Books & Audio Stories for Empathic & Intuitive Children

Helping Empathic Children Adjust in Families

2011-12-21T06:00:00.000-06:00

by Caron Goode

Experts agree that happy children share characteristics like optimism and a sense of control. How can parents create a supportive family atmosphere to create successful intuitive children? This chapter starts with how to provide support for the emotional empath and help them develop calm and resilience.

Our support goal for an emotional empath is to strengthen emotional energy, especially of the heart.
Our second support goal is to empower resilience so they can interact with the environment, not withdraw from it.
A third support goal is to monitor and maintain an emotionally healthy atmosphere in your home.

An empath’s vulnerability can also be their challenge in an emotionally toxic home where they have to learn to cut off their feelings so they can survive.

The primary home environment provides the first stable space in which an empathic child learns to value personal feelings and how to interpret the emotional atmosphere of the home. Margaret’ story shows how a psychic, sensitive, or empathic child can interpret a parent’s emotions, and her decision as a child affected her relationship with her father significantly.

Margaret’s was empathic, and she came from a large Italian family of seven children. All were talkative and emotionally expressive. Her family had a celebration for Margaret’s First Communion day and invited relatives and members of the church community. It was normal to see the men in her family drinking beer and sometimes wine at these family celebrations.

In the late afternoon, Margaret’s observed her father’s emotional energy for the first time: “I kept staring at Dad because I had never seen like storm clouds around him before. Usually Dad was all sunshine and smiles. I was seeing my father’s aura. His alcoholic haze looked like dark clouds, and his mood was angry. Even though I was used to his booming Italian voice, when his emotional tone changed to anger, his voice matched the dark clouds seen by my young eyes. I was confused and that day was the start of my withdrawal from his energy. Being in touch with his dark stormy emotions made me feel sick to my stomach. My father’s alcoholism grew through the years, and our relationship withered.”

Rather than Margaret withdrawing from her father to feel safe, another option would be to create communication and understanding between them—a path of resilience for Margaret. Research from The International Resilience Project reviewed what we mentioned in chapter one: “A child's own genetic make-up and temperament are fundamental to whether he or she will be resilient. That is, a child's vulnerability to anxiety, challenges, stress or unfamiliarity determines his or her self-perception, how he or she interacts with others, and how he or she addresses adversities.”

An emotional empath like Margaret needs an adult in the family to model acceptance of other’s differences. A mentor, whether a parent, sibling, neighbor or schoolteacher can help sensitive children negotiate adversity by talking about it. For example an adult could help Margaret clarify that her dad only looked foggy when drinking alcohol. How did his energy appear at other times? Perhaps Margaret could have brought to his attention the fact that his children did not respond well to the anger and alcohol mix. Conversations have to happen!!

For further information, check out Raising Intuitive Children and also the book, by Goldberg, E. H. A Guide to Promoting Resilience in children: Strengthening the Human Spirit. The International Resilience Project, part of the Early Childhood Development: Practice & Reflection series. Bernard Van Leer Foundation.

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since many of these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, they are perplexed when trying to deal with the children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts. The Sid Series is now part of the curriculum for “Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living.” There are 12 modules in this class—each one is less than ten minutes. Learn more or sign up at http://live-spirit.com/parenting-classes

© 2011 Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents International, a global online school for training successful, wealthy parenting coaches in home-based businesses. She is the author of fifteen books, including the international best seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, the national award-winner Raising Intuitive Children. See and review all of Dr. Goode’s books here.

Purchase The Sid Series on http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries

Self-Esteem: What is the Effect of Sexual Abuse on Your Inner Child?

2011-12-19T06:00:00.000-06:00

When children lack safety, love, and receive constant criticism and abuse by parents they develop low self-esteem. These children as adults have the trauma of the abuse plus low esteem to heal before they can take back their power and love themselves.

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Helping Children Manage Energy

2011-12-12T07:00:00.000-06:00

Etheric energy—the electro-magnetic field around the body—provides chi, prana, or juice to all physical organs. Emotions can negatively impact and weaken solid etheric energy if it is negative, tense, or prolonged. I imagine the result to be a ragged energy field with holes throughout, which doesn’t have a strong enough electrical charge to provide juice for the physical body. Weaker etheric energy doesn’t provide strength to physical organs. Weaker physical organs appears in children having specific mental or emotions symptoms.

Let’s look at some of the correlation between the physical body’s organs and their energetic counterparts.

• Fear or anxiety – controlled by kidneys

• Sorrow and loss – controlled by lungs

• Feelings of worry or obsession - controlled by spleen

• Anger, jealousy, irritation, and depression – controlled by liver.

The most formative time in our lives is from birth through puberty. During this period, we form our basic responses to life. It is absolutely crucial that we connect with children through shared activities like walking, reading books, gardening, bike riding, and playing. Conversations where real dialogue is shared are also crucial.

Here are some other tips for helping children manage their energy:

Play

· Avoid allergenic foods that cause organ inflammation, such as gluten does to colon lining, and yeasty foods to the intestines.

· Herbal teas can increase energy or relax children or help them digest food and breathe better.

· Parents who give Bach Flower Remedies® to their children are amazed by the positive effect the Remedies have on their children; screaming children find sudden relief, shy and fearful children find courage, impatient and angry children find peace.

· Acupuncture and classical eastern homeopathy work well in healing individual organs like kidneys or offering liver and lymph support.

When children play, they use fantasy and creativity. They imagine and act out the roles they will grow into as adults. The word “imagination” means we create the “image” of what we are to become. Children need unstructured time for imaginative play. They also need free time to discover who they are in an intimate, personal way.

Play also empowers them to be curious and learn to negotiate their environments safely. So, let children play--and play with them!

Schedules

Children perform best when they have regular schedules or understand expectations. These activities create a secure framework for a child if they are done each day.

Brain research shows that multi-tasking fatigues the brain. You create a chronic stress pattern if you repeat this kind of overload. So no doing homework, watching TV, texting and eating dinner in the same 30-minute period.

Spirituality

Find your own spiritual perspective.
Share your thoughts about the “big” questions in life with your child. This gives them a means of embracing their experience.
You promote your health for the mental, emotional and etheric energies and their interactions.

Now that you understand the whole child—the basic structures of the mind and body and the interface of etheric energy and emotions—what questions do you have for Dr. Goode? Please ask your question as a comment below this post. You may contact Dr. Goode at http://live-spirit.com/contact-us/.

Join us tomorrow on this blog for another segment of Dr. Caron Goode’s discussion on how to support empathic children. To get the full transcript and listen to Caron’s entire presentation as well as the teaching of Suzy Miller, you may purchase the mp3s here:

http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy

Dr. Caron Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them Through Their Fear. Dr. Goode graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist. Formerly a pediatric speech language pathologist, Suzy Miller is the visionary founder of Blue Star Brilliance LLC and author of AWESOMISM: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism.

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Over and Above!

2011-12-07T06:00:00.000-06:00

My granddaughter, Keilie, is in the fourth grade. She had an assignment to write a paper using all of her spelling words beginning with “over.” Her paper was chosen as the *winner* of the class. I typed it up to share with you today.

My Bad Day

By Keilie Perry

When I came home I had an overdue library book and an overworked project. I tried to bake cookies and I overcooked them too. I traveled to the grocery store and bought some strawberries but when I got home they were overripe! A couple minutes later I got thirsty and I poured some water and it overflowed! I went to water the flowers and I accidentally watered weeds and they have overgrown to the sky. So I fell to sleep and when I woke up I got my overcoat on to go out. I ran out of gas so I walked inside to pay for gas and got a piece of candy. I ate it and got overactive. I zoomed all the way out to the car! I really wanted a dog so I twirled all the way to the pet shop. I saw an overweight cat right next to the dog I wanted. I named my dog Lucky. When I came home my house was over populated with friends and family because it was family reunion day!

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How To Connect With An Empathic Child After Distress

2011-12-01T06:00:00.000-06:00

by Dr Caron Goode

At age ten, empathic Tess experienced a sudden and abrupt disconnect from her mom, which would affect her for the rest of her life. One day her mom was hugging her after school and teaching her how to cut vegetables. The next day, her Mom did not see her, but looked past her with a distant gaze, spaced-out eyes. Mom told Tess that the voices in her head told her to pull the plugs out of the walls.

Such a rapid disconnection from her mom was worse than losing her mom to death in Tess’ eyes. Rather than being able to say goodbye, Tess had to renegotiate the emotional environment with her mom still alive, yet not present.

Tess was empathic. She felt as her mom felt, and had no way to talk about it or understand it. The result was that Tess withdrew, cried and felt isolated and hurt.

Tess felt threatened by her mom’s withdrawal. She also loved her Mom, so Tess split her attention in half. One half stayed hidden inside a sensitive heart, protecting and armoring. One half re-learned how to live in a home with her mother’s mental illness, diagnosed as Schizoid Affective disorder. Tess was on constant psychic alert.

An intuitive cannot sustain the long-term division of attention in a situation such as Tess experienced without negative emotional consequences. Have you ever walked forward in life while trying to watch your back every two minutes? It would distort your attention and create tension in the same way emotional intensity or trauma strike empathic children. Empathic children will

Internalize the toxic feeling that they are the burden
Feel inadequate or unloved and turn the messages into negative self-talk.
Feel inconsequential, like they have no power or resources in their environment.

These adversarial moments are also brilliant opportunities for developing flexibility and strength rather than being resigned. Help your children develop habits of coping so they become self-confident and trust their intuitive intelligence.

Tess’ therapist had her close her eyes, relax, and go back to age ten when she disconnected from the Mom she knew. Tess felt a giant creature standing beside her left shoulder much like a Wookiee of the Star Wars epics. This imaginary friend became Tess’ protector. She could hide behind him to feel safe, and could control her world in this way. This was a resilience creation, which let Tess control her inner world when she couldn’t control the outer environment.

For further information, check out Raising Intuitive Children.

© 2011 Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents International, a global online school for training successful, wealthy parenting coaches in home-based businesses. She is the author of fifteen books, including the international best seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, the national award-winner Raising Intuitive Children. See and review all of Dr. Goode’s books here.

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since many of these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, they are perplexed when trying to deal with the children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts. The Sid Series is now part of the curriculum for “Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living.” There are 12 modules in this class—each one is less than ten minutes. Learn more or sign up at http://live-spirit.com/empathytelesummit

Purchase The Sid Series on http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries

How An Empathic Child Can Self-Soothe

2011-11-29T07:00:00.000-06:00

by Dr. Caron Goode

Through empathic touch, you teach an intuitive child to trust his sense of feeling and his body’s messages. By pairing touch with empathy you teach the child to calm himself, a trait that every teacher who labels a child hyperactive is seeking. When a child touches his own heart, laying the palm to rest on the chest, he harmonizes his energy and synchronizes the body’s rhythm. He brings chaos to comfort and distractions to center.

Holding your child next to your heart is the most effective way to feel strength. Heart to heart hugs look like cradling the child in your lap, his back to your chest or kneeling down to your child’s level and embracing her heart to yours. Rocking also creates a calm state for younger children. A child can also place his hand on his heart and settle into the feeling of it for several seconds to produce calm.

Tender loving touch is important throughout one’s entire life, especially for the empath. In the developing embryo, a layer of cells called the ectoderm produces the skin and the nervous system. In this concrete physiological connection, touch provides “food” to the nervous system for the human to experience.

Purposeful, empathic touch to regulate and support an empathic child’s physiology tells the nervous system to be resilient and calm.

For further information, check out Raising Intuitive Children.

© 2011 Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents International, a global online school for training successful, wealthy parenting coaches in home-based businesses. She is the author of fifteen books, including the international best seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, the national award-winner Raising Intuitive Children. See and review all of Dr. Goode’s books here.

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since many of these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, they are perplexed when trying to deal with the children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts. The Sid Series is now part of the curriculum for “Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living.” There are 12 modules in this class—each one is less than ten minutes. Learn more or sign up at http://live-spirit.com/parenting-classes

Purchase The Sid Series on http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries

Empowering the Caregiver of Children with Autism

2011-11-25T07:00:00.000-06:00

As soon as the awareness of a child with autism clicks in at about age seven or eight, all kinds of things start to unravel and unfold for them. Half of what they have played out or mirrored prior to this age is all of our sadness and guilt that may have come from somebody saying that an autistic child is disordered. That’s not very comforting when this happens to be your child. If we understand that autistic individuals are new souls trying to take on a human body for the first time, you will realize that they are functioning in a very right brained way for a very good reason. When we realize this, empowerment comes for the parent or the teacher or therapist. There is a connection made at the level of heart, the level of pure love, without worry. It is beyond what you can see, feel, touch, taste.

These children have a lot to say about their ability to be here. They will stay very aware and focused on the unseen realm until these other pieces fall into place. Their vibration is much lighter and faster. Diet causes density at a physical level. Some of the things that we take into our physical bodies are very toxic but some of us have learned to adapt. These new individuals have not learned how to adapt. They are very sensitive to those kinds of things. Their digestive tracks are very sensitive. Also it is very difficult for these individuals to connect with somebody who is in a place of fear, worry, concern, or guilt because that energy is very heavy and very dense. More often than not parents, teachers, therapists, whoever is working with these children note changes when around this type of energy or food substances.

YOUR TURN: What has your experience been regarding food and autistic children? Do you see a difference when a healthy diet is maintained over a junk food diet?

Join us tomorrow on this blog for another segment of Suzy Miller’s discussion on how to communicate with autistic children.

This post is based on a presentation given during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth.” Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM!: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. You may obtain the full transcription and MP3 audio of Suzy’s and Dr. Caron Goode’s presentations at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy. Dr. Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. She graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist.

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Thought Forms are Tangible Objects to Autistic Children

2011-11-20T07:00:00.000-06:00

It is not uncommon for a teacher to have some disgruntled thoughts about the child diagnosed with autism. She or he may be thinking—not even articulating it aloud— “Hmmm, I wish this kid would not come to school today because he’s really difficult to deal with.” You know the thoughts that we keep in the privacy of our own mind sometimes. But an individual, who is very energy sensitive or energetically aware, can sense or even hear this thought even after the teacher is no longer in the room. It could have been the day before, but that thought form is still lingering in the classroom.

Thought forms are actually tangible to somebody who is accessing that level of information. So the child comes into the room and doesn’t want to be there. He may even feel a little hostility as he senses this negative energy. He may start clinging to his mother’s leg, not wanting her to leave because he’s is in the midst of this uncomfortable energy. If we understand this, we can use this to our benefit in creating lovely thought-filled balanced environments so these children are excited to come in and see what might be in front of them for that day. I don’t think most of us really grasp this concept even when we are seeing them energetically or when we can feel them and their presence. We have a tendency to still be a little bit out of the scope of where these kids actually are.

Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. After a 22-year career as a pediatric speech language pathologist, Suzy met a four-year old child diagnosed with autism who was destined to change not only the way she viewed autism, but life in general. She says, “I’ve had a lot of individuals who work energetically with this population and a lot of times they will say to me, “There’s so much negativity. There’s so much heaviness. There so much this or that.” And actually that is accurate but only to a point. This population absorbs and reflects energy. They are mirrors of energy—especially those who are nonverbal. Sometimes this is the only way they can show or express what they are experiencing. They mirror not necessarily what is physically going on in the physical environment but what is going energetically in the environment.

This creates a huge shift in consciousness when we understand that we have an individual sitting right in front of us who is giving us a brilliant read out of the more subtle aspects of ourselves. We miss these things all the time in our day-in day-out experience. When we hang out with these individuals, they are right there showing us whether our energy is calm or frenetic, when we are chaotic or sad. They are able to monitor that.

When you look at these individuals energetically you will most often see the band of energy around them. That is the mirror. These individuals don’t have a lot of their own karmic baggage or a lot of their own patterns needing to be released. As a matter of fact, when I look at these children through the eyes of pure essence and I see who these kids really are, I notice they have a very difficult time getting into their physical bodies. Many of these children have not had a physical human experience on Earth before so they don’t have a lot of history to bring with them. Thus they become very clear and beautiful mirrors. I know this to be true because every time this awareness is brought to the caregiver, parent, or teacher these adults are able to adjust their own thoughts and behavior and the behavior in the child stops immediately.

These children tell me frequently that just like most empaths are able to pick up the energy in their environment and sometimes put it into their bodies; these children do that as well. But they do not put it into their left brained mental process. As soon as an experience is over, it’s over for them. We as the parent or caregiver may feel that the child is upset so we try to fix the problem. What ends up happening is that we add energy to the upset as we keep projecting thought and emotion while trying to fix the upset. The minute we stop trying to fix the upset, the child stops being upset because there’s nothing to mirror at that point. I can’t tell you how many times that I as a speech language pathologist have watched a child’s behavior change as he or she goes from my presence to a parent’s presence, or go from their teacher’s presence to the presence of a child in the classroom. There is a different interaction—a different energy communication—in each scenario because they are mirroring what they sense in each scenario.

The communication is very difficult for them up until that time period.

YOUR TURN: Have you seen this mirroring take place with autistic children? If you work with this population, please leave a comment to let us know if you have tried observing a child with autism change behavior from the presence of one person to another.

Join us tomorrow on this blog for another segment of Suzy Miller’s discussion on how to communicate with autistic children.

This post is based on a presentation given during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” during which Suzy presented “Autism: A Positive Step in Human Evolution.” Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM!: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. You may obtain the full transcription and MP3 audio of Suzy’s and Dr. Caron Goode’s presentations at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy. Dr. Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. She graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist.

Purchase The Sid Series on http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries

The Heart –Stabilizing Solution for Empathic Children

2011-11-15T06:00:00.001-06:00

by Dr. Caron Goode

“Heart Math’s findings point to the human heart as playing a key role in the intuitive process, and a recent study concludes the heart actually receives intuitive information faster than the brain— by a second or slightly more.”

