November 16, 2011

• Unleash the power of the child within

  Positivity Week Blog Challenge by @Shining_Garnet

   Day 3 - A Positive Story From Your Childhood

   On this day, you tell a story from your #childhood that affected you in a positive way and possibly helped shaped you into the person you are today.

  A wizard principle is that the Wizard has to return to #innocence. Why innocence? Because when we recover innocence we can see the world not as illusion but as it truly is. When we see things without being colored with our education, culture and heritage we can unleash a power. We can find the roots of creativity within us. I often ask how often do we play as adults…what have we lost because we have forgotten to play. This #memory of I have is sitting with my mother paging though a booklet full of ads of furniture. I sat in her lap, feeling protected and safe with no fear. She had a dress on with flowers and smelled like spring. Her eyes were friendly absorbing my every action.

  As she page through the booklet, I will point with my little finger to show her what furniture I will one day be buying for her. She showed how impressed she was with my choice encouraging me to be more elaborate and to dream an unlimited dream. I was invincible…all was possible. No piece of furniture was too expensive and nothing impossible. Not even a king’s palace would have been able to contain everything I intent to buy….In my mother’s lap and with her encouraging smile all was possible. That is the type of innocence we need to recover in order to see again our true self and create a future of magnitude. I did not want to buy everything to show how good I am…not to proof myself.

  I wanted it because I wanted to make my mother happy. A total selfless act for another person. In true innocence we recover also a truth about love…a deep love that is seeded in most people. For me that love was build on a trust in the one person that was there for me in everything. The one person who’s smile meant everything. Innocence is the recovery of true selfless love. Maybe it is not possible to truly return to that innocence but if only, if only we can remember what that innocence feels like, then we might begin to see our limitless potential once more. We will feel again the power of making another happy and the value of a smile. I close my eyes and remember my mother’s hug as I bought her more and more.  

  Today the seeds of hope and #possibility my mother planted on that day is still growing into a tree. She unleashed the power of the child within…if only I take time to remember, I will again access the child who find joy in making another happy. That child was not motivated by money, wealth of power but by a simple desire to be the cause of happiness. I was taught by my mother how to #dream.

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