Indigo Kids by Maureen Dawn Healy

The following is excerpted from The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids available from New Page Books.

“Indigos are all already aware they are different.” —Nancy Tappe

Indigos are “highly sensitive with a warrior personality,” explained Doreen Virtue, author of The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children, in the documentary The Indigo Evolution. I wholeheartedly agree. Indigo kids are unique in the fact that they hold two opposing qualities simultaneously: high sensitivity and fierceness. So they are extremely sensitive like the “highly sensitive children,” defined by Elaine Aron in her book, The Highly Sensitive Child, but what differentiates them is their personality. I prefer to use the concept of “the indigo personality” to capture their shared characteristics, such as:  

 

• Are highly creative.

• Are extremely energetic.

• Are gifted in certain areas (for example, mathematical genius, poor reading skills).

• Have a need for fairness.

• Prize honesty (almost above all else).

• Feel equal to authority.

• Hate rules.

• Refuse to do certain things.

• Want special treatment.

• Are strong-willed.

• Waver between grandiosity and low self-esteem.

• May be prone to depression.

• Have high sensitivity (sounds, smells, touch, sights).

• Have sharpened intuition.

• Don’t respond to authoritative parenting.

• Have built-in BS detector (immediately know dishonesty).

• Tend to leave things incomplete.

• Cannot be rushed.

• May have fetish (for example, only wants to wear princess dresses).

• Like playing alone (unless with other indigos).

• Get “hooked” on things and can’t let go.

• Are independent at times, clingy at other times.

• Seek meaningful friendships.  

 

Understanding the core characteristics of the indigo personality is very empowering. You no longer feel alone. Having worked with thousands of indigos, I can say that these attributes animate themselves differently in children but the indigo short summary is this:  

 

• High sensitivity.

• Giftedness (in one area).

• Incredible creativity.

• Strong energy of defiance.

• Inner motivation.

• Intuitive intelligence (very high!).  

 

When I was told early on that I beat to my own drummer I took it in stride. Now, I realize that I was merely beating to an indigo drum—which is unique, unusual to the mainstream, and deeply powerful as a force for change. Indigos see, feel, and experience life differently than their more mainstream counterparts. They tend to have an unusually high level of creativity, sensitivity, giftedness, and angry energy to channel.  

 

This angry or warrior energy that defines many indigos isn’t a bad thing. It is the energy that breaks down broken systems (think: public school systems) and creates better ways of doing things. Of course, the challenge is to raise indigo kids to use their incredibly sensitive, highly responsive, and fierce energy as force for good.  

 

Parenting indigos, especially if you aren’t “indigo-like,” can be a real challenge. Over the years, I have had countless clients come to me because one parent was indigo-ish and the other thought his or her child was just given to them by Martians. They just didn’t get it. Usually it started out like: “What is going on with my child? She’s as sweet as pie one moment, and then next it’s a full-blown tantrum.”  

 

So I usually had parents detail the itty-bitty things of their parent-child interaction, and I served as the bridge to translate from indigo to adult. Then, they’d have an “a-ha” and say, “Oh my—that’s what was going on.” As soon as you know the energetic triggers of indigos you can stop bumping into them unknowingly and experiencing such upset all around.  

 

Jamal’s Journey  

 

One of my first Los Angeles child clients was a 5-year-old named Jamal. His mom, Lisa, contacted me because she discovered Jamal was actually highly sensitive. One instance stood out for her.

 

Jamal was attending a private kindergarten in Los Angeles, and he was the only African American in his grade. One school project was to bring in a baby photo and post it on the wall, where all the kids got to guess “who’s who.” Jamal knew this wasn’t going to work out for him. Jamal is very observant and aware of life, including his ethnicity, and that this was an unfair game. He told his teachers. Mrs. Smith, his main teacher, said she would work on making it fair. So she printed out famous baby photos of African Americans and decided to add them to the game. On the day of this game, all Jamal’s peers picked him out first and he got really upset. Jamal began crying and left the classroom, refusing to return. He said, “Mom, tell everyone it’s not fair and that’s why I am so upset.”  

 

Jamal was clear from the beginning he disliked this game, felt unheard, and had a sense that it wasn’t going to work for him. His teacher, from her “older perspective,” couldn’t really understand how to create an effective solution. Ultimately, Jamal got triggered by the unfairness of this situation and couldn’t contain his emotions. Indigos as a whole cannot ignore their emotions but must learn effective outlets for them. Jamal fits the indigo profile to a “T,” with his high sensitivity, strong emotions, and warrior energy standing up for what he saw as an injustice. He refused to go back into that classroom and Lisa picked him up.

