THE MOTHER NATURE
THE FAMILY GROOVE’S PROFILE OF A MOM WHO’S MAKING IT HAPPEN
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This month, we want you to meet JZ Knight. One of the most charismatic leaders of the Schools of Ancient
Wisdom and the Great Work in the world today, this sage has truth that’s inspiring and a lust for life that’s
intoxicating. Here, she waxes wise on creating—and re-creating—your life, the important lessons that
parents can teach their children and why hers is indeed a wonderful world.
1. Who are you?
My name is JZ Knight. I was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1946. Yes, a year before the Roswell UFO crash happened. Yes, that Roswell. Smile.
2. How old are you?
I am a fabulous 62. I always wanted to be 50, even when I was 25!
3. Where do you live?
Yelm, Washington
4. How many children do you have? How old?
I have two sons, 41 and 43.
5. What time do you get up?
4 a.m.
6. What daily rituals must you do to feel normal?
I get up and do an early morning walk from 4 to 5 a.m. I create my day, and then I re-create my life. Evolution is changing. I walk for about 30 to 45 minutes, until I’m jazzed at what I have created. I have coffee in quiet and allow each day’s activities to come into my mind—who will call, what they will say, what business decisions I have to make on various projects, my boutique stores, my online stores, what interviews I’ll take, what I’ll say, how I’ll inspire the answers, potential problems that may be coming, family, friends, pets, home business—and act on them. I focus on someone’s health, someone’s suffering and help with joy. This process lasts about an hour, perhaps more, depending on the information that I am processing. I end it with just loving God and my life. I then go about my day as it unfolds from this process, acting on all that I know, working on the computer, designing, scheduling, feeding my pets and wildlife (birds mostly), collecting eggs from my girls (aka the chickens), picking veggies from my garden, preparing lunch, and then walking again, creating my day and who I am. I read books, mostly on science, quantum physics, etc., and then sleep in the afternoon. I get up and repeat the process until nightfall. At night, I watch TV—
Hardball with Chris Matthews and
Countdown with Keith Olbermann, CNN and then educational TV:
Nature,
Frontline and
UFO Hunters.
7. What do you wish you’d do every day, but haven’t been able to incorporate into your routine?
I do what I want and I don’t regret what I can’t do.
8. Do you work?
Yes.
9. What do you do?
I’m the head of a corporation, JZK Inc.
10. Tell us about it.
I manage all the departments and people who work in the corporation. I’m a teacher; I travel all over the world and teach individuals about how to have a remarkable life and why they are wonderful. I’m a writer; I’m a published author of
A State of Mind and many periodicals. I’m a graphic designer; I designed my websites and had my graphics teams do the mechanics. I’m the buyer for my stores, JZ Rose.
11. What’s the best thing your mother ever told you?
“You can do anything, girl, anything. Just be like the ol’ oak tree, ’cause you will have to withstand a lot of storms in life!”
12. What does being a good mother mean?
For me, it comes down to following the innate instincts within yourself that connect you and your children on all levels, including the spiritual level. Remember that you are the steward of a future adult. Teach the wise lessons of personal responsibility, beginning with cleaning your room, picking up your own dishes, what must be done with the trash and where to place it (and not on the highways). Teach your children to participate in the family income and the activity of deducting from the paycheck to pay each bill. This teaches a myriad of lessons, including math skills. Smile. Each child needs to understand what his own personal reality looks like. This includes where they sleep, dress, hygiene, meals and how they are prepared, personal objects, school, what learning means and what signing your name to a report means. These guidelines help the child to identify the reality of others and how to wisely interact with other children and adults. Eventually this all leads a child to understand the boundaries of adults as well as other children’s personal realities. In my opinion, this art of parenting builds in each child a knowledge, which in itself brings responsibility and personal self-respect. Self-respect begins within one’s self. The prize, of course, is that children and adults learn to respect others.
I would also like to add that mothers who lay out and plan a vegetable garden should do so with their children. The remarkable learning of seed-to-plate concept will endow their children with not only the means in which to feed themselves, but an understanding of the wonders of life and nature.
13. What’s your mantra/personal philosophy?
Personal philosophy does little in the way of improving one’s life unless it is lived fully. I know that I create my personal reality. I know that what we think does, in fact, become matter, so our thoughts do matter. Changing an unfavorable outcome means changing your thoughts, the lenses to which you perceive all in your daily life.
14. What do you tell other mothers?
I tell them they are blessed and honored to have the next generation in their arms. If the future seems bleak, the child you embrace can hold the key to changing the world.
Life is a gift. Live it with your child to your greatest potential, whatever that may be. Smile.
15. Finish this sentence: I want my children to know…
… that whatever they deem God to be, that God has always loved them and always will. That their dreams and imaginations are unique to them and they deserve the future they want. They can do anything. Life is a gift.
16. Who inspires you?
Everyone, nature, Ramtha and, most of all, myself!
17. What are you passionate about?
The future!
18. How do you balance your life as a woman, a mother, a friend?
Just by being myself and not under a pretense of “have to.” Women are remarkably capable of multitasking, as recent scientific reports have shown. It is in our nature to do anything and everything. Our stress comes when we think we “have to,” rather than just allowing what genius is already in us to flow from us. We excel in everything; we are the womb of the world.
19. What do you wish you knew then that you know now?
Everything! However, I would have missed the journey of my life—through my errors I have gained the wisdom I now have. It’s the future that I’m excited about now.
20. How do you get your groove on?
Darling, I just create my day and get jazzed at all the potential to choose from and the thrill of living it all into my day.
What a wonderful life. Smile.
For more from this truly enlightening new age pioneer, go to
www.ramtha.com or visit her store, JZ Rose, at
www.jz-rose.com.
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