The Cause of Autism – a Soul Perspective

Jon Rasmussen, a shaman, wrote an article entitled, “The Cause of Autism – a Soul Perspective”. You can read the entire article here.

Autism is an extreme form of protest by highly sensitive and dedicated souls.  For the most part, these protesters are coming in greater numbers and refusing to give in until humanity at large returns to a functional, sustainable, and more peaceful and harmonious way of living on this planet.

…Since the 1960’s, there has been a leap in human consciousness such that a large percentage of souls are now recognizing serially that something much greater than their own life experience is at stake. You know this as an adult, you see it all around you and likely feel the same level of frustration your autistic child does.  The difference is that you and I decided to go along and get along as best we could and take other approaches to affecting change besides out right protest.  These powerful souls coming in today at this critical juncture, seem to be taking a more drastic approach, and rightfully so.

Furthermore, the symptoms of extreme neurological and psychological sensitivity, toxins in the body, and so on seem to be an attempt to show us adults just how bad the state of humanity and the Earth has gotten so that we cannot ignore it out of convenience or fear any longer.  It would be equivalent to a person covering their body in the mud of a toxic lake to bring attention and inspire action to clean up the lake, or a bread maker dowsing their body in gasoline an alighting it to start a revolution.

These souls in the bodies of autistic children and adults today are basically showing us that we need to solve the big problems directly and quickly.

…I don’t think we need to fix the Autism; instead we need to look, question, and listen very carefully to the underlying protest.  Let the autistic children in particular know that you hear them, you see them, and that you understand them.  Ask them what we should do to fix the world.  Let them know that you are doing the best you can, and then do the best you can to bring about a world that is once again functional and harmonious, and makes sense for all sensitive souls to thrive in.  See how they respond to that; to adults finally looking in the right direction from their perspective.  They are wise teachers as well.

I resonate strongly with Jon’s words.

Earlier in his article, Jon talks about different souls having different archetypal energies, and alludes to the fact that autistic children (and other sensitive children) often have warrior archetypal energies. This reminded me that a shaman once told me that Moses was often a warrior in past lives, and he came into the life ready for a fight. As part of his healing, she tried to tell his soul that he didn’t need to fight in this lifetime. That in this lifetime, it was okay for him to rest.  Yet, fight he does. He has such a strong, fighting spirit. And this fighting spirit is helping him to survive, to thrive, and to heal the immune disorder that his body was born with.

My dear friend shared this thought with me.

I had a fleeting thought about Moses as I was reading David Suzuki’s “The Sacred Balance”.

I envisioned Moses being the perfect human being – his perfectly clean body responds to the contaminants that the rest of us can’t sense, and his responses indicate the choices we can make to create a healthier, happier world (inside us and outside us).

And that’s how I feel that it is with all of our sensitive children. They are showing us the way to create a healthier world.

The gift of the shaman’s vision is that they have the ability to see the big picture, the highest vision, the soul’s perspective. They see with the eyes of an eagle. In my own healing journey and in supporting my son’s healing journey, I have found it useful to remind myself of the soul’s perspective.

That said, I also know what it’s like to be on the battlefield with your child (fighting along side your sensitive child). Living and struggling with day to day life. There was a time when it was a struggle and would take hours just to be able to get Moses dressed and his teeth brushed because everything was a struggle because his body, his mouth and his gums were in so much pain.

In addition to keeping the soul’s perspective in mind, I also needed guidance on how to care for and raise this extremely sensitive child, and I learned over time to follow my intuition. 

Remember that your child is perfect. Divine. Holy. A gift from God. And on a soul’s level, your child chose you, out of all souls to parent him/her. Trust your intuition about what it is your child needs.

More reading:

• Shamanic healing and sensitive children here.
• Vision of healing for all our children here.
• The gift of vision here.
• The big picture… that we might know God here.
• A manual on how to care for your sensitive child (muscle testing and other forms of divination) here.

Creating a tower of treasures

I have been doing a lot of sacred ceremony lately on healing the masculine, the feminine and then an equinox fire ceremony. Praying for our family’s healing and that I may remember my divinity and step into the highest destiny for my life. Releasing perfectionism, people pleasing and fear.

While we were sitting together later in my friend’s living room, after placing our prayer sticks in the sand painting, I looked down at my mesa, my medicine bundle, and was surprised to see that a tiny green caterpillar was sitting on the flower on my mesa. I felt that it was a huge sign from Spirit that my prayers were taking form and being birthed, ready to be transformed into something beautiful.*

It’s stirring things up and Moses is so sensitive that his body often responds by creating abscesses. Our Heilkunstler always reminds me that abscesses symbolize resolution, stuff coming to the surface to be released and healed.

Still, it’s not easy. He developed 5 abscesses in the last week, and one has progressed enough that it will be drained under general anaesthetic on Monday. It’s extra stressful because DH and I are / were planning on going on holidays for a week at the end of this month. I blew all of my concerns into a mini prayer bundle and it was burned in a fire ceremony last night.

After last night’s fire, two of his abscesses disappeared, and now there are three…

Blowing my prayers into a prayer stick

Louise Hay in You can Heal your Life, says that the new thought pattern for healing abscesses is:

“I allow my thoughts to be free. The past is over. I am at peace.”

One of my friends had two dreams about our family last night. She dreamt that Moses was building a tower, and putting treasures in each block. Feels like such a rich dream and yet another reminder for me to see the bigger picture and not get caught up in the drama of it all.

I was visiting you at the hospital and Moses was very peaceful making a structure with blocks. In my second dream I told you that a priest had come by and a doctor and that they both shared a past life with Moses – they were aware of it but not Moses. I also told you, although I don’t remember seeing it in the first, that Moses was putting little treasures in every block of this structure he was building.

Then I heard bullying outside and left your room to investigate and just being there stopped one kid from beating up another. The bully left and the “victim” was crying saying he regretted teasing the bully. I told him people only loved you if you really loved them first. They needed to be shown how to do it.

I went back to your room (from the outdoor balconies) and a big group of very drama-filled / grief- stricken folks were trying to get in. I tried physically barring them and [DH] let me in and tried pushing them away and you were calm in the armchair and just whispered “see, he’s sleeping peacefully” this is not who you are looking for and they left…

Not sure if any of this is worth sharing, but the concept that Moses was building his own castle and hiding treasures and gifts in each block – something he had brought with him from before this life and had both physical(doctor) and spiritual (priest) support from those who knew of his plans – that felt good.

Please join us in our prayers that everything will be resolved with ease and grace. I am going with the flow of it all, and trusting that everything is unfolding for the highest good of all concerned.

*A dear friend also reminded me:

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ~Richard Bach

Updates

Sept 24, 2012 – We woke up to a miracle today. All of Moses’ abscesses are considerably smaller and the surgeon agreed that they didn’t need to drain it under general anesthesia. We were able to go home. Yay!  And, I see a vacation for DH and I in our near future.

