Soul-Schooling: Exploring Intuitive Gifts with Your Children
Earlier this week, I sat at our heavily painted/scribbled “classroom” table with my 6-year-old daughter. We’d finished our math practice, and her little brother had already bounded off to go play, so we decided to take a moment to have some fun. Pushing our books aside, I pulled out a little scratch and erase writing tablet that we use for handwriting and asked if she was up for a game before the baby’s nap ended.
Excited, she watched me draw a small “x” on the top left corner of the tablet. Then, I told her to watch as I closed my eyes and spun and flipped the tablet around to mix it up for myself.
Pausing for a moment, I took a breath and said, “The x is bottom right.”
She couldn’t believe it! How did I do that? Could I teach her?
So I did.
We spent the next 15 minutes or so learning how to tune in and use extrasensory perceptions and intuition to find the “x” on the pad. As expected, we had to start by realizing that closing our physical eyes and taking a guess didn’t usually work out. Instead, we had to use non-physical senses to find it. We explored clairvoyance, allowing our mind’s eye to show us, and clairsentience, allowing ourselves to feel it. We had great fun flexing these muscles, asking each other which technique came easier and what it felt like to successfully find it.
Later that same day, as we drove to a new music class for the first time, I asked her to tell me what the building would look like. She described in detail what she saw in her mind, and was elated to see she was, as usual, correct.
At dinner that evening, my 4-year-old proudly proclaimed that he’d successfully manifested our selected meal - a win as good as any!
Finally, at bedtime, we finished up by energetically clearing and sealing their rooms for the night, allowing love and only love into their space - a treasured moment we share each day.
Just a few simple activities that mean so much!
In truth, the exploration of these ideas and skills - or “energy stuff,” as the kids have named it - has become fairly routine in our home. I can recall using ABC flashcards to practice clairvoyance with them before they were potty-trained.
Eventually, walking into daycare I would ask them which teachers were already in the room before we could see them. What foods would be available at the continental breakfast?
Thankfully, whether it’s practicing an anger-releasing meditation, channeling light for healing, or trying to predict the weather, such exercises naturally arise in our day to day. In fact, one of my greatest joys as a mother and (now) homeschooling parent, is that I get many opportunities to show my children how to access and use their natural psychic abilities.
We have great fun, but I also delight in the fact that such simple practices are also helping to strengthen their connection to their bodies and their soul. What may seem like childish or even “woo-woo” games, are actually practices for developing a relationship with who they truly are.
After all, fully embracing our natural state as spirit in human form demands that we allow ourselves to consciously engage with both the physical and nonphysical parts of ourselves. Otherwise, we miss out on half of the information, half of the experience.
Indeed, how can we ever truly get to know ourselves if we never learn how to recognize the still, small voice of our own soul? How can we receive answers to our most desperate questions if we never learn to listen?
So often in my practice, I work with adult clients who are desperate to rekindle the gifts they seemed to have lost in childhood. For one reason or another, so many of us gradually shut down these sensitive parts of ourselves, feeling much too vulnerable in an unpredictable world. And while it is certainly possible to restore these natural gifts, I urge all of my fellow parents to support their children in keeping them from the start!
What would the world look like if we all walked in full alignment with our souls’ chosen path?
If we fully understood our power to rewire and heal?
If we could feel and know what our words and actions really do to another person?
I expect it would look very different. . .but where do we begin?
First, trust that you don’t have to be a professional psychic medium to teach these techniques to your kids. A simple willingness to explore these gifts from a place of love is the only prerequisite.
Remember that every step of “progress” is really an act of remembering, and we can all learn right alongside our children. More often than not, we can learn from them. A childlike approach is actually the best approach, because it encourages us to lighten-up and stay curious.
Thus, our job is not to instruct them on how to connect the “right” way, but to help them discover their way. We are responsible for simply providing the atmosphere for them to explore what is already there.
A child who is allowed to feel deeply and express himself safely is empowered to love the most vulnerable parts of himself. It is in this safety that he can learn to understand all of the sensory input received, both physical and nonphysical.
A wonderful first step is to model curiosity for them about extrasensory perceptions. Share your own thoughts, feelings, predictions. Play simple games that encourage use of other senses.
And most importantly… have fun!
Play! Use your imagination!
Engaging with our souls is not meant to be homework, so don’t grade and certainly don’t compare.
Rather, enjoy the magic that begins to show up in your lives when you start to believe in it.
Here’s a few kid-friendly exercises to get acquainted with your gifts:
Gut Checks: Ask your body to show you yes and no. Do you hear it? Do you lean forward with yes and back with no? Perhaps a tingle on the right/left side? There is no wrong answer. Once you recognize both responses, use them to answer questions intuitively.
Make predictions: What will traffic be like today? What color clothes will your best friend be wearing when you arrive to school?
Time Check: State what time it is without looking. Try throughout the day.
Card games: Try to perceive what a hidden card looks like. Don’t be afraid to try and/or mix different senses (i.e. does the card “feel” red or black?)
Journal: Celebrate and share your wins! Expressing gratitude for even the simplest “hits” strengthens the connection.
Love & Light,
Sam