At the same time, they had a tendency to be very curious about many things. It is this intense interest in knowing things that resulted in the mind moving too quickly from one thing to another. In working with the childhood issues of almost everybody who I have seen in my eight year practice of Deep Emotional Release Bodywork, this theme arises continuously in all of us. As children, when we enter into school in the early years, we have an incredible amount of energy, or life force available to us. Our main interest in life is play, not school.
Children have a natural love for learning, but most have to be broken in to the routine of school.
Who among us does not remember feeling scared and frightened, at least once during the early grades. For many of us, the first day of school stands out as one of the most traumatic days of our lives. We've all experienced playground trauma. The one time in our lives when we were humiliated, hurt, or forced to bear the brunt of the cruelty of children, or even of teachers. Many of us, even the ones who were considered the most popular, have the memory, at least sometimes, of feeling alone, not good enough, and like the whole world was against us.