Clarity of Innocence

Most, if not all of us, feel sad.

We live with that sadness for life.

Why?

WE DO IT TO EACH OTHER

Life is designed to be driven from within.

We don’t allow that!

Are there consequences? What would those be?

The loss of self-esteem. The destruction of the driving force behind the lives affected.

And loneliness. Massive loneliness throughout humanity.

All life is driven from within. It’s the nature of life.

But we like to control our children’s lives. Is that a bad thing?

Sadly, when we refuse to allow others to power their own lives, they lose that ability. Yes, we have crippled them. We have crushed the power they should have had for their entire lives.

The consequences are beyond anything we could have imagined. By interfering in the natural flow of life, we have changed our world from a loving one to a war zone.

People are naturally loving. We have changed this. It’s now a world of desperation.

We choose to believe our control is normal and necessary. Believing that allows us to feel important. We have lost our own feelings of importance, and controlling our children makes us feel a little better.

How did we lose our own feeling of importance? Others wouldn’t allow us to live from our own resources. Our own hearts.

We lost our instincts, feelings, and awareness of our own needs when others refused to allow us to live from our own hearts. We lost our power.

The very best that we can ever be only happens when we have complete freedom to power our own way.

Everything good and wonderful about humans comes from deep within.

Honor, compassion, love, trust, loyalty, and the strength to stand up and defend those qualities all come from within us. Instincts, feelings, and our own needs work together to provide us with all our loving human qualities.

By not allowing our children to live from the power of their own inner strength and goodness, we have eliminated these wonderful gifts from our population and our world.

When we shut down our children’s natural right to live from their own hearts by forcing obedience instead of allowing their lives to be self-driven, we have excluded all loving human qualities from our environment. That’s how we got where we are now.

Supporting our children in their own efforts has become unpopular. Mankind seems to think we can take charge of anything we choose to. At the same time, we have apparently chosen to ignore the consequences of our own actions.

Just look at the consequences, though.

As it turns out, that alone has turned our Garden of Eden into a war zone!

Proof?

Stop doing it, and watch everything right itself. Every time! Allow our young to live from their own internal power, as all other life always does!

We have destroyed our own loving environment. We are still doing it. We stand committed to guiding and controlling our children. But, as with all living creatures, they are already self-guided and powered.

Left to live from their own drive, they are loving and compassionate that way. That’s the true nature of all of us. But it comes from within!

Stripped of their inner strength, our children lack self-esteem and can be brutal. They have to abandon connection with their instincts, feelings, and awareness of their own needs to respond to our demands.

WHY ARE YOUNG LIVES SO FRAGILE?

Early life carries enough power and instinctive wisdom to drive itself through life.

But that’s not nearly enough power to challenge a grown adult who threatens them with violence if they don’t obey.

For a new life to roll over and obey, it requires them to abandon their own driving force. Otherwise, they live with internal conflict.

And so, that life enters an existence of sadness, vastly diminished capability, and confusion about who they are and what their purpose is.

Just consider it. What else could we possibly expect when we take over lives that have been designed by nature to power their own way?

Sadly, this attack on our own self-esteem at such a young age is why we all hurt.

What should we expect, though? Seriously.

We take over a life designed by nature to drive its own existence, force it into obedience instead, and we still expect it to be successful at living. That’s impossible. It can’t. We effectively cripple it in infancy.

FREEDOM

Those of us who value freedom need to understand that it must begin at birth.

We are all living creatures, and therefore, our power comes from within. Grown children can’t take over their own independence at 18 years old and then find their own way. Most of their inner strength is long gone by then.

Proof? Allow your children to drive their own development. The younger, the better. Observe the miracle that happens.

Conflict and hostility disappear. Love and cooperation break out. Why, do you suppose, that happens?

It happens when we stop causing damage. It happens because we have stopped causing damage.

Life needs its self-driving power. We destroy that when we take over. Why?

To nurture is to support and encourage. It doesn’t mean forcing another life into obedience. Forcing another life leaves it hollow. The energy to forge ahead has been destroyed, or it would never have obeyed.

Life is designed to be powered from within. It’s not something that we can take over. Other lives do not belong to us. They belong to themselves.

These are the rules of life and nature. Mankind hasn’t even tried to understand the consequences of ignoring and crushing the basic drive of our youth. Well, look around. Humans are loving creatures. Remove their power, though, and they become warriors, but not in any good way.

As guardians, our job is to help. not to weaken.

All life nurtures its young as much as it can. People, though, have become too arrogant to follow nature’s rules.

We all have to pay for that mistake, not just those who have caused all the damage.

Our leaders make recovery impossible when they insist on teaching control over people. If only the leaders were the wisest of the mix.

People are at their most loving and kindest when allowed to live from the power and goodness of their own hearts. Everything good comes from within. We won’t see that goodness, though, if we don’t allow anything to come from within. All we get is the bad. Is our world bad enough for you yet?

But, under our peer-pressure-driven lack of wisdom, we live in a war zone rather than our natural, loving environment.

