Supporting
Intuition in our Children: Empowering Esteem & Awareness
As parents one of our main concerns is
ensuring the safety and security of our children. With the occurrences of
bullying, abuse and abductions happening more frequently, and hitting closer to
home, how do we empower our kids to navigate and thrive in their environment
with a sense of confidence, certainty and self-esteem?
Empowering their Intuition should be
considered an important first step.
Intuition is highly
efficient and effective survival tool. It is a multi faceted, multi dimensional
wisdom that guides us to our highest level of evolutionary possibility. It is
the voice of our highest wisdom and we are constantly and continuously directed
by it. Our children are already linked to it, we as parents simply have to
remember that we are as well.
Children are ‘feeling beings’ – not thinking
beings
From birth to about the age of 12, children
have no energetic filter system yet developed in their brain. They do not
possess the higher intellectual power of discernment or conscious selection.
Because of this lack of intellectual
development, children experience the world through their ‘feeling intelligence’
and interpret and navigate their environment through that sensory awareness.
They make sense of their outer world and their place in it, through the
feelings of their inner world.
When we encourage this connection to the
feelings communicated via this inner landscape, we empower our children to
trust their impressions and instincts and take action accordingly. Thus
empowering them with a sense of ease, wellbeing and confidence that most adults
to do not even possess.
5
Tips for Supporting Intuition in your Children
#1. Start
using your own Intuition.
Start setting the example of being someone
who knows about your own guidance system and let your child know that they have
their own system as well. If you develop the belief that you possess an inner
wisdom that can and will guide you to any solution or outcome you seek, your
sense of inner security will rub off on them.
#2.
Cultivate an energetic ‘time-out’.
Take a few minutes every day to cultivate
your own private quiet time. This allows you to reconnect to the feeling and
resonance of your own inner voice. Morning meditation is especially powerful in
balancing all of the intelligence systems of the body that will connect you
with that inner guidance.
Insist on time during the day when your
children are free of all technology or scheduled things to do, and simply allow
them to create, draw, day dream, play with their pets or look at the clouds.
Intuition thrives when there is energetic room to create and imagine.
#3.
Be real with your kids.
Because children are ‘sensing’ beings they
can tell when you are saying one thing and feeling another; these mixed
messages cause confusion and uncertainty. If you are unhappy or worried about
something, without going into detail, gently admit your feelings. Assure the
child that your feelings have nothing to do with them, and that it’s not their
job to make it better for you. Let them know that your guidance system will
help you find a solution that will allow you to feel clear and certain once
again.
This degree of energetic integrity allows a
child to feel safe in trusting that what he is sensing from you is in alignment
with what you have told him to be true and shifts him out of fear and worry and
into greater security and well being.
#4.
Honor what your child says he is sensing or feeling.
Be aware of when you diminish or dismiss
what your child is feeling or declaring about a certain situation.
A child might say, “I’m cold, or I’m tired
or I’m not hungry” and a parent will dismiss it by saying, “No you’re not –
you’re fine.” Or the child might be hesitant or stand offish around a certain
person, or say, “I don’t like that person.” (Known or unknown) and the parent
will disregard that uncertainty by forcing the child to ‘be polite’ and engage
with that person.
In these moments the inner feelings that a
child is experiencing are deemed as incorrect and they are taught not to trust
what they are experiencing. This pattern of being told that what they are
sensing is wrong, breaks the link to trusting their inner guidance and trains
them to begin looking to external validation to feel secure. This sets them up
for lack of self-esteem and self-trust and an inability to apply
self-direction.
#5.
Engage in creative solution finding.
Just as you have your morning energetic time, use their bedtime to engage in
creative solution finding. The time just before sleep is especially effective
to engage in cultivating creative/intuitive solutions to whatever may be
concerning them. (Do not try to find a solution in the middle of a melt down or
temper tantrum) It is beneficial to start making this a regular practice before
there are any major problems to solve; as there will be a momentum that you can
apply in real time.
Instead of reading stories about other
children and their adventures, encourage your kids to create stories about
themselves, your family or their circle of friends. Allow them to make
themselves the hero/heroine of their tale and creatively discover solutions to
their current concerns. Invite them to use their imagination (which is an
aspect of intuition) to become their own problem solver.
Ask questions that engage their broader
perspective – ‘What do you think the best solution is to this problem?’ ‘How
can we make this a good situation for everyone?’ Do not offer your opinion; simply ask empowered questions that will
support them in discovering empowered answers. Then support them in applying
these solutions.
This is an effective way to help them
create positive situations with family, friends and other people they may come
into contact with throughout their day. This win-win component is another aspect
of intuition that cultivates the best outcome for everyone involved.
We’ve
ALL got it.
Everyone has the natural ability to use their Intuition to serve them
in powerful ways. It is not a supernatural skill gifted to some but not to
others. When we accept this simple yet powerful understanding, we allow our
Intuitive intelligence to guide and direct us to our highest good.
Putting these tips to use can be an easy
and fun way to encourage and develop intuition in you and your children.
Developing this natural skill can be a deeply rewarding adventure for everyone
in your family that guides them to greater levels of happiness, security and
well-being.
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Simone
Wright, “the Evolutionary Mind Coach for Elite Performers and Visionary
Leaders,” is the author of First Intelligence:
Using the Science and Spirit of Intuition. She has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey
Show and uses her intuitive skills to assist in police investigations,
missing children cases, and corporate business strategies. Visit her online at http://www.simonewright.com.
Based
on the book First Intelligence ©2014
by Simone Wright. Printed with
permission of New World Library, Novato, CA. www.newworldlibrary.com
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