Why these children's resources?
A word from David J Riddell, founder and dean of Living Wisdom Counselling and Life Skills New Zealand.
Emotional resilience, a concept that has come to the fore in health and education in our society today, due largely to a phenomenon that was comparatively unknown until more recently; that of despair and suicide amongst the young. In their search for answers to this pressing issue, social and health professionals coined the term to help clarify the reason that some children seemed so vulnerable to failure, guilt, despair and hopelessness, while others seemed almost impervious. What resource was it that made the difference? The battle for morale takes place in the mind of course, but what do those who win have that those who struggle, lack? We wonder at what the human mind is capable of when rightly programmed and nurtured, but what is available for those whose own mind literally turns against them? The human spirit is sorely oppressed when the mind lacks necessary and useful truth for coping with the stresses and fears that life in our modern world can inflict. Today many attempts have been made to address this lack in educational literature, but nothing that combines profoundly grounding insights for life in such a simple format as My Life Rulz.
My Life Rulz (10 foundational mental rules to build a healthy mind on) can be grasped by children of all ages, cultures and aptitudes in a series of presentations, each of which takes a matter of minutes. Using both the verbal, visual and auditory media included, this is encapsulated common sense at its best; simple, comprehensive and profound. It has been tested and developed by the authors over many thousands of hours of counselling clinical practice in both New Zealand and Australia, and comes as part of the larger Living Wisdom Library of Counselling resources.
One dreams of what a better world this place would be if all our children had received the benefit of committing My Life Rulz to memory before the age of 10 years. But what better time to begin the vision than now? We commend it to you with hope and prayer that it will find a vital place in the hearts and lives of our most precious resource - our children.
David J Riddell, Living Wisdom, Nelson, NZ.