Thank you all for your prayers!

When we came home, I saw a brown caterpillar on our driveway, bigger than the green caterpillar that appeared on my mesa. Another sign that my prayers have taken form and are growing.

Calling in Spirits for Protection

Last night, Moses came into our bedroom at 2 am to tell us he had a nightmare.

I brought him back to bed, and he told me, “I think that something is watching me.”

I asked whether it was an angel, and he told me, “I think it’s something evil.”

What does a shamanic mama do? We called in Spirits for protection.*

We asked God to come and be with Moses and watch over him and protect him.

We asked Archangel Michael to come and be with Moses and watch over him and protect him.

We called on Grandpa Joe to come and be with Moses and watch over him and protect him.

We also called on animal spirits to help. We asked Cookie Dog and Charlie to watch over Moses and protect him.

Then, I asked Moses who else he wanted to call on, and he said, “All of my fish, two frogs and snail, even Jack, my blue betta fish that passed away”.

Jack, the Fish

So, we called on all 8 fish, including Jack, the frogs and the snail.

After that, Moses felt safe enough to sleep.

The next morning, Moses came into our room, telling me that it helped.  In particular, he told me that Jack, the fish, flicked his tail at whatever was unwelcome in his room, and the frog kicked it out of his room.

More ideas about nighttime visitors

• Clearing a child’s bedroom using sage, palo santos, bells, etc. (Read more here)
• Calling on Archangel Michael for protection, and commanding the unwelcome guest to leave, and sweeping them out of the child’s window. (We used to do this all of the time, when Moses was three years old).
• Doreen Virtue has some great tips for dealing with nighttime visitors in her book, The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children.  For example, call on Archangel Michael by saying, “Archangel Michael, please come to me now and escort any beings who aren’t angels or spirit guides. Please take them to the Light right away” (p. 109).
• Alexis at Taking the Lid off the Sun has some great ideas on what to do when there are unwelcome nighttime visitors in your sensitive child’s room here and here.
• A Tale of Two Crystals often writes about her sons who sense spirits at nightime.
• Tips that helped my sensitive child (who had trouble sleeping) when he was 2.5 years old here.

Articles about sensitive children

• Sensitive children can sense spirits here.
• More resources about sensitive children here.

 

* “Although Spirit is invoked, it may be more appropriate to say that Spirit, and its unseen forces and energies, are not actually coming to you, for they are infinite and ominpresent. The process of activation merely refines and heightens one’s own sensitivity and awareness to the unseen energies always in our midst; in other words, the invocation is for us, not for Spirit.” – Matthew Magee, “Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakuti Mesa”

The body’s magic buttons…

I recently have been using some of Donna Eden’s “energy medicine” techniques on the whole family (thanks to Jaime for recommending Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine book to me). Donna Eden’s energy medicine is very accessible and easy — it essentially involves gentle movements and / or pressing different acupressure points on the body, helping the body’s flow of energy.

I love how simple, easy and quick these techniques are. Anyone can do them. Not only that, there are really effective. I’ve been feeling more centred when I remember to use these techniques.

I’ve been trying to do some of them before Moses goes to school and before he goes to bed. I tell him that I’m pressing his “magic buttons”. It is easy enough for Moses to do on his own, but for now, I’m doing it for him.

Two techniques are the “zip up” and the “hook up”, which helps one to quickly centre themselves.

The zip up:

• You zip up an imaginary zipper from your pubic bone to your bottom lip (I’ve been doing it on Moses from his belly to his bottom lip and then all the way up over his head, to connect his aura with Spirit energy).
• Repeat three times.
• The zip up helps one to feel more safe and protected, less vulnerable to outside energies (so important for sensitive children who are so energetically sensitive to their surroundings).

The hook up:

• You place one hand on your third eye and one hand on your navel and pull up for 15 to 20 seconds.
•  It’s a quick and powerful way to centre oneself.
• Donna Eden says in her Energy Medicine for Women book that they have used this technique to stop a seizure within 15-20 seconds.
• I used the hook up when Moses was having a night terror and his night terror stopped within 15-20 seconds.  hmmmm….

Watch a video of the zip up and the hook up here:

More reading:

• Read Donna Eden’s explanation of the benefits and how to do a “hook up” here.
• Read more instructions and see a picture of the “hook up” here.

Healing angels

Well, it’s miracle week at Momastery, so I want to share a miracle of my own.

Last night, Moses was having a rough night. He was having difficulty breathing (maybe having a difficult time adjusting to this May energy). He needed his ventolin puffer again and again and again. I was afraid that we were going to need to bring him to the ER.

Moses was in bed with me and I silently prayed to God and the support of the Spirit world to help heal my son and to bring him ease. It was 2 am at this point and Moses was tossing and turning. Then, he sat up. I asked him to lie down and go to sleep.

He replied, “But look at all of the angels in this room. There are hundreds of them!” He laughed with delight.

“Wow — look at what they are doing — I love that they are coming together and forming the shape of the earth. Oh, wow, and now they are forming the shape of a snake*. Look at them coming in through the door. That’s funny because they don’t need to use the door — they can fly right through the door. Look, there are some behind me. They are all over the place. Look, they can fly!” He exclaimed with amazement.

He wondered which angel was his Grandpa Joe, and figured that Grandpa Joe was in Moses’ bedroom, where DH was trying to get some sleep. “Grandpa Joe is in my room, talking to Daddy in his sleep because Grandpa Joe is Daddy’s Daddy”, he explained.

Moses wished the angels a goodnight and he slept soundly for the rest of the night. This morning, he needed two more puffs of his Ventolin puffer, but was in good spirits and better health for the rest of the day.

A tangible and answered prayer. An everyday miracle.

* As a side note, snakes symbolize physical healing.

The big picture… that we might know God

I’ve thought a lot about the whys. Why has my path been riddled with difficulties. Not only the recent challenges that come with raising a sensitive child, but challenges that began during my tumultuous childhood. In the end, the answer that I’ve come to is for me to know God. For me to know deeply and experientially that there is more than this physical realm.

Verspoor and Smith, in their book, Autism: The Journey Back, come to the same conclusions:

Illness and disease are adversaries that we have been given to test ourselves against so that we may have the opportunity to become who we were meant to be, or given the potential to be, by our Creator (p. 67).

Eckhart Tolle, in his book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purposes, also says the same thing. Essentially saying that disease and adversity occurs to bring forth a spiritual awakening in people. And when they occur early, it can bring forth an early spiritual awakening in a person.

Children who have suffered greatly often grow into young adults who are mature beyond their years. What is lost on the level of form is gained on the level of essence… Some great loss or disability on the level of form has become an opening into spirit. When you have had a direct experience of the unstable nature of all forms, you will likely never overvalue form again and thus lose yourself by blindly pursuing it or attaching yourself to it (pp. 286-287).