Meantime, the empathic intuitive reads people’s emotions clearly, senses the underlying feelings and scans body language and facial features for congruence. What the empath tunes into may be comfortable or not, which underlies the need for emotional management skills for intuitive, empathic children.

Neuroscience has mapped how the whole brain processes information in four ways: feeling, sensing, intuition and thinking. New research from the psychology of heart transplants has shown us how intelligent hearts are emotional centers and make intelligent decisions for our comfort.

Empathic children can use this understanding to their benefit.

The heart and brain connection starts in-utero. From fetal heart cells grows a neural tube. The brain develops on the other end. Our heart grows connections with the brain and central nervous system and they communicate with each other constantly.

An intuitive child or parent can use the heart energy to gauge clarity of their feelings and how to interpret them.

 A calming exercise is a physical activity like breathing or a mental exercise like visualization that helps one relax.

 Calming is a basic survival skill, an absolute must-have tool, for an intuitive child, especially the empath. An intuitive listens to intuition best when calm, not rushed. A creative child learns best when he can focus calmly.

 A calm heart has a soothing influence on the brain and the whole central nervous system. Intuitive children can calm anxiety, excitation, or distraction easily. The following three strategies provide a calming influence and help an intuitive parent or child to focus better.

 Place their right palms on their chests and breathe slowly for several minutes. When they feel the neck and shoulders relax, they’ve arrived!

 Touching the heart, imagine an elevator in their heads. They enter the elevator when the doors open, push the heart-shaped button, and feel the movement down through the throat into the chest. The doors open, they step out into their heart and remain there in silence for a while.

 As a parent, teach your child to find answers in his heart and his head. Show him that logic and intuition are not opposites. As a teacher, Caron gathered large, flat river stones, and the students in her class either wrote or drew a head on one side and heart on the other. When they had to make a personal choice about studies or peer or family matters, they turned the stone face up on either side, and asked their head or heart as designated. They got to explore two answers: the logical and the intuitive, and then discussed options. This proactive way to help solve a problem is easily used by teachers or parents.

For further information, check out Raising Intuitive Children.

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since many of these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, they are perplexed when trying to deal with the children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts. The Sid Series is now part of the curriculum for “Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living.” There are 12 modules in this class—each one is less than ten minutes. Learn more or sign up at http://live-spirit.com/empathytelesummit

Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents International, a global online school for training successful, wealthy parenting coaches in home-based businesses. She is the author of fifteen books, including the international best seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, the national award-winner Raising Intuitive Children. See and review all of Dr. Goode’s books here.

Purchase The Sid Series on http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries

Divorced Parenting of Empathic Children

2011-11-12T07:00:00.000-06:00

Due to divorce and joint custody arrangements, many children live in two environments. One may be orderly and calm. The other may be haphazard and chaotic. What is done with children in one home can carry over to the other. If one parent understands the empathic child’s sensitivity and the other doesn’t, it can create a huge discordant problem for the empathic child.

In working with parents who are separated or working out a divorce plan for their families, one parent might feed the child sugar and junk food and then send them to the other parent where it takes quite literally a week to help the child change their behavior and get back on course again. It is imperative that parents teach their children how to take care of their own energy. For example, there was one child high on the autism spectrum, who went to his father’s where he was teased for his sensitivity. He would go to bed in tears. He wet the bed and the problem continued to escalate. The mom was a very savvy and smart woman, so rather than keeping him in the victim mode she quickly taught him resilience. She taught him how to strip the bed before he could be teased. She taught him how to wash his own sheets and make his bed again before they would jump on him for doing something wrong. She basically taught him how to take care of himself and he did a very good job. Definitely being in a home environment where there are emotional connections requires some very specific management.

http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy

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Helping An Empathic Child Restore Strength

2011-11-08T06:00:00.001-06:00

by Caron Goode

“A resilient child does not need all these features to be resilient, but one (set of skills) is not enough. Resilience results from a combination of these features.”

The International Resilience Project put forth A Guide to Promoting Resilience in Children: Strengthening the Human Spirit. In this book, the author, Goldberg, suggests that children can draw from three sources of resilience. The first is to know what is available to them. The second resource is their inner personal skills, and the third resource is the action they can take. The three resources are reflected in statements for each category:

I HAVE represents what is available in their environment.
I AM statements reflect the child’s resources.
I CAN statements represent what the child could do, what action feels right.

I HAVE
 A big brother who supports me and loves me.
 My dog, Max, who sleeps on my bed when I feel upset.
 My family who love me.

I AM
 A sensitive person who likes to help others.
 Happy most of the time
 Willing to be responsible for what I do

I CAN
 Share my feeling with my parents when I am overwhelmed.
 Shift my moods from sad to happy
 Take ten deep breaths to calm down and focus.

For further information, check out Raising Intuitive Children.

Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents International, a global online school for training successful, wealthy parenting coaches in home-based businesses. She is the author of fifteen books, including the international best seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, the national award-winner Raising Intuitive Children. See and review all of Dr. Goode’s books here.

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since many of these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, they are perplexed when trying to deal with the children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts. The Sid Series is now part of the curriculum for “Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living.” There are 12 modules in this class—each one is less than ten minutes. Learn more or sign up at http://live-spirit.com/empathytelesummit

Purchase The Sid Series on http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries

Should I Allow a Ghost to Stay Around My Child?

2011-10-30T06:36:00.003-05:00

Recently I had a mom concerned about her 2-year-old son who began reporting that he was seeing a ghost at home. Then, he started saying the ghost was following them to public places. The child was terrified of the ghost. To me, this suggests that the entity is an earthbound spirit and not a spirit guide.

A young child with limited vocabulary typically doesn't make up stories like this. First of all, he has no reason to lie about what he sees or pretend to be afraid of a ghost—a term he probably has not heard in his daily experience. Should a parent be concerned about this? I would say yes—not because there is something to be afraid of, but because as a parent you want to know who is hanging around your child (regardless of whether they have a physical body or not) and what that ghost’s intentions are.

Dr. Caron Goode wrote a book, Kids Who See Ghosts. In it, she suggests that parents find out what purpose the ghost serves in your child’s life. If a spirit is an elder (ancestor) who is serving as a spirit guide, children are usually not afraid of them. If is it an earthbound spirit (most likely in cases when a child is terrified of the entity). Dr. Goode would ask questions such as these:

1. Do you as a parent want this spirit interacting or watching your son? Why or why not?
2. Does your son want the ghost around him? Why or why not?

As a parent (or anyone in a human body), you—not the ghost—have the ultimate authority in a situation like this. Just as if someone were trespassing on your property, you have every right to say whether or not this ghost can watch and follow your child around. I would advise you to do a compassionate release to permanently remove the spirit and help it cross over.

Dr. Goode and I, along with ghost clearing expert Ranoli, recorded a 60-minute audio on clearing your space of entities. In this discussion, Caron talks about why children see ghosts, and I share a few ghost stories and how my psychic grandson interacted with the spirit world when he was very young. I know this is going to sound like a sales gimmick, but first 10 people who purchase the MP3 for $19.99 gets a printed copy of Caron’s book, Kids Who See Ghosts, Ranoli’s e-book Ghost First Aid Kit, which tells why you need to and how to help the ghost cross over, and two PDF children’s stories from me. If you are interested, you can see http://live-spirit.com/spirit-cleansing-techniques for details.

Regardless of whether or not you get the MP3, I hope you will take action to keep this and other entities from attaching to your child's auric field.

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Handle Empathic Children With Love in Emotionally Toxic Homes

2011-10-28T07:00:00.000-05:00

By Caron Goode

Is your home emotionally toxic? That is…do you order your kids around, hit them, scream at them, forget to touch them with love, forget to be kind, ignore them when they cry or need you? Among the emotional factors that contribute to negative, even toxic, emotional atmospheres in homes are

Surprise or intense outbursts from anger or control issues.
Verbal putdowns or psychological bullying,
Physical abuse, including spanking, inappropriate sexual touching, and harassment.
Substance abuse and its vampire-like energy drain
Resentment, lack of respect and inappropriate behavior derived from bullying tactics like pushing, hitting, punching and knuckling the head.

Any child will buckle under when subjected to such behaviors, and for empathic or emotional intuitives who feel more profoundly than the average child, such behaviors can cripple or devastate. The potential for emotional harm inflicted on sensitive children has far larger ramifications than for other temperament styles.

Take extra care with empathic children for health, immune system strength, and the ability to develop resilience. They must build to be able to stand up for themselves or know when to withdraw. All children need a champion, and empathic children need an especially caring one.

Kellie had two younger brothers, and all three children were close growing up in a single parent household. All three children remember a household of humor, movies and popcorn, long walks and stories at bedtime during their preschool years. Kellie’s mother, Leslie, remarried when Kellie was nine years old, and her brothers were eight and seven. The tenor of their household changed from happy to distressful. Their stepfather argued with Leslie, worked at night and slept during the days, and children felt like they walked on eggshells.

One morning before school, Kellie’s brothers wrestled and broke an item in their living room. No one confessed to the crime, so Leslie put all three children in the bathroom, closed the door, and told them if one of them didn’t confess, she would have their father spank all three of them.

Well, no one confessed, but empathic Kellie was a nervous wreck after waiting in the bathroom for two hours for her stepfather to come home. Her bladder was full, and when her stepfather walked through the bathroom door with a belt in his hand, she broke down and sobbed. He made each child pull down their pants, lean over his lap, and he spanked them with the belt. Kellie urinated all over him, sobbed, and was in shock.

She turned white and fell to the floor at being assaulted. When she curled into a fetal position, her brothers ran to Leslie to report that something was wrong. Kellie was put to bed where she ran a fever for three days and vomited as if she had the flu. As an adult, Kellie described her impression as seeing the evil in her stepfather and feeling vulnerable when spanked, “I felt like I swallowed his violence, absorbed it like a sponge, so intensely that I fell ill. I had to purge my body through vomiting.” I had nightmares well into my teen years of being assaulted again. From that day forward, I hated that man and my mother for the way she dealt with a child’s simple mistake.”

Please remember, handle empathic children with care, respect and kindness.

For further information, check out Raising Intuitive Children.

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since many of these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, they are perplexed when trying to deal with the children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts. The Sid Series is now part of the curriculum for “Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living.” There are 12 modules in this class—each one is less than ten minutes. Learn more or sign up at http://live-spirit.com/parenting-classes

© 2011 Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents International, a global online school for training successful, wealthy parenting coaches in home-based businesses. She is the author of fifteen books, including the international best seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, the national award-winner Raising Intuitive Children. See and review all of Dr. Goode’s books here.

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Advice for Time Management

2011-10-27T07:00:00.000-05:00

Is keeping an intuitive child on a schedule necessary? They tend to operate from a place of “no time.” If time is an illusion, how do we make the most of it?

Many times the sensitive intuitive children who feel their way become very absorbed in their tasks, studies or artistic expression. They are not strong attenders of time. Sometimes in the feeling world of emotion the aspect of time is not anchored. I answer a lot of that in the book, Raising Intuitive Children, which talks about this specific learning style- energy aware children. For my own step son who had that issue, we had alarm clocks, yellow sticky notes that we put in his room. We actually managed the environment to get him where he needed to go with a lot of time prompts including a little kitchen timer when he needed to be on a call for example or get out the door to a school function on time. So to me, you have to build that in with these children if they are not time savvy.

Your turn to chime in. What questions do you have for Dr. Goode? Please ask your question as a comment below.

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Educate Caregivers Regarding Your Empathic Child

2011-10-25T07:00:00.001-05:00

Dr. Caron Goode talks about how to support empathic children. She suggests that parents be proactive and not wait for a situation to arise. Explain to teachers, babysitters, grandparents, and caregivers up front that your child has some unique qualities or energetic sensitivity that may be displayed while under their care. Depending upon the age of the child, I can be helpful to either 1.) Empower the child to take responsibility for some situations, or 2.) Educate the caregivers about what is going on with the child spiritually and energetically.

With a younger the child, the caregiver or babysitter has to be told what to expect. Such as in the case with kids who see ghosts. There was a young native American child raised by his father and his grandmothers. When the child went to school, the father went to school to let the teacher know that if she had any questions about his behavior she should call the father directly. You see, the boy has been raised by his grandmothers, but oh by the way his grandmothers have passed over. From an early age the boy was trained to speak to his spirit walker grandmothers. They were with him; they raised him; they taught him how to do spiritual healing because he’s very much a young shaman in training. The father went to the school and explained specifically that the boy will go up and put his hand on other children’s hearts to soothe them when they are hurt or cry. One day the teacher came in after a car accident and the boy went up to her and touched her heart. Because she had been told in advance, she knew what he was doing and she was very accepting of it.

It takes pro-action. We’ve got to help these kids get through. We’ve got to educate so other people can understand and accept them. Be a champion communicator, get out there and help!

This is the last segment of Dr. Caron Goode’s discussion on how to support empathic children. You may contact Dr. Goode at http://live-spirit.com/contact-us/. To get the full transcript and listen to Caron’s entire presentation as well as the teaching of Suzy Miller, you may purchase the mp3s here:

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Why Are Autistic Children Non-Verbal Until Later in Life?

2011-10-22T07:00:00.000-05:00

Then a lot of times children who have been nonverbal may all of a sudden find their voice, or they may find the ability to communicate through some kind of augmentative communication device but all of a sudden their own thoughts are flowing. Riley, the first boy who communicated with me telepathically, once said, “Do you find it interesting that most of us don’t talk until we’re after the age of five, seven, sometimes not until nine?”

And I said, “Yes.”

He said, “We operate on a collective consciousness level. We have chosen it as part of our gift to humanity. We are breaking the pattern.” He was referring to the pattern Dr. Caron Goode talked about in her presentation in which the first seven to eight years of life where the child is being imprinted through the left hemisphere of the brain.

Until about seven or eight autistic children are not interested in the labels we give to things or how things should go together. They are functioning primarily in the right brain and are not privy to that type of imprinting. We have a population of parents who have been told all kinds of just horrific things about autism. They are told it occurs because of their genes or because of their parenting styles. What I understand is that autism is very much based on individuals who are attempting to embody from a realm of very high frequency. They are showing up in the area of spirit and working their way into their physical bodies and their requirement for working their way into the physical bodies is that the body and the mind be in alignment with who they are. When that’s in place these individuals have a tendency to drop into their physical bodies with greater ease. That’s not always the case, but nine times out of ten it does take place.

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YOUR TURN: Have you seen autistic children find their voice? What did you observe?

Join us tomorrow on this blog for another segment of Suzy Miller’s discussion on how to communicate with autistic children.

Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM!: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. This post is based on a presentation given during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth.” You may obtain the full transcription and MP3 audio of Suzy’s and Dr. Caron Goode’s presentations at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy. Dr. Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. She graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist.

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Exercises for Enhancing Empathic Skills in Children

2011-10-19T07:00:00.001-05:00

Today we continue with a few key points from a presentation given by Dr. Caron Goode during a previous telesummit to train empaths. If you have a question you would like to ask her, please leave it as a comment below the article.

In Raising Intuitive Children, Dr. Caron Goode speaks about ways to practice psychic abilities. When her daughter was young, Caron found opportunities to do intuitive exercises with her daughter. They used to be people watchers in the mall.

Her daughter would say to her, “Boy, that person’s sad.”

And Caron would say, “What’s your sense about this? Is your heart all the way over there in her space? Are you feeling her sadness? Do you need to pull your heart back?”

Her daughter would say, “I have to pull my heart back because I’m in her heart.”

Caron still uses this approach to train teenagers. She would take them into nature—a dolphin tour for example. When the dolphins came up boats would rush over to see them. Some of the empathic teens with would cry because they were aware that the ship’s loud motors were scaring the dolphins. So they got to understand nature by experiencing this through their empathy. And in turn, she taught these kids to help the dolphins by directing energy in a positive way and enhance it through focus and building resilience. They learned to do this for themselves as well. They can enhance positive energy by placing their hand on their heart, and asking, “Is this healthy for me to feel this? Is there something I need to do about it?” This teaches them to make heartfelt choices for their body.

Much peace can be gained by learning how to integrate everything we take in. We can do this by not overwhelming ourselves with food, addictions, thoughts, sensory stimuli and the like. The key to metabolism is balance.

Caron’s first approach is so simple, like conscious breathing, that people forget that they can do it any time and any place. Place your right hand on your heart center and place your consciousness there. If you have difficulty, take an elevator from your head down to your heart. Breathe and relax. Ten seconds and you’re done. The more intense or stressful the feeling, the longer the focus on the heart center, the balance point between upper and lower energy centers and also the regulator of the systems in the human body. The heart center regulates the body’s rhythms and makes this method very easy and effective.

From your heart and down the right arm extend specific energy pathways so that your right hand has more energy-giving points then the left hand. So the right hand goes on your heart, your child’s heart, or you can teach older children to center in this way. Caron’s counseling and coaching with those dealing with the emotional management through a Heartwise© method, and this is step one. You may contact Dr. Goode at http://live-spirit.com/contact-us/.

To help ground and transmute energy nature is the healing balm for human ailments. Why? Because of the common electromagnetic field. Put your feet on the earth and get grounded. Caron and her husband collect rocks and crystals. Quite by accident, a child in counseling sat on a rose quartz piece on the floor of my office. After several minutes, he said, “I feel better. All my fears went into the rock.” I used the technique with other children, and then started connecting and working with trees, from hugging to climbing to placing your back against the tree trunk until you can feel the sap. This is an empath adapting to the environment.

In the telesummit, Caron shared ways to accept, integrate, and transmute energy from the viewpoint of the classical or eastern medical philosophies. These touched on the following.

