An interesting experience to report with toddler. This happened right before her third birthday. She was sitting on my lap, facing away from me, deeply absorbed in drawing at a table. Since she was so quiet and absorbed, I decided to silently pray a bit. I didn’t verbalize this in any way. Within 30 seconds of me starting to pray, she whipped around, stared at me, and said, “Mama, what are you praying about?”
She had observed me praying at our family altar many times during formal prayers, and I suppose she could have noticed a subtle change in my breathing, but I didn’t consciously change my breathing or practice meditative breathing.
Would you agree that this ability to notice silent prayer suggests my daughter likely has a more than usually developed mental body or mental sheath? She’s also indicated she can see ghosts (though this has since stopped) and she saw Christ appear in the eucharist at a Latin mass just after turning 2. (That has not been repeated.)
She’s also a normal toddler, with normal toddler meltdowns and goofiness and such. Physically she is extremely robust and “in her body” (more so than my older child, who is very petite and dreamy). But also very attuned to the unseen. She can also read her grandmother’s mind and will ask her about things my mother has only been thinking about, but hadn’t verbalized.
We’re Waldorf homeschoolers, so I’m confident we can give her a good, safe environment to grow in, but I’m wondering if you have any insights or thoughts, specifically about helping with developing the mental body in children? (Not forcing it, of course!)
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She had observed me praying at our family altar many times during formal prayers, and I suppose she could have noticed a subtle change in my breathing, but I didn’t consciously change my breathing or practice meditative breathing.
Would you agree that this ability to notice silent prayer suggests my daughter likely has a more than usually developed mental body or mental sheath? She’s also indicated she can see ghosts (though this has since stopped) and she saw Christ appear in the eucharist at a Latin mass just after turning 2. (That has not been repeated.)
She’s also a normal toddler, with normal toddler meltdowns and goofiness and such. Physically she is extremely robust and “in her body” (more so than my older child, who is very petite and dreamy). But also very attuned to the unseen. She can also read her grandmother’s mind and will ask her about things my mother has only been thinking about, but hadn’t verbalized.
We’re Waldorf homeschoolers, so I’m confident we can give her a good, safe environment to grow in, but I’m wondering if you have any insights or thoughts, specifically about helping with developing the mental body in children? (Not forcing it, of course!)
Thanks!