In Todd Burpo’s book, Heaven is for Real, he shares the remarkable story of his four year old son’s near death experience and the gifts that it brings, as his son, Colton, recounts stories of his time in heaven with God, Jesus and the angels.

It’s fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we though we had lost but will meet again someday. But it’s not fun to talk about how we got there. Recalling those terrifying days when we watched Colson cling to life still brings tears for Sonja and me. To this day, the miraculous story of his visit to heaven and the story of almost losing our son are one and the same event to us (p. 148).

All of these stories share the same message. The gift of adversity is that it opens up a doorway for spiritual awakening.  I feel that my own tumultuous childhood and experiences opened to the door for me to be a seeker, so that I might discover the spiritual realm that is just as real, even more real than this physical world. My spiritual awakening started before Moses was born. I felt intrinsically that there was more to this world, more to life than meets the eye.

Yet, I felt completely unprepared (or so it seemed) to raise my sensitive child. It’s one thing to suffer, but another to witness your child suffer and to feel moments of helplessness and despair. Through these moments, I kept getting the same messages: dig deeper still. Remember that your child is a holy child of God. Remember that he is being held in the hands of God. I am not the doer. I just need to open my heart and love my son and all will be shown to me. Breathe by breathe. Step by step. And sure enough, we have been led and my son is healing / has been healed / is perfect as he is, always has been and always will be.

There is a part of Todd Burpo’s book that spoke to me strongly. It may help to know that Todd is a pastor.

Over and over a single image assaulted me: Colton being wheeled away, his arms stretched out, screaming for me to save him.

That’s when it hit me. We waited too long. I might never see my son alive again.

Tears of rage flooded my eyes, spilled onto my cheeks. “After the leg, the kidney stones, the lumpectomy, this is how you are going to let me celebrate the end of my time of testing?” I yelled at God. “You’re going to take my son?” (p. 40)

I can certainly relate. I have felt that way. Not angry at God, but certainly I’ve felt hopeless moments. Moments of despair. Moments of “what the h*ll is going on, this isn’t part of the plan. I never signed up for this. How the h*ll do I get off this crazy ride?”

Months later, Colton tells his dad the reason that he came back to earth is that, “Jesus came to get me. He said I had to go back because he was answering your prayer” (p. 81).

Later, Todd shares…

What had I learned?… I learned that I am heard. We all are. I had been a Christian since childhood and a pastor for half my life, so I believed that before. But now I knew it. How? As the nurses wheeled my son away screaming, “Daddy, Daddy, don’t let them take me!”… and when I was angry at God because I couldn’t go to my son, hold him and comfort him, God’s son was holding my son in his lap. (p. 84).

Wow. So powerful. A powerful reminder to me that at all times, God is and has been holding my son. At all times, God is holding all of us. Sometimes it makes no sense to us on this physical plane and from our limited viewpoint, but if we take a broad viewpoint, we’re all okay. We’re all being held. We’re all safe.

I feel that my son is going to be okay. Better than okay. His body is healing. His emotions stabilized. He is brilliant. Funny. Courageous. Wise. Strong. Resilient. Compassionate. (And then, of course, sometimes he’s also a crazy five year old).

A friend of mine remarked the other day that Moses exudes such depth, such determination, such courage, such strength, such wisdom, such resilience. He is wise beyond his years. An old soul. She feels that this resilience, strength and determination is likely a result of the difficulties that he has experienced.

Like Colton, Moses spends a lot of time talking about God, angels and heaven. He talks about how he can’t wait to get to heaven so he can fly like an angel.

I tell him, of course, that he’s going to live for a long, long, long, long time and that there’s no rush for him to be an angel, but that God and the angels are with him always anyway. Both around him and also in his heart.

There’s one more thing that I wanted to share.

It’s the story of Garvan Byrne, a boy with a rare disease that caused him to stop growing at the age of 5. He is 12 years old in the video, prior to his death.  Although it’s very difficult to watch, it is also very inspiring and touching. A fully enlightened boy. May we all come to a place in our lives that we might have such courage, strength, wisdom. Such knowingness of God.You can watch it here.

“I love you, even when you’re angry”

Well, dear readers, we’re going through a bit of a rough patch right now. Moses has been in and out of the hospital for the last week due to a dental abscess, which has escalated to him throwing up everything in his stomach for the last three days, a fever, a terrible headache, a bad tummy ache and, now, we just found out that he has developed pneumonia! Ack!

I kept my calm for the first five days, but yesterday, I started to lose my patience (angry at the hospital, the medical establishment [all of their interventions just drive the "disease" deeper into Moses' system, causes Moses' body to create larger healing reactions], and then the doctors are bringing in “bigger guns” to suppress the healing reactions. Just so tired of the situation). What my boy needs is rest (which you don’t get at the hospital), a calm environment and to be at home. His body needs a rest and to be supported, not suppressed.

We all need a rest.

Last night, I was tired and angry. Sadly, I started to lose patience with Moses.

As we were getting ready for bed last night, my sweet boy told me, “I love you, mom…. even when you’re angry”.

Oh, my sweet boy.

As one of my friends remarked after witnessing him calmly and contently playing on his hospital bed: what a teacher he is.

I told him that I loved him too, and told him that I was sorry that I was being such a cranky puss.

To which, he responded, “That’s okay. Sometimes, I get angry too.”

Water sculptures

I came across another amazing story that I just had to share. In Dawn Paul’s article, Autistic Children are Awesome, Have Many Hidden Talents and Have Shamanic Tendencies, she writes:

…clues to an autistic child’s gifts could be found in their “stimming” – the repetitive physical movements that autistic children often make (stimming is short for “self stimulation”). For example, Rupert had a child on one of his Horse Boy camps who flatly refused to get on a horse; instead he just wanted to play with the water in a pond. Rupert allowed this and some clever soul watched over the child. The boy appeared to be slapping the water, gathering it up somehow, then letting it go, then he would fling his arms up into the air, only to then go back to rapidly scooping up water. He constantly repeated this process. To the onlooker, it looked like madness. But the man that was watching over this child took photos, and amazingly, the photos actually captured images of water sculptures that the child was making. He was actually shaping the water into images – of dolphins and horses for example, and when he created a pleasing image, he would fling his arms back in happiness, then he repeated the process all over again.

Rather than seeing autistic children as damaged and in need of healing, Rupert believes they are very special, so special in fact that he calls them “Dreamweavers,” as Rowan’s condition led Rupert to achieve many of his dreams. Rupert’s views on stimming are that they are a method of creation, which are intentional. Either they clear energy – for example shaking hands around the middle clear energy channels within the child’s energy body, or they create a vibrational resonance, an energy, that is needed for some reason. Therefore, when a child arranges, say, sticks in a particular pattern, they are creating an energetic frequency, which either they themselves, their parents or the world at large needs for some reason.

Wow — how amazing is that?

