Nazim Rashid's CLOUDS OF ABUNDANCE
  • Home
  • ABOUT
  • SERVICES
  • EVENTS
  • CONTACT
  • Blog

SELF-ESTEEM part 1

8/24/2017

0 Comments

 
SELF-ESTEEM part 1
 
Having a high self-esteem is essential to anyone’s growth and development and thus critical in making sure your children internalize this characteristic and important need. Having low self-esteem opens the doors to untold dark possibilities as those possibilities match how you feel. Are you the Great Self-Esteem Builder with your children? When you realize that you have a bully for a son/daughter, a withdrawn, isolative or a needy child, you have to act immediately so the problem does not escalate to a dangerous level. Studies have shown that when children are nurtured, cared for, touched a lot at the earliest of ages and continues to be the norm in the household, then the adverse behaviors of bullying, being isolative and overly needy will be at a minimum or non-existent. LOVE CONQUERS ALL. You all have heard this many times but how many of you practice this in every area of your life and how many of you use Love as the guiding principle when you are interacting with your children? Every morning when you first see yourself in the bathroom mirror, you should say, “I am the great Self-Esteem Builder” over and over with high energy and meaning. After a while this concept will seep into the sub-conscious and make a home there. Now when your sub-conscious has a hold to this, you will have this idea as the guiding principle whenever you interact with your children. You see them from a spiritual perspective, seeing only Good, seeing only Love, seeing only a unique one-of-a-kind soul created for the benefit of the world in one capacity or another. With this image in mind of them, when they come home angry, or frustrated, or the blame for some mistreatment of someone, you first are proud you were chosen to be the caretaker of this special soul, and then you get to work to bring them back to a healthy image you know them to be internally.
 
Before you take on the task of being the Great Self-Esteem Builder, you have to have great high self-esteem internalized. If there is some doubt in this area, I would suggest you address that ASAP for you and your children’s sake. You cannot give what you don’t have. You cannot be what you are not. You have to look at Who Self-Esteemed You? If you did come from a high self-esteem environment in your youth, then I congratulate you as you are well armed to now give the same to your children. BUT if you did not have high self-esteem as part of your culture and programming, then you have to work on filling that void in you. Find someone older that you respect that has a high self-esteem, compassionate, validating nature. Imagine that person being your mother or father, constantly building you up and supporting your dreams and aspirations. Imagine the bond and connection you have and how important that was and is to solidifying your life. THIS is what you are now passing along to your children. 

0 Comments

VALIDATION part 3 - Your Models of Validation

8/2/2017

0 Comments

 
​I know you want to be the very best parent and provide what maybe you didn’t have as a child, but do you know how to be that “best parent” when you never saw “that” in your experience? You are a creature of your environment and fruit from the tree of your origin, so it is very important to investigate what that “root” is all about and see if it is something you want to emulate or delete from your present probabilities.
 
In wanting the very best for your children, it only makes sense to find out what your children need to have and see if that is in you to give or is it something you have to find outside of your experience. Being the “child-centered”parent I know you want to be, you might need to connect with new parenting models than the ones you are familiar with in your past. When you try to give something that is not in you to give, you only provide temporary provision. You tend to always go back to what is familiar, what was told to you and what the family custom of parenting was. If you didn’t have a compassionate, empathic mother, you need to find one that is and model after her. Many young mothers say, “I’ll be that compassionate, attentive mother that my mother was not and then everything will be fine.” The test always comes when stress and challenges come your way. It is easy to be wonderful, giving and attentive when life is going smoothly. It is when “Murphy” (from Murphy’s Law) pays you a visit that you forget all about being “Miss Wonderful.” God says in scripture that He will give guidance to those who seek guidance. You have to seek out those mothers who consistently validate, console, stimulate their children to their inherent greatness, provide moral guidance and establish practical perimeters for their little angels to follow in order for them to become loving producers for the world. They’re really are plenty to choose from even though you might think otherwise. You have to fill the void one way or another. 
 
In order for you to be the Great Validator, you have to have models to provide that kind of reference. You can start by producing this kind of model through your imagination, or what I call in my book Reconnected, your “Virtual Reality.” Create this “Mother” and give her all the qualities you know are necessary that your child needs to have. Hold that image firmly in your mind. Start having experiences, relationships and conversations with her and really feel it to your core so it is real to you. Call her by a name of your choice and personify this created reality. You CAN do this and when you do, you will have the Mother Model that you have always wanted and one that will be there for you as you undertake your mothering role. Read books and articles about compassionate parenting and then transfer those traits to your new “Mother.”
 
As you are doing this you will see the new image in the mirror and proudly say out loud “Yes, I am the Great Validator.” 
0 Comments

    Nazim Rashid

    The Compassionate Parent Coach, Author, Personal Growth Coach, Recovery Coach and Professional Speaker. I want the very best for you and I would love to witness you acknowledging the greatness within yourself and acting on the new YOU that you have now become. 

    Archives

    June 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    July 2015
    December 2013

    Categories

    All
    Parenting
    Personal Growth

    RSS Feed

megoWeb Hosting by FatCow