#31
Yesterday's Nice Thing: Sitting in the sunshine in winter and doing maths
Well it is Thursday. We began the Renaissance this week and it has been going well. In fact it went so well yesterday that I left the class feeling great. And yesterday I found out why a child found it so hard to concentrate.
There is this thing called the ego organisation. If it is absent then the person's behaviour becomes erratic and uncertain. They sort of become vampires on other people's egos - they are reaching out for other people's egos. So, often with people like this they need one to one attention - and of course if it is in a small school, it is easier for this to happen.
I am going to take a massive risk at the start of the next Class One which I do and talk about the importance of certain things - and talk about the Steiner understanding of the human body. The ego is the part of the HB which helps it to say the 'I'. If the ego does not incarnate - and there are many reasons, then the person is like a horse without a rider. Which is fine if you are a horse, but to be honest, animals also have egos - they don't have individual egos, they have group souls, which help them to act accordingly.
Why is it hard for the ego to incarnate? Well, there are many reasons - trauma is one. If you have trauma, then the ego is shocked out of the body and this we see can happen at any age. The ego withdraws and you can be depressed, or disorganised, or maybe just go insane. Trauma can also be emotional trauma.
Other reasons - having no routine - this disorganises the other bodies and results in the ego being unable to enter fully. The ego is least present in children and the easiest way to help the ego to enter is to create some kind of routine for them. A healthy routine. One with lots of sleep, lots of good food, lots of good stimuli.
Having nothing to incarnate into - when life is pointless and desolate it becomes apparent that the ego is not very interesting in coming in - so beauty and hope are something which we do in spades in order to create a sense of wonder and imagination for the world around us. So that when the human being turns 28, when the ego fully incarnates, they can take off and see the world
The education we do is precisely this: it is not about preparing a person for life as such, but to LIVE. And to live with all strength and ability - to self actualise. That is what we prepare children to do.
And if it is being undermined from elsewhere - media, social media, the home even, then what is the point?
The other really super important bit in this is that parents must be authority figures - to be examples of authority. To act as the ego of the child. This means saying yes and no - if you don't say yes and no how is the child to learn about yes and no? It is ludicrous.
Yesterday I was so so tired. So tired. It will continue until Friday where I promise myself that apart from cleaning the house, I will do nothing. Nothing. I will just clean the house, do school prep and nothing. Oh yes, make Hollandaise sauce, like I promised Oisin. But that's it. IT.
And go running. Cos I didn't run all week.
And no more dancing during school weeks. Honestly, what WAS I thinking?
Well it is Thursday. We began the Renaissance this week and it has been going well. In fact it went so well yesterday that I left the class feeling great. And yesterday I found out why a child found it so hard to concentrate.
There is this thing called the ego organisation. If it is absent then the person's behaviour becomes erratic and uncertain. They sort of become vampires on other people's egos - they are reaching out for other people's egos. So, often with people like this they need one to one attention - and of course if it is in a small school, it is easier for this to happen.
I am going to take a massive risk at the start of the next Class One which I do and talk about the importance of certain things - and talk about the Steiner understanding of the human body. The ego is the part of the HB which helps it to say the 'I'. If the ego does not incarnate - and there are many reasons, then the person is like a horse without a rider. Which is fine if you are a horse, but to be honest, animals also have egos - they don't have individual egos, they have group souls, which help them to act accordingly.
Why is it hard for the ego to incarnate? Well, there are many reasons - trauma is one. If you have trauma, then the ego is shocked out of the body and this we see can happen at any age. The ego withdraws and you can be depressed, or disorganised, or maybe just go insane. Trauma can also be emotional trauma.
Other reasons - having no routine - this disorganises the other bodies and results in the ego being unable to enter fully. The ego is least present in children and the easiest way to help the ego to enter is to create some kind of routine for them. A healthy routine. One with lots of sleep, lots of good food, lots of good stimuli.
Having nothing to incarnate into - when life is pointless and desolate it becomes apparent that the ego is not very interesting in coming in - so beauty and hope are something which we do in spades in order to create a sense of wonder and imagination for the world around us. So that when the human being turns 28, when the ego fully incarnates, they can take off and see the world
The education we do is precisely this: it is not about preparing a person for life as such, but to LIVE. And to live with all strength and ability - to self actualise. That is what we prepare children to do.
And if it is being undermined from elsewhere - media, social media, the home even, then what is the point?
The other really super important bit in this is that parents must be authority figures - to be examples of authority. To act as the ego of the child. This means saying yes and no - if you don't say yes and no how is the child to learn about yes and no? It is ludicrous.
Yesterday I was so so tired. So tired. It will continue until Friday where I promise myself that apart from cleaning the house, I will do nothing. Nothing. I will just clean the house, do school prep and nothing. Oh yes, make Hollandaise sauce, like I promised Oisin. But that's it. IT.
And go running. Cos I didn't run all week.
And no more dancing during school weeks. Honestly, what WAS I thinking?
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