Teaching Children how to Access Intuition

Teaching Children how to Access Intuition

by

Elly Molina

The first time I read Robert A. Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” there was a lot  I didn’t quite “grok”, yet something in me whispered , “This is not science fiction.  Heinlein’s main character, Valentine Michael Smith , is the son of  the first astronauts who explore planet Mars. Smith is an orphaned human raised in Martian culture who learns how to have full control over his mind and body. Through circumstances , the protagonist  finds himself on Earth.  He is attacked by US government agents and in self defense sends the agents into a fourth dimension.  During the course of the novel , he continues to demonstrate psychic abilities, superhuman intelligence and psychokinetic abilities.  While reading, I continuously thought this is do-able and wondered how can we learn to do this?

    Over the years I have developed  a strong belief that we humans once knew how to do this and lost the ability through some sort of “dark age” in our psychic  development.  I started to look at how we are taught to speak,  walk,  how and what to eat and came to the belief that our way distant ancestors actually knew how to and used their  intuitive, telepathic and telekinetic abilites
While studying art history in college, I was fascinated that Contrapposta ( a term in visual arts which descibes a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs, giving the figure a natural appearance)  had been used since the beginning of classical western sculpture was lost during the dark ages only to be rediscovered during the Italian Renaissance.
So naturally, when I first read “Masters of the Far East” I believed this was  Non-Fiction and  human beings once had the Christ like abilities to walk on water; instantly heal the wounded and access other’s thoughts the way we imagine we could and would in science fiction genres.

Only, could it be, that like Contrapposto, our intuitive abilities  are currently  in the Dark Ages and that our natural, innate, biological abilities to use this part of the brain, are being rediscoverd now during the time of our newly emerging consciousness?

For the past six  years I have been working with children between  
the ages of 3 to 14 to  safely explore, develop and train them in developing and enhancing  their  natural intuitive and psychic  abilities.
In 2007, I began my first  practical hands on training program with a group of 12 to 14 year old children. This first  program was designed to last three months with the students meeting once a week for two hours.  By the end of the first program,  the twenty students in the program were confident in their abilities to be highly intuitive and were also very effective creators of their own futures.

So  how can you train yourself and your child to access and develop his/her own intuitive abitlites?

A few simple steps will be outlined here that will enable you and your family to have some fun results while finding this experience richly rewarding.   To begin with,  it all starts with a conversation and an attitude or belief.

Step ONE
Create The Attitude of Belief and Expectancy that you and you child can do this naturally and easily.

Firstly ,it helps to know that  children are naturally in the alpha
or theta brain wave  state or even a heavily mixed combination of both. Research has shown that human beings are more receptive to information delivered on a subconscious level in alpha and theta and with children having the natural propensity to spend most of their time in these two states it becomes extremely easy, fun and effortless to teach youngsters to perform, what appear to be , difficult tasks for the adult, who spends most of his/her time in the beta brainwave state.

Step Two : Getting into Action

Have you child sit criss-cross applesauce with their fingers in the Zoot position  . Criss-cross applesauce is an endearing name for the traditional  Easy Yoga Pose or Sukhasana Pose.  “Zoot” ( pronounced zewt)  with the tips of the thumb, index and middle finger , touching each other and then hands resting genty on their knees . Then have your child take a pair of blinders and  place it over their eyes. Now, it is your opportunity to safely guide them through a meditation practice. I like to teach breathing and how to run energy through your body.
At this point, you can have meditative music in the background. Make sure that your music is in alignment with the alpha or theta brain frequency.
Now it’s time to begin the breathing technique. Have the children breath in deeply and exhale.  During the exhilation  I like to have them focus on being grateful ( make sure they have an age appropriate definition for the word that is not attached to any judgements or morality).  During the inhalation  I have them focus on accepting the breath of life and  all the wonderful things about themselves and others. I have them accept all the love they can hold on the inhalation.
After a few deep breaths it is time to run the energy through their bodies. This is a guided exercise.  Tell the child to see the white light energy run up his/her left leg, traveling up through the body to the arms, the fingers, and back up to the shoulders, around and in the head, traveling down on the right side through the shoulders, the arms, the fingers and back again down the hips, legs and feet.
You can have them do the energy run at least three times. The focus here is on breathing, being in alpha or theta, and running energy throughout their body.

Step three is the Process:

One exercise I enjoy is having the children know they are going on a journey in their minds.
A small group that I worked with over a period of a few months practiced remote viewing skills, telepathy and telekinesis. These children attended an alternative private school and included these practices in their morning Mindfulness Program, in which the children learned Yoga breathing and how to become present and identify and work with the voice in their head.

It is best to begin with a simple exercise that will guarantee success. Have your child sit yoga style, with his/her fingers in the zoot position with blinders covering their eyes. Do the breathing exercise described above and have your child focus on his / her breathing and nothing else.  Now, releasing all expectations of a desired out come , tell you child that you are thinking of a color. Make it simple. Have the child know that you will be thinking of one of three colors; red, black or blue.  Tell your child to see the color that you are thinking of in his/ her “mind’s eye”.   Have them take off their blinders and mark the color they saw on a sheet of paper.
Two things are crucial here.  You, the sender, must also be focusing solely on the color that you are sending and you must be able to clearly see this color in YOUR mind’s eye. Your mind must be clear of all distracting thoughts and your focus is only on the color you are “sending”. Your child , the receiver , needs to know that a color will “pop” into his/her mind immediately.  It is most  always  the first color that will appear.  Our  left brain immediately has something to say about  invalidating our  first choice. Go with your first choice.  Your child will also learn to strengthen and trust his/her intuition through this process.

Developing the Process

It is advisable to use simple items for the viewer to send. Colors are best  for the younger children  whom I will call “ receivers”.  Have children  remove  their  blinders long enough to choose  a color marker  they “saw” in their mind’s eye and mark the paper immediately.
It has been my personal experience to save sharing the results until the activity is completed.  It becomes very easy for a young child to want to “get it right”. This is another area of concern that  becomes important, namely interference from  the identity.

For the most part, if the sender  keeps the activity simple and direct with avoidance of rewarding correct  answers, intuition and psychic abilities will develop at an accelerated pace.
Also worth looking into and developing are meditation practices for guided and creative visualization . There are numerous available.  For best  results  a short  practice daily or a minimum of 4 to 5 times a week is optimal.
As your child develops his/her ability you can add shapes, such as squares, circles, triangles, etc.  ( keeping it as simple as possible  for the first few months) numbers, and a deck of playing cards, for the older child.  After a few months of dedicated practice, you can move on to  sending and receiving scenes and objects.
The idea is to keep these activities varied, fun  and simple. As your child develops his/her intuition, there is a rich reward and  an access to realms of possibility still unavailable to most of us.

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