دورة التأمل التجاوزي

I have taught enough families now that I know exactly how day one begins.

 

They come in and it is like a tornado. The children talking at each other, at the parents. The parents shyly trying to calm the children, trying to engage the adolescents. And I smile, because I see this all the time. The parents are doing their best. The children, in their own way, are doing their best. But the tension in the room is usually high, and so is the level of chaos.

 

Most of the families who come to me are living with a version of this. Home life is stressed. The children are hyperstimulated, and many of them are dealing with ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms. That puts even more pressure on the parents, who are usually both working, or one of them is.

 

Nobody in that room is doing anything wrong. That is the whole reason I teach this course in this form. A household under load is not a household with one broken person in it. It is four or five people, each carrying something different, arriving in the same kitchen at the same time every morning.

 

So I do not begin by teaching. I begin by asking. I take the family's own questions, their own worries, the specific thing each person is struggling with, and I answer them in front of each other. By the time I have given them all the information they need, they are usually excited to learn and they are hopeful. Then we start.