In a previous column, I posed the question as to when the last time you've heard a bird singing. This is a test of our spiritual sensitivity. AD of January 30 published an article on the beta as a perfect nursery scientist. Six universities have sought ways to the curiosity of young children to stimulate beta field, given the declining interest in science studies.
With the project the scientists hope that the children in later life retain their curiosity. At school the emphasis is often too narrowly on knowledge, so much wonder and curiosity become weaker and therefore for the exact sciences. Scientists are most inspired by wonder and curiosity for the mysteries of nature. The spiritual power of people is nourished by wonder at the incomprehensible things and events in our lives where we find no rational answer.
It is a quest for the mystery of life, we naturally look for. The child is born. Unconsciously to the limitation of its existence beyond. It does so by surprise and experimentation. See how the child repeatedly dropping a glass to great anticipation to see where it rolls. Mama prohibits yet put the child until the glass is broken.
Now the child knows and is satisfied. The child wants to search, experiment and enjoy admiring the secrets of life. Parents tend to explain once and this is reinforced at school. Often parents and educators in order to be rationally adjusted to bring the enthusiasm of children and thereby exclude themselves for the spiritual energy of the child.
The child lives in our system is the source of spirituality and therefore the source of wonder, creativity and warmth. Without child is an organization without a heart machine system. Especially in education and healthcare, it is important the child back to life.
| Kind regards, Paul de Blot Professor of Business Spirituality Nyenrode Business Universiteit |  |
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Dear Paul,
I agree completely with your vision as a child because I do it consciously experienced. Like many others I too was limited in my intrinsic desire to experience life fully, something that has always stuck me happy and a passive board for my life has become. This was seen as stubbornness, my parents, but felt for myself as a need to continue to experience.
At a young age - I was only 7 years - I was very aware that my parents from their own experience (self-contained to be due to expectations, culture, spirit) and the subsequent resting frustration while love this on my projected. Because I think something sprouting out of restrictions and unconditional love at the same time, because we live in a dual world. Knowing this I could only give love rather stubborn, and I urge my research in and outside (the world) focus. That was the best lesson of my life that my great respect for life and the planet has produced.
I also see the limitations and the struggle of business and education. That is why I am where I can also tell people my story about parenting and management, which is simple: project no own past pain on someone else and certainly not a child but Facilitation by space, love, compassion and clear borders. Take your time and pain to live through it. And whether the child is 3 or 40, and facilitate self-less support will always give the best results.
Sincerely,
Marco van Rossen
Dear Paul,
Very nice! Yet I am so arrogant to do anything to add. Think of it as verbal hygiene. It turned into a child, does not seem useful. Demented elderly people I see as my goal. I believe it is about as a child. As Tjeu van der Berk wrote the life of child (innocence) maturity (debt) and developed a spiritual adult (renewed innocence). This is my idea to have the guts to look over again with "new" eyes. The eyes of a child. Using the experience as one of the many touchstones rather than "the truth".
Kind regards,
Wilbrand Kuijt
Dear Paul,
Like all other comments ... I can find it. Is not it wonderful when you impulsive, curious, curiosity and discovery can be.
I own the book "big thinkers and small thinkers" (philosophizing with children) Incredibly inspiring to occasionally open a page in store. And would not it be wonderful if such a philosophical principle in the care sector as a basis for meetings as appropriate.
eg "Why is there no ministry of silly maps?" (taken from the booklet)
It only needs a crazy plan to care (and education) and bezielder feel a lot more humane. Thanks for your colomn!
Dear Mr. de Blot,
Thank you very much for this column, making manifest to me as a teacher, director and now education adviser drove and still drives. The wonder and curiosity of children and arouse their enthusiasm boost .. I hope on March 31 to attend your lecture at Windesheim for school, I hope that you also reading parts of this story and you want to take. Leadership begins with heart and soul with an eye open for children, which kunenn we learn a lot from.
Peter Oosterhof
Dear Paul, child of earth
Very beautiful and inspiring article, thanks! Immediately conjured a smile on my face and especially the response of adult human children, who all express a childlike desire for freedom. Free to return a child to be and the wisdom that young age big present.
