Spiritualität und Kindergesundheit

What do we have to do today so that, in future generations, children can grow up healthy in body, soul and spirit? This is the basic question of the authors. This chapter is about inner doing, inner attitude and inner relationship. They play an important role even before birth and are the backbone of a healthy development. The authors put forward the hypothesis that children exercise a spiritual power of veneration and positive projection. This force influences the quality of the relationship shapes the people around the child, which in turn has positive effects on what the child is offered in terms of role models to imitate. The authors thus postulate that children develop themselves towards something “higher and more perfect” than their ancestors which they perceive in their parents and that this dynamic is a basic force of human development and evolution. Finally, the current state of the literature on reverence is examined.