Bringing Up Children with the Help of the I Ching
Bringing Up Children with the Help of the I Ching
Handout for the I Ching Seminar in Stow, Massachusetts, September, 2005 19 pages, pdf-document
Table of Contents
A Child’s Natural Possessions 1
The Parents’ Role 1
The Problem with Class-Thinking 2
The Ego Game Played by Girls 3
The Ego Game Played by Boys 3
Introducing Children to the Invisible Helpers 4
Saying the Inner No 4
Learning How to Relate to Fear 6
Teaching a Child to Vacuum his Mind 8
Sports activities. How to win and lose, and to take
sports out of the cult of “must win.” 9
Participating in Community Life 10
Making Pacts and Promises 11
Appendix:
I. Ego-Complexes 12
Deprogramming Ego Complexes 13
II. Removing the Limits we have put on the Helpers’ Abilities 13
Efforts that Engage the Helpers and Efforts that
block them 15
III. Getting to Know Your Fears 16
The Creation of Fears 18
Steps to Free Yourself from a Big Fear 19
Table of Contents
A Child’s Natural Possessions 1
The Parents’ Role 1
The Problem with Class-Thinking 2
The Ego Game Played by Girls 3
The Ego Game Played by Boys 3
Introducing Children to the Invisible Helpers 4
Saying the Inner No 4
Learning How to Relate to Fear 6
Teaching a Child to Vacuum his Mind 8
Sports activities. How to win and lose, and to take
sports out of the cult of “must win.” 9
Participating in Community Life 10
Making Pacts and Promises 11
Appendix:
I. Ego-Complexes 12
Deprogramming Ego Complexes 13
II. Removing the Limits we have put on the Helpers’ Abilities 13
Efforts that Engage the Helpers and Efforts that
block them 15
III. Getting to Know Your Fears 16
The Creation of Fears 18
Steps to Free Yourself from a Big Fear 19