There is a tribe in South Africa. Whenever someone commits a crime in that area, they gather around that person and start reminding him of his goodness and good things that person has done. Eventually the person who has committed the crime breaks down because then he knows how good he can be. This brings a real change in that person.
Well, I use that with my 3.5 years old daughter a lot. She is very naughty and sometime she can be very aggressive. I have seen it, when I scold her or say things like you are naughty etc, she becomes further bad. But when I remind her of her good things and and how good she can be, she is very loving and does all the good things including taking care of all. But that comes when she realizes her own goodness. So her goodness is expanded when she starts discovering her goodness. Her bad side is expanded when she looks at the bad side. So everyday when I remind her of her goodness, she tries to walk that path and she helps others too in being good.
This is what I feel we all need to know. We are good, we all want to be good and we all want to do the right thing. We also have the capacity to be further good. We need to keep discovering goodness in ourselves because then we would expand the better side of this world. Further more, our outer world is the reflection of inner world. What we see in ourselves, we would see in others too. So seeing goodness in self, will help us seeing goodness in others too. Which will help others in expanding the goodness. So discover your own goodness!
