Helping Intuitive Children Feel Safe Happy and Secure by Samantha Fey l Children With Special Abilities

Is Your Child Intuitive?

More and more intuitive souls are incarnating onto this planet than ever before. Many intuitives and healers call these children Crystal Children. They are here to raise the vibration of the Earth and bring us to a state of healing. If you think your child is special, there are some tell tale signs. Intuitive kids tend to be empathic, sensitive, imaginative and compassionate. Some have “imaginary” friends. Others will have night terrors. Some sensitive kids will just know things. They will tell you that Aunt Sarah has a baby in her tummy before Aunt Sarah even knows.

Because intuitive children feel so much more than the average person, they need to learn techniques to help them release everyone else’s energy they are picking up on all day. As a parent there are things you can do to help them process these emotions while still having a magical, normal and happy childhood.

Who’s Stuff Is This?

Intuitive children feel everything – they feel their teacher’s anxiety, they will pick up on a desk mate’s frustration. However, because they are kids they don’t always know whose feelings they are. So the child feels the anger of the teacher and picks it up as his own. He doesn’t know why he’s angry, he just is. When your child comes home from school or a play date and seems upset, talk to them about their day. Ask open ended questions such as, “What’s the best and worst thing that happened today?”

Then switch up their mood. Help them to focus on something new and different. At bedtime, give them a salt bath. Just as Epsom salts pull pain from our muscles, it will also pull negative energy from our aura. Simply add two cups of Epsom salts to a running bath and have your child soak for at least 20 minutes.

Creating Sacred Space

Sensitive children need more down time than the average child. Do not overload them with excess activities after school. Let them pick one activity to do a week and that’s it. Intuitive kids tend to need more alone time than most too. Guide them to a few solitary activities each week. Buy a Mandala coloring book and a new pack of markers. Coloring mandalas will center and ground them while helping to cleanse their chakras too. Set out puzzles, legos and building blocks and leave them to play alone.

It’s also important that an intuitive child has a sacred space all to him/herself. This could be a hammock or tree house in the back yard. It could be a tent in the bedroom or a corner of a play area. Tell your child that this is her space and she can decorate it any way she chooses.

Teach Your Child to Trust Their Inner Voice

So much of our intuitive experience happens in our head, so it’s easy to pass it off as one’s imagination. It’s important that you teach their child to trust their instincts and intuitions about other people and situations. It’s their compass that keeps them safe and on path throughout their life.

It’s very important that you believe your child when he says he sees something. If your daughter tells you there’s a ghost in the room, trust them. You have to remain calm and grounded yourself. If you get scared, they will be scared. But it’s important to teach them that their inner voice is correct. If they come home from a play date and tell you they don’t want to go back there, trust them and don’t send them back there.

Get Outside

Empathic kids need to be outside in nature. It’s how they release the excess energy they’ve absorbed all day. It helps ground their energy, it cleanses their aura and reminds them of their connection to all that is. So make sure to take a walk each day with your child. Let them play in the back yard every day. Take them to a park, a beach, a hike, or a nature trail at least once a week. It’s important that this time in nature be unstructured. Sometimes, my daughters and I will just lay on the grass and look at the clouds trying to find shapes in them. Other times, we’ll take long walks and look for signs of fairies by spotting a mushroom circle or a bunch of acorns gathered around a rock. This is how your intuitive child will grow and flourish and learn to trust their inner voice.

Use Protection Techniques

Read up on common protection techniques and teach them to your child. Every morning, for example, you should teach your child to imagine a ball of white light around him/herself. Have fun with this. Tell them to picture themselves inside a white bubble of light. See this bubble reinforced with light. Have them picture a bunny running toward it and bouncing off the bubble. Then tell them to picture a bull charging toward the bubble and bouncing off of it too. Have them feel and see this bubble as a source of strength, light and protection.

When my kids were very little, I would have them imagine they were Cinderella getting into her glass carriage. Or I would have them picture themselves jumping into a white puffy cloud. Have fun with this but remember that it works and will help your child from feeling and picking up too much “stuff."

Get a Magic Crystal

The Native American have a tradition of picking out a special crystal for a baby that will stay with them their whole life. Crystals are hard working stones that will protect and elevate your child’s energy so that they don’t feel as sensitive or vulnerable when out in the world.

In their bedroom, rose quartz or amethyst works to stave off nightmares. Kyanite will work to cleanse their energy as they sleep. Hematite or black tourmaline will protect them if they’re having night terrors.

Intuitive children should have a stone that is all their own. Take them to a metaphysical store and let them pick out a stone to wear or carry. Tell them to pick the first stone they are drawn too. Let this be their stone and one thing they don’t have to share. It will work with your child to keep his/her energy protected and safe.

Releasing Worries

Sensitive children tend to worry more than their peers. They worry about the state of the world, the weather, their best friend, the ant that died when they accidentally stepped on it. In short, intuitive children tend to be chronic worriers. It’s only because they are so compassionate and empathic. But as a parent, you need to give them strategies to release these worries. Simply telling them, “Don’t worry, a tsunami will never come to us” will not suffice. To an intuitive child, their worries are very real and need to be validated.

Get your child some worry dolls, encourage them to keep a journal and let them talk about their worries with you. The act of writing down worries is very healing because it gets it out of our physical body.