A Spa for your Soul

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A Spa for your Soul (for the Teacher's Soul) (1)

 When do I have time to think about my soul?

 Well, I guess it is not a question of thinking....it is a question of priorities in life.  I am not speaking about becoming mystics.  I am referring to an awareness in life, that makes it worthy to be lived.  We human beings pay lip service to a lot of things that "should" be done, leaving them for later, when we have more time, when we finish the course, when our kids grow up, when I retire, when, when, when, when,,,,,,,,,,,

What we need is an awareness that life is what is happening N OW, that we can't keep postponing the possibility of a more mindful, joyful and soulful experience.

We are teachers, but our job is not limited to teaching a few structures, or helping someone utter nice sounds only......well, we can choose to be merely a "language activator" or to be a Teacher with capital letters: someone who can give a lot generously, because we know how to replenish ourselves easily through a permanent contact with who we really are., our passions, our ideals, our mission in life, our vision of a better world that can only be achieved through high quality Education, with committed teachers who see beyond the material aspects of teaching.  I am not saying the concrete tangible things in teaching are not important: quite the contrary.  What I am saying is that we need  to see beyond them, and use them from the internal conviction that ours is a blessed profession.  We have a great responsibility, which is a gift.  We all have a treasure inside waiting to be discovered, polished and put to use.  We all need the courage to be who we are meant to be. 

 

A Spa for your Soul (2)

 

 

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, SOUL is "the part or a person that is not the body and is thought not to die; the central or most important part of a person; the quality that makes<

fecha del articulo: 4/17/2008