Think it over!
Said like that, punishment is apparently a useless approach.
Seriously, it would take a miracle for punishment to cause happiness, love, and cooperation!
It’s something else entirely that causes cooperation and love!
What’s the real answer then?
How do we create Peace and cooperation?
The answer is going to be a heartbreaker for most of us!
These qualities are already within every human!
Peace and cooperation is what humans are all about!
All we need to do is to stop destroying those qualities in infancy!
How could we be damaging peace?
We damage the inner world of each of our children!
Somebody, long ago and already damaged, suggested a method of raising our young that causes damage!
Why do I say somebody already damaged? Because no person still connected with their Instincts and needs could be that mistaken!
I would guess this happened long ago, probably in Europe!
We are still following that counterproductive method!
We are causing our young to find it necessary to disconnect from their feelings because of excessive hurt!
Unfortunately, doing that also disconnects our moral conscience through the loss of our instincts and awareness of our own needs!
What can be done?
We can’t suddenly stop our rules and punishment! We have too many damaged people! There would be chaos!
We can, however, stop damaging any more of us!
That brings peace in every following generation!
The rules would then gradually become redundant, leaving only guidelines, which allow us all to work on the same page!
What to do?
Life comes from within!
We let it!
We stop overpowering each infant’s inner drive!
That’s all! That’s all we have to do!
We can fix the entire world simply by stopping the damage to each infant!
What about guidance for our young?
Life comes from inside!
It is already guided by instincts, and the infant’s needs, but only if the infant can still feel these!
Instincts are the wisdom of the entire human race, right from the beginning!
The primary need of every human is acceptance by others, but it has to be as they really are!
Our infants are already guided by this powerful wisdom of instincts, and their own need for love.
If we interfere, by providing our own guidance, will that be an improvement? What is our guidance? Something somebody once told us?
If we are still connected with our own instincts, we are smart enough to not provide guidance!
Guided by their own instincts and needs, people are absolutely lovely! They are compassionate and cooperative.
We all know good people exist! What made them good?
Discipline and obedience?
I expect we are all aware of how children turn out after excessive discipline!
What makes people good, is getting support in being exactly who they really are!
This condition also provides them with the highest natural inner power, aka self-esteem, as well as the best health possible for them!
Allowing them to develop on their own is also a win, win situation. It’s thousands of times easier. It brings others advantages as well! These children become invested in everybody’s good fortune, and they help! They ask what they can do! It’s true, they actually do that!
What do the infants want?
With every cell of their body, they each want acceptance and support in being who they really are!
Who they really are, is an infant wanting to strike out and learn the world in their own order, and through their own strength!
If you want to see a miracle, allow your kids this freedom!
It’s an entirely different world, a wonderful one! A loving one!
On their own, they can easily accomplish things that we now consider impossible. Look how long it took them to learn to walk and talk, all on their own.
This is how all life works.
It’s only humans that obstruct that natural process!
It has cost us dearly!
What about us?
Most, if not all of us, cannot feel our own needs or feelings, let alone our instincts!
We live in anxiety!
Is there any help for us?
Well, what is available right now, is more like a direction than a solution.
With every step in this direction, we get stronger and more anxiety free!
Our world is improving in its understanding of trauma. The process of reconnecting to our inner world is going to get easier!
The direction toward reconnection is the acceptance of any inner hurt that we already live with!
Right now, that’s a long road!
It’s the only road though that really takes us toward feeling better, stronger, and happier with ourselves!
We just need to stop running away from hurt.
The more we accept the hurt we already carry, the stronger, happier, and more stress-free we become!
When we run away from hurt, we add to our reservoir of inner stress, making ourselves worse, not more comfortable at all!
Thanks for listening!
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Good luck on your own journey!
Take care,
Norm Cormier
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