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Wakanyi Hoffman has written a wonderful article and here is my reflection to it:
I like the way the mother of the three year old daughter relates to her daughter welcoming the strangers. She is supporting her open-mindedness and open heartedness. She is also concerned about strangers taking advantage of her daughter's welcoming the strangers. Her concern is valid as we know there are people who may take advantage of her innocence. She came up with a compromise. She found a way to teach her to "read" the room inside her heart, to tap into her natural intuition to sense real safety versus real danger. I trust my intuition for making the right choices in relating to strangers in my life. I do not either naively trust strangers or shun them and stay away from them. I become aware of what kinds of vibrations I feel in my body and mind and act accordingly. Have I been always successful in relating to strangers? Of course not. My philosophy of relating to strangers with an open mind and an open heart has caused suffering in me. I have learned valuable lessons from my suffering: Not to trust strangers blindly. I trust my intuition in relating to strangers and it has helped me to enrich my life. Authenticity, intuition, open mindedness and open heartedness have helped me to truly welcome the stranger at the door of my heart with no strings or judgements attached. There is a joy in welcoming strangers. Namaste!
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Debbie
2/4/2023 03:31:34 pm
This piece and your comments remind me of my mom and my middle niece. My mom would talk to anyone! I remember one time on a Chicago bus she was talking to a older teen or maybe early 20s who had tattoos all over and my mind was saying "might" be a gang member the way he looked. Do you know he smiled and started talking to her. He was all tough grumpy before that. Total 180! Then I thought well maybe that is a good idea if he was going to do something he likely won't now. HA! My niece, same thing. Even as a toddler she'd be in the all and go to the center and all the older people on oxygen were resting and she'd dance and sing and come up to them and give them a hug and even sit on the bench next to them or on their lap. They have taught me a lot and I think the older I get the more I am like that. I should say, while my niece was like that from day 1, my mom was very shy when she was younger and came out of her shell as she got older...which I guess is what I've been doing. :-) I think that is why I miss her spirit so much and wish the world would have more of her now. Ya, I have to do it now. :-) Leave a Reply. |
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