Conditioning makes us much "child within us' losses. The call to free the child within us again embrace I endorse. The proposal to learn from our children while I would like to materialize: parents and children in the classroom there. Seems like a really cool experience for all involved parties. Solves the same problem on our teachers, though it did not have. Let's start small: 1 time per month must for parents in school to sit and listen to their children ...
I work a lot with family constellations and it surprises me every time at the moment we are working with children there, clearly and quickly when there is peace in the system. In other words, children know 9 out of 10 times what it is flawless! More use of these possibilities seems to me.
Naturally brings us back to wonder, inspiration, creativity and childlike desire for spirituality (meaning for me =). Looking through the eyes of children to the problems, challenges of today, makes listening to the birds again possible ...
With childlike regards,
Mark van den Heuvel
Dear Paul,
I do not know you but read all about you, so with trepidation I write best.
My grandparents and my mother as a child I learned to see nature. a lifetime (52) I enjoy. It's so easy to teach our children in touch with life, nature. Children bring us in touch with all that.
The effect is a life-long.
My mother is 80 years and dementia, each week I take a walk with her, despite her dementia she sees every flower and every bird they hear, then she stands still, admiration. The walks with her wonderful moments in touch with life. Never have I felt such contact as to her now.
Every day I do two exercises, I look at nature, however small. I feel a part of me that nature, I'm not an outsider, but I see myself as a component. So do not look there that ducks, but with the ducks. It fills me with joy to find that you're part of the whole.
As a psychologist I give my clients this command too often, and sometimes we practice together, it goes deep and is so beautiful. It falls just going through the depression.
Kind regards
George Smith
Thanks Paul, your beautiful blog post has inspired and encouraged my to learn from my daughter.
Logia Number 4;
Jesus said: "The old man will not hesitate in his day, a little child of seven days to the place of life questions, and he will live. Because many are first shall be last. And they will be. "
Explanation:
A small child of seven days is uninhibited, yet saddled with the baggage of culture. It does not stage and is itself. It needs neither false nor possesses. It has past or future and has no fears, problems or concerns. It lives in the present and is neither male nor female in behavior. It does not split and the phoniness of the adult. If you really want to live, you would be if the children.
Dear Paul,
Very nice how you describe, and that I what I see in my grandchildren.
I also wonder how wise all his children and how much we can learn from them.
They are so honest and open to everything around them. How unfortunate it is when parents, teachers or others be affected and that they observed it to behave. As someone else expects from them. And that goes for all of us natruulijk. Have we not learned to do almost all of what was expected of us? I would therefore argue passionately for children from basisischool a piece of personal development to give, so that every child learns to trust his own perception, intuition and feelings, so it learns its own dreams and wishes to follow. I am convinced that they be more likely to later be happy and balanced people.
Yours
Corien
Dealing with kindren and wonder:
If we keep doing the same things while expecting new results, this is completely nonsense.
Albert Einstein
Ans Nijland
Lovely as you write. Wonder, curiosity and the questions of children. Well be difficult to answer. Search together for the experience of it is beautiful. My children, I learned much more than book knowledge that I had to fix my head. Much of this I am lost to create space to new experiences.
Yours
Thank you Paul.
we nurture the child in us!
Regards,
Paul Elsen JM
sweet way Paul,
all those magic movies, harry potter etc., indicate how the adult human again wants to believe in fairy tales and mystical, it is again inspired by the playful inner child without being childish, this is I think the individuatieproices as Jung calls it .
children who are so wise and so uninhibited are my constant source.
it belongs to and enjoy playing. I wish everyone has their own inner child to
Hello Paul
Somewhere I read that one time you have worked in families where the family to look more closely. It would be fun if you have a little more time to tell, what a great example of really looking at reality rather than sit behind the books.
Dear Mr. De Blot,
Spirituality is a much abused word to be.
A mostly undefined concept which almost everyone has a different concept.
Wonder? What?
I see life as a mystery.
Nature has no secrets.
It's not a person!
Always a glass to roll until it breaks?
Do intelligent children, who observe the world around them.
Chances are they have already been seen breaking a glass before they themselves come into "play".
Mistakes as the best way of learning?
Popular bullshit.
Vitueel play (simulation and modeling) with the computer is much more effective.
Or imitation of observed behavior that works.
