What is an Indigo Child?
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Though the consensus is that these children and adults have always been here on the Earth in some fashion, placing definitions or a conceptual framework around “Indigo Children” is happening more now. First characterized by psychics, mediums, and new age philosophies – children with heightened sensitivities, gifts, extraordinary talent, intellect, and spiritual grounding would appear to have “an indigo aura.” But now, what New Age theory began is being looked at closely by scientists, psychologists, health professionals, parents, clergy, and others. There is a perception that children are evolving, and that a certain percentage of children really have tipped the scales like never before seen, in the areas of intelligence, IQ, aptitude, adaptability, learning, etc.
And with new paradigms, come new problems. Many of these kids just don’t fit into our world and the structures built for them, and they often are diagnosed and labeled ADD, ADHD, Aspergers, Autistic, etc. Many children with these diagnoses and labels also show these same heightened abilities, but have varying degrees of difficulty adapting to the world around them.
Some believe that Indigo Children are here to help us to evolve as a human race, and that they are worthy of our attention. The world has changed, and we face problems and situations which we’ve never had to face. Are these “Indigos” part of a group that can lead us into a new, better, and changed world?
In future blog posts, I’ll talk again about Indigo Children and Indigo Adults, but I also wanted you to see some videos that can also show you some of the evolution that’s happening. Take a look at these great kids and what they can do, and then ask yourself, “Could kids be evolving or learning at an accelerated rate?” and moreover, “If there is some truth to this evolution – what’s our responsibility to these kids? How can we change our thoughts and our world to help them flourish?”
“How could we change as people, if we fully supported their development?”
Enjoy all of the videos!
Summer’s End
Today while walking my dog through the park near where we live, I saw one lonely rose, still holding on to its life while all of her friends had withered. It reminded me of the cycle of life and how we are all just precious works of art, present only for a glimpse in time.
Here’s a wonderful song to illustrate, and hopefully warm all of your reflective and renewing hearts this Autumn.
Read MoreMetaphysical Paradigms and the Integral Age
After a very busy last two weeks, I have finally started on a new set of classes for The School of Coaching Mastery’s Free Coach Training Program. This one is about New Paradigms for coaches, and outlines the Metaphysical Paradigm.
This is probably a paradigm that I receive a lot of my knowledge and attitudes about “truth”, concepts of God and the divine, Spirituality, and Consciousness. Also, the mention that we are now, in the 21st century, living in what many now call the “Integral Age.” This is a time of integration, of both/and, of cross-pollenation of ideas, and where many of the problems we are facing in the world can’t be as easily answered by the paradigms of science, government, rational thought, or institutions.
In some of my work, I talk about the concept of “A River Between.” The idea that “when boulders of institutions no longer serve us, we need to find that ‘river between’ as a means of navigation. As a river winds around to easily flow to it’s source, it is also working to carve new paths – and to erode the landscape, or even ‘dissolve’ the very boulders in its path.”
My river wants to flow out of the “old age” of Empire, Institutions, Control,etc. – and find its path into the New Age of Integration, “new truths”, and new ways of being. With this, I often identify as an “Indigo Adult” – someone who feels they have always been about the new coming change, even throughout their childhood, but couldn’t always articulate it, maybe had certain gifts and creative ventures, but didn’t feel as supported as they could have been – and so often, emotions like anger, resentment, fear, and anxiety would come up as a result of living in a world that they feel just wasn’t designed for them. They have heightened sensitivities, and are often attuned to this “metaphysical paradigm”, and are very purpose driven people above all else in their life. This makes it very hard to be “practical” in the eyes of others who might not feel the same way.
Even in 4th grade, I remember being very articulate about Jimmy Carter when he was running for president.
“Jimmy Carter is a man who loves peace and loves the earth.”
School was never a challenge for me, but I learned how to play the game, get good grades, and use that as a kind of “currency” of approval from my parents and peers. My real passions were for the arts, leadership, and helping people.
For as long as I can remember, I felt that I wanted to “change the world.” From a conversation I had with someone a few weeks back, we agreed that “saving the world” just wasn’t an option anymore. “Changing” the world implies that old paradigms and ways of being will fall away to make way for the new. “Saving” seemed to us more about the old age of Empire, Institutions, control, fear, etc.
