We can often become so caught up in our heads, and our eyes, that we forget our true nature.   Today's column and verse helps us to reclaim our true nature by looking deeply into who we are -- through our child's eyes.

Today's Morning Cup offers a verse that directs our attention to another being's eyes, and from those eyes to our child's eyes and to our own.  Breathing deeply, we see more clearly what it taking place in the present moment.

Today's Morning Cup examines the diversity of emotions our child experiences and how, as we have matured, we may have lost touch with some of these feeling states.  Today we attend to our child's feelings with an open heart, to see if we can touch (relate to) those emotions, thereby gaining greater insight into ourselves and our child.

Today's Morning Cup invites you to see the similarities between yourself and the sun.  Expanding awareness to embrace the sun's wondrous qualities of patience, warmth, and abundance, offers the opportunity to deepen your connection to your child, youself, and other beings.

April Fool's Day reminds us of the value of opening to whatever arises with a fresh eye by playing the fool.

In this Mindful Cup podcast, we transform reading into an experience of mindful awareness. Reading cue us to our breathing and our child's breathing which begins the process of becoming more gounded in the here and now.

Today's Morning Cup opens awareness to both the impermanence and the repetition of the sacred moment in which we saying "Good Night" to our child. We become more mindful of the moment, and appreciate the untold generations who have shared in this beautiful ritual.

An easy to learn four stanza visualization brings you back to yourself anytime you choose. Imagery of your child, coordinated gently with your breathing, serves as a powerful cue to waking up to the present moment.

This Morning Cup looks to clouds as a means to awaken to the always changing nature of your child and yourself.