| Title | The Conscious Parent |
| Author | Shefali Tsabary |
| Type | Novel |
| Year of Publication | November 1, 2010 |
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| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children Book By Shefali Tsabary It is a tremendous privilege to raise children, although for quite a different reason than most parents imagine.
While we believe that it is our responsibility to mold and shape our children’s futures, the essential premise of Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s A Call to Mindful Parenting is that our children are born to create a deep inner transformation within us.
Our children have the power to unleash our selfish behavior like no one else, unleashing all of our emotional reactivity. Since, through our intimate relationship with them, we are exposed to our immaturity, they become the most faithful mirror of our own lack of emotional development. In other words, by inviting us to confront who we are in our relationship with them, our children raise us to be the parents they long for us to be.
Despite our best intentions to raise our children well, in our unconsciousness, we pass on emotional legacies to our children that have profound and lasting repercussions. By bequeathing to them our unresolved needs, unfulfilled expectations, and frustrated dreams, we chain them into unconscious patterns that lock them into their own unique self.
To do justice to parenthood, parents must become aware of it. Only to the extent that we are willing to transform our own emotional present can we positively influence the future of our children.
Dr. Tsabary asks us to put aside the traditional parenting strategies that excel in controlling our children and instead find a true kinship with their spirits by tuning into who each child is in their own unique essence. Surrendering to the unity of the parent-child relationship in this way takes the parents out of the physical and into the realm of the sacred.
Sprinkled with hands-on, hands-on examples from Dr. Tsabary’s real-life experiences with the countless families she has helped to consciously travel together, A Call to Conscious Parenting is a manual for giving our children the opportunity to shine and dazzle with their natural state of being.
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Rather than simply being the recipient of the psychological and spiritual legacy of parents, children function as harbingers of parental development. Parents unknowingly pass on a heritage of psychological pain and emotional superficiality. To manage the resulting behavior, traditional parenting books abound with clever management techniques and quick fixes for dysfunction. However, in Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s conscious approach to parenting, children serve as mirrors of their parents’ forgotten selves. Those willing to look in the mirror have the opportunity to establish a relationship with their own inner state of wholeness. Once they find their way back to their essence, parents enter into communion with their children, moving away from the traditional “know-it-all all” approach from parent to child and more toward a mutual relationship between parent and child. The pillars of the parental ego crumble when parents awaken to their children’s ability to transport them into a state of presence.
About The Author of The Book Shefali Tsabary
Shefali Tsabary, PhD, received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, New York. Dr. Shefali was exposed to Eastern mindfulness at an early age and integrated its teachings with Western psychology. This blend of East and West allows her to reach a global audience. Her ability to appeal to both a psychologically astute and consciousness-driven audience establishes her as one of a kind in the parenting field.
Dr. Shefali has worked with a varied demographic, ranging from survivors of the Asian Tsunami to Third World women, from inner-city youth to suburban families, and from the elderly and infirm to corporate leaders.
Dr. Shefali lectures extensively on mindful living and conscious parenting around the world and is in private practice. She is the author of Out of Control, published in early 2014, as well as the book It’s a Mom: What you should know about the early years of motherhood, which debuted on the Indian National Bestseller List for four weeks.
Dr. Shefali was recently a guest on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday and Lifeclass television programs. In her introduction of the author and this book, Oprah stated that she has not been as excited about a book’s philosophy as she is about this one since Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.
This book hit #1 at Amazon and BN and continues to remain in the top ten.
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