Wholeness and Integration
So what is this concept of wholeness that we are talking about? What does it mean to grow up in an environment that helps you preserve your wholeness? Are any of us really not whole? It is true that at one level of perception — the perception that some meditative traditions refer to as the non-dual — we are all whole and perfect exactly as we are. From this state of awareness, the entire world is experienced as one singular Consciousness. This underlying field of Presence is referred to by many names: Nature, Life-force, Spirit, God, Consciousness, True Nature, the Tao, and Love to name a...
Read MoreWake Up
Here is a little Arcade Fire wisdom for the week. Reflect on how this relates to the topic of preserving wholeness — in ourselves and in our children — and we will come at it again next week. (Hope the sound quality is OK — I had to compress it to get it to fit. Also, you will have to open a new window with the blog on it to read the lyrics while listening to the song. Enjoy!) Wake Up Somethin’ filled up my heart with nothin’, someone told me not to cry. But now that I’m older, my heart’s colder, and I can see that it’s a lie. Children wake up, hold your...
Read MoreThe First Agreement
I am going to start of our series of discussions on Preserving Wholeness with a story to help us become rooted in the wider context of Life. This story points to “the world behind the world” and the “long-view” — two insights that can help re-integrate us when things begin to feel out of balance. The First Agreement There is a mythological story that exists in many cultures throughout the world that speaks to a certain dimension of human life: the drive to become fully ourselves. The African version of it goes something like this: Before we are born, each of us...
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Chris White, M.D. is a board-certified pediatrician whose parenting work aims to optimize the developmental potential of children and their parents. He regularly writes on 
