Breaking School Habits

Live, Don’t wait for permission!

In school, I was the annoying kid who knew the answer to everything. I would wait to be called on, but my hand would be up every chance I got hoping that would happen.

I didn’t like being right. That you can do alone, in silence. I liked the teacher knowing I was right. I lived for the validation…like a true Matrix slave. Annoying…

I wasn’t aware that I was eventually going to be on the receiving end of a universal joke when I got out into the world and realized I knew all the answers to the dumbest and most meaningless questions. Square root of 256? Simple! Quadratic equation? Of course! Solve a projectile motion problem in physics? Sure thing!

But…”Can Jason tell us who he really is, and how he will grow a spine sufficient to allow him to do the work he came here to do…if he even has any idea what that work is?” Clueless!

We are taught a lot of terrible things in the Matrix indoctrination camps called school. Primarily, we are brainwashed into thinking we are consumers of reality instead of its creators. We’re supposed to know stuff instead of create stuff.

We are taught to take our divine inheritance and put it in a box where it will do no good. I wonder why?

My kids have no concept of “waiting until you’re called on.” Their habit is to speak if they have something to say. Unfortunately, “waiting to be called on” transforms itself into the habit of “waiting to be granted permission” as you get older.

There’s no teacher in the room any more, but it still feels like there is. Dad is always watching. And he’ll get you if you step out of line. This is a habit that doesn’t seem to go away without some work.

Unless you were one of the real intelligent people in school, the ones who refused to bend their will to that of the borg, the ones who were labeled things like “rebellious,” or “troubled” or “difficult” or, my personal favorite: “learning disabled…” (wonder why they never called it a teaching disability??), then there’s a chance the habit is still alive deep within. What can we do about it?

Well, I’m not much for using willpower. That seems to exist in limited supply within the human. Plus I suck at that. In my experience, the best way to stop a bad habit is to replace it with a new, good habit. So instead of waiting to be granted permission, we simply move forward based on our own intention for doing good in the world. When you practice that enough, it will become your new way of being. But won’t you get in trouble? We were trained to fear consequence. What if the reality is that the very consequences we fear are the stepping stones upon which we must travel to arrive at the expression of our true selves? That’s a question I wouldn’t have been able to answer in school.

-Jason Leister

This article continues in pathways to Family Wellness Issue #81

Summary (In our voice):

This article is a bold call to stop waiting for permission and start living with intention. It highlights how school trains us to seek validation and follow rules rather than trust ourselves and create. The author shares a personal journey from being a "know-it-all" to realizing that true growth comes from unlearning those habits and replacing them with courage, action, and self-trust.

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• 2 cups of chopped mango, preferably frozen

• 1 frozen banana, without the skin (Always peel your banana before freezing it, otherwise you’ll be stuck! I like to cut up any bananas that look like they’re about to turn and stick them in a glass jar in the freezer, so they don’t go to waste!)

• 1 c. coconut milk

• 1/2 avocado

• 1 to 1.5 teaspoons of spirulina powder

A commercial-grade blender will ensure all of the ingredients get super smooth and creamy fast, but any blender will do the trick.

1. Coarsely chop your frozen banana and put it into the blender with 1 cup of coconut milk. Puree until fully blended and nice and creamy.

2. Add your mango and puree until fully blended and creamy.

3. Add your avocado and spirulina powder and puree until fully blended and creamy.

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