1. Body and Mind and Energy

2. Etheric Energy

3. Mental Energy

4. Emotion vs. Etheric Energy

5. Body & Mind Connection

6. Specific organs govern different mental and emotional processes

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Dr. Caron Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. Dr. Goode graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist. Formerly a pediatric speech language pathologist, Suzy Miller is the visionary founder of Blue Star Brilliance LLC and author of AWESOMISM: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism.

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Earth Changes Affecting Empathic Children

2011-10-16T06:00:00.000-05:00

The changes the Earth is going through are affecting empaths more than others. A few months ago Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas had a notable 2.4 earthquake. Within 24 hours Dr. Caron Goode was in bed nauseated. She had to ask her husband Tom to realign the electromagnetic frequency of their home using rocks and crystals. Caron notes that as she is working with children, she is seeing more acting out. Not aggression, seeming scattered, or unfocused thinking. Rather, she is noticing children who are able to see more into the other realms. More and more children are seeing spirits and spirit walkers. So the veil is definitely thinning.

She is also seeing young adults really ready to take on their mission, really ready to change their life, such as young adults wanting to go to Afghanistan, or making movies for environmental peace. There’s a huge upswing of chaos and clarity on both ends of the spectrum.

In January, Yvonne Perry, Dr. Caron Goode, and Suzy Miller, will be sponsoring an entire telesummit on raising energy-aware empathic and sensitive children. Caron’s book, Raising Intuitive Children, has chapters on the empathic child. On livespirit.com a program called “Raising Intuitive Children” discusses the empathic child, gives emotional support, and teaches soothing a child to adapt to the environment. Caron also offers one-on-one personal coaching or training. You may contact Dr. Goode at http://live-spirit.com/contact-us/.

There are two events in the coming months that might interest the adult caregivers of empathic children. One of them is the telesummit in November, which is for integrating whole heart consciousness. It helps move children and adults out of the fear belt into that space of unity; thereby helping empathic children feel calmer. Also starting in January of next year, we’ll be offering coaching certifications for people who want to do intuitive coaching. You can be certified and start a successful home-based business in this field. If that calls to anyone who wants to become an intuitive coach for parents that want to be intuitive in their parenting, you may contact Dr. Goode at http://live-spirit.com/contact-us/.

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How to Connect Telepathically with Autistic Children

2011-10-14T06:00:00.003-05:00

Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM! A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. She offers these suggestions for connecting with children who have autism.

There are things we can do to connect telepathically and get crystal clear information from non-verbal children with autism. This is their experience on Earth and you must be at a place of acceptance so you can simply watch and accept that how they do what they do. Next, have a certain level of curiosity. Just like if you were with somebody from a different country who didn’t understand our customs. We wouldn’t try to make them be like us. We would explain how we do what we do here, and we would be interested in what they do and how they do it in the country they are from. You might think to yourself, “I notice that he makes a funny noise, or I notice that he looks up in the corner of the room and says the same thing over and over again.” This kind of curiosity is non-judgmental and creates an energy that will allow the child to feel safe in opening up to you. No one opens up with another person if it feels like there is an antagonistic response.

Next, sit in the room with the child and observe. You can ask this question with your eyes open or closed, “Is there something you want me to know?” Typically, you will get a thought, or an image, or a sensation. Describe it aloud. “Hmmmm, I feel like you want me to know about being outside. What would you like me to know about being outside?”

Don’t assume that you know the answer. More often than not what they are trying to say or express is so much more than what your perceptual reality will allow. When we move into assumption as to what the child is trying to share, he or she may say, “Stop, look again,” or “Watch” because that’s not what they are trying to tell you.

If you do these simple things, you will automatically create a connection from a place of integrity with this population based on honoring who they are and how they function.

You may obtain the full transcription and MP3 audio of telesummit presentation, “Autism: A Positive Step in Human Evolution” from which this article has been excerpted, as well as Dr. Caron Goode’s presentations at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy. Dr. Caron Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. Caron graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist.

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The Mirroring Principle

2011-10-13T07:00:00.005-05:00

According to Suzy Miller, all autistic children have the ability to communicate telepathically and most parents will attest to the fact that their children are wonderful mirrors for them. A really good example is of a certified practitioner. She’s a very A-type personality: great at organizing, getting things done, and she always has a list in front of her. Sometimes that list takes over.

For days, her son who is verbal but autistic would come in and walk around saying, “Where’s my list? Where’s my list? Where’s my list? I can’t find my list. I need my list.”

Her initial thought was “It’s irritating to have somebody repeating something like that.” All of a sudden the light bulb in her consciousness went off and she said, “Oh my goodness, that’s not his list, that’s my list. The minute she actually got that in her awareness this young man walked into her bedroom, put his list down on the bed and said, “All done!” and walked out. That’s the speed at which the mirroring principle works.

You may obtain the full transcription and MP3 audio of telesummit presentation, “Autism: A Positive Step in Human Evolution” from which this article has been excerpted, as well as Dr. Caron Goode’s presentations at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy. Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM!: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. Dr. Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. She graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist.

Join us tomorrow on this blog for another segment of Suzy Miller’s discussion on how to communicate with autistic children.

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Autism, Thought Forms, and a Higher Reality

2011-10-10T07:00:00.000-05:00

Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM!: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. This post is based on her presentation given during “Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-Sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth” during which Suzy presented “Autism: A Positive Step in Human Evolution” from which this article has been excerpted.

Suzy Miller started her relationship with the autistic population in 1999 with a boy who communicated telepathically with her. In the initial days of working with this individual, she found out very quickly that she was telepathic—she was hearing full sentences and coherent words through which she was getting clear images. To satisfy her left brain’s desire and speech pathology background, she needed to substantiate what she was hearing in order to put it into practice and create a practical shift in awareness. She needed to validate this information so she could move it forward.

These children experience the world much differently than most. Many people brought up in a western culture assume that if you can’t see it, touch it, or feel it, it must not be real. We also have a tendency to believe that if one cannot verbally communicate he or she may not be cognitively on par with those who can verbally communicate. And these children wanted to de-bunk much of that. These individuals are not fully embodied into their physicality. They are not fully grounded into their physical bodies; therefore, their vantage point is not in the physical environment. Their vantage point is also not necessarily in the left brain’s mental process. Their vantage point is in what I would consider higher realms, the spiritual or unseen realms, and they are quite articulate and functional in those realms. They communicate consistently with things that you and I can’t see. They communicate and use various languages in ways that we would not necessarily consider a language. They are very focused in their intent to remain in that spirit world.

Suzy tells her story:

One of the first things that my young friend Riley said to me back in ’99 was, “We live in two worlds. Your world and the real world.” I assumed at that time that this 3D reality that I could perceive with my mind, see, touch, and feel was the real world. He heard my thoughts and laughed and said, “No, my world is the real world. My world is the world of energy.”

Today we know that everything is energy, but Riley’s focal point allowed him to see from a much broader vantage point than I did then. These children hang out in that area of fast vibrational frequency in a broad perception of reality that can include ghosts, angels, archangels, and other dimensional beings that their interacting with on a consistent basis. On a little denser level, they can understand the thoughts and feelings in this 3-D environment.

Many of these children have difficulty being in their bodies well enough to process information in our physical environment. But they are very well versed at feeling or sensing their way through life. We have a thought and we think it disappears when we’re done thinking it. However, for this population—and quite frankly for all of us—it is far from the truth. Some of us aren’t as tuned in to thought forms as children diagnosed with autism are.

Join us tomorrow on this blog for another segment of Suzy Miller’s discussion on how to communicate with autistic children.

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YOUR TURN: Does reading Suzy’s story cause you to ponder how you interact with a child having autism? How might your view of him or her be different now? Would you attempt to communicate telepathically with this population?

You may obtain the full transcription and MP3 audio of telesummit presentation, “Autism: A Positive Step in Human Evolution” from which this article has been excerpted, as well as Dr. Caron Goode’s presentations at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy. Dr. Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. She graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist.

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A Mystical Encounter with an Autistic Child

2011-10-08T07:00:00.001-05:00

Suzy Miller developed The AWESOMISM Certification Process to assist other professionals, parents and caregivers in seeing beyond the limits of themselves and their children. In the telesummit, Empaths Shifting into 2012, Suzy presented “Autism: A Positive Step in Human Evolution” from which this article has been excerpted.

Autism as far as the western medical model is considered or concerned is a spectrum of neural psychiatric disorders characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication, unusual repetitive behaviors. Some, but not all, of these individuals are also nonverbal. From this, a Western mindset hears the word “disorder.” After having spent a lot of time with these children Suzy sees a profound difference in them, but it is not a disorder; it is a wakeup call to humanity!

When the medical model looks at a disorder they pick up on the fact that a lot of these children have physical difficulties. They have difficulty with digestion and left brain thought processes. They have difficulties learning and understanding academics. So, from that vantage point, you can understand why disorder might show up frequently in the diagnosis. Humans tend to avoid or criticize what they do not understand or whatever varies from the norm. Autism is such an occurrence. These children are spiritual beings with a message for us. We just haven’t learned how to hear them.

Suzy’s vantage point on autism is considerably different than that of the majority of people. It is based on information she received telepathically through these children. If we look at autism from a broader vantage point, you will see brilliance of this difference. In the presence of these children, we are experiencing something that is so unusual to our consciousness that it is very difficult for most individuals to not view this population as disordered.

Suzy says, “Quite frankly, from my eyes as a former speech pathologist when I was first beginning to work with some of these children back in 1999 I’d have to say that would be my vantage point as well. But once you have new experiences you can never go back to the old understanding.”

What we are seeing in these individuals is something we have never seen before. Our left brains don’t know what to do with the awareness of autism in our presence. We don’t know what to make of the behaviors. We don’t know what to think of the sounds and the noises they make. We don’t know what to make of the nonverbal communication or the communication that doesn’t seem directed to anything in the physical environment. And because we don’t know what to do with that, of course we have a tendency to call them disordered.

I’ll let Suzy speak in her own words.

In 1999, I had an encounter with a young boy named Riley who was diagnosed with autism. I was a speech language pathologist in a private practice and this individual whom I was seeing in a daycare center walked up to me.

He was pacing back and forth saying, “It’s the millennium, 1999!”

My eyes were aligned with a medical vantage point at the time and I thought to myself, “This is an interesting little kid. Something is going on here, something’s wrong here. He doesn’t look like everybody else.”

While I was still in thought, this young man walked up to me and looked me right in the eyes and said, “Master.”

The moment he said the word master, my physiology changed. My body knew that this child had seen something within me that I did not know existed. Why was this child able to see a level of mastership in my consciousness that I was not even aware of myself?

As we were having that exchange, I could feel his presence tapping into my energy. I took him to a back room so we could work in private even though I was not really sure what I was going to do with this child. I sat down in front of the door and watched. I was curious; I was not trying to put this experience into a box. I visually saw a body of light floating above his physical body. That was not only a new experience for me, it was exhilarating and frightening.

My initial thought was, “What am I seeing?” I’m was processing this when I heard a little boy’s voice in my head, “That’s my light body; you are here to help me put my light body back into my physical body.” And thus started my relationship with the population that’s known as autistic.

Join us tomorrow for more on the topic of communicating with autistic children.

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YOUR TURN: Do you think autistic children are disordered? Do you know anyone like Suzy who has the ability to understand and telepathically communicate with them? We would like to hear your story. Please leave a comment below this article.

Suzy Miller is the author of AWESOMISM!: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism.You may obtain the full transcription and MP3 audio of Suzy’s telesummit presentation as well as Dr. Caron Goode’s presentations at http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy. Dr. Caron Goode is the author of ten books, including her latest: Kids who See Ghosts~ Guide Them through Their Fear. She graduated with a doctoral degree from George Washington University in 1983 and is a licensed psychotherapist.

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Protection or Integration?

2011-10-07T07:00:00.002-05:00

During the third call of the telesummit to train empaths, Dr. Caron Goode spoke about creating and maintaining a nurturing relationship with empathic children. This post is a continuation of yesterday’s excerpt from her presentation. If you have a question for Dr. Goode, please leave it as a comment below this article.

Can we really protect ourselves from other people’s feelings if we are hardwired for empathy? Is it true that other negative people shed their feelings and suddenly we take them on? I ask you to clearly look at this thought form within yourself and for kids, because it makes a difference in how you handle your own sensitivity and your gift for empathy. Do you tell them they need protection from the energy of others or are you teaching them oneness through acceptance and integration?

You would have to live in isolation to be protected from sensitive feelings, and some people do. You choose a lifestyle for your sensitivity and that of your kids. Parents of sensitive, emotionally-aware children may choose to raise their child differently in this changing world.

The path of acceptance and integration helps one stretch and adapt. It is the path I choose to teach as a sensitive, healer, spiritual counselor, and coach. No matter what situation, we don’t fight and we are not passive. Rather we are active in noticing or being mindful and shifting focus, attention, or moods. Acceptance and integration has worked for thousands of people in my coaching and counseling practices who desire to learn a simple heartwise© approach. But my thinking is not steeped in Western mindset.

From the Eastern medical philosophies, the underlying biological activity of both our mind and body is the ability to metabolize. Metabolism is a Greek word that literally means integrative transformation. It is the ongoing process by which our body builds and maintains itself, as well as the way in which our mind thinks and processes our thoughts. We are constantly taking in things from the outside world, like food and impressions that impact the senses. Everything we take in must be metabolized, transformed, and integrated into our own systems in order for them to nourish and sustain us. Metabolism accomplishes this.

All living organisms deal with and integrate the natural environment that surrounds them, including the emotional environment. In the eastern viewpoint, emotional management is the key to adapting and metabolizing this earth environment. Our mind and body systems are not programmed to deal with the artificial effects of the chemicals found in food and many substances used in the home and medicines, nor the artificially produced psychological stresses found in many families, schools, and workplaces.

http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy

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Parenting Classes for The Next Generation

2011-10-06T06:00:00.000-05:00

• What to do when your child sees ghosts or angels
• How to empower a child to discover his spiritual mission on Earth
• Negotiating with a child who doesn’t want to cooperate
• What to do when your family experiences the death of a pet
• Caring for the environment
• How to support a child who is afraid of storms
• How to teach a child to meditate and listen to inner guidance
• How to encourage a child who has the gift of healing
• Accepting and appreciating diversity
• Supporting a child when a new baby is on the way (also thoughts on miscarriage)
• Teaching a child to love and respect himself
• How to teach a child to be honest

The online modules are conducted via video courses and includes all the audio stories and PDF ebooks in The Sid Series. Purchase via PayPal and gain immediate access to the course.

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Mirror Neurons and Empathy

2011-10-05T07:00:00.002-05:00

Dr. Caron Goode’s continuous education, experience in psychology, and professional writing makes her a great resource for parents wishing to create and maintain a nurturing relationship their children. She is the founder of Academy for Coaching Parenting International and Live-Spirit.com. During Empaths Shifting into 2012, Caron spoke about working with intuitive children who have the gift of empathy and don’t fit the stereotype that most educational systems cater to. The following is an excerpt from her presentation.

Meryl Streep said, “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”

Empathy is connecting to another’s feelings and emotional intention. Babies demonstrate empathy in a global sense. Babies respond to other crying babies by also crying.

By the time a child is two and a half years old, he or she has developed a self-identity and understands the feelings of distress belonging to his playmate or parent or sibling. You will see preschool children empathize by reaching out to alleviate another’s distress through words or touch. If a child does not establish a sense of self as different from another, then they’ll mix up the feelings of themselves and others.

By age eight, a child understands the human plight of birth, death, and vulnerability. Children depend upon the demonstrations of responsiveness, warmth, and empathy from the people in their world to continue cultivating connection and empathy within themselves. Otherwise, their ability to remain empathic is up for grabs.

At a basic level, empathy is being attuned to another’s emotions and intentions. The next level of empathy involves taking action to help another, whether alleviating fears and pain or supporting or celebrating someone. Here we can get into the need, desire, or passion to fix others, change others, save others and such. More complex forms of empathy occur when people join together for survival of struggles or to pursue the vision fueled by emotional connectedness. These show us how capable we are of making deep connections. The explanation for these connections comes with the discovery of “mirror neurons.”

At the University of Parma, Italy, researchers found that when macaque monkeys observe another monkey or human perform an action like cracking a nut, the neurons that fire when the monkey itself performs the action also fires in response to watching another individual. Mirror neurons create a neuro-physiological link between one’s own experience and that of another individual. Several studies confirm that when humans observe another person’s intentional action and/or emotional expressions, they activate brain areas that are also engaged when the person would perform the action or experience the emotion himself.

Mirror Neurons are anchored in the brain and it’s one of the ways in which the process of sensation, feeling, and emotions are patterned in the body. It is the way in which we learn from each other and feel in a similar way. It doesn’t mean that we need to take them on. We are still responsible for our own integrity of emotion. There’s not a division between what happens in our brain and what happens in our body. It’s the same. I’m using these terms synonymously. Mirror neurons anchor a feeling but it may be more precise to say that if it becomes something emotional then we have an emotion memory there—an event that’s associated with that feeling. In such cases, it becomes emotion.

If you have a question for Dr. Goode, please leave it as a comment below. You may contact Dr. Goode at http://live-spirit.com/contact-us/.

http://weare1inspirit.com/spiritual-audios.htm#CaronSuzy

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Support for Empathic Children

2011-10-04T06:00:00.002-05:00

By Caron Goode

Empathic children feel their way through the world, and they have acute mental or emotional sensibilities, and they want to be responsive to other people’s feelings. Yet, at times, their sensitivity threshold is low. They are often told, “You are too sensitive,” rather than being recognized for their gifts of emotional intelligence.

