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The Individuation Process: Why It’s Important!

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Quick Facts

-Some of us find meaning in disassociating from society and become a whole, authentic individual!

-The individuation process often includes meditation, the subjective discovery of who we really are, and the integration of the parts of our personality that are ignored, pushed away, or unnoticed!

Intro

The individuation process is something that, while painful, strange, and sometimes overwhelming, is one of the more important things you can do in your life! It helps bring you from a state of unconsciousness to a state of self-awareness, and my argument is that self-awareness is worth the process it often takes to reach it!

What Is The Individuation Process?

Carl Jung was a famous psychoanalyst who lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some argue that he was (and still is) the greatest and most effective psychoanalyst in the history of mankind, and the reasoning for these assertions became clear after I read his books! He was (at least) a genius, and I make this conclusion after the application of his methods played a role in healing/integrating someone who was as broken as I was. It’s one of those instances where if his methods could help me they definitely have a high chance of helping you!

His method called the individuation process isn’t necessarily a method, rather it was him writing down a set of conclusions based on what he observed in himself and others. The details of the process and the process itself are different for each individual, however, he observed some common patterns experienced by many of the people who began such a journey. These are:

The Shadow Archetype

The Anima/Animus

The Self

The shadow archetype is an archetype composed of all of the traits you suppress, deny, and/or ignore within yourself. Jung observed that integrating these traits is often (if not always) the first stage of the individuation process and arguably the most important. Consciously integrating your shadow allows you to gain control of it instead of the other way around, and I’ve personally experienced this.

The anima is the feminine component of the male and the animus is the masculine component of the female. The man projects his anima onto the females of his life and the woman projects her animus onto the males of her life, and integrating this part of yourself is another step towards becoming psychically whole.

Then there’s the self. The self is described as the wholeness of your psyche, which is distinguished from the ego (the ego is a part of the totality of the psyche). It’s often represented by the wise old man and woman, although personally, I experience it as source.

These three landmarks (mind marks?) are common to experience in one form or another, although most (if not all) of the individuation process happens differently for you than for everybody else. This process also seems to bring different people to different “endstates,” and I describe an endstate as a state of mind that’s at or near the end of the individuation process, and it is a state in which one can be considered to be enlightened.

Why It’s So Important

The most notable change I experienced throughout this process was how much true bliss I began to feel. Before I started I was quite the anxious mess, and 3 years later the experience is quite different in a good way! When people talk about enlightenment I don’t know if they understand what they’re talking about – yes, part of it is sunshine and rainbows, but another part of it is coming to terms with the darker, ignored, more sinister parts of life; even the buddha saw the streets beyond his father’s castle before he reached his enlightenment! Perhaps this isn’t always the case, but I suspect that facing and integrating the less desirable aspects of your personality will provide you with much meaning, positive control, and bliss.

Another reason why it’s important is that it shows you what’s beyond the herd mind (or the acquired mind as Jung would say). Staying within the herd mind for too long will probably result in a less-than-desirable life, whereas the individuation process brings you into a state of wholeness. Or, in other words, being relatively unconscious of yourself will probably breed suffering, and being relatively conscious of yourself will probably breed success and happiness!

And of course, you get to explore your inner world while you do it. Your inner world is something amazing, something that’s meaningful in and of itself, and the more you go into it with the intent of becoming psychically whole the better you’ll feel, and the better life will be!

My Personal Experience

I grew up with a narcissistic father and a very submissive/manipulative mother as my parents. I was the oldest child which didn’t help much, growing up was really tough – my mind was warped, my self-esteem didn’t exist, I had to walk on eggshells all of the time, they didn’t truly care about me or my opinions, I was forced to homeschool and miss out on crucial socialization, it was religion or hit the road – the list goes on and on. I finally moved out of their house and began to heal from the deep, deep depression I was suffering from, and a large part of that was my journey through the integration process over a period of 3 years!

