Dear Usdan Community,
Yesterday a dear friend told me about her recent experience with a healer. During the session, the healer guided my friend to 'look with curiosity' at an area of her body where she had been experiencing pain. She described two ways of "looking." In one scenario, you drive along the highway and look at a flower at the side of the road as you whiz by. In another scenario, you stop, get out of your car, and look at that flower with curiosity. You notice its delicate petals, the veins of its leaves, its furry stem. As the session progressed, my friend found herself thinking of her two young sons. She looked at them with tender curiosity and wept, relishing each boy's wonderful
uniqueness.
This week my own kids started online school, marking the end of several months of freedom. Suddenly their movements and attention are dictated by schedules and deadlines, their days spent in front of computer screens within the confines of our small apartment.
Until my friend shared this healing experience with me, I did not notice how my interactions with my kids had become rigid and boxed-in with the start of school. No longer was I wondering what my daughter was going to cook us for dinner nor how my son was progressing on a drawing series he had started. Over the summer, I had been able to see and experience my children as they are. It reminded me of the special excitement I always feel at Usdan, where
children are free to be themselves.
Maybe if I look at my children with more curiosity and less worry, they will have an easier time being themselves and growing up in such uncertain times. Would you like to join me in committing to look at our children with curiosity this year?