What a delight when a child is recognized for his gift of empathy! Our friend, Dr. Minette Riordan, shared that when her sensitive son Conner was five years old and entered kindergarten, she went to work in launching a local parenting newspaper, North Texas Kids. One week of every month was pressure filled with newspaper deadlines, and Conner's response was to feel his mom’s stress and become distressed also.

Connor ended up getting into trouble at school for pushing another child into a locker. The teacher was clear that he was provoked but expressed concern that Conner, a normally happy, relaxed child, should react aggressively. After a lengthy discussion about what was going on at home, Minette realized that Conner would react to her stress at work by acting out at school.

Minette learned to help Conner through these stressful times by giving him plenty of advance notice about the timing of her busy, upcoming week. She would tell Conner, "I won't be home much this week" or "You won't see me as often this week, but once we get to Saturday, I will have the whole weekend to spend with you." Moreover, Minette made herself smile, hugged her son more, and talked to him in calming tones rather than strident tones. By managing her own stress and preparing Conner, she gave him language and a way to healthfully express his distress at not seeing her enough during that week of the month.

Minette’s story demonstrates what goes on in every household with parents and children. Children feel the parents’ pain, tension stress or discord—basically the emotional energy of the home that makes everyone uptight and upset. Yes, kids are adaptable, and part of parenting is to soothe and help children learn to soothe themselves. Such interactions are even more necessary for the “sensitive kids.”

For more information on helping empathic children, please see Raising Intuitive Children.

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since many of these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, they are perplexed when trying to deal with the children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts. The Sid Series is now part of the curriculum for “Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living.” There are 12 modules in this class—each one is less than ten minutes. Learn more or sign up at http://live-spirit.com/parenting-classes.

© 2011 Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents International, a global online school for training successful, wealthy parenting coaches in home-based businesses. She is the author of fifteen books, including the international best seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, the national award-winner Raising Intuitive Children. See and review all of Dr. Goode’s books here.

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Final Call of Empaths Shifting into 2012 Telesummit is Tomorrow Night!

2011-09-26T06:00:00.001-05:00

Tomorrow is the final call of "Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth." Telesummit!

Join us at 7:00 p.m. Central Time for a fabulous virtual event with Dr. Michael R. Smith and Yvonne Perry!

Empaths have a mission to fulfill as they allow their bodies to receive higher vibrating energy from the ascended masters of wisdom and step it down to the general population. As a coach, licensed counselor, healing practitioner, and spiritual medium for over two decades, noted self-help author of Navigating 2012: Thriving in Earth's New Age, Dr. Michael R. Smith has helped thousands of people all over the world connect to their highest selves. Michael will teach how to ground higher energies into the body and use the body as a tool of perception. http://www.empathConnection.com

Metaphysical empath coach, Yvonne Perry, is the author of Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom From the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. She will speak about why forgiveness is so important to empaths who want to stay clear of negativity and align with higher frequencies in order to accomplish their life’s mission. She will present “There are No Victims! Helping Empaths to See Themselves as Empowered Beings of Light.”

This content-rich call will last about an hour and a half in order to allow both speakers to present training modules. You will be able to ask questions during each call.

The replays will be available for 36 hours after each call. After that, they will only be available if you purchase them. The MP3s and transcribed PDFs for all four calls is only $47. Please visit Live-Spirit.com to access this special offer and find other tools and teaching to help as you evolve on your spiritual path.

To sign up or learn more visit http://dld.bz/adU8s

Join Suzy Miller and Dr. Caron Goode for the Third Call of Empaths Shifting into 2012 Telesummit

2011-09-19T06:00:00.001-05:00

Tomorrow is the third call of the telesummit, "Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth."

Join us at 3:00 p.m. Central Time for a wonderful virtual event with Suzy Miller and Dr. Caron Goode!

Suzy Miller is the visionary founder of Blue Star Brilliance LLC and author of AWESOMISM: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. After a 22-year career as a pediatric speech language pathologist, Suzy met a four-year old child diagnosed with autism who was destined to change not only the way she viewed autism, but life in general. This powerful interaction left her with the skill of telepathy, which she uses to communicate with the highest aspects of we are, bringing awareness and integration of those higher aspects of self into our daily lives. Suzy developed The AWESOMISM Certification Process to assist other professionals, parents and caregivers in seeing beyond the limits of themselves and their children. She will be presenting AUTISM: A POSTIVE STEP IN HUMAN EVOLUTION. www.suzymiller.com

Dr. Caron Goode's continuous education, experience in psychology and professional writing makes her a great resource for parents wishing to create and maintain a nurturing relationship their children. The common thread of these disciplines is energy of the mind-body-spirit connection and how to access it, bring it into focus and then put it into successful action. Caron, the author of Raising Intuitive Children and Kids who See Ghosts ~ Guide Them Through Their Fear, will present information about working with intuitive children who have the gift of empathy. Gain easy and useful tools to help empower children who don’t fit the stereotype that most educational systems cater to. www.raisingintuitivechildren.com

This content-rich call will last about an hour and a half in order to allow two speakers to present training modules. You will be able to ask questions during each call.

To sign up or learn more visit http://dld.bz/adU8s

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The Second Call for Empaths Shifting into 2012 Telesummit is Tomorrow!

2011-09-12T06:00:00.002-05:00

Tomorrow is the second call of the telesummit, "Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth."

Join us at 3:00 p.m. Central Time for a fantastic virtual event with Dr. Tom Goode and Jenna Forrest!

Dr. Tom Goode is known as the “Soul Doctor” because of his emphasis on the holistic, natural aspects of health and optimal living. He has developed a method of stress resolution based upon the energetic organization of the mindbodysoul system. As the founder of the International Breath Institute, Tom will teach Full Wave Breathing as a simple but powerful way to process physical changes in the bodies and maintain all aspects of health. Dr. Goode is the author of seven books on holistic living. His most recent is Breathe and Grow Rich—Self Care to Enrich Your Whole Life. http://www.fullwavebreathing.com

Jenna Forrest is the developer of Profound Healing for Sensitives.com where sensitive empaths can learn to master their innate sensory intelligence through tangible empowerment practices and profound healing techniques. She is the author of two books about growing up as a sensitive person. She will present “Climbing the Stairway to Mastery & Illumination: Recognizing the Stages of Consciousness, Spiritual Purification and the Creation of a New Planetary Paradigm of Love.” www.profoundhealingforsensitives.com

This content-rich call will last about an hour and a half in order to allow two speakers to present training modules. You will be able to ask questions during the call.

The replays will be available for 36 hours after each call. After that, they will only be available if you purchase them. The MP3s and transcribed PDFs for all four calls is only $47. Please visit Live-Spirit.com to access this special offer and find other tools and teaching to help as you evolve on your spiritual path.

To sign up or learn more visit http://dld.bz/adU8s

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Empaths Shifting into 2012 Telesummit Begins Tomorrow!

2011-09-05T06:00:00.001-05:00

Tomorrow is the first day of "Empaths Shifting into 2012: A Telesummit to Help Energy-sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth."

Join us at 3:00 p.m. Central Time to kick off this fabulous virtual event with Kate Garvey and Gini Grey!

Reiki and Level II Acutonics practitioner Kate Garvey is the founder and director of the Institute of Sound Healing teaching. She has conducted workshops at the Indigenous Grandmother’s Gatherings. Her presentation is “Self-Care, Healing, and the Shift: Walking Between Worlds, Our Sacred Call, Response Vs. Reaction, the Good of All, the Speed of Transitions, and Keeping Your Sanity.” http://www.instituteofsoundhealing.com/

Gini Grey, the author of From Chaos to Calm: How to Shift Unhealthy Stress Patterns and Create Your Ideal Balance in Life, is a transformational coach, writer, and spiritual energy teacher. Her passion is to guide people to live from their spiritual center and own their power to create a life of ease, joy and freedom. Gini will present “Staying Balanced and Energized: using spiritual energy awareness tools & intuition to own and clear your space, create healthy energetic boundaries, and release other people's energy and emotions.” http://www.ginigrey.com/

Each of the four calls of the telesummit will teach empaths how to maintain groundedness, obtain clarity, and enact self-care while assisting in the Earth’s transformation. Each content-rich call will last about an hour and a half in order to allow two speakers to present training modules. You will be able to ask questions during each call.

The replays will be available for free for 36 hours after each call. After that, they will only be available if you purchase them. The MP3s and transcribed PDFs for all four calls is only $47. Please visit Live-Spirit.com to access this special offer and find other tools and teaching to help as you evolve on your spiritual path.

To sign up or learn more visit http://dld.bz/adU8s

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Parenting Course to Assist Adults Who Support Intuitive Children

2011-08-26T08:08:00.001-05:00

Many parents, grandparents, and teachers are guardians of intuitive children. Since these adults did not have a spiritually-advanced role model when they were children, many are perplexed when trying to deal with children of today, who openly exhibit spiritual gifts.

Did you know that there is a parenting course associated with The Sid Series?

There are 12 video-based modules in the course known as "Fostering Empathic Values for Soulful Living"—each one is less than ten minutes. Each module outlines an example in story format of how to deal with particular situations such as . . .

• What to do when your child sees ghosts or angels
• How to empower a child to discover his spiritual mission on Earth
• Negotiating with a child who doesn’t want to cooperate
• What to do when your family experiences the death of a pet
• Caring for the environment
• How to support a child who is afraid of storms
• How to teach a child to meditate and listen to inner guidance
• How to encourage a child who has the gift of healing
• Accepting and appreciating diversity
• Supporting a child when a new baby is on the way (also notes on miscarriage)
• Teaching a child to love and respect himself
• How to teach a child to be honest

Enroll now and go at your own pace. The entire course is only $200 and includes all the PDFs and MP3 audio stories in The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children.

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Characteristics of Starseed Children

2011-08-24T06:41:00.000-05:00

Starseeds often feel alone, as if they do not belong here or within their families. They are filled with a sense of purpose. They care for the environment and the have a strong connection to the Earth.

They know they are different from classmates and find friendships difficult. They are inquisitive about most things and it is difficult for them to relate to others.

Star people often feel misunderstood; they have a spiritual awareness that comes naturally to them. Much of what happens on Earth is illogical to them. They know we are all one and can't understand why others do not remember and act accordingly.

They are filled with love and compassion. And they care greatly about preserving and creating harmony on planet Earth.

Learn more on these websites:

http://www.spiritsource.org/starseeds.htm

http://www.crystalinks.com/starseeds.html

http://www.starchild.co.za/what.html

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The New Crystal Children

2011-08-18T06:07:00.018-05:00

The first thing that you will notice about Crystal Children are their eyes. Large penetrating and wise beyond their years. They are highly sensitive, psychic and have an important life purpose.

Crystal children have delayed speech patterns. It's not uncommon for them to wait until they are 3 or 4 years old before they start speaking. They prefer to communicate telepathically instead of by using their voice.

It's no coincidence that as the number of crystal children are born; the number of diagnoses for autism has risen. These children are unconditionally loving in nature; many stories exist of crystal children laying their hands on someone to heal them.

Learn more on these sites:

http://www.thecrystalchildren.com/
http://www.crystalinks.com/starseeds.html
http://www.childrenofthenewearth.com
http://SuzyMiller.com

As part of the telesummit, “Empaths Shifting into 2012: Helping Energy-sensitive People Understand Their Spiritual Role on Earth," Suzy Miller will present a discussion about autistic and crystal children on September 20.

Suzy Miller is the visionary founder of Blue Star Brilliance LLC and author of AWESOMISM: A New Way to Understand the Diagnosis of Autism. After a 22-year career as a pediatric speech language pathologist, Suzy met a four-year old child diagnosed with autism who was destined to change not only the way she viewed autism, but life in general. She will be presenting AUTISM: A POSTIVE STEP IN HUMAN EVOLUTION. http://SuzyMiller.com

Learn more about the telesummit at http://whosestuffisthis.blogspot.com

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The New Indigo Kids

2011-08-12T07:04:00.003-05:00

Indigo children have a warrior's spirit; part of their mission is to change our systems and the way we do things. They are here with the desire to change our antiquated systems and beliefs.

In the process, they will rebuild our world with better ways of doing things that fit our times and level of evolution. Expect them to change our beliefs and structures concerning the government, education, health, and legal systems.

These children are currently affecting the way we parent and educate. They are highly sensitive and very psychic, and many feel they do not belong here. Too often, they are often diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Read more at http://www.walkinevolution.com/newkids/newkids.htm

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Listen to a Sample Audio Story for Children

2011-08-06T11:04:00.007-05:00

Each story in The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children focuses on life skills such as environmental awareness, helping others, being true to one’s self,overcoming fear, and following inner guidance.

This collection of body-mind-spirit books, e-books, and audio stories highlights unique lessons about love, acceptance, self-worth, caring for the body,diversity, facing fears, dealing with change, coping with the death of a pet, and understanding the spiritual experiences children exhibit.

Listen to a sample story now.

These stories share messages that support the whole child—body, soul, and spirit—by empowering and building self-esteem,teaching environmental awareness, and caring for the physical body.

Great for the classroom, young readers, or toddlers being nurtured at home. Parents who wish to teach their children to live holistically will appreciate the profound lessons. Check out the coloring books!

Purchase
Paperback on Amazon for $16.99

Some children show early signs of a deep understanding of spiritual concepts. Using adorable and entertaining stories, The Sid Series gives examples of how these gifted youngsters experience the supernatural in their everyday lives.

The main character in The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children is the author's first-born grandson, Sidney, who began manifesting spiritual intellect at a very early age.

Any parent, grandparent, guardian, or teacher with a child who talks of imaginary friends, seeing angels, or having past lives will find parenting role models in these children's stories written by Yvonne Perry. But, the book is not just for kids who show signs of spiritual attunement. Every child will benefit from the concepts of self-love and respect for others. Even adults love these sweet stories available in PDF, paperback, and MP3 audios as well as for the Kindle and other electronic readers!

Read reviews for The Sid Series (ISBN 978-0982572207).

Stories in the Sid Series include:

Sid’s Fairy ~ Learning About Inner Guidance

A Stormy Adventure ~ Facing the Fear of Storms

The Pirate’s Treasure ~ Finding Treasure Within

You Can Be! ~ Understanding Destiny and Making Choices

Ask Your Body ~ Understanding the Body’s Needs

A Ghost in My Closet ~ Communicating with Angels

A Powerful Potion ~ The Power of Imagination

My Friend’s Skin ~ Accepting and Appreciating Diversity

Puppy Love ~ Dealing with the Death of a Pet

Old Things New ~ Learning About Recycling

Always Be Honest ~ Learning to Tell the Truth

Making Room for Brother ~ Coping with Family Changes

Audio Stories for Children Now on Amazon.com

2011-07-15T12:03:00.000-05:00

The adorable stories from The Sid Series are now available as MP3 files on Amazon.com for only 99 cents each. The entire collection as an album is only $8.99. Check it out today and take some educational entertainment with you as you travel with the kids this summer. http://dld.bz/agKEH

Audio Stories for Children

2011-07-02T22:15:00.003-05:00

Ever since I published the paperback version of The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children I have wanted to offer the stories as audios to enhance the reading of the books. Well, I've finally done it! The mp3 files of each individual story as well as the entire collection is now available!

Check out The Sid Series audio stories for children.

I Still See Pap!

2011-06-11T06:00:00.001-05:00

Death is a difficult subject for adults to understand. Children have an even harder time trying to grasp the concept. That someone they love is not coming back.

When a family experiences the death of a loved one, adults may try to explain to the kids that their deceased loved one is in heaven or a better place. Most people believe in an afterlife in which the soul or spirit that was inhabiting a human body continues to live in some realm of consciousness. Yet many adults tell children that their loved one doesn’t exist anymore. It’s hard for kids to understand and accept this as reality—especially when they continue to see the one who is supposed to be “deceased.”

My grandfather, whom we called Pap, died in 1988. That was more than a year before my brother and his wife had children. Imagine the surprise when their first-born son was about two or three years old and reported that Pap was in his room at night!

Being fundamentalist Christians, we did not take well to having spirits messing with our kids. We concluded that this entity could not be Pap for three reasons: 1.) according to the teachings of our religion, Pap was in heaven and could not possibly manifest on Earth; 2.) my nephew was afraid of the entity, so it must not have been a friendly spirit—although my grandfather was quite a jokester; 3.) our family did not believe in ghosts; therefore, they could not visit us! But we did believe in demons so we rationalized that we were under attack. We exorcised the child’s room and forbade the evil presence from coming near my nephew again. Ghosts comply with our requests when we intentionally set strong boundaries. Sadly, Pap did not return.

As I look back on that event from a different and non-religious perspective, I should have realized that the visitor was indeed Pap. Since my nephew had never met his great-grandfather, he would not have called the visitor Pap unless the ghost had identified himself as such. Those of us who knew Pap could have embraced the visitation with love and gratitude rather than fear and retaliation. The way we handled this episode caused my nephew to be fearful of the spirit world.

My grandmother and I had been visited by Pap’s spirit several times since he had passed. But I somehow dismissed all remembrance of those events when my nephew reported seeing Pap. Our experience conflicted with our dogma. Now, I jokingly say that if your experience doesn’t align with your theology, by all means change your experience! We couldn’t possibly alter our beliefs!

Pap loved my brother and me very much and I’m sure he would loved to have known our children. It was only natural that he would visit us and them from time to time just to check in.

If your child reports seeing a ghost, validate his experience so he will continue to trust his intuition. There is nothing to fear. In fact, this event can provide the perfect opportunity to bring better understanding about the unseen realm and death. You might ask the child if he knows the ghost’s name. If he identifies a loved one who has passed, find out if the ghost has a message for the family or if there is something the family can do for the ghost. Many times our disembodied loved ones simply stop by briefly to let us know all is well in the afterlife or to see how everyone is doing. If this is the case the spirit visitor will probably leave on its own.

