Home » Children » Little Children » Sometimes but very rarely my 6 year old has bad dreams. If I ask her what it was about she says she doesn’t remember. How do I comfort her ?
Bad dreams that sometimes may take the place of nightmares are not uncommon in children. They may come either because of sleeping after being very tired or due to certain inner fears that get projected in dreams.
You can discuss if the child has fears and reassure him. Make him / her sleep with some mantras or simply invoking peace as he is slipping into sleep. Normally they simply pass away as the child grows up.
Affectionately,
Alok da.
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Oh, that’s a most fascinating story, one of my favorites. The story is from the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata. The daitya guru Shukracharya has discovered the Mrit Sanjivani to revive the dead. Thus he is able to revive all the Asuras increasing the burden of darkness and chaos upon earth. Kacha, son of the Devguru Brihaspati goes to …
The tiredness was due to sameness. The supramental world, on the other hand is an ever new marvel renewed constantly due to the full awareness of infinity. There is no sameness here but diversity of the One Infinite.
I completely understand your situation. Unfortunately it is far too common and a problem quite universally. An ancient saying goes that children of the same family are rarely born under the same roof. The family is a beginning and a base but most of us turn it almost into a goal. Each soul brings its own destiny. Two persons living in the same house need not have the same degree of inner evolution. They may be not only in different …