Muscle testing and other methods of divination

As I mentioned yesterday, the highest and wisest part of me knew that Moses would be healed. But, back in our day-to-day life when he was having reactions, when we were in and out of the hospital, when we were having a difficult time knowing what to feed him, what methods of healing to try,  how to deal with his tantrums and mood swings (because his body was so uncomfortable), I needed some practical advice.

I remember during one particular session with my shamanic healer, I asked her, “I need help. I need a manual on how to care for this boy. I need step-by-step instructions on how to care for him.” (By the way, this blog and my “tips for raising a sensitive child” turned out to be the result of the step-by-step instructions that I figured out by trial and error over the years).

I had my notebook handy, ready to write down the pearls of wisdom that she had for me…

And, boy, did she ever.

She asked me if I knew how to muscle test.

I did. (If you don’t know what muscle testing is, don’t worry, I’ll explain it below).

She encouraged me to use muscle testing to figure out how to care for my boy.

Muscle test all of his foods. Muscle test what supplements to use. Muscle test for whether a given treatment is for his highest good. Muscle test for everything. She even said that things would probably change from day to day (and it did for Moses… when he was very young, his sensitivities would change from day to day), so test everything day to day to see if things changed.

It was a great reminder that all of us, literally have at our fingertips access to divine wisdom and knowledge.

Now, what is muscle testing?

Muscle testing is essentially a way to ask your Highest Self / the Universe / God / Source whether something is for your highest good. It’s very simple to do and to learn and you can do it on yourself.

You can ask yes/no questions like:

• “Is it in my highest good to_[fill in the blank]__?”
• “Is it in my son’s highest good for him to eat this food?”
• “Is it in my daughter highest good to try this treatment?”

Then trust the response and take action based on that response.

It’s simple to do, but would take many words for me to explain it, so I’ll just refer you to Mystic Mandy’s blog where she explains two methods of muscle testing that I actually use myself.

1. Finger method – This is the method that I use the most (I use the second method that she describes).
2. Standing muscle test – This is the method that I first learned and it’s the easier technique to use at first. This is the method that use when I’m having a difficult time making an important decision and I’m having a difficult time hearing my heart’s voice.

Another method of divination that I sometimes use is a pendulum. I recently purchased a rose quartz pendulum and have been having a great time asking it questions! When Moses was two years and sensitive to just about everything, both DH and I used a pendulum to discover which foods were safe for him to eat. I wrote more about that here.

Tips

• Muscle testing and using a pendulum work best when you are centred, grounded and hydrated.
• These techniques work best when you were open to whatever response may be (i.e., when you are not attached to the outcome).
• Try it for yourself and see!

Lately, I just centre and ground myself, ask the question and feel my body’s response. When the answer is “yes”, my heart opens and my body is at ease. When the answer is “no”, my heart closes and my body tenses. It’s that simple.

How about you, do you have any experience with muscle testing or using a pendulum? Do you have a special way to access your intuition?

The gift of vision

I think the biggest gift that I received from Moses’ shamanic healers was the gift of their vision. They all saw past Moses’ symptoms and shared with me the bigger, divine picture.

When Moses was a year and a half, one of Moses’ shamanic healers shared with me that she was shocked by the strength of his energetic field because she was expecting to feel  a “weak energetic field”. She shared that she felt that Moses was in fact, a strong soul who chose a “oversensitive body” so that he could overcome and heal his body. He would be the “wounded healer” (making reference to the fact that most healers start out as wounded, and as they heal their wounds, this becomes their greatest strength).

His other shamanic healers all shared a similar view, that Moses was a strong spiritual teacher and had chose this body and this difficult path so that he could overcome it.

Hearing these viewpoints helped to elevate my own viewpoint, and ground me in the truth, to remind me of Moses’ inherent strength. And the truth is that deep down, I always felt that Moses would be healed. In fact, deep down, I was puzzled why it was so difficult to keep him healthy given all of the many things that we were doing to keep him healthy. When we found out the news of his genetic immune disorder, it finally made sense to us why it was so difficult to keep him healthy. Yet, I held on to my vision of Moses’ healing.

I firmly believe that my vision of Moses’ healing has helped to make his healing and current health a reality.

I share this for those of you who are parenting children with chronic illnesses or difficult diagnoses. Hold tight to a vision of healing for your child. Know that with the grace of God/Spirit, your child has the capability and strength to heal. And he/she will. It may take time, but he/she will. Believe in miracles. Cultivate your relationship with the divine, however it is that you may define it. Try Heilkunst homeopathy, which in my opinion, has been a Godsend in my son’s own healing journey (and it is in my humble opinion, that it can help virtually any chronic illness or diagnosis that you or your child may be facing).

And remember that even in this moment, your child is perfect. Divine. Holy. A gift from God. And on a soul’s level, your child chose you, out of all souls to parent him/her. Trust your intuition about what it is your child needs.

When Moses was 14 months old, I was really struggling as a mother because my son was itchy, in apparent discomfort, with a terrible rash all over his body and allergic to most everything. I asked God for guidance on how to best care for my sensitive son. The message that I received was:

You child is already perfect, whole, complete, magnificent. There is nothing that you need do to add to that or change that. Just open your eyes and see his magnificence. He is a beautiful sight to behold. Not only from a physical perspective. He is already transforming the world, one heart at a time, starting with yours. Open your eyes and see. He is not flawed in any way. He is perfect. Behold him as such.

So be it and it is so, and so it is. For my child and for yours.

True and deep healing can happen. It has for my son, and it is possible for your child too.

A dream about a healing journey

You might wonder what brought me to try shamanic healing for my son.

He was a year and a half at the time when we first tried shamanic healing. By that time, we had tried lots of different modalities of healing, so I was open to trying just about anything. I was open to energy healing anyway, so it wasn’t a huge stretch for us to try shamanic healing.

But, it was a dream that led me to actually make an appointment. (Interestingly, during my session with the Peruvian shaman last month, he confirmed that Spirit speaks to me in dreams).

I dreamt that Moses was taking a train ride with a friend of mine, Mark, who had recently completed his shamanic training. They were going on a journey together. In the dream, Mark told me quite casually that he could easily remove Moses’ energetic blockages, if I wanted him to.  He just needed my permission. I could actually see Moses’ energetic blockages in my dream. I kind of stammered in my dream, telling Mark that of course he had  my permission to remove the energy blocks… (duh…)

And then I woke up.

I knew right away that it was a message for me to seek shamanic healing for Moses. It was such a rich dream in so many levels. The train ride, I feel symbolized Moses’ healing journey, and is also symbolic of shamanic healing give that one of the shamanic healing techniques involves “journeying to Spirit”. Also true on lots of other levels in that shamanic healers can remove energy blocks, and when those energy blocks are removed, health on a physical level can follow. It also alluded to one of the main ethics of shamanic healing: that a shamanic healer needs to receive permission prior to engaging in any healing work.