However, if the family agrees that the ghost needs to leave immediately and not come back, you can lovingly set boundaries with the spirit. Simply call upon the angels of light and love to lead the spirit to a peaceful place in the afterlife where the soul development can continue.

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Yvonne Perry is a freelance writer and editor, award-winning Amazon.com bestselling author, podcast host, blogger, and keynote speaker. She is a graduate of American Institute of Holistic Theology where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Metaphysics. http://writersinthesky.com/

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Graduating Cub Scouts

2011-05-26T06:00:00.000-05:00

I’m so proud of my grandson, McKevlin, who graduated from Tiger Cub Scouts last week. This type of social outing builds character and self-esteem while helping kids make friends and accomplish goals. I was in Girl Scouts when I was a preteen and I loved the meetings because we got to do arts and crafts, which I still enjoy today. I remember the campouts we embarked upon—it rained every time!

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The End of the School Year

2011-05-25T08:07:00.000-05:00

I remember the last day of school as being a field day. There were relay races, games, competitions and parties all day long. Then, when we got home from school there was even more celebration: water balloon battles, staying up late, going to a friend's house, etc. What are some of your fondest memories from the last day(s) of school when you were a kid?

Here are a couple of photos of my SC grandkids getting some end of the year awards from their teachers.

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Want to Learn More about Parenting Coaching?

2011-05-24T11:01:00.002-05:00

An ACPI Informational Teleconference Call is scheduled for Wednesday, May 25 at 2 PM CT and 7 PM CT to discuss how you can become an ACPI Certified Parenting Coach in three months through our new Immersion parenting coaching program. This teleconference call will give you the chance to ask Dr. Goode questions about ACPI's new Immersion program that starts in June after Memorial Day and ends before Labor Day.

Learn more at http://academyforcoachingparents.com

Access Number: 1-218-632-1974
Passcode: 987654#
Call in approximately 5 minutes before the scheduled meeting time to ensure a place in the conference.
*To convert to your local time visit www.timeanddate.com

Want to Learn More about Parenting Coaching? Review Part One of the e-book, Art and Science Of Coaching Parents FREE, or buy the e-book today!
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When Fear Turns into an Anxiety Problem

2011-05-20T07:28:00.002-05:00

By Yvonne Perry

It’s normal for early school age children to develop fears of insects, reptiles, strangers, and other tangible things they can see or touch. But, some kids, including teenagers, are afraid of intangible things such as the ghosts they are able to see, hear, and sense. More and more intuitive kids today are reporting their psychic abilities and the disturbances that accompany such activity.

Is your child getting visual images, having dreams, or sensing something isn’t quite right? This intuitive insight can help you redirect him by listening and offering to help him end his unhealthy relationship or association with an entity. However, young children may have trouble communicating their feelings, fears, and distresses. You may have to look for other indicators. Clinginess and sudden outbursts of anger are signs that your child is worried about something. If your intuitive teenager who normally does well at school suddenly becomes fearful or starts missing school or doing poorly on exams, he or she may have developed anxiety due to a paranormal experience that he or she is afraid to discuss with you.

Empathic children who see, feel, and hear in another dimension can be adversely affected by this energetic overload. An empath is sensitive to what is obvious as well as unseen things such as ghosts and the thoughts, emotions, and illnesses they sense around them. Empaths may get hunches, see mental pictures, hear voices, or have a gut feeling that supplies hidden information about people and situations. They may also get a physical sensation in their body that lets them know where another person is afflicted or suffering.

Fears that are overwhelming or last too long can lead to an anxiety problem. If you notice changes in your child's behavior, social interaction, sleeping patterns, or in the way she deals with her feelings, you may need to step in—especially if the patterns continue for more than three or four weeks. And if they continue for several months you need to seek professional help.

If your child reports seeing entities, but doesn’t show any of the usual anxiety symptoms, then you have nothing to worry about. Keep an open line of communication so the child feels comfortable talking to you regarding their sixth sense.

It will be helpful to teach your child how to keep her energy field (aura) clear and establish boundaries with ghosts. Chapter 9 of Yvonne Perry’s book lists many ways to help your energy-sensitive child. Learn more about WHOSE STUFF IS THIS? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You at http://WhoseStuffIsThis.com .

The Storm by Keani

2011-05-17T06:00:00.000-05:00

Keani has created a piece with acrylic paint on canvas he calls "The Storm."

He was inspired by "A Stormy Adventure ~ Facing the fear of Storms," one of the twelve stories in The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children.

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How Early Do Humans Show Empathy?

2011-05-14T06:00:00.006-05:00

Empathy allows us to understand and share the feelings of another person. Empathy makes us good citizens and reminds us that the world does not revolve around us. It pushes us to acknowledge the people around us as we participate in their emotional lives. Empathy is what makes other people matter to us.

My adult children brought their kids, (my grandsons) to visit this past weekend. The babies, being born only two weeks apart in 2009 are now 14 and almost 15 months old. Even though their personalities are totally different, Jonas and Liam play pretty well together. But already they are showing signs of jealousy. If I hold one, I have to hold the other one too. Same with toys and Goldfish crackers! One for each—no favorites. So, I was really surprised when I found them showing empathy at such an early age in their moral and social development.

The boys have only been walking a couple of months and they are still a little unsteady on their feet. They were hugging each other when Jonas fell backward and bumped his head on the wall. Liam squatted down next to him as if to see if his cousin was okay. I was amazed! He really seemed to care that Jonas fell down. Who knows? Maybe he was just checking to make sure he didn’t have an extra Goldfish clinched in his fist. I did some research about this and found that according to Dr. Kyle Pruett, children’s brains develop empathy from birth to age eight. As early as nine months children learn that other people have emotions. I saw this in Jonas on Sunday. He was flinging his arms while his mom was feeding him. He accidentally hit his mom in the face. When she jumped back and said, “Ouch!”, Jonas hung his head down as if he was sorry for his action.

Empathic children become empathic adults. Jonas’ brother, Sidney, is almost ten years old. I’m forever impressed with the love, respect, and concern he shows his baby brother as they play together. This makes me wonder if empathy is a learned behavior or if it is a human instinct to care for one another. Your thoughts on this are appreciated. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think.

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Yvonne Perry is a metaphysical teacher helping people transform their lives through a liberating view of our oneness with the Divine. Serving as a prophetic voice of healing, she hosts a weekly talk show in which she interviews guests who see their true selves as loving, accepting, and unified spirit beings awakening to their spiritual potential. Yvonne offers encouragement through her lectures, workshops, and discussion group forums. http://weare1inspirit.com/

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Sports is a Great Way to Make Friends

2011-05-10T09:31:00.000-05:00

Here are a couple soccer pictures of my grandkids. McKevlin is an awesome goalee and Keilie is a feisty runner/defender. She scored a goal and McKevlin kicked out a lot of shots last Saturday! They love it.

And I love that they are staying active physically and as part of their community. Sports is a great way to make friends, learn new skills, and push to be the best you can be.

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Live Chat on Parenting Intuitive Children

2011-05-10T06:34:00.033-05:00

Are your coworkers, friends, and family members like psychic vampires who siphon your energy and leave you feeling drained?
Feeling angry, depressed, or sick much of the time?
Does your child see and talk to spirits, ghosts, or imaginary friends?
Do you or your children have physic abilities?
Do you want to raise your vibration to a level that makes you invisible to lower-vibrating energy.

Yvonne Perry will be on a live chat to answer these and other questions with Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten tonight May 10th at 9 PM Eastern, 8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific. Mark your calendar, put a note by your computer, or on your smart phone to join us at Intentional Conscious Parenting for the live chat.

Email your question to Carol and Stacy at intunedparenting@gmail.com and we'll post the answer. If you would like to remain anonymous or keep your question private, please let us know.

Go to the chat by clicking this link.
Give the page at least 30 seconds to load.

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A tremendous asset for teaching life skills to children

2011-05-09T12:08:00.002-05:00

I'm thrilled to have a new book review of The Sid Series ~ Collection of Holistic Stories for Children to share with you today. See what Carol Lawrence has posted at http://www.intentionalconsciousparenting.com

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Is Sleep Walking Related to Astral Travel or Projection?

2011-05-08T06:00:00.001-05:00

Have you ever wondered why some kids (and adults) are prone to taking a stroll about the house during the night? Regardless of age, we are all more open to spiritual exploration during our sleep. Children—especially intuitive children—are easily able to tap into the spirit realm night or day. It’s no surprise then, that an intuitive child when deeply asleep is totally in another zone—an “out of body” experience in which some aspect of the human psyche actually travels to other dimensions.

Astral projection and astral travel are common among spiritually-gifted kids. It is important to understand the difference between astral travel and astral projection.

Astral travel is a process of projecting the consciousness into visual scenes. In meditation we might call this journeying or visualization. Some intuitives (empaths) may actually feel as if they are in the place imagined. However, astral traveling does not remove us from the physical body.

Astral projection is when our astral body actually travels to other places. This mainly occurs while asleep in dream states. The rapid eye movement phase is normally aligned with this phenomena. The person is only aware of the experience if he or she has memories afterward. Although we all have out-of-body experiences from time to time, there are those who can intentionally project their astral body and have a genuine experience while awake.

Sleep walking is caused when the astral body is unable to release itself from the physical body. The desire to project will animate the physical body without conscious awareness. A sleep walking person should not be awakened while in this state. Instead, help direct and get them back in bed and allow them to awaken on their own.

Yvonne Perry is a frequent guest blogger on this site. Her grandson, Sidney, was prone to sleep walking episodes when he was younger. One night his mother, Amanda, awoke and saw Sid standing at the foot of her bed. She was about to ask him to go back to bed when she realized it was his astral body and not his physical body standing there. Naturally, she was startled and jumped out of bed to check on him. She found him sound asleep in his own bed in his room. This demonstrates astral projection.

Our bodies are able to perform automatic functions like walking, drinking, urinating, or driving while having an out-of-body experience. You’ve probably found yourself so deep in thought while driving that you got from point A to point B without not being aware of how you got there. Perhaps you were deep in a daydream while walking and didn’t realize you had crossed the street until you “came to." I’ve left my house many times so preoccupied with thoughts that I couldn’t remember whether or not I turned off the stove or let down the garage door. However, my body automatically performed these functions while my mind strayed. It’s the same way when you are asleep or having an astral projection or sleep walking.

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A Kid's Guide to Staying Safe

2011-05-06T07:58:00.001-05:00

Recently, I was asked to endorse What Would You Do? A Kid's Guide to Staying Safe in a World of Strangers (Headline Books) written by Melissa Ridenour. It was a pleasure to do so, and now I'll share that review with you

Obviously, there is a need for this information. A copy of this book arrived the same day that my stepgranddaughter told me she was learning about ‘safe touch’ at school. She had a difficult time explaining what she had learned, and since she is an A student, there must have been some flaw in how the material was presented. Written so children can understand without feeling panic, What Would You Do: A Kid’s Guide to Staying Safe in a World of Strangers is the way I prefer my grandchildren learn about being safe.

“From understanding how to use Caller ID, setting a family code word, establishing an ICE (In Case of Emergency) list of safe people, to knowing what to do if a stranger comes calling, this book has everything a child needs to know about staying safe whether on the Internet, phone, or at home. With puzzles, quizzes, and a checklist to empower parents, this is a great handbook to help children discover their own answers to personal safety issues. This should be required reading for elementary schoolchildren.

—Yvonne Perry, author of Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, http://WhoseStuffIsThis.com, author of The Sid Series—A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries, member of National Writing for Children’s Center

Out of the Mouths of Babies!

2011-05-05T06:00:00.001-05:00

Author Yvonne Perry is the paternal grandmother of a intuitive child named Sidney, who is now nine years old. Before Sidney started school, he would stay at his grandparents’ house some weekends. They did all kinds of fun things together.

One day when Sidney was with his grandmother (known as Von-Von), he kept repeating, “Hannah, Hannah, Hannah.”All day long he called the name. Yvonne said she felt like he was trying to give her a message, but she also thought he was too young to be channeling. At about nine months old, he wasn’t even talking more than a few words.

Finally curiosity got the best of her and Yvonne called Sidney’s mom, Amanda, hoping to get some more information. Amanda had a friend who a daughter named Hannah. Amanda and Hannah’s mom gave birth within a few weeks of one another but they lost touch a few months later. The last Amanda knew about her friend was that she had a drug problem. Amanda and Yvonne said a prayer of protection for Hannah while they were on the phone. Amazingly, Sidney stopped repeating the child’s name after that.

The next week Amanda received a call from someone who was still in touch with Hannah’s family. Hannah’s grandmother had taken custody of the child because Hannah’s mother had been neglecting the baby girl.

Sidney continued to show signs of being spiritually aware. When he looked at his grandmother, he would sometimes look beside her or over her and giggle. Yvonne sensed then that her grandson was able to see in the spirit realm. That belief was confirmed one day when Sidney was about four years old.

He was with Yvonne in her office when she asked him to another room in the house to get something for her. He jumped up and started toward the door. Then, all of a sudden he stopped and wouldn’t go another step. He backed up closer to where his grandmother was sitting.

“What’s wrong, Sid?” she asked.

“Von-Von, who is that?” He pointed toward the hallway. She intuitively knew what was happening because she had seen the spirit of young boy flash across her foyer several days prior.

“I’m not sure what his name is,” she said, “but he will not harm you. Let’s call upon Archangels Chamuel and Michael.” Yvonne pulled Sid into her lap. He was still staring at the doorway.

“Archangels Michael and Chamuel,” she said, “We have the spirit of a lost boy in our house. Please come and help him see the light and go to a safe place where he can find his friends and family. Thank you.”

“He’s gone,” Sidney said. Then, he slid off Von-Von’s lap and walked through the doorway without hesitation.

Yvonne began to write about their adventures and the next thing she knew, she had a collection of stories. She compiled them into one full-color print book and titled it The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children. These twelve stories support intuitive children in the development of body, mind, and spirit. In the The Sid Series your child will:

• Learn about inner guidance through a garden visit with the fairies
• Face the fear of storms in a kayak on the Banana River
• Help a pirate find the real hidden treasure
• Find a ghost in Sid’s closet
• Use loving intention to heal a hurt puppy

I invite you to look inside the book at http://thesidseries.com/

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Make the Voices in My Head Stop!

2011-04-29T07:25:00.006-05:00

Recently, I have heard several parents and a teacher tell about children who hear voices in their heads. The adult’s responses range from being worried about the kids having a mental/emotional disturbance to accepting the child as being psychic and/or clairaudient. I’d like to share those stories as case studies to show how these voices can be eliminated or turned down.

Generally speaking, when a child hears voices or sees ghosts, it is usually an indication that he has wandered into the ghost world rather than the ghost actually seeking the child out to taunt him or her. If a child is trying to escape a situation for whatever reason, he may dissociate from present reality and wander into the realm where souls live who have not crossed over after departing from the body. Once a child has tapped into this realm, it is easy to continue to do so even without intending to. It is especially important for empathic children (and adults) to recognize their own vibrational resonance, but many are not able to discern what their own energy feels like enough to know when it has roamed into foreign territory or when their own energy field is being violated.

In one case study, a child told his teacher that the voices in his head come and go throughout the day but won’t stay away permanently. When the voices begin screaming, the boy holds his hands over his ears and cries, “The voices! The voices!” His mother told the teacher that this started happening when the boy was two years old. The voices frighten the child but he says he can only make them go away temporarily in his “thinking” (telepathically) not his words. He has described to his mother people who have passed (that he didn’t know prior). One of these is the child’s grandpa (who is deceased) and he tells him to fight the voices. While I’m sure grandpa with his ghostly advice is well meaning, fighting is a form of resistance and will only serve to make the voices worse. By the way, I’m sensing that the grandpa has not crossed over because he feels a need to protect the grandson. The grandpa may be projecting his own fear onto the boy. And, the boy says that he was sent here to protect his mother.

Whatever we think about comes about. The universe will allow us to experience or attract more of whatever we focus our energy and attention upon. In this case study, once the voices started harassing this boy, he reacted with fear, which gives the entities the energy they need to continue their activity. Once the boy turned his attention to the voices, he expected them to continue bothering him—and they are happy to comply. Thus, he attracts more of the same. Obviously, this child is in tune with the other side and not just because he is in their territory. He is indeed psychic, and he needs to know how to turn off the voices. He has innocently been serving as a punching bag and laughing stock for ghosts and as a surrogate for his deceased grandpa’s fear, in addition to feeling responsible for his mother’s well-being. Such a huge emotional burden for a young child!

All children can be taught to stand in their personal spiritual power to protect themselves from this kind of ghostly nuisance. This is best done by inviting higher vibrating energy such as the Holy Spirit, angels, archangels, and ascended masters into their auric field. Part of the problem here is a lack of education. Unfortunately, most parents teachers, school counselors, and therapists are not trained to deal with psychic children who see ghosts or hear voices. The children of today are psychic like no other generation prior, and we have a responsibility to help them manage their intuitive gifts.

As adults, we can’t afford to stand by ignorantly and do nothing while these kids suffer. A child who is taught from a very early age to listen to their internal and higher vibrational guidance and establish a spiritual practice can avoid being bombarded by the negative chatter of the collective consciousness of Earth—that cluttered, confusing field of detrimental energy coming from the chaos of the thoughts and emotions generated by souls (in body and disembodied) on this planet. By recognizing their own divine guidance, kids can immediately know when they are in contact with a voice of one who does not have their best interest at heart. The best thing you can teach a psychic child is that he is more powerful than any earthbound spirit and that ghosts have to adhere to any boundary we set with them. The great news is that all entities can be blocked or removed. However, if we believe that we or our clearing methods are powerless, we will attract the ghost right back to us. This is the law of attraction at work and as you can see, it applies to kids exactly the same way as it does adults. Consistently maintaining energetic boundaries and listening for the kind and loving intuitive voice within us will cause a shift in focus and bring about a pleasant change. No one deserves to have ghostly voices screaming in their heads. As with anything else, you can say no! Teach your children to do the same.