It takes very little to permanently damage the self-drive of a young life. Then we lose everything good that normally comes from within them.

Life has to be driven from within to remain loving, strong, and undamaged.

That’s what life is. We can’t change that by deciding otherwise.

Now, in this troubled environment, our ever-present peer pressure is the opposite of wisdom.

It dooms our possibility of ever being happy. Even if we keep up with the changing demands of others around us, there is never any reward for our sacrifice.

Bowing to peer pressure always works against our own happiness.

Achieving so-called success in this unnatural environment is an empty victory.

Happiness, along with loving behavior, both come from a completely different source.

What source? Our own inner strength and power!

Peer pressure takes that away from us.

FEELINGS

Feelings are part of our inner strength. Instincts guide and power this entire show.

The original driving force that powers us into life requires respect, along with permission to do its job.

Mankind may never understand much about the source of life. That power knows what it’s doing, though.

The very best of every life always comes from within. Why would that be?

In our case, it comes from our needs. We need close relationships more than anything else. Allowed to live from our own internal power, it’s our needs that make us kind and compassionate to others. Our goals will be kind. We will be loving.

We will also be proud of who we are. All life naturally is, unless damaged somehow.

We are supposed to get support and encouragement for our inner strength and wisdom throughout our growing years.

When we never feel that support, the ugly face of peer pressure enters our lives.

HAPPINESS

All life has been designed to power itself.

That’s what life is! A collection of strength and cells powering their way into this world.

But, everything good about it comes from the driving force inside!

That’s what we are. That’s what all life is. We all instinctively understand that. Why, then, do we listen to those who don’t understand anything?

INSTINCTS, NEEDS, AND FEELINGS

Mother Nature gave us an absolutely wonderful gift!

Humans are the most wonderful and loving creatures on the planet!

Kind and gentle, we are generous to a fault. Each and every one of us!

But, it wouldn’t appear so right now, would it?

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US?

Peer pressure happened.

Instead of living from the kindness of our own instincts, needs, and feelings, we are living from the peer pressure and the craziness of the world around us.

Why don’t we know any better? Misdirection and confusion have been happening to us from our very first days on this earth.

The only time most of us ever felt accepted while living from our own energy was in our very first days of life.

THE GOOD IN US

Everything good in us comes from within us in the form of instincts, needs, and feelings. We need each other. We crave close relationships. That’s who we all really are.

But we won’t be aware of that if we can’t feel anything inside ourselves anymore.

Life is created and designed to be powered from within. All life!

As young children, we don’t have the strength to defy authority and still live by our own inner values and wisdom.

And that’s what has happened to each of us.

That’s what we hurt from. It’s no wonder we feel sad.

WE LOSE OUR POWER IN INFANCY

That’s what all the screaming is about. It is never about colic. Sickness is usually the consequence of an attack on our own self-driven nature.

Does our despair feel natural to you? Is nature ever that intentionally cruel to developing life? Of course not. We will all need our natural strength to make it in life. We need support, not orders.

People who no longer live from their own instincts, needs, and feelings can be cruel, and a whole lot worse.

Parents can’t be blamed for that. We can’t feel an infant’s pain at this point in our lives. Most of us can’t feel much of anything! This peer pressure environment is destructive beyond imagination. It’s the emergence of evil.

ARE THINGS HOPELESS?

Not at all. It’s an opportunity.

Mankind seems to have a billion problems to fix.

But, we don’t. We only have one.

Somehow, we need to get it through everybody’s head that we must allow other life its own power.

That, alone, solves every problem that mankind faces.

Really. People living with understanding and truth are always aligned in their goals. It just happens. Conflict doesn’t exist.

Our task is to understand.

We need to allow our young to keep their own self-drive. It’s the only natural strength they will ever get.

They will need that strength later, when they’re on their own.

Force them into compliance, and they will lose that battle. Then, never recover their original strength.

That explains the confusion and helplessness our young suffer from in these troubled times.

INDEPENDENCE

The last word.

Will children be harder to get along with if we allow them to keep their own drive and strength?

You are not going to believe what actually happens. It’s the opposite of what most people will expect.

Quite quickly, depending on their age, children can’t do enough for us.

This is real. It really happens.

All children ever want is to power their own lives and be part of what’s going on.

These are natural rights, by the way. It’s life.

Every life has a natural right to be itself. Having to obey and please is not a natural duty!

The right to be themselves is natural!

Is that too much to ask?

The relationships that happen when we allow others to live their own path, from their own energy, are not something anybody from this world is going to believe. It has to be experienced. It defies our peer-pressure beliefs, which, though we all accept them, are nonsense. There is no understanding or wisdom here.

Allow a child to live from their own hearts and watch the magic. It’s an entirely different universe!

The intensity is overwhelming. The comfort is beyond imagination. The love is comforting beyond explanation.

It’s all free. It’s natural. All we must do is allow it. The loving world of humans is still effortlessly available.

All we have to do is stop preventing it! Our arrogance, orders, laws, and whims must go. Respect and nurture need to replace it. Nurture means to support and encourage. Things can’t get any worse. Try it. Prepare for natural love, cooperation, and peace.

