_ Self Awareness through the 6th Sense

The closing of 2011 brought many energetic shifts.  2012 will be a year of more shifting as we align with our souls and divine purpose.  We are to awaken and connect with our higher selves and move through life by operating with the flow of spirit rather than going against the flow by letting our egos lead the way.

Those in their adult years, who have experienced an “awakening,” are reconnecting with his/her soul through one’s sixth senses.  In school, the 5 senses of touching, hearing, smelling, tasting, and seeing are taught.  All these senses are tangible and perceived through one’s common sense.  However, most people are not taught about their 6th senses of clairaudience (clear hearing), claircognizance (clear knowing), clairsentience (clear feeling), and clairvoyance (clear seeing).  These 6th senses are intangible to science, for the most part, and as a result, many are uncertain about their 6th senses due to lack of “proof.” 

The first stages of human development mainly involve the senses of touching, hearing, smelling, tasting and seeing.  However, children are great receptors of spirit, especially infants, and the 6th sense is just as strong as the common 5 senses we are all familiar with.  Young children see auras, are telephathic, or see the unseen, such as angels, spirit guides, and crossed-over loved ones, just to name a few.  These types of experiences come naturally to young children. 

From birth, children are in touch with their spiritual selves.  The ego then develops and grows stronger with each stage of development.  As the ego grows, its influence becomes stronger and stronger.  At some point, one can choose to place their trust in ego feelings rather than one’s heart.  That is the beginning of separation from the embrace of spirit.  Unfortunately, without validation and attention drawn to one’s 6th senses, many children unlearn their spiritual gifts and 6th senses as a result.  The separation from spirit can further continue if one becomes unbalanced and confused about their inner guidance system, which results in one following their ego mind more than listening to one's heart (which is spirit speaking to you).

The good news is we can help children learn to grow up with their 6th senses intact by incorporating awareness of spirit into a child’s development.  Teach your children that they have 6th senses of clairaudience, claircognizance, clairsentience, and clairvoyance.  Talk to your children about their “instincts” or “gut feelings.”  Teach your children to focus upon their heart chakras and notice what they feel within their hearts.

Awareness and open discussion are essential to raising “whole” children.  Society teaches us the importance of having discussions of drug and alcohol abuse.  Most children receive sex education in school.  But we typically don’t teach our children about their 6th senses, mostly because it is intangible, not proven scientifically, and not a common societal practice.  Most folks weren’t raised with awareness of the 6th senses, so we don’t pass that knowledge on to our offspring.

Incorporating regular discussions of the ways our 6th senses show up in our everyday living is a great start to keeping your children connected to their spirit, in touch with their 6th senses, and moving through life more smoothly in flow with their soul and spirit.

Alignment with the Soul

With the Aquarian Age upon us, many people have been going through a spiritual awakening…myself included.  My awakening started approximately 10 years ago.  Spirit crossed my path, and I just knew I had more to discover.  Through the awareness I now have, I realize what a large part of my life has been conducted by my ego and not from my spirit.  Thankfully, I am now living from my spirit more and more, and my choices are now made with awareness and in alignment with my spirit.  As a result, I enjoy living my life in the flow rather than against it.  

Many of us have been duped by the ego simply because we were not aware of or taught about ego energies.  When we allow ourselves to disconnect from our inner truth, our divine spirit within, we start the process of allowing the false self to take over, aka, the ego.  As a result, we end up disconnected from our true spiritual being, and we end up unfulfilled, searching, struggling, and not always happy.
 
The ego starts to develop when we are children, approximately around the ages of 4-5 years old.  Kids enter the school system and get a crash course in ego games (I wrote about this in my September Newsletter).  Kids often learn at school how to play ego games, such as, “I am better, faster, or smarter than you.”  As children progress through the school years, they start to notice how they are different from one another.  This begins the “fitting-in,” “finding oneself,” or “losing oneself” phase of development.  This is an example of a turning point in one's personal development, where one can start the cycle of doubting oneself and looking outside of oneself to define who one is, and the process of losing touch with one's divine spirit begins.  Unfortunately, too many children lose touch with their own spirit and begin making choices from the ego at very young ages.
 
How can we help the children stay in touch with their individual spirits?  The answer is awareness and open communication with your kids.  Help your child create awareness for himself by guiding him to make choices from his heart/spirit versus from outside of himself, i.e., ego.  Jesus taught us about the divinity we each have within our being, and how we have the power within to heal ourselves.  He taught us that healing comes from within our being/spirit and not outside of us.
 
Keep an open dialogue going with your children, discussing things like looking within their individual spirit for what brings them joy, what makes them feel good about themselves, or what does their intuition tell them?  These are a few examples of areas that help promote a healthy relationship with one's inner guidance system and one's spiritual self.  Encourage your children to do things from their hearts and to not do things just to please other people.  Teach children to love themselves, their spirit, and to be happy with who they are.
 
Lastly, it is important to teach the children to forgive themselves.  It is commonplace in our culture to forgive others when they hurt us, but what is uncommon within our culture is teaching children to forgive themselves.  We cannot be whole and healthy if we do not love ourselves 100 percent!  The inside reflects the outside.  Healing takes place from the inside out, just like a cut does.  Our physical body heals from the inside out, and so does our spirit.  Let's teach the children to let their spirits shine from the inside out!

New Class starting in January 2011:   

My Spiritual Self:  A class to teach kids about their own energy, spirit, and intuition.

This class will cover the following topics:
    Basic spiritual anatomy: grounding, auras, and protection
    How to clean my energy
    Sensitivity: empathic energies and how to understand them
    What is my Spirit? vs What is my Ego?
    Intuition:  What is it? 
    Getting in touch with my spirit, how my spirit talks to me, and how to listen to my spirit
   
This will be a fun and interactive class, geared toward Elementary School-aged kids with exercises to learn about “My Spiritual Self.”

The class will be 4 sessions

Please send me an email at tammy@intutivechildren.net if you are interested in signing up your child for this class or if you have any questions.  I will have details of cost and location in my December newsletter.
   
Please pass this newsletter on to anyone who may be interested…

Many Blessings of Peace and Love,

Tammy Franklin