In a book that I wrote with Dr. Caron Goode, we discuss how to clear and protect your personal auric field and establish healthy boundaries with entities. While the book is written for energy-sensitive adults, the exercises can be done by any child who needs help shutting off the negative voices in his head. Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom From the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You (ISBN: 9780982572245), is a guidebook for empathic people who have been unknowingly carrying energetic burdens that belong to someone else. It will help readers learn to sense their own energy and let go of the bits and pieces of psychic clutter that does not belong to them. Learn more at http://whosestuffisthis.com/ .

The Sid Series is An Endearing Collection of Twelve Short Stories for Young Children

2011-04-27T16:32:00.001-05:00

The Sid Series is an endearing collection of twelve short stories for young children. Each story shows how Sid and his grandparents experience universal truths about living and loving on Planet Earth. For example, Sid encounters angels and fairies, explores the magic and power of his imagination, and learns to look within for love and guidance. I love that the stories speak clearly to three year old children, and also excite the mind and heart of my nine year old daughter. If we can read books like The Sid Series to our youngest children, we can begin life-long conversations about self-discovery and the loving spirit that lives in all things universal. Thank you, Yvonne Perry, for condensing universal truths into beautiful tales that hold the attention of our toddlers. I feel this book is an act of creation not only for the hearts of our children, but for the wellbeing of our planet.

Alexandra Folz
Author of Indigo’s Bracelet
http://www.indigosbooks.com/

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Temper Tantrums ~ An Opportunity to Teach Your Child How to Process Emotions

2011-04-23T07:19:00.000-05:00

By Yvonne Perry

Empathy and intuition gives us the ability to better understand how we are connected to other living things. It is a form of communication with others, nature, animals, and even higher or spiritual forms of life. We are all born with empathic ability but most of us shut the sensing ability down at some point either because the energy overload causes discomfort or we are taught not to trust our inner guidance. By shutting down our intuition and empathic ability, we live in our heads and are pretty much out of touch with our body and our own emotions.

The Latin word for emotion is emovere, which means movement. Suppressing an emotion prevents the natural movement of vital energy or “chi” as it is referred to by the Chinese. As Karol Truman says in her book by the same title, “feelings buried alive never die.” Denying and resisting what you feel only makes things worse because the emotions that need to move through you are then stored or “stuck” in your cells where they will demand to be dealt with at a later time.

Intuitive children and teens know their personal truth. Any distortion of that truth can cause them to feel confused, depressed, unbalanced, or even sick. When a child stuffs his feelings it creates an inward vortex of spiraling emotions that can continue to pull him downward for years to come. Childhood depression can be carried into adulthood if it is not dealt with when it first appears. If your child has bouts of depression, notice what triggers are associated with the episodes. Who has he been around? What disturbing event has occurred recently? Has someone criticized or urged him to stuff his emotions regarding an upsetting situation?

In our society, we have been taught to be emotionally dishonest. We pretend to feel one thing when we truly feel another. When we are angry and our spouse asks, “What’s wrong?” we pretend not to be upset. We say, “Nothing’s the matter” or we give the person the silent treatment rather than calmly and rationally expressing our point of view. When we are sad, we say everything is fine, yet a large percentage of the population is taking antidepressants, which indicates that things are not fine in regards to our emotions and how we express them. When we deny what we feel or judge ourselves for feeling it, we deny an authentic part of ourselves. If we resist or ignore what is happening or what we feel, we don’t allow ourselves to process the experience.

I’m not advocating a full-blown, violent expression of emotions—that’s just as harmful as stuffing an emotion. No one should be a victim of verbal, emotional, or physical abuse. No one enjoys watching a two-year-old throw a temper tantrum in the grocery store either, but this unrestrained expression of emotions is one of the ways children keep toxic energy from getting stuck in their bodies. Until a child learns a better, more mature way to manage his emotions, you might as well expect a few disturbing eruptions.
Children aren’t the only ones who need to learn how to maturely deal with their emotions in order to process and release them appropriately. I’ve seen adults throw a fit when they didn’t get their way—a sure sign that this person was not taught how to negotiate in a more positive manner to obtain a positive outcome in a situation.

Back to the child throwing a fit, balance is the key. You can hardly ignore a child’s temper tantrum, but there’s no need to stop the child from expressing his emotions. The irritating behavior occurs usually because the child wants something that the parent says he can’t have. Avoid the temptation to cave in and give him whatever it is that he wants just to get him to stop screaming or kicking. Make sure the child is safe and then calmly remove yourself a comfortable distance from his/her presence and do not interact with him until the outburst has ended. It may be embarrassing if the tantrum occurs in public, but this ordeal is not about you nor is it a reflection on your parenting abilities. It is a learning opportunity for both the parent and the child. Be sure to talk about the episode after the child has recomposed himself. This is a step in teaching him how to deal with upsetting situations in a healthy way that acknowledges his feelings without letting them get the best of him or harm others. Whatever we place emphasis upon will cause it to increase. So, don’t dwell on the tantrum, but do talk about what’s upsetting both of you and attempt to resolve the issue together. This non-blaming, non-resistant method of dealing with life’s troubles will transform any relationship and give all parties the freedom to feel what they feel, express personal likes/dislikes, and be totally honest. If you do not react negatively, this childish behavior will end when the child learns that throwing a fit does not gain him/her the attention that was expected or accomplish what he/she intended.

“The sorrow that has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.” ~Henry Maudsley

Resistance or stuffing our emotions actually attracts more of the things, people, energy, and situations we don’t want. We resist because we are fearful or in denial. We resist our emotions because we are afraid to feel. Perhaps we are afraid our emotions will take over and we will lose control. Quite the opposite is true. Our emotions, when stuffed, are silently taking over our well-being; and, building up pressure inside. These pent-up feelings may rush forth unexpectedly and cause us to be the adult throwing a temper tantrum in the grocery store! When we resist someone or something (even if it is unpleasant) rather than accept what is, it only makes things worse. Being resistant blinds us to possibilities and solutions and causes us to become stuck, defensive, shut down, and reactive. As a result, our body may feel tight, tense, or lethargic; our emotions may feel heavy, sad, or angry.

Those who have developed the gift of empathy and learned to trust their intuition are more inclined to pay attention to what they sense and feel. Observing and dealing with situations as they arise allows emotional energy to flow through without getting stuck, while at the same time you remain grounded and centered.
If something is upsetting you deal with it quickly rather than denying its reality. If you notice you are in a state of resistance, do an activity that brings peace of mind, balance, and well-being. The book I am writing with Dr. Caron Goode can help. Caron is the award winning author of Raising Intuitive Children and the international best-seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, guide them through their fear. Learn more about WHOSE STUFF IS THIS? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You at http://tinyurl.com/WhoseStuff.

The more you learn to manage your emotions, the better teacher you become to the children in your life. I encourage you develop your intuition and set an example of non-resistant behavior. When you move into the stream of life, things begin to fall into perfect alignment, synchronicities abound, aches and pains diminish, stress melts away, creativity flourishes, relationships heal, and we experience a profound sense of peace.

Teaching Children to Listen to Inner Guidance

2011-04-21T10:44:00.002-05:00

It is very important in this day and age (when the planet is rattling in response to humanity's ascending in consciousness) to teach children how to recognize and heed their inner guidance. I'm always looking for books and products that help reinforce this concept.

I came across Indigo’s Bracelet on a parenting blog and thought it looked like a good book for my 8-year-old granddaughter, who is a voracious reader and very interested in spiritual things. When the book arrived I was so impressed by the delightful cover that I opened it and started thumbing through. I was captured and decided to start from the beginning. I couldn’t put it down; I had to find out what the gifts were and who was whispering to Indigo.

I like the book because it gives real life situations that young people deal with such as peer pressure, self-image, loneliness, school programs, and a dad who makes promises and then doesn’t deliver. On top of dealing with these “normal” things, Indigo is also empathic. She rescues animals and cares for the environment—often embarrassing herself with this dedication. When her mother gives her a bracelet that she wore as a child, Indigo starts hearing a voice and feeling something strange. Magical things begin to happen that bring gifts or lessons to help heal her heart and self-esteem. Indigo learns the secret to living an authentic life in spite of what other people think: Believe the love you feel inside, not the words of fear that make you hide.

I highly recommend this book and can hardly wait to put it in the mail to my granddaughter. I’m sure she will love it as much as I do!

Yvonne Perry,
author of The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children

VIDEO: Endorsements

2011-04-15T07:47:00.003-05:00

My new book about being an empath is now available on Amazon. Here is a video to let you know what the book is about and what others are saying about it. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think of it.

Audio Book for Children

2011-04-10T17:22:00.001-05:00

The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories is becoming an audio book!

Children love to hear stories and have adults read them books over and over again. Parents don't always have time to sit and read. Here's a solution that keeps kids and parents happy: AUDIO BOOKS! They work on iPods, iPhones, iPads, and MP3 players.

The Sid Series will be offered as one MP3 file with all twelve stories ($9.99) or you can pick a few of your favorite stories and get an individual MP3 file for only 99 cents per story. Learn more about the book at http://thesidseries.blogspot.com/p/about-book.html .

To register your interest in this product, please fill in the information below. You will receive an email when the audio book is ready for purchase.

The Psychology of Empathy

2011-04-08T07:23:00.007-05:00

In the story that Dr. Caron Goode, ED.D., NCC, DAPA contributed as Chapter 6 of my book, Whose Stuff Is This?, Meredith is a trained nurse, who chose to leave a hospital setting and move into private care. Meredith has the ability to resonate with another person on a deep level. Such resonance is achieved through empathy, the ability to feel with her client, not to feel for them or about them. Resonating with her clients is a striking intuitive knowing, which enables Meredith to predict their needs and provide an unprecedented quality of care.

The ability to resonate with others is the character strength of a person whose core temperament is Interpersonal. Other strengths of a Interpersonal core temperament are adaptability and being supportive. The Interpersonal style is one of the Four Basic Core Temperaments—the other three are called Behavioral, Cognitive, and Affective—identified from the research and writing of Terry Anderson, PhD, the founder of Consulting Resource Group International and author of more than a dozen assessments, training and development tools, and books.

Over the last two decades, the science of temperaments and research on how people think has validated that each person is born with a core temperament, which is nature's approximate 20 percent genetic contribution to one's overall personality. Our environments contribute the other 80 percent by virtue of our ability to adapt.
Four Basic Core Temperaments provide the cornerstones for people’s interactive preferences, how they learn, and what motivates them. People with Interpersonal and Affective styles relate well to people. Those with a Cognitive style are immersed in information or data; they relate well to people as team members and partners because they are sensitive to feelings of others. The Behavioral style person is internally motivated by personal goals and achievements and may be the least sensitive to other people’s feelings.

At a basic level, empathy is being attuned to another’s emotions and intentions. The next level of empathy involves taking action to help another, whether alleviating fears and pain or supporting or celebrating someone. More complex forms of empathy occur when people join together for survival of struggles or to pursue the vision fueled by emotional connectedness. These show us how capable we are of making deep connections. To feel loved, whole, appreciated, and useful, we must be in a relationship where empathy connects us.

We are hard-wired to resonate with each other at profound levels, thus driving our desires to belong and for bonding, connection, companionship, and affection. Empathy clearly provides the closest we might come to “knowing” another person—feeling their pain and joys, a communing of kindred spirits. All types of empathy can be a source of insight.

Sensitive people with the profile of an empath may not be recognized as such in traditional therapy settings. An empathic person with enough savvy to know their gifts as a self-aware person still needs connection, and the best support comes from non-traditional health practitioners, who may themselves be intuitive, holistic, natural, or energy practitioners. These include transpersonal and spiritual healers and therapists, neurolinguistic (NLP) practitioners, specific types of energy healers, and massage therapists, full-wave breath trainers, rebirthers, and other breath workers, hypnotherapists, and Chinese medicine practitioners. Each works with the mind-body connection to create inner resonance.

For more information about the psychology of empathy, see Chapter 6 of Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You.
Read more and find resources for empathic people at http://WhoseStuffIsThis.com.

Become Self-empowered as a Woman While Being a Mom

2011-04-06T12:32:00.004-05:00

Tina M Games is the author of Journaling by the Moonlight: A Mother's Path to Self-Discovery, and I will be interviewing her on We Are One in Spirit Podcast April 21 as one of the stops on her virtual tour.

This interactive book comes with an accompanying deck of 54 journaling prompt cards. As a certified creativity and life purpose coach, she is the "Moonlight Muse" for women who want to tap into the "full moon within" and claim their authentic self. Through her signature coaching programs, based on the phases of the moon, Tina gently guides women from darkness to light as they create an authentic vision (both personally and professionally) filled with purpose, passion and creative expression.

As part of her book launch, Tina, along with other authors, therapists, coaches, entrepreneurs, and radio hosts will be sharing insight about caring for your own needs while parenting from a positive perspective.

Learn more about this seminar by clicking the arrow in the video below, or go to http://moonlightmomscircle.com/book-launch/pages/telesummit.html to register now.

For a free subscription to Tina's e-newsletter, Moonlight Musings, go to www.MoonlightMomsCircle.com or www.JournalingMoms.com.

Learn more about Tina on her YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_OwcYK55N0

Purchase The Sid Series on http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSidSeries

My Virtual Blog Tour for My Book, Whose Stuff Is This?: Finding Freedom from the Negative Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, is Complete!

2011-04-04T06:00:00.001-05:00

My virtual blog tour for my book, Whose Stuff Is This?: Finding Freedom from the Negative Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, is complete. Here are the stops from the final week.

Monday, March 21 - Reno Lovison Marketing Communications Services presented an article titled “Authors Must Learn to Sell What They Write.” I shared some of the mistakes I made in promoting my first two books and gave some tips on what to do to ensure the successful launch of your book. See Business Card to Business Blog: http://businesscardtobusiness.com/.

Tuesday, March 22 - Anne Lyken-Garner has a media release about the many ways that we are connected: the air we breathe, our basic needs and physiology, and energetically/spiritually. No one feels the power of this connection more than the energy-sensitive people, who unknowingly pick up on the detrimental thoughts, feelings, and even the illnesses of others and their environment. Read more on Anne’s blog: http://www.abloggersbooks.com/

Wednesday, March 23 - Being empathic is not a burden you must bear anymore. You can learn to shut out unwanted energy and keep others from violating your personal boundaries. First, you have to set boundaries. Dr. Caron Goode, who wrote the foreword for the book, presented a book excerpt on her blog, Kids Who See Ghosts: http://kidswhoseeghosts.com/.

Thursday, March 24 - Faith Ranoli interviewed me on Heart and Home Radio Show about how as an intercessor, I picked up the illnesses and emotional pain of those I prayed for. Everyone is intuitive and has the small, still voice inside if we will just listen, but not everyone is empathic. Some are too empathic and allow compassion to go too far. Ranoli said of my book, “ Designed especially for empaths, this book teaches healthful living, good spiritual practices, and gives helpful tips for living a safe and energetically balanced life.” Listen to the interview at http://healthylife.net/RadioShow/archiveHH.htm.

Friday, March 25 - Vonnie Faroqui shared an article titled “Being Non-Resistant Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry.” Being non-resistant is the embodiment of the often misunderstood feat of “turning the other cheek.” We’ve often thought that phrase meant that it is honorable to let people walk all over us. Turning the other cheek actually means standing in your place of power and letting things flow through you without getting stuck. Read more on Ink Slinger's Whimsey: http://inkslingerswhimsey.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 28 - Dr. Caron Goode shared an excerpt from my book. See Raising Intuitive Children blog: http://raisingintuitivechildren.com/. Caron and I believe this book will benefit many people and help get them moving toward better health and emotional balance. Bulk orders (10 or more) of this title are available at a discount to bookstores, counselors, and retailers who wish to offer the book to clients or resale the book. Contact us for the discount code.

I am very thankful for all of you and the support you provided to help me launch my book. I’m very impressed with everyone who participated. The tour went smoothly without a glitch; everyone posted the material we sent you on time, and we had some great comments from your readers. I hope you enjoyed being part of this networking activity and found it beneficial.

Gratefully Yours,

Yvonne Perry
Author of Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You (http://whosestuffisthis.com/)
More Than Meets the Eye, True Stories about Death, Dying, and Afterlife (http://deathdyingafterlife.com/)
The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children (http://thesidseries.com/)
Owner of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services (http://writersinthesky.com/)

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Empathic Babies, Children, and Teens

2011-04-03T07:16:00.007-05:00

By Yvonne Perry

Empathy is what makes other people matter to us and reminds us to acknowledge the people around us as we understand and share their feelings. Empathy exists in early mother-infant bonding. Even before birth, a baby in the womb is sensitive to the mother’s feelings, whether positive, neutral, or negative. Once born, a baby shows receptivity to both parents’ anger, tension, and depression, as well as their caring, responsiveness, and love. You’ve probably noticed how they imitate your facial expressions, smiling in response to your smile. They also may cry if they hear another baby cry. This type of response is a step in the development of empathy and the ability to share the feelings of another person.