And, so began our journey of seeking healing from shamanic healers. Moses and I consulted with three main shamanic healers over the course of the last four years. More recently, I have been doing my own journeys and have seeking my own healing through my own communication with Spirit. I believe that in the beginning, shamanic healers act as a bridge and a conduit between this realm and the world of Spirit. Ultimately, each individual is empowered to have their own communications and relationship with Spirit (through prayer, through meditation, through breath work, through dreams, through dance and music, through art, through yoga, through nature, through journalling – really in whatever way one finds that they can connect with the divine).

The shamanic healings have been deep and profound, the results of which have percolated through my whole family (my parents, my siblings, my husband and my son). When one engages in shamanic healing and when “energetic blocks” are removed, an entire family shifts and heals together. That being said, in my son’s case, I feel that shamanic healing alone wasn’t enough to heal his genetic immune disorder. I believe that shamanic healing, in combination with Heilkunst homeopathy, were together instrumental in the creating the huge shifts in his health that we have witnessed.

Sensitive children and shamanic healing

I believe that humanity is in the process of remembering our divine nature. And I believe that our children are helping us to remember. Children are born remembering. I believe that sensitive children, particularly children who are on the autistic spectrum, I believe that they not only remember, but are in direct connection with the divine. Some of them are more connected with the spirit world than with our physical world. This is why some of them are non-verbal. Our sensitive children have come as our teachers. On a soul level, many of them are in fact spiritual teachers.

The Horse Boy: A Father’s Quest to Heal is Son is a fascinating true account of a family in search of healing for their autistic son, Rowan. It details the family’s horseback journey through Mongolia and their encounters with Mongolian shamans.

“‘[The shaman] also said – and two others said this too — that he thinks Rowan will maybe be a shaman.’”

This was interesting. Were shamans sometimes adult autists? I though of Temple Grandin’s point, that autists could be connectors through the “normal” human world and the animal world, or the world of science and music. Were autists, in traditional societies, sometimes also connectors to the spirit world? I thought of Besa and some of the other healers I’d met, all of whom were odd, spoke in riddles, were “away with the fairies,” as the British put it. That wasn’t so far from Rowan. Although it was interesting how all of them had integral roles in their communities rather than being marginalized. (p. 110)

I very much resonate with this. As I mentioned in my last post, shamanic healers can act as bridges between the spirit world and the physical world. So  can our sensitive children. For those children who are more in tune with the spirit world, I believe that shamanic healing can help clear their energetic bodies so that they can be more comfortable in their physical bodies. This can help them to be more grounded in their physical bodies, and be more at ease in their physical bodies. I know that shamanic healing (as well as Heilkunst homeopathy), helped to clear my son’s etheric body, so that he could become more comfortable in his physical body. As one’s luminous (light) body is cleared and healed, one’s physical body is also healed.

Our sensitive children’s luminous bodies can need clearing because our children’s luminous bodies are open and they tend to act like “vacuum cleaners” on a spiritual level. They tend to be etherically open and can attract all sorts of energy into their energy bodies. Their etheric systems can then become overwhelmed and on a physical level, they can have a lot of anxiety in their systems.

Further to this, our sensitive children can act as healers for the whole family. On an energetic level, they are trying to resolve all of the karmic patterns of the family. This is why sensitive children can so easily be and are often overwhelmed. Their energetic bodies are working overtime, trying to clean up the entire world around them.

This is also why is it often helpful for parents to seek their own healing as well. Since family members are all connected, as one shifts and heals, they all shift and heal.

What the shaman saw

I had the privilege of spending the weekend with three Peruvian shamans, learning Andean medicine right from the source and receiving deep healings.

I received a personal healing session, which was very confirming, powerful and meaningful. The shaman who gave me the healing session spoke only in the Quechua dialect, and through a translator, I asked about Moses’ health (among many other things).

He told me that Moses’ sickness came from fear that I felt when he was in the womb. I gave Moses my fear. I know that I’ve come a long way in my healing because I didn’t feel any guilt from hearing those words (nor do I necessarily feel that it’s true). Nor did it really surprise me because I’d heard many a healer say similar things. He counselled that we need to regain his trust and reassure him. Let him know that he is loved. This resonated with me because we have always reassured him  and worked on building his trust in us (DH and I), in his body, and in the world. Ever since he was a baby, he needed a tremendous amount of reassurance and nurturing. I feel that all of things that we have been doing (emotionally, energetically and physically) is helping Moses to feel safer in the world. I’ve also been doing tons of work to help me feel safer in the world. And as I shift, this also helps my son. (I can actually see the effects ripple through my whole family).

I explained my son’s diagnosis and it was reassuring to hear him say that as long as we help to rebuild Moses’ trust in the world, then he will be just fine. In the shaman’s world, details like genetic disorders aren’t meaningful or set in stone. Shamans track imprints on the level of the luminous body. And when he tracked Moses’ future, he saw health. He didn’t even see allergies in his luminous energy field (which coincides with our recent news of Moses’ outgrowing even more allergies). He didn’t see any major sicknesses or accidents. He saw a clear path and a long life. Nothing out of the ordinary to prevent Moses from living a healthy life. He will be just fine.

All things that I know to be true. Overall, my son has been healthy and well for the last year. And, I have a strong vision of Moses  as an adult, healthy, grounded and living a full life. But, it sure is reassuring to be told by a master healer and seer, a healer who has the highest rank that a shaman can attain in the Andean tradition, that my son is well and will be well. That all he really needs is a strong foundation of love and trust.

So be it. And it is so, and so it is.

Vision of healing for all our children

I have a vision of healing for all of our sensitive children.

My heart aches for all of the sensitive children who are having difficulties in our world and for the families who are holding space for these sensitive ones.

I have great compassion as my son is also a sensitive child.

You probably wonder why my intense interest in autistic child given that my son isn’t autistic. It’s because I feel that part of my life mission involves working with sensitive children and the families of sensitive children, including autistic children.

It’s difficult for me to write this post on so many levels. Because it’s so close to my heart and my life mission.

The truth is that our sensitive children don’t need healing.

It’s the rest of us that need healing.

Our sensitive children are just telling us truths that we know deep down. That our earth is sick. We can’t continue living the way that we are living. They are showing us that we need to change our ways, if we are going to survive as a species on this planet.

We are birthing a new earth. A new earth is being birthed. And our sensitive children are showing us the way.

My dear friend shared this thought with me a few weeks ago.

I had a fleeting thought about Moses as I was reading David Suzuki’s “The Sacred Balance”.

I envisioned Moses being the perfect human being – his perfectly clean body responds to the contaminants that the rest of us can’t sense, and his responses indicate the choices we can make to create a healthier, happier world (inside us and outside us).

And that’s how I feel that it is with all of our sensitive children. They are showing us the way to create a healthier world.

