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This week I had my FOURTH Official Tai Chi lesson with my 6-year-old grandson. It was profound & has GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS for all of our futures!
CHILDREN ARE NATURALS AT TAI CHI, CHI KUNG, & MIND BODY MEDITATIVE PRACTICES ... IT'S SCIENCE!
I'm opening this story with a little religious history I did recently after observing my grandson's ease with Tai Chi, Chi Kung, and Meditation. I'm selling no religion here, we approach things scientifically, however this shows that the concept we are discovering is that ... introducing Mind Body Education in Public Education worldwide would be a world-altering improvement in education, society, health, and save trillions each year for our economy. So don't misunderstand these religious quotes for proselytization of a particular religion, just a glimpse of the mass of humanity's history of knowing this truth science is revealing now.
WE ASKED GOOGLE ...
Do All Religions Have a “Children Shall Lead Us” Equivalent?
The phrase “A child shall lead us” comes from the Christian lectionary, rooted in passages like Isaiah 11:6–9, Matthew 18:1–5, Mark 10:13–16, and Luke 11:17–28. It symbolizes the child as a metaphor for innocence, humility, and divine guidance — a reminder that God’s kingdom is not bound by worldly wisdom or adult pretense.
While no single verse in every religion matches this exact wording, many traditions share the core idea that children represent purity, trust, and a perspective that can guide spiritual or moral life. This theme appears in various forms across faiths ...
While not using the same metaphor, Buddhist teachings often contrast the “child’s mind” (pure, unconditioned) with the “adult’s mind” (conditioned by ego and attachment). The Lotus Sutra and other texts encourage returning to a childlike trust in the Dharma.
The Qur’an and Hadith emphasize the value of children as God’s gift, and of course the Qur’an held Jesus's words sacred, calling Jesus "the Messiah."
The Bhagavad Gita and other texts frame the child as a symbol of potential and divine play.
The Talmud and Midrash sometimes use the child as a symbol of innocence and divine favor.
Other Traditions
In African and Indigenous spiritualities, children are often seen as sacred, embodying the future and spiritual vitality.
In many oral traditions, elders teach that wisdom comes from listening to the “child’s voice” — the unfiltered, trusting perspective.
NOW, BACK TO MY GRANDSON'S TAI CHI LESSON ...
When I got to his house, we did a bit of everything: Animal Qigong, Punches, Kicks, Stringing Pearls ... physical stuff to burn a six-year-old's energy off a bit :-)
BUT, THEN, we lay down on the floor and closed our eyes, and did a child-like Nei Gong Energy Visualization Meditation, and at the end I put my hands over his face and did some External Qigong ... and he said, "It feels good Yeh Yeh."
When he sat up, his eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "Yeh Yeh, I started teaching my friends how to do this. I taught them how to clap their hands together fast and hard, and then feel the Qi. Then I let my Qi flow from my hands onto one of my friend's face." And then my grandson got really excited and animated as he added, "And he really liked it, Yeh Yeh!"
YOU CAN'T IMAGINE THE "EXCITEMENT" IN THIS 6 YEAR OLD'S FACE ... HE LOOKED LIKE A KID WHO'D JUST BEEN TOLD HE WAS "GOING TO DISNEYLAND" ... IT WAS VISCERAL. I had the impression he'd been waiting his whole life for someone in the "adult world" to inform him that, indeed he was magic, and that its fun and good to explore that in ourselves.
Four weeks into our magical Tai Chi & Qigong world ... AND THE KID IS TEACHING OTHERS!!! You see, children are in an Alpha/Theta Meditative Flow Brain Wave State much of the time up to about age 11 ... and then they lose it, and science shows that this loss has catastrophic mental, emotional, societal, and economic ramifications throughout our local and global society. THIS VISION IS LIKE A RIPE FRUIT HANGING ON THE VINE IN FRONT OF US, OUR WORLD, AND WE ARE STUMBLING AROUND COMPLAINING THAT OUR WORLD HAS NO SOLUTIONS AND STRUGGLE IS INEVITABLE. Our global lack of vision is what's causing our struggles, not reality.
Folks, I'm not trying to change anyone's teaching. I know a lot of us have studios catering to adults, and we teach in senior care, healthcare, corporate wellness, and a few of us do teach children at least occasionally. I'm inviting you to join a growing global movement of people who are simply "talking to other people about this, and sharing the website & Petition: www.GlobalTransformationProject.org
Everyone, keep doing your important beautiful teaching work; you are changing the world. This isn't about telling teachers how and whom to teach. BUT, we are starting a visionary revolution, inviting all Mind Body people; Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Yoga, Meditation, Mindfulness to become a growing force chanting this simple science-based reality ...
"IT IS INSANE, GIVEN THE CURRENT SCIENCE, TO NOT BE TEACHING MIND BODY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION DAILY, KINDERGARTEN THRU 12TH GRADE. IT WOULD SAVE TRILLIONS ANNUALLY AT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD IS GONNA' NEED IT."
Mind Body teachers all over the world should be invited into local Public Schools, to be giving children a life-altering skill of Mind Body Health & Awareness. All of us who teach, who want to teach school students should be ... not asking Public Education to work with them ... but, should be INVITED IN ENTHUSIASTICALLY BY PUBLIC EDUCATION TO SHARE OUR TEACHING ON MIND BODY IN IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED FORMS; Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Yoga, Meditation, Mindfulness.
The world changes based on our vision of our future, science shows this. What are we envisioning? Let's all start a chant for Mind Body Education to become part of Public Education. Parents and Teachers would LOVE IT, because it would make their lives soooooooo much easier.
It would dramatically reduce crime and social costs, help to significantly empty our prisons, cut our healthcare costs by trillions year after year, and make the world a kinder more compassionate place, bullying rates plummet in meditating schools. THIS IS NOT PIE IN THE SKY, this is already happening in visionary schools.
WTCQD FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILD ATTEMPTS TO "FOLLOW STRINGING PEARLS" IN THE CRIB ... WHY AREN'T OUR SCHOOLS TEACHING SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN "MIND-BODY CONNECTION TRAINING" TO CHILDREN NOW?
IT IS INSANE THAT THIS IS NOT HAPPENING ALREADY.
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