Recently, a film called "Spiritual Journey" burst the circle of friends. In addition to the box office harvest, it has also gained a high reputation. Many netizens said that this is the warmest and most healing movie they have seen in 2020.
"Journey of the Mind" is based on an anti-traditional "dream-chasing narrative", which does not tell those exciting success stories, but returns to the "power of the moment" and tells the "meaning of life". The setting of this animation is very interesting, the male protagonist has a jazz music dream, but due to the pressure of reality, dreams and life can not be combined, and the people around him do not understand him, until an accident, his soul and body are separated, and after encountering another soul named 22, he finds the direction of life again.
In the film, Joe is a music teacher whose dream is to become a musician and perform on the same stage as his idol. Through his own efforts, he finally got the opportunity to perform on the same stage with his idol, but he lost his footing and fell into the sewer before the performance and "died".
Joe had waited too long for this day of success, and if he died like this, his wife would not be reconciled. So, between life and death, his soul began its own struggle. He fled from the "other shore of life" to "where life comes from." Here, as long as he can get the Earth Pass, he can return to Earth to complete his dream.
Here he meets a "super hard" frustrated soul---22. 22 Hate to live on earth, have not been able to find the spark of life, has become the "place of birth" for thousands of years of the old and difficult problem.
Joe must help 22 get the Spark to get a pass to return to Earth. So Joe took 22 on an adventure to find meaning in life and finally got the chance to return to Earth.
However, on the way back to Earth, he accidentally made a mistake, and the soul of 22 was pinned on Joe, and Joe's soul was placed on a cat.
22 Through this short journey to the earth, I understood the joy of life, found the meaning of life, and lit up the "spark" in my chest. And Joe also re-examines his past life through this process of guiding and educating 22.
This healing film brings warmth to many people,
At the same time, it also brings a lot of people to think...
How do you talk to your child about the meaning of life?
How to become a "soul teacher" for a child?
Perhaps the answer can be found in this film.
Sparks are not the goal of life, life is
The protagonist Joe once thought that sparks were life goals, career goals.
22 Says that perhaps the sky, a ray of sunshine, a breeze, the joy of someone she has known for a long time suddenly becoming a friend is her spark. And everyone told him that these were not sparks, just ordinary lives that everyone had.
Some people say that how can you be happy to be ordinary?
The spark mentioned repeatedly in this movie is not the goal of life, but the moment you want to live.
When Joe thought the barber would definitely be upset about not being able to be a veterinarian, the barber said, "I'm happy as a hairdresser, too."
At that moment, the barber had found the spark. It was here that Joe had an epiphany that the spark of life that the Academy of The Mind spoke of was not a lofty goal, but a passion for life.
Most parents will have such an experience, when the child is born, they only hope that he will grow up healthy, but as the child grows up, they hope that he has good grades, want him to have more skills, everything is good, but there is only one first place in a class, and his own child is not.
Parents must learn to accept the ordinariness of their children, and the meaning of life is to live with enthusiasm. We didn't come into the world for any purpose, we just went through a journey.
In fact, what can really ignite the spark is our desire to "want to live" and our love of life.
Acknowledging your child's emotions is more important than "going head-to-head" with your child
After returning to Earth, Joe (soul of 22) meets a girl who plays the trombone, and the girl angrily says at the teacher's door that she wants to quit the band, feeling that playing the trombone has no point. Surprisingly, the 22 who occupied Joe's body said to her, "Yes, these things suck and are boring". After listening to these words, the girl slowly calmed down, picked up the trombone again and played it again, the girl felt that she was playing well, and after thinking about it, decided to continue to learn to play.
Such things happen too often in life, children who learn to dance and lose their temper will be scolded and cannot suffer, children who quit taekwondo classes will be trained not to have long sex... Even if parents are hard-laced and reasonable, few children will continue to insist.
In fact, when you recognize the child's emotions and accept his emotions, he will really calm down and accept himself. Even if you don't need to tell him the meaning of persistence, the effort and the results he will reap, he will stick to it, he just needs to be recognized.
Don't be your child's negative emotions, maybe just a word of approval, you will receive unexpected results.
Accept the child's "bad" emotions, establish a good educational mentality, and parents with high emotional intelligence will grow up with their children.
Don't have an obsession with results and goals, and be the "soul teacher" of children
In the film, one of the ways to help the "quasi- souls" find the spark is to take them to a place called the "Temple of All", where the small groups that are about to become souls can try and experience everything on earth.
And as a parent, why is it not the "soul teacher" of the child?
If you want to help your child find the spark of his own life, you need to take them to such a "temple of all", experience more, feel more, and let them try as much as possible without easy restrictions.
In this process, not obsessing over the results and goals, talking more about feelings and emotions with children, and helping them discover those heartwarming moments in life is helping them find sparks. Only by truly embracing life can we experience the beauty of life itself, and ordinary people also have unique values.
The moment you want to live,
The spark of life has been ignited!
Source | China Education News