{"id":3144,"date":"2010-02-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:52:36","slug":"indigo-children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2010\/02\/01\/indigo-children-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Merry Meet &amp; Blessed  Imbolc to everyone.\u00a0 I hope that everyone has been doing well in  the past month.\u00a0 At this time, I will address the questions and  concerns from last\u2019s month\u2019s column.<\/span><\/ul>\n<ul><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Alyssa writes:<\/span><\/em><\/ul>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">I feel rather odd. I know  much about Wicca, and about my path. But it seems I know nearly nothing  about Indigo children, and Crystal children. I am empathic myself, and  that too, I have nearly no control over. I seem to hold everyone\u2019s  negative energy while they go about their lives happily. Perhaps you  could explain this a bit more to me?<\/span><\/ul>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Alyssa, I felt that way  as well for the majority of my life.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know until I became  an adult and learned what empathy truly was that I realized what was  happening and why I would feel like I had been through a war by simply  being around certain people.\u00a0 Empathy truly is a gift.\u00a0 However,  it can become quite stifling until you learn how to control it.\u00a0  I have tried many different methods.\u00a0 The one that I have felt  works best for me is to absorb the energy enough to ascertain what I  can in order to help the person.\u00a0 Then I imagine myself as light,  reflecting sparks of light out to the person.\u00a0 I have taught my  children other methods also.\u00a0 For example, my son imagines himself  as wearing armor, like a knight.\u00a0 My oldest daughter puts mirrors  around herself.\u00a0 My youngest daughter imagines herself in a big  sparkly bubble. <\/span><\/ul>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Susan writes:<\/span><\/ul>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Alyssa, this is a serious  issue for empathic people. When you feel yourself absorbing someone\u2019s  energy, no matter what kind, imagine yourself as being porous so that  you can feel it to get an understanding, but do not keep it. Keeping  negative energy is not healthy for your physical or emotional state  of being. Many empathic people not only get sick, but also often put  on weight to make room for all that \u201cstuff.\u201d We also do not want  to drain someone of their positive energy as that is not fair to them.  Creator has an endless supply of energy upon which you can draw. For  ways to clear any energy you feel is not being helpful to you, you can  take a look at the FAQ page of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.placeoflight.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.placeoflight.net<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">. <\/span><\/ul>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Rachel, thank you for your  kind words.<\/span><\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Susan, you\u2019re welcome  and thank you for your valued input.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Meet &amp; Blessed Imbolc to everyone.\u00a0 I hope that everyone has been doing well in the past month.\u00a0 At this time, I will address the questions and concerns from last\u2019s month\u2019s column. Alyssa writes: I feel rather odd. I know much about Wicca, and about my path. But it seems I know nearly nothing about Indigo children, and Crystal children. I am empathic myself, and that too, I have nearly no control over. I seem to hold everyone\u2019s negative energy while they go about their lives happily. Perhaps you could explain this a bit more to me? Alyssa, I felt that way as well for the majority of my life.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know until I became an adult and learned what empathy truly was that I realized what was happening and why I would feel like I had been through a war by simply being around certain people.\u00a0 Empathy truly is a gift.\u00a0 However, it can become quite stifling until you learn how to control it.\u00a0 I have tried many different methods.\u00a0 The one that I have felt works best for me is to absorb the energy enough to ascertain what I can in order to help the person.\u00a0 Then I imagine myself as light, reflecting sparks of light out to the person.\u00a0 I have taught my children other methods also.\u00a0 For example, my son imagines himself as wearing armor, like a knight.\u00a0 My oldest daughter puts mirrors around herself.\u00a0 My youngest daughter imagines herself in a big sparkly bubble. Susan writes: Alyssa, this is a serious issue for empathic people. When you feel yourself absorbing someone\u2019s energy, no matter what kind, imagine yourself as being porous so that you can feel it to get an understanding, but do not keep it. Keeping negative energy is not healthy for your physical or emotional state of being. Many empathic people not only get sick, but also often put on weight to make room for all that \u201cstuff.\u201d We also do not want to drain someone of their positive energy as that is not fair to them. Creator has an endless supply of energy upon which you can draw. For ways to clear any energy you feel is not being helpful to you, you can take a look at the FAQ page of http:\/\/www.placeoflight.net. Rachel, thank you for your kind words. Susan, you\u2019re welcome and thank you for your valued input.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}