My heart aches and I cry as I write these words because I also know how difficult and challenging it can be to parent these sensitive and amazing souls who came to teach us. I knew before Moses was born that I would give birth to and raise a sensitive child. And yet, when I was met with that challenge, it was heart-breakingly difficult. Because he had so many needs. Because his whole body was inflamed and in pain. Because he couldn’t eat what most people could eat. Because any emotion other than love was difficult for him to be around. Because our world, our food, our air and our water is poisoned.

He saw a body talk specialist when he was one years old and the person told me, “Your son is allergic and sensitive to EVERYTHING — literally everything.”

It was so difficult.

But, now four years later, we have made it through and now my son is five years old and thriving. Still allergic to many foods, but can eat so many foods that he couldn’t before. His body has stabilized. His emotions have stabilized. We are living close to “normal” lives.

And now my heart is telling me — it’s your turn now to help other  sensitive children. This is my life mission. And the way that I will help children is through 1) sharing our story, and 2) shamanic healing.

Declaring that I’m a shamanic healer is difficult to share because  most people don’t understand shamanic healing. Yet, for me, I know that my true power lies in shamanic healing. I was meant to be a shamanic healer.

I’ve spent the last year healing the parts of me that have been too scared to step into my power and also the part of me who is scared to be “different”. And I feel that I am ready. It is time.

This is my life mission.

And, so it has started and I have been facilitating shamanic healing sessions with sensitive families around the world. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve had sessions with individuals in Canada, US and Australia. I feel like this is just the beginning.

In all cases, the individuals have felt a palpable shift in their energy, symptoms, and state of mind. Of course, for complicated cases (and most of our sensitive children are complicated cases because many of them are attempting to heal their family line’s karma), it takes time and also an integrated approach for real deep healing. But, I do feel that shamanic healing can help at a deep level, a soul level.

For more information about my shamanic healing sessions, visit my Energy Healing website here.

Thoughts about school

“I don’t want to go to school. Because they are going to teach me things that I already know. And I know everything. And I’m going to be so bored…” – Moses, a couple of weeks ago

And that’s why I’m nervous about Moses starting Kindergarten next week.

Because the truth is that Moses is ridiculously brilliant. He’s intuitive. He’s bright. He has an amazing photographic memory. He loves to learn. He’s creative. He remembers everything. He has an amazing spatial memory. He has an amazing memory for stories. He has this great analytical mind and puts things together in unique, amazing and creative ways.

And, I’m scared to death that school is going to be so boring for him. And it’s going to dampen his thirst for learning. Plus, I feel that schools intellectualize children way too soon. They are training them to be little adults, and they are not little adults. They are children. They need to learn by playing and exploring their environment.

If you want to explore these themes more, I encourage you to watch this 11 minute talk by Sir Ken Robinson about changing educational paradigms, why the old system isn’t serving our children, and what can be done differently.  I also love what Alexis (a conscious educator and mother of a sensitive child) at Taking the Lid off the Sun writes about conscious education. I recommend reading her post When your child doesn’t fit in the box.

The truth is that my son doesn’t fit in the box. DH and I don’t really fit in the box either. Up until this point, we’ve been happily parenting him in our “sensitive family” bubble. What do other sensitive families do about education? The truth is many sensitive children are homeschooled. I know a ridiculous number of families who homeschool (many of my FB friends are homeschoolers and many of my blog friends are homeschoolers). I am attracted and drawn to families that homeschool.

If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you’ll know that we were hoping to start a local holistic school / whole child school based on Waldorf and Montessori principles. But…  we’ve hit some road blocks and the school hasn’t been established (yet). I could homeschool him, but the truth is that I don’t think I’m the homeschooling type. (I think I would go crazy homeschooling my son). Plus the fact that financially, it’s important for the family that I also work…

Hence Moses will be going to the neighbourhood school. I’ve heard great things about this school, but the truth is that my intuition is telling me that Moses won’t thrive at this school. It won’t support him and stimulate him in the ways that he needs to be supported and stimulated. And that’s why I’m inwardly freaking out.

Breathing in and breathing out now…

In any case, based on practical and financial reasons, we are going to give the neighbourhood school a try. And I really hope that I’m wrong. I hope that he will thrive and will love school.

But, if he doesn’t thrive at school, I won’t make him stay in the system. I will create a holistic school (with the support of other like-minded families), will homeschool him, or I will school him cooperatively with other like-minded parents.

Moses will receive a conscious education.

The development of his intellectual, emotional physical, and spiritual bodies will be supported.

So be it. And it is so, and so it is.

Updates:

September 10, 2011: Moses enjoyed his first couple of days of school! Read more here.

January 11, 2012: Moses is doing just fine in Kindergarten at his neighbourhood school. He’s made lots of new friends, has tons of girlfriends (they all want to marry him), and he did well on his report card (I still find it weird that they get report cards in Kindergarten). He enjoys it well enough. He likes gym the best. Some days he tells me it’s boring (“all we do is work, work, work at school”…)  Nonetheless, I’m happy that all is well and that the transition has been a smooth one for all.

The Highly Sensitive Family

A dear friend (and mother of a  sensitive child) shared an article with me about The Highly Sensitive Family written by Liz Pilley in the Mothering Magazine in July/Aug 2009. You can read the whole article here.

Even if you’ve never heard the term Highly Sensitive before, the chances are that you know a child who fits the profile: they have a very sensitive nervous system, are aware of the subtleties in an environment and are easily overwhelmed in stimulating surroundings. They’re often labelled fussy, shy, spirited, spoilt, ADHD, inflexible, explosive, or even Autism Spectrum; but none of these labels quite fits. They take things much to heart, they’re fussy about food, temperature, texture and many other things. They often hate group settings, and have many fears, but they are also creative, curious, loving and empathetic.

It’s a great article, especially if you are parenting a highly sensitive child, and in the article, she also makes the point that typically, at least one of the parents of a highly sensitive child is highly sensitive themselves.  (uh huh…  nodding in agreement…).

Challenges of being highly sensitive

In the article, Liz also discusses the challenges of being highly sensitive (i.e., easily overstimulated, can be easily upset, fussy about food, temperature, texture, noisy, crowds, etc.).

With respect to this, I have to say that Moses was a highly sensitive child. When he was a baby to four years of age, he used to be comfortable in a very narrow range of circumstances and DH and I had to monitor him and his environment very carefully in order to keep him comfortable / non-agitated. I’m happy to say that all of the things that we’ve been doing to help him (i.e., Heilkunst homeopathy, energy healing, supplements, prayer) have helped him to become more comfortable in his body so that he isn’t always overstimulated and his body isn’t so agitated.

And as a result, we are now able to enjoy more fully the gifts and blessings that a sensitive child bring.

