Do You Love Being Different?

Posted 2016-08-27

R E V U E

The main reason I offer daily tips and guidance is because our goal is to enact a massive shift in consciousness — from the control orientation that most of us have lived with and internalized for years, to a partnership orientation that is the key to a truly empowered life, satisfying relationships, and a joyful parenthood.

It takes daily practice to undo years of conditioning and embody the values of Partnership, Authenticity, Trust, and Heart. This week, a new subscriber brought to my attention another requirement: the courage and resolve to leave the herd and walk your own path.

She is embracing the partnership path wholeheartedly, but she also feels the relentless influence of the dominant culture on her family. How, she asked, does one live according to a new vision while immersed in the old one?

The good news is that children are able to differentiate between their family culture and that of society at large. They internalize family culture more deeply, even if they need to explore mainstream culture at times, so you don’t have to change the whole world, just focus on your home world.

Children can even differentiate between multiple value systems in the same home, as is common when one parent embraces partnership while the other is more conventional. As long as a child has at least one truly empowering adult-child partnership, the potential for partnership culture to flourish in that child at some point will remain alive and well.

While seeking an answer for the new Daily Groover, I realized that a good portion of the grooves and articles I’ve written are intended to bolster readers’ resolve to uphold the PATH vision despite criticism and lack of support from others. So I’ll end this Revue with a list of my writings that, if you read them all in one sitting, will leave you feeling powerfully determined to stay the course...