Allowing

I'm new to Abraham-Hicks and the Law of Attraction. It's not that I haven't heard of it. How could I not have heard of it? But I haven't read much of anything about it. Until yesterday.

I was thinking about designing my website and decided to browse other people's websites for ideas. I found myself absorbed by the content of one and then started following suggested links, which included Abraham-Hicks. So I spent some time reading and listening because that felt like the right thing to do. I stumbled on the most wonderful quote:

"When people use the word "teacher", the vibration that matches the word often feels more like asserter than it does like allower. But, the ideal teacher is one who is an open vortex through which desire can be satisfied, where an asserter is one who has information that they are wanting to impart.
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Oh, it is so delicious! When you have an environment where children feel free, where they get to choose, and you are brave enough to ride it out... In other words, at first they'll choose all of the things that you have been convinced are wrong... But when you are brave enough to let it go far enough that they actually do identify their own personal desire, and then you stand as the loving implementer of their desire -- you would never go back to any other form."

We have chosen to home educate our children, and I say home educate instead of home school, because what we do does not resemble school in anyway. In fact, we don't really home educate them either as we (try to) allow our kids to educate themselves. Which really means, we follow their lead and provide the support and opportunities they need to express most fully who they are. And I find it so delicious to stumble upon, or should I say attract?, this quote that so perfectly understands our philosophy.

I allow. In fact I allow far more than feels comfortable to me sometimes. But when I can't think of a good reason not to other than "because I said so" or "because that's not how people do things" I just have to allow it. Or at least I try. Sometimes I find myself asserting. That never ends well.

Why? The ultimate question. I try to answer it as fully and truthfully as I can. Dee Dee learned about high and low pressure systems in the atmosphere when she was 3 because she looked out the window and asked "The wind is blowing. Why?" It's a marvelous question for getting to the truth of things. Kids are happy to do whatever you ask of them as long as it makes sense to them. But they learn quickly, or maybe they know intuitively, that much of what we adults ask them to do doesn't make sense.

The magic that flows when I step outside my preconceived notions about what should and shouldn't happen, what my kids should and shouldn't do is amazing. The magic is living life in the flow of all that is and all that could be. My kids are natural magicians and they are allowing me to remember my own magic.