The energy for life comes from within!
Support that, as nature does, and life flourishes.
People too!
Ignore that self-drive, obstruct its flow, and watch the trouble that begins!
This is, by far, the single most important issue that humans need to be aware of!
It sets both our civilization and our remaining strength in life!
Supporting the self-drive of our young creates loving, accepting community, but overwhelming it leads directly to fear and hate!
It is very important that we choose wisely.
Support all life in its own path!
The human race is in conflict!
That’s only because we don’t allow our young to develop from their own inner fire.
It really is that simple! Douse the inner fire of every infant, and what should we expect to happen?
Just like a switch, we get either peace or we get war!
Unfortunately, those forcing their beliefs on us aren’t aware of the importance of supporting the self-development of our infants!
They teach superimposing their own ideas!
We should be guided by our own instincts. As in all of nature, that means support!
Our leaders and our media have chosen to overwhelm each new identity with their beliefs!
This takes us to conflict and war, and that’s the civilization we have created.
The more we do this, the more trouble we get, all the way to murder and genocide.
This is so obvious, it takes a lot of focus to avoid seeing it.
Who are the troubled people in our world?
Those encouraged along their own path?
Or is it those forced into the behaviors and thoughts coming from others?
It’s pretty clear, isn’t it? Those encouraged do well. Those most controlled and directed can never find peace.
Hate!
We can all see that the trouble comes from those who hate!
Those filled with hate scramble for proof that their way is the only one!
How did they get that way?
Their inner energy was never allowed to drive their own development!
Their real identity would never behave like this!
They were told who to be, and what to think!
Fear and hate were the result!
Their actual identity became forced to give up in despair!
The real prize in life was always their identity, guided by their instincts, feelings, and needs!
Once that identity became forced into withdrawal, we got never-ending pain and suffering!
The drive to survive begins in infancy!
A lot of this insight has been unofficially recognized in various places, such as art, music, and social movements.
What has seldom, if ever, been pointed out, is that the process of learning, combined with the critical need for that drive to come from within, begins immediately at birth, or even before.
This is not just a critical need, it’s an absolute imperative!
Every infant needs support, acceptance, and encouragement to power their own development.
For optimal health, that must be consistent, right from the very beginning!
When it does happen, that child’s development is more like an explosion than growth.
Maturity doesn’t happen at 30 years of age. It happens almost immediately.
We watch infants learn to walk and talk. That’s an astonishing accomplishment!
Just imagine if that level of effort carried on!
It can!
With our support for their own inner fire, that’s the real, natural, and normal condition for humans!
So is love, trust, cooperation, joy, and fun.
Supporting them along their own path is how we get all of that back!
With the very best of intentions (for most of us), we are shutting our children down.
We have invented greed, conflict, and war along the way!
The concept is simple!
Life comes from inside!
Let it!
Support it!
It causes a whole different life!
An entirely different world!
The world we all secretly crave, as we go about listening to others instead of our own instincts, and making love and peace impossible!
There is a word for allowing our young to develop from their own inner fire!
We call it respect!
This short article carries only the one terribly important message.
Our environment, along with the quality of our own lives depend completely on whether our infants get to live from the magic of their own unique and all-knowing identity, or does that magical spark get crushed under the bootheels of someone else’s unfortunate values.
We need to parent from our instincts, not the media, and not the authorities!
Thanks for listening,
Good luck on your own journey,
This post is part of https://clarity of innocence.com You will probably need that address to find your way back.
Take care,
Norm Cormier
I welcome considering other thoughts.