The Story of One Fearful Boy Who Found Courage

Once upon a time there lived a little boy called Strah. He was a kind boy, very calm and very quiet. In fact, he was way too kind and way too quiet. To be exact, Strah went out of his way to please everyone, to be helpful and useful.

One would say, Strah was the ideal child that any parent would want. He did what he was told and never argued with his adults. Strah would never express his own opinion. But there was a tiny problem...

However eager Strah was to do well in every aspect of life, he really struggled to learn and school was trouble... Even though Strah's teacher worked hard to boost his confidence and to support him in his school progress, Strah was still finding it hard to express his learning and put his ideas on paper. That was, until one winter day...

On that sunny winter's day, Strah's teacher learned about the power of the subconscious mind. 

Being a teacher who cares about his students, the teacher (let's call him Mr Know, just for fun) decided to make some amendments to Strah's subconscious mind. He asked for permission and having received it, he did some balancing with Strah to rewrite some of his subconscious limiting beliefs. The super special thing about this balancing was that Strah was not even aware Mr Know did anything. Mr Know surrogated with Strah and used a special method to get permission from Strah's Higher Self (the one that knows all about Strah and his life purpose etc) and to remove the blocks that were stopping Strah from learning. 

Following the balancing process, Mr Know found out that Strah had a huge amount of fear stored in his subconscious mind and he was afraid of virtually everything. Strah had anxiety about making mistakes, about saying the wrong thing, writing the wrong thing, and every other worry possible. He thought he was not good enough... 

(Here, I am expecting the all important "Aaahh, Bless!" from the reader).

Anyway, to cut a long story short, Mr Know finished all that and he then went on to finish his weekend obligations of being a dad to his own children.

The next day was Monday! We all love Mondays, don't we! Those special days of the week when we start our jobs after having just experienced a glimpse of freedom! (yeah, right!). 

Like everyone else, at 8:50am, Mr Know was at the open door of his classrooms, smile on his face, greeting his beloved pupils with a warm "Good Morning!" and looking forward to another week of hard work... 

Then there came Strah, smiling as usual, a book bag in one hand and a PE kit in the other. 

Very excited and eager to share his weekend news, Strah started talking.

"Mr Know, I had a nightmare last night!"

"Oh no! Really, Strah, do you want to tell me about it?" Mr Know thought his methods had failed and Strah was even more frightened than before... (slight worry on his face).

"Yes!" carried on Strah, "I dreamed that a big scary monster was chasing me and wanted to catch me. I was running away and I was very scared. Then I called a Dino and the Dino helped me crush the monster."(By the way Strah loves dinosaurs and knows a lot about them.)

"Oh, well done!", said Mr Know, "You have done well!"

Strah continued telling about his nightmare dream. "Then, another monster came out and started chasing me but this time I crushed it myself, I did not need anyone to help me!"

"Wow, Strah!", exclaimed Mr Know, "This is even better! Great! You are not afraid of monsters any more, are you!"

Strah confirmed he was not afraid of monsters any more. 

Silently triumphant, Mr Know was feeling pleased with himself. It wasn't long after Mr Know started noticing changes in Strah's learning... 

Strah did not burst into tears every time he thought a task was too hard.
Strah did not start crying when he made a mistake in his answers.
Strah did not sit and wait for help when he was not sure what to do.

And Strah started putting his ideas on paper more readily and quickly, with increased confidence.
Strah started to put up his hand up to answer questions.
Strah became eager to share his ides in front of the class.
Strah even began helping his classmates when they found obstacles and difficulties in their learning.

In a nutshell, Mr Know helped Strah find Courage. 

My story about Stah ends here but because it was based on a true story, the actual adventures of Strah continue... 

I have obviously changed the little boy's real name but he is an actual pupil, with real-life problems who had the chance to be in Mr Know's class (not his real name either) and found his real-life solutions. Call it chance or destiny, but it did happen and I lived to tell the story.

The morale of the story is the following:

Never underestimate the power of a teacher who knows how to talk to the subconscious mind.

Or there may be other big lessons... What do you think?

Photo by Mia von Steinkirch from Pexels

NB: strah = "fear" in a few Eastern European languages, hence the choice of name for the character