All children are born aware. With each passing moment they seem to literally absorb the world around them. In the first few years of life children perceive, receive and synthesize a staggering amount of data from the world around them.

How can we cultivate continuing awareness of self and others in our children? The first step is to cultivate our own awareness. Parents and grandparents, teachers and community leaders, spiritual guides, counselors, healers -- we all can take steps to awaken ever deepening levels of our own consciousness.

Awareness is the natural state of human beings. We are all born aware with a body, mind and spirit able to "soak in" the world around us. But many of us learn over time to diminish our awareness. As a result, the richness of our life experience and ability to connect deeply with others and the world around us is also diminished.

Raising Awareness offers adults techniques and suggestions for re-awakening awareness. If you would like to receive free "Raising Awareness" tips and techniques through e-mail, simply join the E-Walk mailing list and click the "Raising Awareness" option.

Read EarthWalk Founder Valerie Thea Vandermeer's series in on children's awareness recently published in Children of the New Earth Magazine. Go to Article.