Curious children ask many questions and want meaningful answers.
No mystical stories and pseudo-knowledge that confuse them.
Children have a genetic preference for the Alpha or Beta direction.
Interest growing for one or the other is pointless especially with small children.
It does not reflect their own perception is definitely harmful.
'm Curious for more knowledge and educate my child so on.
With curiosity, but without the mystery, wonder, spirituality elusive and unnecessary paradoxes. Critical and certainly what is being offered as uncontrollable "proved" knowledge and truth.
Sincerely,
Hein de Vries Robles
Dear Hein, Your reply looks neat. Everything in your world seems to me logically explain. What's missing in your argument (except that it abused) is what spirituality is for you now?
Kind regards, Ronald
Hi Ronald,
I agree with that. I am currently trying to get out of underperforming. I sometimes feel like a prisoner of education and training, but the way out means freedom. I would like to go there and grow. Below in the reactions of people I feel the freedom that I long for. And this freedom is also described by Paul. The answer comes from Hein me as a prisoner (like me), but an article about freedom what is sees as a threat. And therefore from that article, kicking. A prison may also feel very safe and because there have always lived in was as pleasant.
Greetings Remko
Suddenly I see in my response to Prof. I. Dr I graduated!
I see that everyone is now Professor Dr. which is an answer. Spirituality at its best
.
We would agree to be running: Adults who "taught" having children! Long live the child in us!
Hi Paul de Blot,
The child in you, cherish it! That's what I have long planned.
But that my rational response to limit my kids did not know.
Will be there the next time even to watch, and where necessary, things just happen.
Regards,
Jos de Jong
Who plays it?
Dear Paul I completely agree with you. Let it live again his playground!
But the reality of the 'normal' life is stubborn and not very "child friendly". I'd like to do an experiment in which a number of people we deal with a project from childlike wonder. The starting point may be a situation with a question. For example, my husband is recently in a wheelchair and is looking for a fun time spent without "feel handicapped. I would love to work with him and five other such childish wonder strange experiment in "fun things to do if you can not walk independently. Where are you? How does it work? Are we creep games or something? Or are we together crafting a special mobile phone, where we are pulling into the world? Or ... we organize parties where there is much more childlike wonder strange and / or wheelchair invite to join?
Who plays it?
Will we end our story of "Mr. Paul and the rest of the world, so they become infected by our enthusiasm.
Let's hear it if you want to support.
Cora
Paul Day,
Thank you again for your article. Nice! That's right, the wonder and openness of a child. Very close and so small, touching the majesty of the All. I think good qualities to achieve growth, but certainly within an individual organization or company: openness and wonder. Yourself more to ask when looking for solutions, "Why not?"
In the same wonder I recognize the wisdom of children. Also from my own experience I know that time conceptions that adults could not use, but which I now know that it is indeed true. Only miss a frame of reference as a child and you are in this sense depends on the context that you provide educators. Then you can in your life your further frameworks to redefine again. That is called growth.
Enjoying a couple of pigeons that are practicing the spring,
Heart Regards,
Vonny Nuijten
Dear Paul de Blot,
A really good argument that I highly agree!
Soon (in March 2010) the following book by Hans Stolp:
'The life mission of New Age Children', who they are and what they teach us-
out. Ankh-Hermes / ISBN 978 90 202 0401 8
With cordial greetings,
Anne Marie Willermann
Another great column, on a subject that I care about most. I am a mother of two wonderful sons (3 and 4.5 years), who still lustily fantasize and see the world with wonder. The oldest is in school and they do their best to inspire creativity, but the system does not always cooperate. What should I do with a button-CITO for 4-year olds? It must meet the standards beginning in my opinion much too soon. My children get the child back to me up, let me look differently at many things, I too will try my best to help them as much and as long as possible to keep children and wonder to hold. It seems to me no coincidence that I just mom since I am in my work so much creativity and inspiration have found, for instance in the form of using storytelling in organizations!
Hi Paul,
How nice to read! I like children very inspiring!
When our children were little, we learned more from them.
Now we became grandparents last Tuesday of
a grandson, ... ....
We must go opmieuw experience, ... ... ....
Great,
Life is good,
Kind regards,
Els Duivenvoorden