It was pretty grueling, especially at first – I faced my dark thoughts and feelings, disidentified from them, reintegrated them, and “matured” them into something useful and regenerative. I faced my insecurities, my shame, my fears, and angers… And after a while, it started to become fun! Nowadays I enjoy facing the dark/undesirable parts of my being because the individuation process works so well for me. 

I want to share what worked for me in my time of darkness – it was, specifically, the choice to heal and become everything I wanted to become. Everything else came after that, and I can genuinely say that I’m healed and integrated largely because of the individuation process itself 🙂

Tips and Tricks

There are, however, some things I wish I knew before I started! 

-It’s best to cultivate an open mind, even if you already have one. This can be done by saying/thinking, “I choose to open my mind” “I choose to open my 3rd eye.” Often this will be a consistent choice made over time as opposed to a one-and-done deal.

-It can be hard when you’re facing your shadow for the first time. I didn’t know how hard it could actually be until I attempted it! Sometimes I felt a fear so intense I wondered if it would be the death of me, and I feel as if you may go through the same experience as well. If you become very afraid while you’re facing your shadow and/or the dark parts of your psyche I recommend disidentifying from the fear itself so that you can see it (the shadow aspect) for what it really is. If you wish you can address the fear at the same moment.

-Patience. I thought that after you disidentified from a negative belief, disidentified from the need for the negative belief, and replaced it with a positive belief the negative mood would simply vanish into thin air. But that’s not necessarily the case! Perhaps you dealt with that one problem correctly but there can be 20 other beliefs that contribute to the crummy mood/bad choices/destructive habits, etc. Please be patient with yourself while you do this, it may take a while to fully emerge on the other side.

-It’s so wonderful on the other side! When every part of you is discovered, disidentified from, and integrated there is a kind of peace and control that makes all of the effort genuinely worth it! And you can begin feeling this way even if you’re halfway through, granted it won’t be as intense or meaningful, but you’re rewarded along the way as well as at the end!

-Also, if you don’t know where to start, let your imagination run wild, ask yourself questions about yourself, and feel/see everything in your inner world with no judgment! 

Conclusion

While the individuation process isn’t very well known it’s very effective for bringing about subjective well-being. My question to you is, are you going to choose to be well/keep being well? 🙂

Thank you for reading my article! This one’s important so I really appreciate your attention, I’ll see you next time! 

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Source: What Is It? How Do We Tap Into It?

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Quick Facts

-Source exists, but it can be quite the process to find!

-We can find it through meditation, life experiences, and by consuming psychedelic substances!

Intro

Source is a word used by the elite of our time; they use it to refer to the boundless energy that can be tapped into and access whenever we choose to do so.

When I say the word “elite,” of course, I’m referring to those who are the most conscious of our time. They are the true elite after all!

I’ll love to go in-depth with this because I wish I had someone fully explain source to me when I was beginning to wake up. I’ll explain some things and help clear some other things up, enjoy the read!

What Is Source?

Source is a word that refers to a meaningful subjective happening, some would argue the most meaningful subjective happening. I experience source as an ever-moving stream of metaphysical light accompanied with an intensely positive feeling, sometimes I’ll even have visions with the same feelings. I separate source from imagination because source is more powerful and more healing than imagination; with imagination, I simply see within my mind, but with source I feel like I’ve come across something spectacular, ever-flowing, meaningful, healing, and positive.

I saw/felt source most prominently while I was coming down from my DMT trip. I saw it as an orb of white light on top of a red grid, and I felt like, well, how you feel when you’re coming down from a DMT trip :p.

I experience this phenomenon every day, sometimes without even meaning to! It’s become so frequent that I’ve simply accepted it as a part of my life, even though I wouldn’t have even conceived of it as a young adult. This leads to my next question…

Is Source A Myth?

In a word, no. It’s something that’s accessed with an open mind and positive intent (“I choose to experience source”), and usually, it’s subjective although it’s possible to see source in the physical world as well.

