How to Recognize an Indigo Child?
Definition, Characteristics of Intuitive, Creative Children
Aug 16, 2009
"Indigo child" is a new age term used to refer to a child whose third-eye chakra is strong. The color of the ajna or third-eye chakra is indigo.The third-eye chakra governs intuition, a trait that is strong in indigo children. Energy-sensitive people can identify an indigo child by picking up on a deep blue energy in the child's auric field.
Characteristics of Indigo Children
The following are some characteristics of indigo children:
- Indigo children are creative, brilliant and unconventional;
- Indigos are non-conformists. They resist authority;
- Some indigos are physically sensitive. Others are emotionally sensitive;
- Some indigos are deeply spiritual and psychic;
- Indigo children may be highly empathic;
- Some indigos show signs of several food allergies, and;
- As there are a lot of things going on the indigo child's head, the child may find it difficult to focus and may seem to have a short attention span.
Could You Be an Indigo Adult?
While the indigo children are said to have been born in the 1990s and later, there have been several early indigos from the 1950s, with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a big increase in their number. Indigo adults are characterized by their creativity and a consistent quest for deep spiritual knowledge.
While indigo adults are intelligent, in many cases their intelligence didn't translate to good grades in school. They have a burning desire to change the world. Some adult indigos have had out-of-body experiences and premonition of events. Adult indigos have learned to survive in a more confined world than today and many of the extreme indigo traits are tempered in the indigo adults.
ADD, ADHD Among Indigos? Challenges, Strategies and Resources to Raise Indigo Children
A cookie cutter approach to parenting will not work with indigo children as each indigo child is unique and highly individualistic. Some indigo children maybe diagnosed as having attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD) or autism or Asperger's syndrome.
Meditation, visualization, hypnosis, magnet therapy, nutritional adjustments by avoiding processed foods and including more fruits and vegetables, are some alternative methods to deal with conditions associated with learning disabilities.
With indigo children, unconventional parenting methods work better than traditional ones. Honoring the child's indigo nature, being honest and respectful to his gifts are effective ways to strengthen the parent-child bond. For example, the parent can win the child's trust by respecting his psychic skills instead of fearing or denying them.
Energy shielding techniques and grounding skills are useful in children who are highly sensitive in an emotional sense. When ready, meditation and relaxation techniques help enhance the indigo's gifts of intuition and creativity.
Indigo kids are teachers at the very core of their being. Raising an indigo child may be a challenge to parents who do not understand their nature, but their sharp intellect, deep emotional sensitivity, enhanced spirituality, wild creativity, non-conformity makes them ideal candidates to lead the world into a new age of higher consciousness.
Related Articles on New Age Parenting
Readers may enjoy reading Parenting the Highly Sensitive Child and How to Deal with Children's Past Life Memories along with Conscious and Passionate Parenting Using LOA.
Source:
- The Indigo Children - The New Children Have Arrived, by Lee Carroll, Jan M. Tober [Hay House, 1999].
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