I’ll have to talk more soon about Indigo Adults and Indigo Children. But for now, I wanted to just brush the surface about what’s coming up for me as I keep progressing through this course!
Amazing insights, indeed!
This is probably mostly what the “New Paradigms for Coaches” is bringing up for me most of all. I’ve even spoken it out loud to someone that “Down the road when I get more coaching experience I’d like to start an ‘Indigo Adults Support Group’ and apply my skills.”
Read MoreWhat has fear really done for you lately?
A little peek into some of the youtube videos and blogs that I sometimes view with this post. I’ve been a follower of The Truther Girls for a little while now, and this video speaks volumes right now to what I’m going through as well right now, and the things I’m talking to folks about too.
Ask yourself – What has my fear really done for me lately? Enjoy this video!
Read MoreMaking Kombucha
I just made my first batch of Kombucha in Minneapolis! For some reason, it was much tougher in Duluth to make this really yummy and healthy drink (probably because even in summer, some days did not reach 70 degrees or more, and fermentation needs heat!).
Kombucha is probably my biggest guilty pleasure! I love making this healthy,fizzy, fermented tea at home. Kombucha is said to have come from China thousands of years ago. It has been historically a popular health tonic in Russia for centuries. Many people have claimed that Kombucha helped in their illnesses, cancer, the regrowing of hair, the un-graying of hair, and of course, just general all-around well-being.
For me, Kombucha eliminates heartburn and acid reflux that I sometimes experience at night, and I’ve noticed a lot of other benefits.
In 2007 I experienced a car accident and moderate whiplash. There are times when I now have episodes of Fibromyalgia-like symptoms in my body, and my skin and body become incredibly sensitive to pressure. Drinking Kombucha throughout the day (about 3 cups a day for me) is as effective, if not more, as the supplement 5-HTP, which my chiropractor recommends.
I also eat a mostly vegetarian diet (I’m a lacto-ovo-pesco-veg-guy), and Kombucha helps me to receive the B-complex vitamins (especially B12) that are often lacking in a vegetarian diet.
Kombucha starts with basic black or green tea, sugar, and the addition of a Kombucha “mushroom” or culture. By placing the culture in a glass jar of prepared tea with sugar, over about 7-10 days it literally eats up the caffeine and sugar – and converts it to healthy acids and B-vitamins. The tea begins to taste like fizzy apple cider.
It’s oh so yummy! I’m brewing about 2 gallons a week now!
Stay tuned, because next week I’ll show you how to make it, and in the future, if you live in the Minneapolis metro area, I might also be sharing my Kombucha cultures!
Read MoreMy Personal “Greatness”
I finished class 4 of the Coaching Groundwork section of the Free Coach Training Program by the School of Coaching Mastery last week. I have to say however, that the past week has been challenging for me. No, the class isn’t challenging, but rather, finding out that sometimes I revert to what Julia Stewart calls the “small self” – those times when I “cop out” or am not in my “Greatness” or “higher” self.
Perhaps it’s the day-to-day stress we all endure, or how popular culture, the media, or consumerism can somehow trick us into thinking that we “aren’t good enough” as we are. I’m not sure why it’s so easy for me to slip into the “small self” at times, but this week was a sure exercise in trying to spot those times for me.
In my other “hat” as a Reiki Master Teacher, I often talk to students about the concept of a “healing crisis” or a “healing situation” – a time when all of the new and great energies are rushing in, and all of a sudden a person becomes ill, has a spell of strong emotional release, or an unexpected sadness or “negative” emotion or feeling surfaces. I tell them that it is perfectly natural, and it’s part of the process. For some people, these things need to surface in order for them to be healed or transformed into the “new whole” that’s emerging.
I guess I’m not an exception.
All in all, I think that this development and transformation are just wonderful processes to go through, and really – I think I’m a bit stronger than I was just a month back when I was beginning this journey. Maybe that’s the point. Maybe it’s all part of the progression to becoming an effective coach. Maybe I have to learn to like “maybes” in my life and live with uncertainty.
Maybe that’s a greater lesson that builds my “greater” self.
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