Guidance For The Art Of Healing

Children And Energy Part I

by Terri Hedrick

What comes to mind when you think of the “energy of children”?  Do you visualize kids doing flying leaps off the back of the sofa? Do you suddenly feel tired wishing that you had the endless  physical energy of your kids?  I do too.  But for this article I am not talking about physical energy.  I am talking about our abilities to perceive the energy of our children; the life force energy or Qi as the ancient Chinese called it.

We mothers do it all the time.  It’s that “motherly instinct” that you know you have and can feel deep within you.  It’s the voice you hear inside yourself when you just know something but don’t really know why you know it.  Sometimes we ignore that voice and later wish we hadn’t. Many times we can’t even hear a voice over the bustle and din of life, but it is there and if you can tap into that motherly intuition and the energy of your child, you can learn to fine-tune the ways in which you respond to your children, and in so doing , alter your relationship in marvelous ways .

I have been perceiving energies for years, since long before becoming a mom.  At first it scared me and made me quite uncomfortable.  I dismissed this gift and labeled myself “too sensitive.” I thought this was a detriment and tried many things to overcome this character flaw.
Why could I perceive the energies of people around me, when others (even others who were emotionally closer to those perceived) clearly couldn’t “see” what I saw?  Why didn’t they  “know” what I knew?

Picking up the energies of others made me feel like very much an outsider and it made it difficult to join in groups, especially when I went off to college and was forced to make new friends.  I didn’t know then that I could pick and choose who I wanted to include in my life, that I could actually weed out those people whose energies dragged me down and did not lift me up.  It took me until I was 28 years old to realize that I had the right and responsibility to do this for my Self.  By that time I had learned how to deal with this ability and even used it as a means of helping others make major life decisions.

Throughout these years while I was in college and graduate school, I taught preschool and elementary school and always felt most comfortable when I was with “my” kids.  The energy of children is pure.  Unadulterated.  Clear.  Honest.  I rarely felt energetically drained even after spending long days with more kids than I could count.  Instead their energy lifted me.

I discovered that I could tune into the energies of children much more readily than with adults, and it was then that I started to tune in to each and every one of my students and then line up my energies with  what they needed, not only educationally, but also what they needed on a deep soul level.  Then I began fine tuning my response to each child, and lining up my energy with theirs, and  the growth I saw in these kids on all levels was astounding.

Word spread of my “gift” and suddenly kids were being transferred from other schools and districts just so that they could be placed in my classroom under my guidance.  Mostly they were the “exceptional” students; read: kids nobody else wanted or could not handle.  I try to apply this as I parent my own five year old and three year old.

I marvel at how willing children are to share their energies with me and at how uncluttered their energy fields are.  I wonder how many other intuitives marvel at this as well.  I have quite a large client base of mothers who come to me for help discerning the cause of their child’s health issues, and almost always I find that the energy of the parents is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the energies of the child as it relates to the issue at hand.  Children are rarely affected  by such things in the same way adults are.  I think that children are still so connected to Source energy that they simply don’t recognize the discomfort that their parents perceive.

What is even more fascinating is that after a session with me, many times the mothers will, for the first time, take a deep breath and trust and know that all is well.  When this happens, they inevitably stop pushing against whatever it is they contacted me about, and just like magic, their child’s issue disappears.  A miracle?  Perhaps.  Or perhaps it is simply the lining up of energies.  Of lining up and seeing all things whole and well just as Source does.  Of course I also make some tangible suggestions; things to help support the healing process, but knowing that all is well can indeed be a major catalyst for healing.

This is all about lining up your energy with your child’s and fine-tuning your response to support them.  When you can do that, you will find that the children in your lives will recognize and appreciate it.  Just like those children who found their way to me in the classroom, your children will find their way back to you again and again and again.  And that’s all we really want as mothers anyway isn’t it?, that our children are drawn to return to us again and again and again.

If I can help you or your child regarding a certain issue you are having, please contact me by emailing Terri@guidancefortheartofhealing.com.