Many people assert that it’s a myth, and I thought it was a myth for a long time. I couldn’t experience it for myself so it must have been a made-up scam to reel in gullible people and take their time and money! Then I took psychedelics… And, as Hicks would say, “I had my 3rd eye squeegeed clean. Er ee er ee er ee er ee!”

The biggest obstacle to experiencing source is skepticism, such a gnarly bastard. “Well, you can’t trust it, just stick with what you know.” “Yeah, but what if it doesn’t work?” “Don’t you have other things to do today?” “It doesn’t exist, you dummy, stop being so gullible!” Skepticism, of course, has its roots in fear… And fear is really a low, dull, and boring way to experience life. 

How Can We Access It?

Psychedelics will automatically blow you right out of the water if you take the right doses. I recommend 1.5-2 grams of psilocybin mushrooms (weigh them out) and 50-100ug of LSD (one or two tabs) for your first time, although a source-experiencing dose looks more like 3.5-5 grams of psilocybin and 150-300ug of LSD. 

Meditation works.

Choosing to open your 3rd (usually on a consistent basis over time) eye works.

Going through the individuation process works (IE, disidentifying from thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that are detrimental to your life and becoming yourself through integration and more). I argue that this is one of the more effective ways to experience source since you’re actively building and integrating yourself while getting rid of the things that no longer serve you, on a psychological level.

And if you try one or more of these things and nothing happens, don’t fret – sometimes it takes consistency, dedication, and practice to be able to experience source on a whim!

Why Should We Access It?

If experiencing source can take a lot of time, effort, and concentration, then why do it?

Looking back on my own life I feel like the changes I made to be spiritually transcendent were just as meaningful as the actual transcendental experiences themselves. Opening my mind, disidentifying from my dangus beliefs, becoming who I wanted to be, making the right choices, creating the right intentions, becoming self-aware – I did all of these things before I sat back and really experienced source (aside from psyches). 

Now that I think about it, all I really had to do was choose to experience it, but it’s a good choice since experiencing source leads to psychological and emotional healing, among other positive phenomena.

It also seems to be an “end-state” of sorts. Experiencing source, as far as I’m concerned, is the state I experience after I shed everything else away. When I disidentify from an important archetype that controls my life what I experience in its place is source. It’s the place I want to be. It’s hard to explain unless you’ve already experienced it for yourself.

Conclusion

In conclusion, source is real and worth experiencing, even if it takes a while to really experience it. After all, it’s the same state we experience with psychedelics – who wouldn’t want to live in that state while they’re living their day-to-day life? 🙂

Thank you so much for reading my article! I trust it was helpful to you in one way or another, and I’ll see you in the next post!

A Positive, Regenerative, Conscious Belief System

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Quick Facts

-It’s very helpful to assume a positive, conscious, regenerative, loving belief system if your current belief system isn’t serving you very well.

-You can always change it and rearrange it to apply to you and your current circumstance!

Intro

I’m glad you made it! You’re reading a post about positive, regenerative, conscious beliefs so I’m quite impressed.

As many of us know beliefs are a very powerful part of our life. Our beliefs can very well be filters for our actions if we embody and act them out, so everyone knows this and does their best to create and live out an amazing belief system that does wonders for them, right?

I wish. But I choose to take it a step beyond a wish – I choose to create an amazing belief system that you can (most likely) adopt and have your life go in an upward spiral. Please keep in mind that this probably isn’t as effective as you creating your own belief system and that it isn’t as effective as not believing anything at all (the state of the mystic). With that said, let’s check it out!

What Counts As A Solid Belief System?

Let me be very careful so I don’t fall into the land of belief while I answer this question:

A solid belief system enables survival, health, sexuality positivity, love, communication, understanding, and the advancement of consciousness.