Gifts of being highly sensitive

Liz points out the gifts of being highly sensitive:

• very intuitive and they notice every subtle undercurrent;
• deep thinkers, very curious and tend to remember lots of odd facts;
• wide vocabulary and very articulate;
• very empathetic and nurturing, especially good with younger children and animals;
• very open to plants, animals and nature;
• feel everything deeply, and tend to be tactile and loving with those they know well, but reserved and apparently shy with those they don’t;
• very creative, often artistic, and good with language.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes for Moses. (And, basically yes for me, except for being articulate and artistic. Also, yes for DH as well!).

I think it’s just been recently that DH and I have acknowledged that not only are we raising a sensitive child, but we are sensitive ourselves. Like Moses, DH doesn’t like big crowds and is sensitive to foods (he is sensitive to gluten and eggs). And like Moses, I’m very sensitive to smells and to animal dander. All three of us are sensitive to energy. We’d all rather spend time in nature, on our own or with a few close friends, than spend time in a noisy crowd.

But, I think rather than being a highly sensitive family, we’re now just a (moderately) sensitive family.

My sensitive boys

What about your family? Do you consider your family a sensitive family?

The Indigo Evolution

My friend, Dominique, shared this movie with me, The Indigo Evolution. You can view it here. It’s a full length documentary (an hour and 8 minutes long) by James Twyman, Stephen Simon, Kent Romney and Doreen Virtue.

The Indigo Evolution is a documentary about the shifting human, evolving beyond the five sensory perceptions into a multi-sensory being of light. The term Indigo refers to the indigo color aura seen around certain individuals who exhibit certain enhanced abilities well beyond their age and learning. Commonly labeled as suffering from some kind of deficit (ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, autism) these children clearly have more of something most of us fail to recognize. Their non conformance to authority and the social conditioning sometimes earns them the label of being problem children.

The film had information about sensitive children, educational paradigms, honouring individual’s gifts, life purpose, spiritual evolution on the planet and generally discussed many things that I have a keen interest in. I resonated with much of the info in the film, and was familiar with most all of the info that was presented. I found that some parts were a bit slow, but overall, I feel that the film was well done and worth watching.

I feel that all children are gifted in their own way. It’s a matter of discovering what your child’s gifts are.

A Tale of Two Crystals

A mom recently started writing about raising two sensitive boys at A Tale of Two Crystals. Her sons hear and see spirits, and I’m very interested to have a dialogue with this mom since I haven’t met many moms who write about their psychic children’s experiences.

My son talks about seeing angels. And also talks about “bad dreams” being in his room. I, of course, believe that sensitive children can really see and sense spirits that most people cannot. I have a lot more to say about this topic, but will do so when I don’t have a lot of packing to do!!

I know that we are not the only ones. Alex’s mom of Alex’s Journey out of Autism, believes that her son had difficulty sleeping in his room because of sensing a ghost in his room. And, Alexis at Taking the Lid off the Sun discusses tips for alleviating the fear of nighttime visitors for sensitive children who can sense spirits.

In the meantime, I’d love to hear about your stories of your children sensing and seeing the spirit world.

Tips on Raising a Sensitive Child

Note: My list here is more up to date.

I’ve decided to start a list of things that I wish I’d known earlier with respect to raising a sensitive child. Some of these things are things that weren’t necessarily obvious to me in the beginning, and some of them, I learned the hard way through experience. Some of the things on this list are things that I strive to do, but am not able to always do. Hopefully some of the ideas may help you with your sensitive / autistic / indigo/ crystal child.

Note that some of these things are relevant to all children, but not all of these things will be relevant to your child.  These are specifically a list of things that I feel were helpful for my child and in our family. Listen to your gut as to which ones may be appropriate in your family.

I don’t pretend to know all of the answers, and I’m not a ”perfect” parent (no one is). We all do the best that we can do every moment. And that’s all we can do.

This is a living list, and I will add more with time. If you have other ideas to add (which I’m sure you do), let me know.

General

1. Trust your intuition as a parent.  You know best. Read more here.
2. Remember that your child chose you as her/his parent.
3. Be gentle on yourself.
4. Listen and talk to your child with respect.
5. If your child is of school age, consider alternative schools (e.g.,  Montessori schools, Waldorf schools, arts schools), homeschooling, or unschooling. Or maybe your neighbourhood school is a great fit for your sensitive child. This is, of course, a very personal decision, but it’s good to consider your options.

Having fun

1. Enjoy your child. Celebrate the joys of raising a sensitive child, and being a sensitive parent. Our story here.
2. Celebrate your child’s gifts. Our story here.
3. Get a family pet (one that your child isn’t allergic to). Our story here, here and also here.
4. Do things that you like to do as a family — especially outdoor things.
5. Try yoga, dance, martial arts, or gymnastics.
6. Arts and crafts
7. Dance and sing – make up songs together.
8. Laugh, giggle, tickle and tell jokes
9. Be a silly Billy (as we like to say in our family)

Care of the emotional body

1. Teach your child to talk about his/her feelings. More here.

General Body Care

1. Try baths with epsom salts, sea salt, baking soda and olive oil or coconut oil. Read more here.
2. Try Weleda toothpaste. More info here.
3. Try a castor oil abdominal massage for gentle cleansing and a variety of ailments.

Foods

My son is sensitive to a lot of foods, therefore, this list is a long one for us. Still, a casein-free / gluten-free diet may help your child for many other ailments.

1. Get your child tested for allergies, but in the meantime, try a milk-free and gluten-free diet (points 2 and 3 below).
2. Try a  milk-free (casein-free) diet. It may take at least one month to show any improvements.
3. Try a gluten-free diet.  It may take at least six months to show any improvements.
4. Try an MSG-free diet.  There is MSG in just about everything (e.g., Campbell’s soups, flavoured potato chips). My sensitive son had MSG in his system because I was eating foods with MSG while I was breastfeeding him. I learned that most foods that I *loved* contained MSG. Read more here.
5. Try reducing the amount of sugar in your child’s diet. Read Dr. Kathleen DesMaisons’ book, Little Sugar Addicts (website here).
6. Buy as much organic produce as possible. Wash all conventionally grown fruits and vegetables with apple cidar vinegar. Read more here.
7. Hemp seeds are non-allergenic, a great source of protein and essential fats. I have been eating hemp hearts for breakfast every morning for the last year. Unfortunately, my son doesn’t like them, but will eat them occasionally. Hemp seeds can be added to shakes, soups and baking.  Read more here.
8. If your child is allergic or sensitive to certain foods, even trace amounts of this type of food can lead to an allergic reaction. Avoid cross-contamination. For example, read here.
9. Keep a food journal.
10. If you’re not sure which foods are triggers, try an elimination diet, a few foods diet, or crystal testing (dowsing).  Read here for more info re: dowsing with a crystal.
11. If you are introducing new foods, only introduce one new food every four days. (This is something that is obvious, but we often didn’t follow this advice and then it was difficult to know exactly what the trigger was).
12. If your child has been tested for a certain food or environmental allergen and it comes back as being “low”, but your child hasn’t been exposed to this particular food or environmental allergen, she/he may still be allergic to it. Our story here.