People are naturally cooperative to an unbelievable extreme.

We need to stop listening to those who don’t know what they’re talking about.

They have brought us here. They have pushed their agenda until most of us believe in controlling everything. They are the roots of peer pressure. Why would we believe things that never, ever work? These bad ideas cause conflict. Then, we make more rules, causing ever more conflict.

We do all this to a creature that wants nothing more than to be itself and be kind to others.

Why would we watch our loving nature be destroyed and not question the wisdom of those who overpower our own instincts?

It has created a world so dangerous and uncomfortable that many of us leave it of our own choice. It’s that bad.

Everything good in people comes from inside.

Encourage that, and all our problems go away.

But that’s just the start. The reward of honest and loving relationships waits for us. It’s unbelievable what is not only possible but actually normal for humans. Comfort beyond our wildest dreams. It’s there for the asking.

The only price we have to pay is to allow others the right to be themselves.

Seriously, is that an unfair request? Why would we ever even question that need for respect?

What is there in the entire universe that could ever be fairer and more righteous?

LIVING FROM WITHIN

It can be relearned. We can recover from believing so many wrong ideas.

If we are to relearn to live from our own hearts, we are going to discover that we are wrong about a great many things. That’s not our fault. The propaganda comes from all around us in our world.

Our own instincts are our finest source of true wisdom. Trust that, and it returns us to acceptance, trust, and kindness. Also, personal power and unbelievable relationships.

First, must come a rejection of peer pressure. It has never been helpful. It invariably directs us into conflict. Just listen to the quality of it. There is no way any of it ever came from wisdom.

There is, however, actual wisdom available. It comes from within. It carries the wisdom of all time.

Rejecting peer pressure leaves a vacuum. Something far better is available. Reaching inside ourselves as deeply as we can, there is a different way of seeing our situation in life.

Our feelings will vary as we consider opinions and options. There is wisdom here.

Instinctive wisdom. Choosing wisely actually does feel better. We have to relearn how to listen to our inner voice to discover that.

There is no mistake. Doing the right thing actually does make us feel good. That will be a new experience for most of us. Just feeling good will probably be a new event.

In this “listening” condition, we will experience a growing sense of more power. Others will respond to this. We no longer feel hollow. We finally have a purpose.

Relationships will change. It is impossible to ever get across how good relationships can become. Allow others to live from their own hearts, and you might get a watered-down glimpse of that astonishing comfort and security. The upper limit to this comfort is very, very far from anything in this world. It’s amazing. It’s comforting. It’s beyond our belief.

The trick is to ignore peer pressure. For some reason, it’s as wrong as we can ever get. Always!

Then, we need the growing ability to feel our own inner instincts, feelings, and needs. With peer pressure out of the way, this becomes progressively easier. Mistakes will no longer happen because we have become powered by instincts and wisdom. Our path of life will begin to carry ever-increasing weight.

Letting go of bending ourselves into other people’s wishes removes most of our internal pressure. Relieved of that pressure, it becomes a little easier to sense our own wishes. This keeps getting easier. Our comfort level will already be much better.

We will quite likely doubt many of our newfound wishes. They will not match our previous goals. Our ambition will gradually redirect itself. It was always about being important, but now we are on a road back to natural importance, which actually satisfies.

Goals based on anger and defiance will fade away. That never came from within. It’s a consequence of hurt that should never have happened. In our new condition, healing can at last begin to ease our hurts.

Living from the inside works both ways. We have the right to refuse to allow others to manipulate our behavior or thoughts. We learn to reach inside ourselves and listen. It gets easier. We don’t have to worry about the rules. Our own needs will guide us far more honestly and gently. All along the way, though, we need to be granting others the same natural right to be themselves.

People seem to have concluded that we should decide what everybody else should feel, think, and do. Does that not seem crazy to you? Do you really think that could work? Is that what any life is?

Along our path of rediscovering our own inner lives, a few surprises happen.

We discover that there is no longer any need to conceal anything about ourselves. That happens. It’s a part of living from our own hearts. Hiding ourselves comes from peer pressure, not strength or wisdom.

Another cool thing that happens spontaneously is that we lose all fear of speaking up. It becomes effortless to speak to an entire room. Anxiety doesn’t exist anymore. It’s because we lost the need to conceal anything about ourselves. That fear came from peer pressure combined with what we chose to keep hidden. Living from our hearts, that fear is gone.

Step-by-step, we become loving and compassionate. That comes from the inside, and we will feel it progressively more as we get better at listening to our own inner lives.

We will, of course, become better liked. The acceptance and love of other people do things to us that have never happened before.

What turns on our lights?

We probably don’t know. But we will find out now that we are listening.

The acceptance and love from others are the medicine that we have lived without for all these years. The peace and comfort that we have always yearned for will come to us unexpectedly and effortlessly. We don’t have to earn it.

We just need to be our true, honest, real selves. All the way from deep inside.

Thanks for listening,

Good luck on your journey.

Take care,

Norm Cormier