Thanks for posting this Fiona - it really touched me.

When I woke up, I realised a great deal of what we need to do is for the children. We need to hold the space that they can grow and evolve safely.

Seeing the smile on a child's face and the glint in their eyes is what makes it all worthwhile!

Chris

so beautiful.

Yes, it's amazing the magical impact children have and the joy they bring. Their curiosity, playfulness, openness and joy is inspiring and assists me with playing too! They are a great reminder to find our sense of innocence, fun, joy and wonder... and what masters they can be at being in the moment

Love, Fiona

In the morning I didn't want to see it... I have something wierd with children, don't know...

And now I saw it...and...hlip hlip :')

Thank you

A beautiful video and song.

We should never forget we were all children once, even though we grow old and that in one respect we are still children, still needing and wanting to be protected and loved. How difficult it can be to be an adult, especially when our own parents are no longer around because then one can no longer be anyone's child. Thank goodness we are always a child of God.

Geof

Hi Geof,

It is a beautiful video, I appreciate the reminder!

I feel we all innately posses the child-like qualities of playfulness and joy. One attribute often assigned to children is freedom and how sad that in modern society many of us lose this aspect of ourselves as we grow into adulthood and become increasingly conditioned within the matrix. Freedom is surely something that's worthwhile pursing at whatever age.

Regarding parents, I feel that we need to become our own parent. Rather than looking outwards to others for guidance, we need to discover and learn to follow our own inner voice! After years of complying with other's expectations and trying to fulfill what I thought was "right", it's so wonderful to become liberated from all of that and follow my soul wherever it leads. I also need to find the love for myself from within otherwise I have difficulty finding it anywhere else.

With love and light, Fiona

Hi Fiona,

I can see where you afe coming from about us all innately possessing childlike qualities of playfulness and jpy and I think it;s important to never succumb completely to the heaviness of the matrix, but I don't believe we are all still children. For me, I have often found that I parts of myself start behaving like a child when it touches mostly aspects of my pain from when I was a child, something like feeling childlike when I see a warm loving family man with his children & in the presence of the person whom I may feel drawn to for example, it may kick up aspects of memmories of not feeling I had that for example. I think we go in child mode when we feel touched or when we are ill, scared etc.... I am pointing to the other side of the coin here. Aswell as the lightness and joy that can be taken unless we give it away. But there comes a time when we have to dissolve that shadow child, I feel and keep evolving into the people we are ''becoming'', independent of our conditioning and find the higher love within,the flow of the creative love .Just some thoughts.....

It is I believe in the stillness that we hear the unconditional pure love that the universe creates and keeps creating sop that we may move and evolve oin that flow.. this is what I experience anyway.....

I found a beautiful extract by Ram Dass called BE LOVE NOW
The Path of the Heart

Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You're being loved even more than your mother loved you when you were an infant, more than you were ever loved by your father, your child, or your most intimate lover - anyone. This lover doesn't need anything from you, isn't looking for personal gratification, and only wants your complete fulfillment. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. Imagine that being in this love is like relaxing endlessly into a warm bath that surrounds and supports your every movement, so that every thought and feeling is permeated by it. You feel as though you are dissolving into love. This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It's like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart - not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, 'I am.' This is your deeper heart, your intuitive heart. It is the place where the higher mind, pure awareness, the subtler emotions, and your soul identity all come together and you connect to the universe, where presence and love are. Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object. It's just sitting in love, a love that incorporates the chair and the room and permeates everything around. The thinking mind is extinguished in love. If I go into the place in myself that is love and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness.

Hi Teresa,

You said...

"But there comes a time when we have to dissolve that shadow child, I feel and keep evolving into the people we are ''becoming'', independent of our conditioning and find the higher love within,the flow of the creative love"

Yes indeed, that's totally the Openhand way of looking at it. We have an Inner Child identity formed from the conditioning of our upbringing which it serves us to dissolve.

But I think also what Fiona was getting at, was that even though we dissolve the Inner Child (and other identities aswell), we'll still retain 'child-like' features and aspects of the soul. Such as the innocence, playfulness, inquisitiveness and vulnerability. From my observation, it is exactly these qualities which when fully unveiled, lead to the sense of being unconditionally loved which Ram Dass has described in the quote.

Blessings

Chris

I think that these qualities (joyousness, freedom, openness, curiosity, etc) are found in children because children are allowed to express themselves more freely and the society is as if more tolerant and forgiving towards children. The same qualities in adults lead to such judgments as infantilism.

For some reason adults are expected to have a better control over their impulses, emotions and whatever comes from the inside in order to fit better into the system, to be better controllable, I guess, and not to create too much noise and destabilization around hhhh Otherwise all the rest might also become 'infantile', what a mess for any strict and rigid system!!!

So I agree that these child-like features are just 'normal' human features, which are simply seen in children as a result of still not hiding it all to fit into norm.

I was myself told a couple of years ago I am infantile (so discouraging and saddening), and this year somebody repeatedly told me that I have to grow up hhhhhh

I weigh 60 kg now, I don't want to grow any more, I am already too heavy to carry myself around heehee

Many Thanks for the reminder Chris! Sounds like a perfectly fun divine contract to me, making life all the more beautuiful, free flowing and colourful.I'll make sure I don't loose mine completely in my dissolving of the shadow child.T his is what I am experiencing more and more unconditional love, within the synchronistic flow itself. Pure love. Thanks Fiona by the way for a beautuful clip and bringing up the subject.
Why indeed become robotic and dubbed instead of shining ones's ''true colours'', after all thats probably the reason why poeple like/love people-the way that they truly are, and why children certainly smile & respond more when we are in touch with our inner child and the freedom within, whilst at the same time marking the necessary boundary within those responsibilities.