A Wish in the Present Tense

Today I was leading the boys in a meditation, and right in the middle I totally lost all confidence in what I was doing. My inner critic became sure that the boys thought I was a wacko and that this was the dumbest thing they had ever done. At the end of the meditation, I asked them to think of a wish, and to phrase it in the present tense. Instead of thinking, “I want to be healthy,” I asked them to think, “I am healthy.”

Afterwards, one boy came up to me and said, “I’m going to be so calm when I go to my dad’s grave today. When you asked us to think of a wish, I thought ‘I am my dad, I am my dad, I am my dad.'”