It may seem like a cliché to say that children are mirrors and teachers to us adults. But we can also ask ourselves who among us is really learning from children and who is teaching and raising children in our own image. 
 
Recently, a mother and her 6-month-old daughter visited me in the doctor's office to make sure that the baby's development was okay. Little Johanka was obviously in a good mood from the start and was spreading smiles everywhere. When we "liberated" the little princess from her clothes and diaper, the concert of joy from movement just began. Using various rattles, I examined and verified everything I needed to say that Johanka's motor development was more than okay. But most of all, I noticed how she enjoyed turning from her back to her stomach, pushing herself on her hands, and swinging on her knees. This was another incredible experience with babies for me, giving me goosebumps and often bringing tears to my eyes. And all it took was "playing to the same notes", i.e. putting the toy once on the left, once on the right, then closer to the hands or a little further away from the hands. Johanka did not hide her enthusiasm for movement and joy of life. And I realized again what children tell us and show us.
 
Professor Vojta brought into the world a unique method that was discovered especially to help children with physical disabilities. The Vojta method is a wonderful tool for examining and treating not only small babies, but also adults, and most importantly, it shows us the principle of movement and the connections in the functioning of the human body. Professor Kolář followed suit, who developed the positions of small babies in his method, thus enabling us to exercise our adult bodies in a way that would help us relieve ourselves of pain.
 
Thanks to these professors, I was lucky enough to learn indirectly (Prof. Vojta) or directly (Prof. Kolář) about the connections of the human body and how I can help people with their physical body.
 
The third piece to my imaginary work-life puzzle was a friend who showed me the concept of energy as described by Einstein. And through him and the children I meet every day in my office, I had the opportunity to begin to perceive the development of children and the pain of adults in a dimension that I could never have imagined, even in my wildest dreams.
 
Children are simply perfect and represent the embodiment of innocence and defenselessness. Thanks to professors, we can learn from children how to hold our spine, how to move or, for example, how to bend over to pick up an object on the floor. It is absolutely incredible that from infants and young children we can learn mainly how we adults should communicate. However, it is not communication with words or concepts that often confuse us and are a source of misunderstanding, but communication with energies to which we adults have "successfully" become deaf, blind and, above all, insensitive.
 
Everyone, regardless of gender, skin color, religion, every human body, baby and adult, benefits from cooperative and loving energy that heals, restores and revitalizes. And it is also up to each of us what energy we produce in our thoughts.
 
21.6.2020
 
Mgr. Petr Zahradník