Why? Well, we have to survive if we’re going to keep playing the game the way we’re playing it. Sexuality, of course. I include psychological, emotional, and physical health since being in pain lowers our chance of survival and since it’s usually an undesirable feeling/way to be. I feel like positivity goes beyond simply being healthy in the sense that it’s regenerative and that it feels good, and because it seems like that’s what life’s all about I’m a certain sense.

Love, of course. Communication because giving and receiving signals that can be transformed into imaginative images and understanding enables our survival and expansion of consciousness. And because understanding and the expansion of consciousness seem to be meaningful and pursuable phenomena in and of themselves!

I include no more and no less because survival, positive feelings, expansion, and more seem to be the name of the game! I’m certainly opposed to any beliefs that are self-limiting, beliefs that aren’t an accurate representation of reality, beliefs that hurt the believer and everyone around them, etc.

What Are The Benefits of A Great Belief System?

Why adopt an amazing belief system, anyway? Isn’t it better to go with what you believe already? 

For some, maybe! However, I wish I had a belief system to adopt when I was younger, I was simply a giant mess. My beliefs were all out of whack and I suspect that writing this down will help you if you’re anything like me!

The benefits, of course, are uninhibited survival, the creating and sustaining of positive emotion including passion, sexuality, confidence, love, intuition, knowledge, and more, the giving and receiving of meaningful communication, the obtaining and sustaining of knowledge and understanding, and the advancement of your self-awareness, self-liberation, and overall consciousness. How does that sound?

The Beliefs

Here are the beliefs themselves:

Survival – “I deserve to survive with no inhibitions.”

“Surviving is easy and effortless.”

“I find fulfillment through taking care of my responsibilities.”

The creating and sustaining of positive emotion – “I feel passionate.”

“I feel sacred.”

“I feel sexual.”

“I feel pleasure.”

“I feel humored and humorous.”

“I feel confident.”

“I feel enthusiastic.”

“I feel love.”

“I feel intuitive”

“I feel like I know.”

“I sustain my positive emotion as long as I choose to.”

“Negative emotion does not distract me from the fact that I am in control of my own emotions.”

Communication – “I communicate effortlessly.”

“I regularly give and receive meaningful communication.”

Knowledge and understanding – “I regularly give and receive meaningful knowledge”

“I understand everything I prompt myself to understand.”

The expansion of consciousness – “I keep an open mind.”

“I regularly expand my consciousness.”

“I choose to open my 3rd eye and keep it open.”

Creating A Belief System

What I’ve added above is a solid body that covers the bases! I have done my best to create a belief system that effortlessly intertwines with itself since cooperation seems to be more meaningful and more effective than competition.

Feel free to add any beliefs you wish to add! You know your situation better than I do so I greatly encourage you to take that into consideration and create your own belief system, like I’ve mentioned above. But if you feel quite depressed, lost, or if you don’t know where to start, here you go! 

Conclusion

Thank you so much for reading my article! I’ll see you next time 🙂

On Depression

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Quick Facts

-Depression can result in a vicious cycle – a nasty thought appears in your head, you believe it, it makes you feel negative, you act out the negative emotion, and reaffirm the belief.

-This process can happen subconsciously! 

-One of the best ways to break it is to ask yourself, “which beliefs are making me feel depressed?” When they appear you can write them down, ‘disidentify’ from them, and stop acting them out. Then you can create better, more positive beliefs!

Intro

I wrote a post about depression on my website already… Even though it’s helpful I want to go in a different direction with this post and leave the old one as it is, there’s another perspective I will adopt while writing about something as deep and dark as this!

The Cycle of Depression

A fundamental fact about depression is that it’s psychological and biological at the same time. Whether or not a depressed person’s depression originates from a psychological or a biological source should be analyzed on an individual basis but psychological problems breed biological problems and vice versa.

