Seven Powers
Seven Powers for Conscious Adults
The biggest threat to a child’s sense of safety is an out-of-control adult. The key to safety is a conscious, mindful adult.
The Seven Powers for Conscious Adults
Power of Perception
BIG IDEA:
No one can make you angry without your permission.
GOAL: To teach adults and children to take responsibility for our own upset.
Power of Free Will
BIG IDEA:
The only person you can change is you.
GOAL: Learning to connect and guide instead of force and coerce.
Power of Unity
BIG IDEA:
We are all in this together.
GOAL: To perceive compassionately, and offer compassion to others and to ourselves.
Power of Attention
BIG IDEA:
Whatever we focus on, we get more of.
GOAL: To create images of expected behavior in a child’s brain.
Power of Acceptance
BIG IDEA:
The moment is as it is.
GOAL: To learn to respond to what life offers instead of attempting to make the world go our way.
Power of Love
BIG IDEA:
Choose to see the best in others.
GOAL: Seeing the best in others keeps us in the higher centers of our brain so we can consciously respond instead of unconsciously react to life events.
Power of Free Intention
BIG IDEA:
Mistakes are opportunities to learn.
GOAL: To teach a new skill rather than punishing others for lacking skills we think they should possess by now.