Babies absorb the mental and emotional energy of the people around them. They don’t filter anything; they simply receive. As a child ages, this empathic tendency may increase and get out of control. Some children pick up the emotions, energy, or thoughts of others to the degree that it becomes overwhelming and interrupts the development of their social and emotional life. Because these children do not know how to set personal boundaries (or that they need to), they do not realize when they are in another person’s mental or emotional space, much less how invasive this can be to that person. It can also lower the child’s own vibrational level.
An empath is sensitive to what is obvious as well as unseen things such as ghosts and the thoughts, emotions, and illnesses they sense around them. Empaths may get hunches, see mental pictures, hear voices, or have a gut feeling that supplies hidden information about people and situations. They may also get a physical sensation in their body that lets them know where another person is afflicted or suffering.

You may have heard of Indigo Children or Crystal Kids who have intuitive gifts that surprise or even astound adults. These empathic children easily pick up on the feelings and thoughts of adults and others as they unconsciously reach into human and spirit energy fields to gather information and understand things around them. Seeing with their spiritual eyes, feeling with their spiritual senses, hearing with their spiritual ears, they may give information about a past life, tell of events before they happen, see ghosts, or know something about another person or situation that no one else does. Today, as many as one in four children have this ability and are tuned into the higher frequency all the time.

Being an empath is very draining for an adult. Just imagine what it feels like to be an intuitive or empathic child and not have the language to explain it to your parents or teachers. A child who is overloaded with the energy of others may have on-going illnesses, show depressive episodes, lash out in anger, cry without reason, or try to “fix” things between adults who argue or do not get along well. A child or teen who sees or hears in the spirit realm may act out because he or she feels overwhelmed and does not know how to express what he or she is experiencing. The problem is compounded when adults will not listen, try to hush the child, or refuse to believe the child’s report of psychic incidents.

We do our intuitive children a great injustice when we invalidate their experiences and intuitive abilities. But, many parents simply don't know what to do with kids who see or hear spirits, talk about a deceased relative they never met in body, give clues into past lives, predict future events, or know some family secret they haven’t been privy to. In some cases, the “hushing” parent also has some paranormal gifts in operation that he or she is not comfortable talking about—maybe they were shushed by their parents and are simply mimicking the parenting role model they were given. As parents, teachers, and counselors we need to teach children how to properly use this empathic gift, but many adults do not trust their own intuition much less recognize their children’s spiritual abilities. Empathic kids need someone they can talk to and they need information on how to keep their auras clear, to open and shut their intuitive abilities at will, and set energetic boundaries. But, where do adults go to learn how to help these empathic kids and teens?

The more you read and study this topic, the better you will be able to answer your children’s questions and help them manage their intuitive gifts. Dr. Caron Goode and I invite you to learn more about a book we have written. It is titled WHOSE STUFF IS THIS? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. Learn more at http://whosestuffisthis.com/

VIDEO: Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Others

2011-03-22T06:48:00.004-05:00

My new book about being an empath is ready for Kindle Reader on Amazon. The printed copy will be available in February. Here is a video to let you know what the book is about and what others are saying about it. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think of it.

Empathic Babies, Children, and Teens

2011-03-20T07:06:00.000-05:00

As part of my virtual tour for my new book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, Elizabeth Bennett shared an article titled "Empathic Babies, Children, and Teens." Check it out at http://peerabuse.blogspot.com

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A Look at Meditation

2011-03-17T06:00:00.000-05:00

Today's post is by guest blogger Melissa Leath. I really like this article because I believe that meditation is important for everyone--adults and children. in fact, one of the stories in The Sid Series book teaches children to develop their ability to sense and trust their intuition through meditation. If you are looking for a book to help your child learn to meditate and focus on his spirit within, I recommend Sid's Fairy ~ Learning About Inner Guidance. This short story is available (along with all twelve of my holistic stories for children) for $3.00 and is formatted on SmashWords.com for Amazon's Kindle, Sony Reader, the iPhone and iPad.

Now for a look at meditation by Melissa.

I've counseled many people from every background and led workshops and lectures about self-empowering topics for about 25 years. Over that time, I saw a need. Everyone was searching. What they were looking for was unclear, many times. But the search was on. While I could meet many of their immediate needs, through counseling, they still needed a source, or connection with who they really were.

This was not a religious pursuit, per se, but a spiritual one. We all need to know our inner self. And the best way for us to get there is through meditation: a quiet time of some sort—contemplation. So out of that need, I saw an answer. Spreading information about basic meditation became my mission.

Almost all of the information I received about meditation over the years was through personal experience--trial and error. I did not read any books on the subject. They all seemed too deep and philosophical. And many times, the books included a whole cultural exploration. This is good for someone looking into historical information, or perhaps a religious belief. But just to know the basics of what meditation is and how to do it, there wasn't anything.

I've been able to connect very well with the groups I've spoken to because I've been in their shoes. I had first hand experience looking for my own inner self. And so, the column you see here will explore for you, the personal experiences of the proverbial searcher.

I had just graduated from high school, and was looking for some kind of personal project for the summer. Since I lived in a very small town, and it was in the 1960's, I was very surprised to find a yoga class being offered at the nearby
middle school. I was always open for the new and different, and this fit the bill.

I joined the class as soon as I could and found myself in some very strange positions. But there was one position that I kept going back to. It was sitting cross-legged with my hands resting on my knees, palms up. It immediately made me
sit straight, and my spine was relaxed.

While practicing this position at home, a strange thing happened. I began to feel unusual. There wasn't any way I could describe it. But it was a kind of light-headed
feeling---almost like dropping off to sleep----but I was awake.

I asked the instructor about it on the very next session. She assured me it was fine. But I had my reservations. So I stopped. I didn't go back to the class. And I didn't continue with the yoga practice.

I found out much later that I was beginning meditation. The instructor must have been concerned about giving too much information about yoga philosophy and the spiritual traditions of Eastern India. Our community was extremely slow about accepting new ideas. She was probably reluctant to introduce something new that could cause problems. So the yoga positions were only taught as an exercise.

I imagine many new or different ideas were stifled in the beginning. Some hesitate to share information for fear of being rejected or ostracized. And some of us hesitate to look at new information because we're afraid of rocking the boat.

As you explore the concept of meditation, you will learn about the varied benefits that can be brought about by meditation, including health, emotional release, and self-empowerment. You will realize that meditation is about ease.

The Purpose of Meditation

Meditation is a way to connect with the inner self, or what some believe is the Divine Spark of God that we all are. It is to become quiet: to allow all outside disturbances to fade away, to be comfortable with the quiet. That quiet, or silence, which is allowed in, can calm the mind, restore the body, and define a spiritual path.

Let's take this opportunity to try a sample meditation on for size. Remember that this is a sample. It gives us the chance to practice. And in practicing, we learn.

Bringing In a Quiet Moment

Take a moment out of your busy day. Go for a five-minute walk by yourself. Pay attention to the sound of your footsteps. Let it become even with your heartbeat. When this rhythm within you overrides the sounds of the day, take a deep cleansing breath. Look at the sky. Watch the clouds. Just enjoy the moment. This is the skill of meditation. It is nothing harder than that: just taking a moment, and relaxing into it. Allow your mind to relax into it.

This is just a very quick way for everyone to get some idea of what meditation is like. There are plenty of different types of meditations, as many as there are people. It requires a few undisturbed minutes, dedication and a desire. It will open up a whole new world for you. Just give it a try.

Copyright 2003, Melissa Leath

Rev. Melissa Leath is a personal growth and metaphysical counselor and meditation instructor. Explore more about the ease of meditation by visiting her website: http://www.MeditationMadeEasy.com

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Sofia's Dream

2011-03-01T06:00:00.011-06:00

I thought you might enjoy this charming and irresistible book for kids 4-8 years of age. It's Sofia's Dream by Land Wilson and it's now available just in time for Spring gift giving. I love kids' books that have a social message, which most do. But Sofia's Dream focuses on a subject that we all think about: our dear Mother Earth. Sofia befriends the sad moon and he urges her to take care of our planet. Children, parents and teachers alike will treasure this delightful fantasy. The author's rhymes will roll off your tongue as you take an exciting journey with Sofia to discover why her new friend, the moon, is so sad.
The innovative illustrations by Sue Cornelison portray Sofia's story perfectly with soft dreamy tones and imagess. Her limited use of color urges you to look at the interesting details on every page and gives the story a universal and classic appeal. Teachers will appreciate how the story offers opportunities to start discussions about the phases of the moon and Earth's limited resources. Children will be challenged to think of new ways to conserve the Earth's land, air and water. One retired teacher said, "I would recommend this book for every home and school library." http://bit.ly/%20sofiasdream

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Virtual Book Tour to Teach Highly-sensitive People How to Avoid Being Detrimentally Affected by Energy Overload

2011-02-28T06:21:00.000-06:00

Yvonne Perry's virtual tour for her book, WHOSE STUFF IS THIS? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You, launches today.

Anywhere there is a crowd of people, there is abundant energy, both positive and negative. Those who assist with victim protection, do police or detective work, have served in war zones, operate as healers, clergy members, or psychics, have careers at hospitals, clinics, or hospice centers deal with an overload of emotional energy. Many of them feel depleted, overwhelmed, nervous, depressed, or angry; they may feel as though someone is watching or following them; they may hear voices, see shadows, or have a difficult time finding mental or emotional peace. Many of these individuals know that something is not quite “normal” since not everyone is adversely affected by going into public and not everyone picks up on the thoughts, feelings, or pain of those around them to such a degree. They may not know they are carrying or attaching to someone else’s energy, but would love to stop the emotional, physical, and mental turmoil they encounter on a regular basis.

For those who experience this type of intuitive or empathic fatigue, Yvonne Perry’s book, WHOSE STUFF IS THIS?, provides spiritual exercises and information to help sensitive people distinguish their personal energy from that of another person; clear their energy field; raise their vibration; shield themselves from detrimental energy; and find relief from emotional storms and empathic fatigue.

“Being a well-developed empathic or intuitive person does not mean you have to stop showing compassion. Quite the contrary,” writes Nashville author Yvonne Perry in her new book. “But an empath must begin to care for their own needs before they can learn to use their intuitive ability as a tool for guidance without paying a personal price.”

With a foreword and a chapter contributed by psychotherapist, Dr. Caron B. Goode, ED.D., NCC, DAPA, this book provides a fresh perspective on the psychological aspect of empathy and intuition.

“Some of the characteristics that empaths display can also be diagnosed as ADD, agoraphobia, bipolar disorder, or clinical depression,” says Dr. Goode. “Most doctors and counselors are not aware that empathy fatigue exists, much less how to treat it, but this intuitive overload is a very real problem to energy-sensitive people.” Caron is the author of The Art & Science of Coaching Parents, Raising Intuitive Children, and Kids Who See Ghosts - Guide Them Through Their Fears.

Every sensitive person, regardless of how they come to interact with negative energy, could benefit from your book and learning how to detach and screen out the emotions and pain of others while remaining compassionate and effective as a healer or friend, mother, or coworker.” says Denise Demaras, an artist and holistic spiritual health counselor, who endorses the book. “So many people don't understand how or even notice the effect that others have on their moods or health. Suddenly they are mean and cranky, sad or sick, every time they are in the company of a certain person.”

From February 28 through March 28, Yvonne plans to be a guest on more than twenty blogs where she will post helpful material. From how and why she wrote and published the book, to informative articles on empathy, intuition, spiritual/psychic gifts, and exercises to help energy-sensitive people clear and protect their auric fields, all visitors will read something new each day as they follow the tour from blog to blog. Audio clips, YouTube videos, written interviews, radio interviews, book excerpts, and media releases are also planned in the lineup. Yvonne will be available at each blog for readers to ask questions. See the tour schedule at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathTour.

Yvonne is a graduate of American Institute of Holistic Theology where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Metaphysics. For forty years she was enmeshed with the dogma of religion that her family and church leaders passed down to her. Before she had a label for her empathetic ability, she called herself a prayer warrior. While praying for others she took on their suffering until it severely challenged her emotional and physical well-being. Embracing a different path and belief system, she now openly uses the gift of empathy to help others heal their lives. See her full bio at http://weare1inspirit.com .

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PURCHASE paperback book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings,and Energy of Those Around You at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathAmazon. The e-book version is also available for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, and other digital reading devices.

Tour Schedule for Empathetic People

2011-02-26T05:58:00.005-06:00

I am on tour for my new book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You. It's not a typical book tour that drives all over town from one bookstore to another signing copies of the book. Instead, it is an online blog tour and you are cordially invited to come along with me as I drop by more than twenty blogs.

At each stop, I will leave audio clips, video clips, written interviews, links to radio interviews, book excerpts, media releases, and content-rich articles. Visitors get to read something new each day as they follow the book tour from blog to blog.

Topics include the following:

Authors Must Learn to Sell What They Write
Clearing Your Energy Field
Detaching Politely Before You Reach Your Limit
Empathic Babies, Children, and Teens
How I Published My Book on Empathy Fatigue
Identifying Your Own Energy
Setting Boundaries with People
Stories from an Empath
Why I Wrote a Book for Empaths
5 Steps for Developing Your Intuition
Characteristics of an Untrained Empath
Difference Between Empathy and Intuition, The
Excerpts from the book
Gift of Intuition Reveals a Sister’s Secret, The
Influence Ghosts Have Upon Human Emotions, The
Make the Voices Stop!
Psychology of Empathy, The
Q&A Interview with the Author
Temper Tantrums ~ An Opportunity to Teach Your Child How to Process Emotions
There’s a Ghost in Our House. Can We Keep Him?
Understanding Empathy
What Is an Empath?
When Fear Turns into an Anxiety Problem
Why I Chose to Self-publish My Book About Empathic Overload

Here is the tour schedule:

Join the pre-tour warm-up on Wednesday, February 23 as Dr. Caron Goode and Yvonne Perry chat with @LynnSerafinn on Garden of the Soul Radio at 6 p.m. UK Time, 1 p.m. Eastern Time.

Another running start for the tour is on Saturday, February 26 Joyce Shafer will share an article in her State of Appreciation Newsletter: http://stateofappreciation.webs.com// Follow @JoyceShafer.

Monday, February 28 - The Shift Guru Barbara Joye will host an article by Yvonne titled "5 Steps for Developing your Intuition" http://shiftguru.wordpress.com/. Follow @TheShiftGuru.

Tuesday, March 1 - Joanne Sprott (@muselady11) will host Yvonne on Beyond Words Radio Show at Believe in the Moment radio http://www.believeinthemoment.com/bitm-radio.html.

Wednesday, March 2 - Carol Denbow (@author101) will share an article titled “Why Yvonne wrote the book” on her blog, A Book Inside http://abookinside.blogspot.com/.

Thursday, March 3- @positivepresent Dani will post an article: "Psychology of Empathy" on her blog, Positively Present http://www.positivelypresent.com/.

Friday, March 4 - Irene Conlan @ieconlan has an article: "Setting Boundaries with People" to share on The Self Improvement Blog.

Saturday, March 5 - Shelagh Jones @SpiritusShelagh will be hosting an audio interview with Yvonne for her Spiritus blog.

Sunday, March 6 - Penny Ehrenkranz @pennyehrenkranz Article: "How Yvonne Published the Book" on One Writer's Journey http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 7 - Doreen Pendgracs @wizardofwords will be sharing an article from Yvonne titled: "Why I Chose to Self-publish My Book About Empathic Overload." See http://doreenisthewizardofwords.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 8 - Nickolove Lovemore @nickolove Skyline Coaching Blog http://www.skylinecoachingblog.com/ has a video clip, an excerpt from the book, an article “Clearing Your Energy Field,” and a book review.

Wednesday, March 9 - Callie Carling @moonpoppy shares a video, book review, and article on her blog, Empowered Healer http://www.empoweredhealer.co.uk/

Thursday, March 10 - Irene Conlan (@ieconlan) hosts Yvonne on The Self Improvement Radio Show.

Friday, March 11 - Dr. Caron Goode @parent_coach shares an interview with Yvonne & a video on the Academy for Coaching Parents International http://academyforcoachingparents.com/blog/

Saturday, March 12 - Dr. Caron Goode will be joining Shelagh Jones @SpiritusShelagh for an audio interview about the psychology of empathy. See Spiritus blog.

Monday, March 14 - Soulmate Coach Crystal @soulmatecoachc shares an article about detaching politely http://www.soulmatecoachcrystal.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 15 - Lisa Jackson @lisajjackson shares her question & answer interview on Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews http://lisahaseltonsreviewsandinterviews.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, March 16 - Pat Bertram @PatBertram has an article, “ Stories from an Empath,” on Dragon My Feet: http://dragonmyfeet.wordpress.com/

Thursday, March 17 has two stops: Elizabeth Bennett @PeerAbuse will post an article: “Empathy in Children and Teens” on http://www.peerabuse.blogspot.com/ AND Barbara Techel @joyfulpaws shares a YouTube video on Joyful Paws http://www.joyfulpaws.typepad.com/

Friday, March 18 - Barbara Joye (@TheShiftGuru) will share her interview with Yvonne on her Creative Cafe Radio Show: www.blogtalkradio.com/shiftguru.

Monday, March 21 - Reno Lovison Marketing Communications Services presents an article “Authors Must Learn to Sell What They Write” on his Business Card to Business Blog: http://businesscardtobusiness.com/blog. Follow @renoweb

Tuesday, March 22 - Anne Lyken-Garner @esther96 has a media release on http://www.abloggersbooks.com/

Wednesday, March 23 - Dr. Caron Goode @parent_coach presents a book excerpt and press release on her blog, Kids Who See Ghosts http://kidswhoseeghosts.com/blog/.

Thursday, March 24 - Faith Ranoli interviews Yvonne on @positiveradio Heart and Home Radio Show http://healthylife.net/RadioShow/archiveHH.htm

Friday, March 25 - Vonnie Faroqui @inkslngrswhmz has an article on Ink Slinger's Whimsey blog http://inkslingerswhimsey.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 28 - Dr. Caron Goode @parent_coach shares a book excerpt on Raising Intuitive Children blog http://raisingintuitivechildren.com/blog/.