Let’s think this through – in a hypothetical scenario, I have 20 negative beliefs that I’ve completely identified with and act out. Since I’m acting out these beliefs I will probably slump my shoulders, unnecessarily tense my muscles (especially my neck and face muscles), chew my food improperly, have a sedentary lifestyle, accidentally injure myself because I’m not paying attention to where I go when I’m walking… My body definitely suffers whenever I act out detrimental beliefs, and when my body hurts more detrimental beliefs will form, and the cycle continues until something terrible happens.

Let’s go the other way – if you genuinely have a biological root for your depression (genes, a low serotonin production, etc) you will feel and act in a certain way. Feelings and actions often influence beliefs to form, and if you feel depleted or if you don’t feel good a lot of the time you may form detrimental beliefs from that state of being (although maybe not), and the cycle continues.

I have seen people who were so, so deep into the cycle. So deep you guys. Their mind was warped, their body was warped, and they were genuinely beyond repair unless the entirety of humanity came to the rescue all at once. I’ve been in a pretty bad spot myself, and I successfully climbed out of it by dealing with my detrimental psychological beliefs and by taking some physical substances!

How To Fix The Psychological Part

From what I’ve observed, most of the depression in most of the people who are depressed come from psychological sources. Usually, this means acting out detrimental beliefs and the suppression of one or more emotions. 

It’s important to write down each and every detrimental belief that you hold, even if you don’t act it out. I say this but it can be easier said than done, it took me a long time to figure out each and every negative belief I picked up over the years. It doesn’t have to be all at once. 

How you figure out what you believe is you either ask yourself, pay attention to how you feel, or open your 3rd eye and see the playing out of the belief as an image or a movie. When you’re paying attention to a feeling/image/movie you can ask yourself, “Why is this here? Which belief (or beliefs) brought this into my being?” You’ll use your intuition to answer yourself and then you can write the belief(s) down.

Once you’ve written your beliefs you can begin the self-analyzation part of it. I encourage you to take one belief at a time and disidentify from it, which essentially makes it so that the belief isn’t part of your ego, or worse, possessing you. You can keep expressing that you’re letting the belief go until you feel like you can objectively criticize it.

Then, objectively criticize it. I like asking questions such as, “why did I believe this? What purpose does it serve? What are some better beliefs to believe that get me what I want in a better way?” Once I understand why the belief is there and which beliefs can replace it I go ahead and throw the old belief away and replace it with the new ones. Sometimes I won’t even replace the old belief, I’ll just throw it away.

If you do this and you still feel depressed you still have some negative beliefs that you haven’t written down and disidentified from yet. Negative beliefs have a nasty habit of hiding from you when you look for them, so a bit of searching (in my case, years of searching) and a lot of patience is the key. However, once you have truly disidentified from every one of your negative beliefs I wouldn’t be surprised if your depression simply ceases to exist!

How To Fix The Biological Part

So, what if your depression stems from a biological source? What if you’re physically suffering from depression even if it started as a psychological issue? 

This part is a lot easier to fix because we greatly value the physical world as opposed to the subjective world. You can go to any kind of doctor for any kind of pain and they will probably be able to treat you effectively, SSRIs do wonders for many people, and there are even ways to heal many chronic injuries.

I personally vouch for psychedelics, cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, and DMT to be exact. The chemical psilocybin acts similarly to serotonin and it’s a better long-term solution than SSRIs since they tend to lose their effectiveness over time and psilocybin does not. The only reason they’re illegal is because they work, as I’ve explained before, but since they’re illegal you may have trouble finding/growing these things on a consistent basis. Thankfully, cannabis is easy to find/grow and you probably won’t have to take a whole lotta mushrooms before your biology becomes rewired for the better. DMT, of course, is a natural chemical that we produce so smoking it doesn’t do any harm to our biology whatsoever – quite the opposite.

Other Things To Know

If you’re in a depressive state I suspect that the most prominent belief looks something like, “it’s hopeless. It’ll never get better. No matter what anyone says I’m just going to suffer. Nothing works, nothing helps.”

