Conscious Discipline in the
First Three Stages of Life

2. Cultivate bodily intimacy.

3. Do not talk and moralize—act!

4. Use loving force
to move the child bodily
into a different disposition. Clearly define limits.

5. Teach the child to release negativity through the breath cycle-"breathe in the good stuff breathe out the bad stuff"—and remind the child that he or she can be Happy in any given moment on the basis of this simple breathing.

2. Encourage the child to move into self-transcending service.

3. Enter into agreements and grant rights and privileges based on the child's maturing responsibility.

4. Encourage the positive expression of emotion as love and attract the child to right action rather than focus on his or her "problem."

5. Awaken the child to the disposition of blessing others through positive speech thought and action and help the child to experience the breath process his or her emotional life and the entire realm of Nature as energy.

2. Help to awaken in the young person an understanding of the principles of human existence and spiritual life.

3. Allow the teenager to learn from the natural consequences of his or her actions and grant access to greater cultural freedom on the basis of the young person's demonstrated responsibility for the functions of human life.

4. Encourage the young person to expand his or her intimacy to the whole community and assume a relationship of compassionate friendship rather than continuing to play parent-child roles.

5. Assist the teenager to develop the earlier exercises of breathing and feeling as energy—into the formal practice of conductivity and encourage him or her to learn to transcend emotional reactivity and negativity through the practice of the conscious process and conductivity.