Maureen Dawn Healy is a popular author, speaker and practicing expert working with parents and children globally. Her expertise is helping highly sensitive children thrive. You may have seen her work at Psychology Today, PBS, AOL and Disney. She’s also written two books: Growing Happy Kids and The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids. More info: www.growinghappykids.com or www.twitter.com/mdhealy

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New Book: Walk-ins Among Us ~ Open Your Personal Portal to Cosmic Awareness by Yvonne Perry

A new book is being birthed by Yvonne Perry! Walk-ins Among Us ~ Open Your Personal Portal to Cosmic Awareness will be launched with a gathering of walk-ins, starseeds, healers, and indigos May 17-18 in Nashville, TN.

As our planetary system travels around the Milky Way Galaxy, the Earth passes through galactic portals that affect all of her inhabitants. Within that evolutionary continuum, some humans experience a sudden transformation that awakens spiritual gifts and psychic abilities. In our current time of ascension, people are experiencing visitations, cohabitations, and even trading places with more evolved aspects of their soul in various dimensions. This embodiment of higher consciousness brings pathfinders, way-showers, lightworkers, and healers to our planet to help anchor the new paradigm of oneness and unity associated with the Divine Mother.

Those who have experienced a life-transforming event will find help and comfort in this eye-opening book, destined to become a classic in walk-in literature. Walk-ins Among Us is written by a walk-in to help others understand the soul exchange process and how to integrate higher vibrations that clear energy imprints not aligned with love, light, and joy. Through cosmic encoded activations, readers may receive downloads and learn how to stay centered and actively involved in their own ascension process as they discover their mission, purpose, and role on Earth.

 

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The Author’s Personal Shift While Writing Ascension Book

The process of writing my new book, Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience, caused me to go through quite a shift physically, mentally, and emotionally. I know for certain that the book carries the energy of transformation and transmutation!

It was January 2011 when I first knew I was going to be writing this book, but at the time I was writing Whose Stuff is This?, so I put it on the back burner in order to get that book out there. When I had time to start working on it, I came back to the manuscript that I had started in the early 2000s. Once I set my intention to diligently work on this book, I had a visitation from an angelic being in a higher realm; it was actually a counterpart of my soul. This energy or being rested upon me and for 12 days and I was in intense bliss. I had never felt joy like that before. I even smelled a heavenly fragrance that only I could smell. It was 24/7, that beautiful fragrance! Ahhh! Then two weeks later, just as quickly as it came, it left. I was disappointed to say the least! Where’s my bliss? What happened to the fragrance? Hello?

During that heavenly period, I received a download from a nomad, oversoul, or higher dimensional soul that endowed me with the power, the “anointing of the Holy Spirit” as we called it in my Pentecostal days, to write this book.

Like most “bump ups” in energy, that visitation came with rapid spiritual growth and some huge personal changes. There I was healthy and going about my business thinking the world just couldn’t be better and then in a matter of three months I was just so weak I could hardly walk to the mailbox and back. It felt as though my physical body was falling apart. I went to my doctor thinking all the symptoms I was having (too many to mention) must be menopause—my hormones must be off or something. She could offer no explanation and gave absolutely no treatment! As I continued to spiral downward, I felt angry at my doctor, but looking back, I realize that her complacency about my condition caused me to seek treatment in a more natural and holistic manner than the synthetic drugs she might have prescribed. The side effects are worse than the symptoms on most prescription drugs these days! Half the commercial is taken up by telling us what can go wrong if you take the product being promoted!

I now realize that I was being cleaned up from the inside out. Everything that wasn’t working for my body was coming up to be flushed out all at once. I was determined to get help, so I found a medical doctor (naturopath) who uses natural products and phyto or plant-based products in order to address at least five things going berserk within my body. He monitored my progress on some very powerful supplements that aided the balancing and rebuilding of my physical body. I am well again now.

My toxic diet had to change because it was destroying my body, negatively affecting my emotions, and interfering with my ability to receive clear spiritual guidance. I could not return to the way I was eating before; and thankfully, the grace to make this permanent shift has been there every step of the way. I would not have been able to consistently maintain a plant-based, sugar-free, gluten-free eating plan prior to this shift.

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The e-book version is now available for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, and other digital reading devices.
Why not have someone read the book to you? Check out the audio book MP3 file version.

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