I’ll address the last point and say that it simply isn’t true. It’s factually, objectively incorrect because even if you hold onto that belief as much as you possibly can, I know that 5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms will force you to let it go and heal anyways. Please keep in mind that just because you believe something doesn’t mean it’s necessarily an accurate reflection of reality. 

Also, bringing yourself out of your depressive slump may not be that difficult. It may be very easy! However, I write this post for those who are like I was, extremely depressed with little to no hope of recovery. I’m writing this post for my past self because this is what I needed to hear, and so I wonder if it’s what you need to hear as well.

And one last thing, you can do it. No matter if someone in your family died, you had a terrible life, you have PTSD, it doesn’t matter – you can heal yourself from your psychological bullshart and become the healthiest person you know! I recommend doing the psychological work first and starting on your physical ailments right after 🙂

Conclusion

Thank you for reading! I hope that following the steps above will work for you, and I’ll see you in the next article! 

How The Educational System Should Be Improved

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Quick Facts

-Our current educational system in America isn’t very effective! We don’t teach many things that we should be teaching.

-There are many ways of letting a child learn without having to rely on an institution to teach them.

-We should teach our children how to think, speak, and write. We should teach them all about mental, emotional, and physical health. We should teach them how to build and keep healthy relationships. And more!

Intro

The educational system has a lot of potential in America but it doesn’t live up to it, often through no fault of the teachers themselves. I’ve personally seen and met many teachers who say what the problem really is, and I’ll take the next step by offering some pieces of information we should teach our children and by offering some systems that work by replacing the educational environment. Enjoy the read!

Why Institutions At All?

It’s a good question. After all, children naturally learn everything they need to as they grow up and discover the world! We never needed schools to begin with and we still don’t, especially with how terrible many of them are in America – all we really need to learn is language and (maybe) mathematics.

Let’s think it through – if we had no schools then children would stay at home. Since they’re naturally curious they would ask questions and the parents would answer them. But since they’re naturally curious they’ll want to see the outside world. The patents let them see the outside world and, of course, they meet new people who teach them new things, often naturally. 

Depending on their level of curiosity they’ll ask more and more questions and learn more and more things as everyone around them educates them and as they educate themselves. As they grow up they’ll probably have many connections and have at least a few marketable skills, and they’ll have enjoyed it in the process since they were naturally being themselves all along.

Schools are not a need, but a want – we like to build these complex corporate environments and tell our children to educate themselves so they can make money in a complicated world. But what if the child did better by spending their time building a skill instead? What if they take the time they would have spent in school and use it in ways that benefit them more than school would? Many of us don’t consider these questions because we tend to assume that we know best and that they need to be taught what’s right (with some key exceptions of course)!

My answer is this: having these institutions can be beneficial if we are teaching our children the right things. This is the reason we have them, not because they’re just a place to send our kids to every day. We certainly shouldn’t make them mandatory, but a choice, and a choice that would benefit them if they made it!

Things Worth Learning

“Okay then, what are some things that are actually worth learning?”

There are some things that are worth learning early on in life! These things include:

-Language and math. If we cannot speak we may have a hard time communicating, and being able to count things and perform calculations is quite useful. We don’t need to overdo it, but if the child can and wants to excel that’s fine too!

-How to be psychologically, physically, and emotionally healthy. We should definitely teach our children some basic (and possibly in-depth) information about how to be and stay healthy on these three dimensions. This is one of if not the most important part of my post – I really want to see our schools teach this vital information to our children as early in their childhood as they possibly can, especially when it comes to the value of healthy food and how to cook healthy food.

-How to think, speak, and write. There are many ways to think, learning how to speak is an art in and of itself, and being able to write effectively opens up all kinds of opportunities!

-How to form and maintain healthy relationships. This. Is. Huge! If school taught us how to form healthy relationships instead of throwing us into the fire we would probably be okay for the rest of our lives regardless of the skills/talents we have/develop. Everyone has their friend type(s) and being able to stay within those friend groups (and to approach new ones) with great socialization skills taught in school is a solid solution to the lack of socializing that social media has brought upon us.

