Dakota

Gabor Mate on the energy field

If you meet someone with ADD on the spiritual path, the first thing you have to do is get their attention. I'll have to find a compelling image

This is from "Scattered" Gabor Mate's book about ADD. It's long, so try to stay with me. Actuallly it's not that long, the book is long. You can do it.

"Of all environments, the one that most profoundly shapes the human personality is the invisible one; the emotional atmosphere in which the child lived during the critical early years of brain development. The invisible environment has little to do with parentlng philosophies or parenting style It is a matter of intangibles, foremost among them being the parents' relationship with each other and their emotional balance as individuals. These, too, can vary from the birth of one child to the arrival of another. Psychological tension in the parents' lives during the child's infancy is, I am convinced, a major and universal influence in the subsequent emergence of ADD. ....

A hidden factor of great importance is a parent's unconscious attitude toward a child: what, or whom, on the deepest level, the child represents for the parents; the degree to which the parents see themselves in the child; the needs parents may have that they subliminally hope the child will meet."

He's talking about the energy field in which the infant is nurtured and the projections it absorbs from the parents.

Posted by Dakota at December 7, 2003 06:53 AM