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“As Jung said: ‘The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of the parent’. ‘If”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Your children are not your children,’ wrote Khalil Gibran in The Prophet. ‘They come through you but not from you. You may house their bodies but not their souls. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.’ We get twenty years, if we’re lucky, a minor chunk of a long life, not to be frittered away by throwaway lines about drudgery. I want”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“No matter what we think of ourselves, our baby looks at us like we’re the most glorious being that walked the earth. Who else looks at you like that? Who’s feeding who here?’ SELF-REFLECTION”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Observe closely the next small child you encounter,’ as a prime example of living in the moment. ‘They are naturally balanced, living-in-the-present, stress-free beings. They are so focused on the present moment that they are entirely spontaneous, unpretentious and usually very happy. They are in a constant state of effortless meditation.’ ‘Babies are true Zen creatures,’ says paediatrician Dr Howard Chilton. APPRECIATION”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Here’s what’s on offer for meditating mothers: increased energy, calmness, the ability to be more attentive, joyful and available. To be able to take life less seriously, to see the light and the lightness. To tone down the resentment and irritability. And best of all: not needing as much sleep. Not”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“I wanted to raise children infused with love, empathy, happiness, resilience, security, courage, compassion and connection, with a radar for right and wrong and an innate sense of self (and I do) then I had to get with the program. ‘We”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Connection heals. At any age. Think how much we would have all liked that from our parents.’ Sue Gerhardt, who co-founded the”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Sometimes when it’s very dark and quiet’, says Dr Sarah Buckley in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering, ‘we may be comforted by the image of mothers and babies all around the world, sleeping and waking through the night: a vast blanket of nocturnal mothering spreading as the world turns to darkness, and folding away with sunrise.’ ‘God”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Every day you get a fresh chance to interact with your child in a way that heals both of you,’ writes Dr Laura Markham in her book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids. ‘Keep choosing love.’ A”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“An infant is pure spiritual gold. Cherishing her innocence is the way to find the path back to our own,’ says Deepak Chopra in his book The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents. ‘So in a very important way it is the parent who sits at the feet of the baby.’ It is up to us as parents to pass on the principles of spirit to our children. ‘Every child has a spiritual life already. This is because every child is born into the field of infinite creativity and pure awareness that is spirit. But not every child knows that this is true. Spirit must be cultivated; it must be nourished and encouraged. If it is, then a child’s innocent spirit grows up to be strong enough to withstand the harsh realities of an often unspiritual world.’ ‘Raise children as if they’re intelligent and ask them questions, ask them lots of questions,’ Knoles said. ‘You don’t just want to be an announcer: here’s the announcement of the truth. You want to ask the child what the truth is. What’s the truth here?’ I”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Here’s what my children have taught me so far       Gratitude       Appreciation       Positivity and optimism       Mindfulness       The art of staying present       How to things in perspective       How to surrender and let go of the past       Spontaneity       Time management       The importance of staying conscious       The gift of being rendered choiceless       Love: so much love       Gifts for life”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“I am trying (really trying) to be present. To live, as much as possible, in-the-moment. ‘I look at the children at breakfast every morning and I think that child will never ever be the age that they are today ever again,’ says Tim Brown. ‘They’ll never be like they are in this moment ever again, there’ll never be a day like today, and that’s the thing that brings me back into the present.’ The”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“One of the greatest gifts children bring us is the way they guide, if not force, our attention back home to the present … Once jaded, world-weary parents can find themselves lying in their backyards fascinated at the proceedings of an ant colony. If we let them, children can teach us the value of time with no objectives, a skilful kind of laziness, free from the need for productivity.’ And”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“The newborn baby and its mother are old and loving acquaintances at birth, who cannot wait to set eyes on each other. Thomas”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Tell your child that you love them and, if you forget to tell them, when they’re sleeping whisper in their ear that you love them,’ prescribes family yoga teacher, author and mindfulness expert Leonie Percy, who believes there are many ways to reconnect with our children. ‘That actually goes to their higher self, their consciousness, and that alleviates so much guilt of motherhood. Because they know. They hear you.’ Ever”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“The amount of information having to be processed by a human being in one day in this day and age is similar to what someone one hundred years ago would have processed in a lifetime.”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“am surprised to find myself raising my boys so much alone. I had anticipated we would do this together, us mothers, all bucking in and sharing the load. It wasn’t help I craved but company. They say it takes a village to raise a child and, I wondered, Where’s my village? We are not designed to live in nuclear families — the extended family model is imprinted in our DNA — yet most of us do. We’re so caught up in our own lives there’s no time to help out in anyone else’s. It is suggested to me that my reticence at asking for help or letting others in might be a side effect of having been born premature. Psychologists say, so vital is the wider network for the development of healthy, happy children that if we don’t have one, we must make one. For someone like me, that is a far more daunting proposition.”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Children will notice the raindrops going down a window, they’ll notice the light, they’ll notice a rainbow, they’ll notice little things all the time — Oh, there’s a bird call. They really are wide awake. Their sensors are open and receptive and as adults we’ve tended to shut down so to be in the moment with your child you suddenly learn to live all over again actually. Which makes it just such fun.’ ELIMINATING”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Know who you are, live your own dreams, find your own purpose and love yourself unconditionally because I’m just watching, observing, absorbing and I will do so with great intent … The best gift you can give me is your own unfolding, your own awakening. So move, go, fly”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“For motherhood is of the mind, and the body is usually subjected to the mental processes, unless any gross abnormality exists.’ I”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“There is no bigger responsibility than guiding a life. There is no greater job on earth.’ I”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“The Circle of Security map is a user-friendly guide to a child’s emotional state as it moves from attachment to exploration and back again. The ‘safe haven’ of the parent or carer (one who is ‘bigger, stronger, wiser and kind’) is illustrated by an inviting pair of grownup hands. ‘My behaviour actually means that I need you,’ the cartoon toddler says with arms upheld. ‘Stay with me until we both understand this feeling that seems too much for me alone.’ That”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Remorse is followed by forgiveness and letting go whereas guilt tends to lead to ongoing anger towards yourself, a lack of forgiveness and, for some strange reason, repetition of the action that caused the guilt in the first place.’ Remorse I know too well.”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“When they ‘misbehave’ is when they need us most (the same way we tend to behave the worst with those we love best). How utterly radical: to attune ourselves to our children. Have we veered so far off course that we need to be taught how? Contrary to everything I’d been led to believe, it was such a relief to hear for once that I didn’t have to take up arms against my son or shut him out for his efforts. I could hold him closer through his upset without fear that my love and affection might be ‘reinforcing bad behaviour’, as I had so often been cautioned. Our children desire nothing more than to be loved by us. To come closer. I couldn’t see for the life of me what could be wrong with that. It’s”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“the antidotes to guilt as kindness towards ourselves, and forgiveness.”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Love, love and love some more. We can never love too much. What would love do now?’ I ask myself often. And therein lies the answer, in most scenarios. Love rules. •”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“it’s always possible for a parent and child to form a bond. ‘I’ve known it with twenty-five-year-olds,’ she says. ‘There’s always redemption. There’s always a positive, always a chance to build bridges. It’s never too late.’ ‘Healing”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“But every day is an opportunity to make amends. It’s never too late to be the mothers we aspire to be. We just have to choose love.”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen

“Once I accepted that as the way it is, and even came to appreciate it, knowing it would not go on forever, once I stopped fighting it, expecting something different, I could surrender, go with it, and find peace. No less exhausted but less resentful.”
― Jacinta Tynan, Mother Zen