What a fantastic program!! Without real world, practical application spiritual awareness is useless.

Thanks for sharing, this is hopeful news.

Great!

Raising little Kabbalah kids in the image of Madonna. I'm sure the world can't wait for this phenom.

Self esteem born out of spirituality stripped of it's religious core is like Aarons' sons offering strange fire and being consumed by same.

Pass

Great Idea and thank you for sharing Alison. Just yesterday I thought I should join the PTA. Soo much still needs to be changed within our school systems and this idea sounds like change is coming our way : )

Alison,

Spirituality for sensual, emotional, mental and physical health -- now we're talking! Early brain development is critical the first years of a child's life. When spirituality is our frequency the brain/body supports health. Thanks for an inspiring post.

Trish~~

Alison, thank you for bringing the attention to a beautiful subject,

Were and when do we start, when speaking of introducing spirituality to kids ? In teenage years? In childhood ? In infancy ? Would it be better to start at the time of the conception, or perhaps right at the core of our own relationships with each other here and now?

Where do we draw the line, when calling a child no longer a kid ? At ten ? At twenty ? At forty ? Of course we all are kids in comparison when it comes to growing up from the age of attachment to the worldly toys. Yet again The World we are toying with is urging us to grow up into being the children of God.

All this is true, yet speaking of here and now, of the actuality of the moment it's obvious we need to equip the children with the tools with which they can manage their now.

That was the concern of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi that the human brain receives the harmonizing vibrations which will help to unify the left and the right hemispheres of the brain in order to enliven all the areas of the brain to create the coherence in the brain-waves which in itself is the basis of the harmonious living-thinking-doing-enjoying the bliss that life is.

Our Teacher insisted that it is of no use to develop just any particular area of the brain, as it happens when the student studies a specific discipline chosen by him (for him), as his subject of study, often at the cost of an atrophy of its other parts. Instead it was suggested that in order to succeed in any area at its maximum one needs to have a total enlivening of all the brain potential, and the way to do it was simply to introduce the practice of meditation as early as possible in the child’s life.

Thus in the TM movement the kids have a special walking-mantra which does not require for a child to sit down and can be introduced from the age of four.

Talking about the schools, this might be interesting for those who wished to know what has been going on in the last couple of decade, when meditation has been introduced in schools as a part of its program. Please check a few links for your own consideration, you’d never regret it.

This is the one established by David Lynch Foundation:

http://www.istpp.org/news/2007_11_dl_foundation.html

These few are about the effect of the TM in the so called Stress-Free schools:

http://www.stressfreeschools.org/

http://commongroundmag.com/2004/06/tminschools0406.html

http://newsinitiative.org/story/2007/07/24/transcendental_meditation_in_schools

With Love to all

Jai Guru Dev

This is a very important lesson for anyone to learn, and I appreciate the idea that children can be taught to understand the importance of being spiritually aware. The concept of the beads becoming a necklace is an important point. In humanity, in a village, what is the thread that holds the people together? What is the link that causes them to become a community? All are individually simply another person, but some common thread causes them to become a community? Is it simply the thought of I am my brother's keeper? Or is it something much more concrete? An agreement? A covenant? At what point, does humanity become only neighbors and friends instead of family?

Thanks for the lesson. I cannot help but wonder at the children of the world who need to learn that to give is to receive. It is a great gift just to learn of the plight of others sometimes, isn't it?