Difficult children feeling the Wind of the Tree of Life - from a Finnish SYogini

[Guest guest]

I´m also a teacher - or in fact I´m studying now to be a

teacher, but I´ve been many years working as a teacher already.

 

So, I wanted to share with you my experience about giving

realizations at school. It was three years ago when I got a new

fifth class to teach. It was in the most difficult area in the

capital of Finland, Helsinki. Their old teacher had quit because it

had been too difficult class. It was 27 pupils from which 1/3 were

foreigners and many of them didn´t speak Finnish or even English

language. Many of the children were also from alcoholic families and

some of their parents were in jail... So it was a total mess when I

started!!!

 

They were behaving so badly and some of them even so violently that

in the end of the day I was always so tired and sad like somebody

would have beaten me! It was so horrible. Many times I decided to

quit also but always the meditation helped me to carry on.

 

So, one year passed and STILL the class was full of broblems. I

started to be hopeless! But then I heard about one Swedish yogini

who had given realisations to her class by using this kind of story

about " the tree of life " or " tree of peace and silence " which is

inside of us.

 

So, I decided also to try the same. Next day I started the day with

this story. Usually so wild children were totally focused and very

silently listening. And in the end of the story when I asked them to

feel above their head if they feel anything (it was a sign if the

tree of peace had woke up inside of them that it was moving its

branches and leaves and making this little " wind " ) and they ALL felt

it!!! It was so joyous moment!

 

After that day the whole class changed totally! They became

immediately more peaceful and nicer to each other. In fact they

started behaving so well that the other teachers started joking that

I´ve started giving them some pills! Everybody said now that it

was

the best class to teach!

 

After that the children started many times (almost daily) speaking

about God and many of them said that they had started believing in

Him/Her.

 

It really was such a nice year with them. I still miss them! They

were so full of humor - just like yogi children!

 

So, this was my story but if some of you have also experiences about

this topic so please share them with us. It would be very nice to

hear them!

 

Your sister Tiina