaching are two sides of one coin. We can only teach who we are. Kids are our mirrors and respond intuitively on what we tell them. They know, if you know what you are talking about. Not from books or from what other teachers told you, or by just following a course… but about what you really know. Deep down, in your soul. For everything you want to learn yourself and teach others you need genuine contact. And for that, there has to be someone at home inside you! Someone who can feel you heart beating when you teach 30 preschool kids mindfulness for the first time in your life. Someone who can feel your vulnerability, your shyness or frustration without any need to judge this and just whisper softly without anyone else able to hear it: “it is okay to feel this”. It is just okay! Someone who allows silence, when it is almost unbearable. Someone who will let you feel intense joy at those various and precious moments, when you really are in contact with the heart, the mind and the expression of the eyes, of all the kids you work with. As well as with yourself.
Every child has the right to learn mindfulness from mindful teachers who are what they teach. Who can be present and pay attention at what our one and only precious life is about.