Supplements

1. Find a good multi-vitamin.
2. Find out if your child is low on vitamin Bs, in particular, vitamin B12. Read more here.
3. Find out if your child is low in vitamin D3. Read more here.

Currently, my son also uses the following supplements (this will vary from child to child):

1. Liquid calcium supplement (recommended by his doctor)
2. Liquid iron supplement (recommended by his doctor)
3. probiotics (recommended by his naturopath)
4. arnica homeopathic (for his past history of traumas – e.g., birth trauma; recommended by his naturopath)
5. sulphur homeopathic (for his rashes; recommended by his naturopath)
6. flaxseed oil (though if your child is not allergic to fish, I’d recommend cod liver oil; more here)
7. liquid chlorophyll

Tips for dealing with eczema

1. Saltwater compress
2. Omega 3 fats
3. High quality probiotic
4. Avoid highly allergenic foods (e.g., gluten, dairy, eggs).
5. Getting sufficient sun exposure or taking a quality Vitamin D supplement.
6. Our story here.

Health care practitioners

1. My vision of a health care system here.
2. Find a good naturopath.
3. Find a good chiropractor.
4. Find a good energy healer / shamanic practitioner / Reiki practitioner / Integrated Energy practitioner. I believe that sensitive children are especially helped by energy healing. An example of how energy healing helped our family here.
5. Find a good doctor that you can trust.
6. If you have unresolved problems from your own childhood and/or life, find someone (e.g., an energy healer) or a technique to help you deal with them. You child is sensitive and can sense your unresolved issues. Emotional freedom technique is a useful technique for releasing the emotional charge on issues. Our story here.
7. Listen to your own intuition before following the advice of any health care practitioner.

Minimize Medications

1. This one is hard to do, especially if your child is sick, but minimize medications as much as possible. We haven’t been able to completely, but do the best that you can. Trust your intuition on this one. Our story here and here.
2. If your intuition says not to vaccinate your child, DON’T DO IT! More on our story here.

Minimize Environmental Toxins

1. Choose ceramic dental fillings over stainless steel or mercury amalgam fillings. Our story here.
2. Minimize the toxins in your environment. More information here.
3. Use natural cleaners (e.g., vinegar, baking soda).
4. Open up the windows and let fresh air circulate in your home.
5. Ensure there is no mold in your home. Our story here.
6. Use cast iron pans to cook with.
7. Purchase a good air purifier.
8. If you are renovating your home, find another place to temporarily stay during the renovations. Our story here.
9. When painting, use no VOC or low VOC paint. Our story here.

Care of the energetic body

1. Try smudging (using the smoke from sage stick) your child’s body, room and home to clear the energy of the room.
2. Consider putting crystals in your child’s room. More here.
3. Spend as much time outside as possible.
4. Teach your child yoga, a martial art, and/or tai chi.
5. Consider registering your child for a Reiki for Kids or an Integrated Energy for Kids class.  More here. My 3.5 year old son is now attuned to Reiki I.
6. Find an energy healing practitioner (Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy, Shamanic Healing).
7. Try putting a himalayan salt crystal lamp in your child’s room. Read more here.
8. If your child has trouble sleeping, some tips here.
9. Teach your child about the spirit world (that it does exist). If your child mentions talking to spirits or angels, s/he probably is.
10. Ten techniques to ground and balance your child’s energy here. More useful tips at http://www.energyconnectiontherapies.com.

Care of Sensitive Babies

Many of the other tips apply to the care of sensitive babies. In addition…

1. Try attachment parenting. Read here.
2. Try breastfeeding as long as you can (but if your child is sensitive to foods, you will need to restrict your diet as well).
3. If your baby is extremely colicky, I would eliminate milk from his/her diet immediately (and from your diet too if you’re breastfeeding). Remember, it can take up to a month to see any changes because it takes a while for the milk protein to leave his/her and your system after you’ve eliminated it from your diet.

Self-care for Mom and Dad

1. Schedule at least once a month dates for mom and dad. A story of one of our dates here.
2. Schedule at least once a week time for you. Follow your bliss. My story here.
3. Find time to exercise. Even 10 minutes a day. (We purchased one of those 10 minute vibration machines, so that we can at least shake once a day. More about that here).
4. Find time to meditate or centre daily.
5. Build a support group of friends.
6. Get body work (massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy work) once a month.

Spiritual Laws of Parenting

1. Book recommendation - The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding your Children to Success and Fulfillment by Deepak Chopra. More here.

Resources for Parents of Autistic and/or Sensitive Children

1. Jenny McCarthy’s Generation Rescue website is an excellent resources for parents with autistic children, and also for parents with children who are sensitive to foods and environmental allergens. More here and here.
2. Healing and Preventing Autism by Jenny McCarthy and Jerry Kartizinel. In my opinion, this book is a must-read for parents of all children, but especially parents with autistic children, and also for parents with children who are sensitive to foods and environmental allergens. More here.
3. Mother Warriors by Jenny McCarthy. This book helped me to feel that I am not alone in my journey. More here.

Resources about Indigo and Crystal Children

If you have a sensitive child, you are likely parenting an indigo or crystal child.

1. The Energy Connection website has useful articles about characteristics of indigo and crystal children and also great tips on a variety of energy exercises to do with them: http://www.energyconnectiontherapies.com.
2. Website with lots of information about raising crystal and indigo children: http://www.starchildglobal.com.  Scroll down on the index on the lefthand side of the page and click on “The New Children: Indigos and Crystals”.
3. Websites and articles about crystal children that I have felt are helpful – more here.
4. You can watch a short video (8 min) about crystal and indigo children here.
5. A support group for parents of crystal children here.
6.  The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children by Doreen Virtue.  Practical advice for raising sensitive children, as well as how to communicate with the angelic realm and ask for help with raising your child. I love all of Doreen Virtue’s books.

 

Star Child Global website

I came across another website with lots of information abour raising crystal and indigo children: www.starchildglobal.com.  Scroll down on the index on the lefthand side of the page and click on “The New Children: Indigos and Crystals”.

I haven’t had a chance to read through it all yet, but wanted to pass it along.

I particularly found of interest Jose and Ines’ diary of  ”Parenting a Crystal Child the Conscious Way”.   Last year, I searched the web looking for stories of real parents who were parenting crystal children consciously, so I’m glad to have found it.  There are 11 diary entries up until the child is around 3 years old, and was last updated in 2005.  I guess it’s really no different than parenting any child consciously, and happily since then, I’ve found many blogs of other conscious parents (who don’t necessarily label their children as being crystal or indigo children). One thing in particular that Jose and Ines model in their parenting is being very aware of energy, and the effect of energy on their child.