Too Much Empathy Can Hurt

2011-02-22T06:44:00.000-06:00

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Five Simple Steps for Developing Intuition

2011-02-16T10:14:00.006-06:00

I believe everyone is intuitive regardless of background. I’m not saying that everyone has the makings of being a psychic medium, but we are all born with a varying degree of intuitiveness. I’m sure you can think of a time when you have experienced an inner knowing, voice, vision, or feeling that instructed you not to go in a certain direction, or to make a particular decision, or perhaps you knew when someone was lying to you.
While we are born with intuition, we can choose to either shut it out and ignore it or listen to this guidance and allow it to become clearer. By choosing to develop your intuition, you can gain insight into daily situations and make more informed decisions throughout your life.

Some ways to tap into your intuition include the following:

Grounding. Electricity always needs to be grounded in order not to overload. We have an electric field around us that houses our personal energy. It can be grounded to the Earth through walks in nature, working in the garden, or visualizing a cord of light extending from root chakra (an energy vortex near the tail bone) or your feet into the Earth.
Meditation. To find your intuitive self, you have to be alone in order to get to know who you are, but many times we are too busy to tune into the inner voice of guidance. Meditation or silence allows us to hear our intuition. A lot of people think meditation is a state of not having any thoughts but the idea is to let the thoughts come and go without being attached to them. You will know when you have tapped into higher wisdom. The goal in meditation is to let go and just be.

Conscious breathing is very balancing, calming, and beneficial. It refreshes every cell in our body as we take in oxygen. Five minutes of deep breathing while counting your inhalations and exhalations can help restore a sense of calmness and regulate the heartbeat. Controlling and counting the breaths develops the concentration and focus needed to manage mental noise. Do this while sitting in a comfortable position with your spine straight.
Writing or journaling allows us to clear our minds of distracting thoughts and get down to what is really bothering us. This is when we can begin to see the solutions that come from within. Before beginning your writing session, light a candle and ask for guidance. Then, write whatever comes into your head. You may be surprised at what you read later.

Yoga is one of the best modalities because it incorporates grounding, centering, breathing, and exercise while connecting with the Divine. Even if only for a few minutes, this will help open the chakras and refresh your mind and body.

If you want to learn how to manage your intuitive gift and clear your energy field, begin to nurture your body, mind, and spirit. Your time and attention to the spiritual aspect of who you are will bring forth the knowledge of your inner self.

PURCHASE paperback book, Whose Stuff Is This? Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings,and Energy of Those Around You at http://tinyurl.com/EmpathAmazon. The e-book version is now available for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, and other digital reading devices.

Intuitive Counselor Discusses Spiritual Gifts in Children

2011-02-13T08:05:00.000-06:00

The psychic aspect of the mind is a normal, natural function and resource that can be developed and employed to enhance one's daily living. My guest today tells how intuition can be developed over time and with practice until it flows effortlessly.

Donna Seebo lives in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, in Washington State. Her quiet South Sound retreat is a welcome and refreshing contrast to her busy professional schedule. As an author, publisher, lecturer, and renown mental practitioner and counselor, Donna travels extensively each year. Her speaking engagements, radio/television appearances and counseling to businesses and private individuals takes her all over the United States. Donna's extraordinary mind skills have placed her into a lifestyle that reflects the wonderful opportunities that await anyone who is willing to believe in a positive self image.

In part one of our interview, she answers the following questions:

What is intuition and why is it so important?
How are psychic abilities like the spiritual gifts mentioned in the Bible?
Why do some people not trust this form of guidance?
How did you develop your intuition?

Click the arrow in the player below to hear part one:

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In part two, Donna shares her children's book, God's Kiss, and her CD program, Mind Magic, designed to teach individuals to develop their own mind powers to enhance their daily lives and personal relationships. These CDs may be ordered by calling 800-872-8852. Donna likes to "Light Up Your Life with a Little Bit of Insight" on The Donna Seebo Show, which is heard live on www.BBSRadio.com, Station 1, from 3-4 pm, Monday through Friday, Pacific Time. Listeners are welcome to call the toll free number (888) 815-9756 to get an intuitive reading on air.

Click the arrow in the player below to hear part two:

To connect with Donna or learn more about her counseling services, see http://delphiinternational.com.

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Soul Groups and Heaven

2011-02-11T06:00:00.003-06:00

Is heaven a literal place or a metaphorical term that represents an idea of utopia? Maybe neither; maybe both. My nine-year-old grandson, Sidney, recently gave me a profound description of what heaven is like.

According to Sidney heaven has many different places in which souls may choose to live upon leaving their human body. There is a place for those who follow Jesus and a place for those who pray to Mother Mary, and yet other places for those who adhere to different belief systems. The main thing is each soul is able to find comfort and explore new opportunities by visiting any part of heaven it wants.

This theory about heaven seems to confirm that whatever belief system or mindset we have in place when we leave the body is carried over into the afterlife. I spoke about this in my book, More Than Meets the Eye ~ True Stories about Death, Dying, and Afterlife. It also gives credence to my thoughts that heaven (and/or hell) is whatever we create in our minds. Just like our experience on earth, our experience in the afterlife can be anything we want it to be.

Sidney’s insight is also in line with a verse in the Bible (John 14:1-3) where Jesus said, "In my father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for thee. And where I am, there you may be also.” John 17:24 records Jesus as saying, "Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am."

Whom you have given me? Is it possible that some soul groups belong to Jesus and others “belong” to different ascended masters? Maybe we are students assigned to classrooms and these masters are our teachers this semester of life. Definitely food for thought.

We have the ability to make choices while in the body. From what I’ve read about people who have died and come back (near-death experience), free will and consciousness continue after a soul leaves the body. It’s more than a theory that disembodied souls are able to visit humans. I share that experience with many others who report seeing, hearing, sensing, and interacting with ghosts.

Whether heaven is a literal place or not, it is still comforting to know that we can be with the ones we love in the afterlife.

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Intuition Brings Situational Awareness

2011-02-08T06:00:00.002-06:00

Have you ever thought about how important a role your children’s intuition plays in keeping them safe? Intuition is a clear flow of information aligned with our highest path and purpose. Because intuition brings situational awareness, children who listen to and follow the divine guidance have a lesser chance of falling victim to predatory acts. Why? Because they know when something doesn’t feel right about a place or situation, or when someone is not safe to be around.

We are energy-sensitive beings and I believe intuition is an instinct given to us for protection. All animals, including humans, have the ability to sense danger. Our ancestors used their intuition to know where to find food, when to hide or flee, and to predict a change in weather. All these sensory abilities were crucial to their survival. Unfortunately, many people today do not trust their intuition. Animals also use their intuition to determine whether or not someone is to be trusted. I’ve seen dogs display aggression toward a particular animal or human and then demonstrate friendly behavior to a complete stranger.

Babies are born with a basic intuition that will develop if encouraged rather than squelched. You may have noticed that a young infant may reach his arms out to a family member he has never met and then cry if another family member tries to pick him up. Watch for these cues. Many times adults teach children to devalue this protective gift by telling them that what they sense, see, or feel is not to be trusted. Forcing a child to go with someone he seems hesitant about causes him to mistrust the intuitive sense that could very well save his life later on.

The best way to teach your child to trust his intuition is by setting an example. There may have been times when you have been in a public setting and sensed something creepy about a person in line next to you. Perhaps the man was eyeing you or your child, or just standing too close for comfort. Did you take action in this situation? Did you mention it to your child? If not, a lesson could have been missed. You don’t want to frighten your child, but when you get to your car you could say something like, “Did you notice how that man was looking at us in the store? That made me feel uncomfortable and I would not want to talk to him. I feel safe when I pay attention to my feelings.”

We can instill self-confidence in our children and teach them how to be aware of their surroundings, avoid dangerous places, and not put themselves into situations where they may be harmed. That includes the Internet where pedophiles can easily access innocent children. Most child crimes are committed when children are allowed unsupervised access to the Internet. Be aware that many interactive video games are connected to the Internet. Teach your children what to watch for and remind them to never give their name, address, email address, phone number, or other identifying information on to anyone online unless they first ask you for permission. Make sure they are not visiting chat rooms or exchanging emails with someone they or you don’t personally know and trust.

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” You can learn to trust your intuition and use common sense to protect yourself and your children. This inner guidance that tells them who or what is and is not safe is accessible and with them all their lives even when you cannot be. Teach them to honor this ability and stay safe.

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Teaching Children to Read

2011-02-06T16:40:00.001-06:00

A child learns to love reading by learning to enjoy books when he is very young. Most babies like to spend time sitting in an adult's lap even if their attention span is too short to finish reading an entire book. As you can see in the picture of my grandsons (19 months and 15 months), they enjoy reading the pictures without an adult!

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A Second Chance to Go into the Light

2011-02-03T06:00:00.001-06:00

by Caron Goode

We all tend to by fascinated by what the afterlife holds. Do they cross over into the light? Do souls go to a place called heaven or hell? Do they stay earthbound?

No one knows for sure what happens to people after they die, but some of the best answers to these questions comes from mediums who interact with ghosts. I have had some direct experiences that have given me first-hand information, and I have tapped into the other side many times in my intuitive work with clients over the years. Some are children, who give information that sheds light on this topic.

When we first leave the body, we retain the persona of that lifetime but eventually we cross over and get into our higher soul awareness that incorporates all the persona's we've had from all lifetimes.

From what I’ve read in When Ghosts Speak by Mary Ann Winkowski, the tunnel of light is opened at the moment of death and this window of opportunity remains open for a short while in which a soul can make a choice to go into the light or stay in the earth plane. Some people cross over almost immediately upon transitioning, probably because they were more spirituality evolved and had all their loose ends tied up. Others take too much time deciding and miss their chance and thus become earth bound.

Mary Ann is the consultant for the creators of the CBS show, The Ghost Whisperer, in which Jennifer Love Hewitt stars. Mary Ann has seen and communicated with earthbound souls since she was four years old and is known for being able to create the light and give earthbound souls a second chance to cross over. In her book, she gives several reason why souls do not cross over immediately:

• They are attached to things such as jewelry, cars, houses, furniture, or places where they lived, found comfort, or died

• They fear judgment or punishment on the other side

• They are seeking revenge or pursuing justice

• They want to protect the living

• They are busybodies who don’t want to leave

We have free will while in body on Earth, and we still have free will in the afterlife. So it’s really up to us to choose whether to cross over or stay earthbound. For souls who missed their first window of opportunity, Mary Ann says they can find a second chance at a funeral home, graveside service, or morgue where lies a body that has recently died. The passage of light that is there for that soul can be shared by other souls. This is good information to have if you are one who is visited by ghosts seeking help with crossing over.

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Reading for a Good Cause

2011-02-02T20:32:00.001-06:00

My grandson, Sidney, is the inspiration behind the book I wrote titled The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children. This past weekend, I got to visit with him in his home where I noticed a certificate attached to their refrigerator. Sid made the A Honor Roll this semester. He was the only student in his class and one out of seven in the entire fourth grade at his school to earn the status. Here is a photo of him holding the certificate.

He is also participating in a read-a-thon to raise money for his librarian, Sue Hasse, who is trying her best to survive brain and lung cancer. Some friends set up a Caring Bridge page for her (www.caringbridge.org/visit/suehasse2010). In support of everything that Mrs. Hasse has done for children and helping them learn to love reading, the community is holding a Beat Cancer Read-a-thon. They hope to raise money by reading 2,500 books between January 17 and February 17, 2011. Sponsors can donate money for each book read or by a flat donation. I’m giving $5 per book that Sidney reads. He says he can read five chapter books in one month—pretty ambitious for a 10-year-old boy, but he does come from a family of writers and readers. He is already on his fourth book!

If you would like to sponsor Sidney and help his librarian beat cancer, you can send Mary Kelley a check made out to CaringBridge. Email Mary for her mailing address: mjkelley@comcast.net. Even if you can’t sponsor financially, you can still help Sue by sending her positive energy for healing.

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Awards in Scouts

2011-02-01T14:30:00.002-06:00

Scouting is a positive experience for most kids. I was a girl scout and loved earning badges and going camping, hiking, and doing things with the group.
My mom was the den master for my brother's Cub Scout troop.Back then, girls couldn't participate in the public events such as the Pinewood Derby, but things have changed. They have a girl's division for competition!

McKevlin’s Cub Scout troop participated in the Pinewood Derby this weekend. With their dad’s help, he and sister made cars. Keilie's is pink and McKevlin's is the gray shark (see photo). McKevlin’s car won in every round in his division. I guess it helps to have a dad who is an auto mechanic!

Tonight, the troop had an awards ceremony and McKevlin brought home three trophies for his shark car. One for 1st place in his division (all the Tigers and Wolves), another for boys’ 3rd place, and another for the best design. He also earned a baseball belt loop and his bobcat badge (see photo).

The Tiger boys brought in the flags for the opening and closing of the pack meeting. In the video, you will see McKevlin carrying a flag (or trying to!) into the opening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_ZzB0RpC0g

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Celebrating the 100th Day of School

2011-01-28T12:42:00.000-06:00

Being the intuitive and curious child that he is, my grandson McKevlin heard about my post this week regarding his sister's awards day. So, today brings some fun news about him and the t-shirt he and his mom made to celebrate the 100th day of school for the 2010-2011 school year. The assignment was to glue 100 things on a t-shirt and wear it to school on the 100th day. Forty of those items were gold dots. McKevlin placed everything where he wanted it and his mom hot-glued it down.

He's so adorable. It makes me want to go to South Carolina to squeeze and kiss him. He probably wouldn't like the kisses (he's so grown up now), but if I brought some pages of animals that he could color, he might tolerate a few hugs.

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Mommy, Who is That Lady Standing Over There?

2011-01-27T06:00:00.000-06:00

Most psychics and mediums I interviewed for my book, Kids Who See Ghosts, agreed that ghosts are the spirits of persons who have passed out of a body, but have not yet moved on to higher planes of consciousness. Those who see apparitions say ghosts present themselves in human form. Nature spirits (also called fairies, gnomes, elves, and leprechauns) are energy beings that children see and interact with, especially in their preschool years. Those who see them describe them as tiny creatures with seemingly translucent wings or a blinking little light with wings.

When a child sees an apparition she may ask something like, "Mommy, who is that lady standing over there?" or “What is that man doing in our house?"

Of course when adults try to see who the child is talking about they see no one, yet the child insists someone is there. They may also report seeing ghosts in their dreams, hearing things go bump in the night, having monsters under their bed, ghosts in the closet, or someone peeking in their window. This can be scary for adults as well as children. As a counselor, I know the worries parents have over helping their children feel safe in their own environment.

Don’t ignore your child's fears. It is important to her emotional development for you as a parent to eliminate such things as ghosts, monsters, and weird noises. Criticizing her about monsters or saying "there is no such things as ghosts” does not help her overcome fear. She will simply stop telling you about her experience, which may cause her even more stress.

One thing that will help reduce your child's fear is to show how calm you are about such things. Children take their cues from adults—especially their parents—and if we are upset about ghosts and strange noises, then our children will learn to fear those things too. Try to offer a logical explanation that the child can understand.

Regardless of whether or not you believe in ghosts, you can take charge of the situation. Smudge your house with sage to banish entities, do battle with the monster under the bed, or have a good, firm talk with the invisible man who keeps tapping at your child’s bedroom window. It might also help to turn on a night light in the child’s room, let her take a flashlight to bed, or play some soft music at night so she can’t hear ghostly activity.

Since science cannot prove nor disprove the existence of spirit beings, parents can’t honestly tell a child that ghosts or other spirit beings don't exist. Perhaps we should listen to our children and simply accept what they say they see.

© 2010 by Dr. Caron Goode, the award winning author of Raising Intuitive Children and the international best-seller, Kids Who See Ghosts, guide them through their fear. Dr. Goode is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Parents (acpi.biz) that trains and certifies professional parenting coaches. Reach Dr. Goode for speaking or training at caron30 @ gmail.com.

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Awards Celebration

2011-01-26T14:23:00.001-06:00

One thing I love about being a grandmother is getting to brag about my grandkids' accomplishments. Keilie, McKevlin, and Lochlan live in South Carolina. I only get to see them a few times each year. I miss them, but thankfully I get to keep up with them via phone and email.

Keilie is in the third grade this year. Here is a photo taken at her awards ceremony this week. The homeroom teachers wrote comments about each student selected from their class. As the student's name was called, a teacher read the comment as the child received the award from the principal.

Keilie's teacher commented: "Keilie is a thoughtful, caring student and a friend to everyone in the class. Her caring, positive attitude is contagious in 3E (her class)."

Way to go, Keilie! Von-Von loves you!

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Children's Holistic E-books in Amazon's Kindle Store

2011-01-22T19:07:00.000-06:00

Here are the links to the individual stories contained in The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children book in the Kindle store:

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There's a Ghost in My Closet ~ Communicating with Angels

You Can Be! ~ Understanding Destiny and Making Choices

Sid's Fairy ~ Learning About Inner Guidance

A Stormy Adventure ~ Facing the Fear of Storms

Old Things New ~ Learning About Recycling

My Friend's Skin ~ Accepting and Appreciating Diversity

Making Room for Brother ~ Coping with Family Changes

Puppy Love ~ Dealing With the Death of a Pet

The Pirate’s Treasure ~ Finding Treasure Within

Always Be Honest ~ Learning to Tell the Truth

Ask Your Body ~ Understanding the Body’s Needs

A Powerful Potion ~ The Power of Imagination

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111 Applies to EVERYONE for 2011! Try It Yourself!

2011-01-22T18:43:00.001-06:00