He iti hoki te mokoroa nāna i kakati te kahikatea - While the grub is small, it cuts through white pine.
We started today's session sharing any fears and giving tips on how to banish them. Tips included: telling the negative thoughts to stop, do something that is relaxing that will take your mind off it, exercise, or have a worry stone and put it under your pillow or hold it to take your fears away. This led to talking about the whakatauki above and what that can mean when it comes to little niggling worries.
Fears and worries don't normally start as huge things, they start -like everything- as tiny seeds which if we tend to, may get bigger and bigger and make us feel pretty yuck. Today the girls needed to identify a thought or feeling that may still be quite small but sometimes niggles them. Examples were: thinking a girl at school is scary or worries about who we will become in the future and what we will do.
The girls then had to picture the thing as a small grub or caterpillar. They put it inside a cocoon, observed the feeling of discomfort as it grew bigger and then imagined it flying away as a moth or butterfly.
This exercise is great for adults and even small children to do too. Once you visualise the problem as a small grub you can watch it transform into a moth, fly away and take that problem with you.
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