-Emotions and emotional intelligence. Can you imagine how far we’d go if school gave us an accurate description of every emotion, how it feels, what the long-term effects of holding onto that emotion are, which ones are positive and which ones are negative, and that we can more or less control our emotions at all times? We’d never have any questions about passion, confidence, fulfillment, meaning, love, happiness, intuition, understanding, or sexual desire because we learned about them and how to feel these things in school! This part is very important too not only because emotional fulfillment is important, but also because many of us in America are actively searching for it.

-Speaking of sexual desire, we should go above and beyond our normal sex-ed and give them basic information on how to genuinely please men and women. This will save some frustration from both parties later on in life!

-Intelligence and spirituality. I want our schools to show our children the works of intelligent and spiritual people, and what it really means to be intelligent and spiritual. This way they at least see the sides of life that, if they develop, will help them live better and more fulfilling lives.

-Real-life, tangible skills. Some skills that come to mind are woodworking, welding, driving, gardening (and generally tending to the earth), mechanical skills, and the option to transfer to a trade school for the last 1-3 years of high school.

-How to self-improve and how to self-realize! If you know how and which areas to self-improve in you’ll be just fine when you get out of school, and knowing how to realize yourself (opening your 3rd eye, psychedelics, strengthening your mind, etc) is… Well, the thing to do.

-Beliefs and intentions. Since beliefs and intentions are so f-ing powerful we should be learning about these within our first week of starting school! We should teach them what they are, what they do, how they can use them to live in well-being, and all about negative beliefs and intentions as well… As a start! As an extension to this, we should teach them how to distinguish between positive and negative (regenerative and detrimental) behavior and feelings since these are offshoots of what we believe and intend.

-How to stay strong in hard times. So many people just blow in the wind when a trial or a hard time comes around, but we should be teaching their children how to stand up during hard times and how to be successful while doing so.

-How to live a healthy, balanced life.

Our school systems should definitely be focusing on teaching these things instead of what they’re teaching now. Schools in America have gotten so lax that they’re producing graduates who don’t have a single clue about the things they should know, and this should’ve changed yesterday.

Systems That Work

I also want to give some alternate systems that work just as well (if not better) than the current educational structure we see in America. 

-First, we can have a system where we don’t change anything from what we see now except anything that is needed to teach our children what they should be taught. This is probably the most pragmatic solution because we can keep the structure the way it is and only make changes to accommodate the fact that we’re teaching our children all of the things I mentioned above.

-We can have no schools altogether. This also works as I mentioned above – we don’t have to make life so complicated, and I assert that letting life become simple again is healthier for us and the environment.

-We can build a system where no part of school is mandatory and everything’s optional, kind of like college! Does your child struggle in math but excel in woodshop? Pull them out of math and put them in woodshop! School doesn’t have to (I argue shouldn’t) be mandatory, and having school/parts of school be optional seems to be best for the child as well.

-Depending on the child/children in question we can give them the option to self-educate. This will work if the child is ambitious and expresses a unique interest in a subject or two, they should be allowed to pursue it/them and receive credibility for it. This can also work in combination with sending them to school!

-Also, we as parents can simply do what’s best for the child overall. I understand this requires attention and effort, but each child has their own wants, interests, strengths, and weaknesses, and helping them go in the direction they naturally want to go without interfering too much (IE, forcing them to participate in a broken school system) is definitely a better option for your precious child!

Conclusion

The educational system largely shapes how well and successful our children are for the rest of their lives. Right now, at the end of 2020, the school system in America is setting its own children up for failure by failing to teach them the proper things and by failing to encourage the parents to treat them in the proper way. It’s truly a mess, and I encourage you to take some of the mess upon yourself and clean it up as best as you can.

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