Positive Energy

Positive Energy

I know this topic may sound a little "out there" for me and maybe for my readers, but I think it is worth the risk.

I am 're-listening' to a motivational speaker, Dr Wayne Dyer, on CD. The set is called, "Excuses be Gone". I highly recommend everything I have read and listened to by this man. He really speaks to me, and he seems to make a lot of sense. Anyway, listening to these CDs again has got me thinking--as he always does--about positive energy.

The idea is that you attract into your life--whatever 'that' is---what you 'are'. Now just think about that for a minute. Wow--that means, to be happy I need to first be happy. Now that sounds paradoxical and not possible but it is really a wonderful way to live. In other words, if you want to be happy (and you are not) you just have to start believing in happiness and things will start happening in your life to make you happy. This sounds way too simple and way too 'out there' to work. But, believe me, it works.

Let me give you an example. If you are sad--your energy and thoughts are on sad things. If you just consciously make yourself think about happy things then you start to feel better--if only a little bit. Try it, it really works for me. The idea is that your thoughts really have power over you mood, actions, interactions with people, etc...and therefore positive thoughts bring positive energy into you life---I say it is worth a try.

A saying just came to mind, 'fake it until you make it', or something like that--in other words, if you do not feel particularly happy, but you 'fake' happiness, you may 'attract' something into our life that really will make you happy.

Enough about that. I sincerely hope someone comments on this post--it would be very helpful to me--but, no pressure, if you enjoy reading and do not want to post, just send me your positive energy!

Montessori

Wow, it is not hard at all to connect the dots on this topic and the classroom. When the teacher is positive and uplifting, the classroom is a much happier place.

Children are great this way. They are so much more pure and honest about their feelings than adults. They are completely sad one moment and completely happy the next. I just love their ability to be so present in the moment that way.

I do not believe in 'telling' children how to feel. Just like all of us, their feelings are real and belong to them. But children tend to follow your lead. If adults are moody, sad, or tense, I believe they will pick up and reflect those emotions.

People who care for and teach children, in my opinion, have a greater responsibility than the average person to understand this. We teachers are constantly an example for our students. We can not 'turn off and on' our influence and affect on the children. Every sigh, gesture, and frown, is seen and felt by the children. Isn't it so much more wonderful to give them smiles, nods, and positive feedback, the vast majority of the time.

If we are positve almost constantly and without really thinking, then the occasional correction will be so much more meaningful and effective. But, if they receive to much negative and only the occasional positive, the positive gets diluted in the negative.

I hope this make sense to my readers--it is what I try to do in the classroom and whenever I am around children. It really works wonders for me.