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Experiencing Good Vibrations
November 1, 2009, 3:00 pm
Filed under: managing your gifts and abilities, parenting

Experiencing Good Vibrations

The world is beginning to comprehend the healing vibration of the Universe, which resonates within all people, places, and things.  Incorporating vibration techniques can be done in a myriad of ways; simply follow your intuition as to what might work for your family. 

Several of my clients whose children are considered by doctors to be on the “Autism Spectrum” report their kids as having a sensitivity and fondness for vibration in appliances, stones, and specific places on their property.  I have found it best to let children take the lead and support what they are naturally drawn to.  One child in particular collected rocks and felt comforted by t hem.  It wasn’t until the mother took a closer look did she realize each rock had bits of quartz embedded somewhere in them.  It was then easy to acknowledge her child naturally gravitated toward these healing stones.  I have seen similar traits in other children with regard to shells, leaves, shapes and colors.

My client, Don, not only uses his intuitive energy skills with his children, but also with his father, who has Alzheimer’s disease.  Slowly watching his dad deteriorate in awareness and communication abilities at a nursing facility has been painful for Don.  Constantly striving to remain connected, he brings in items from home, realizing the energy of certain favorite things syir a reaction from his father and even stimulate conversation about their past.  A beloved religious medallion seems to provide the most comfort and healing for them both.  Their shared energetic connection, called the Field of Intuitive Harmony, is there for all to explore, regardless of whether you are the parent…or the child.  Don demonstrates this beautifully by tapping into the vibrations and honoring the energetic connections with items from his and his father’s lives. 

Remember, everything has a vibration.   Your resonance with an object, person, or thing may offer you a unique opportunity to tap into Divine energy.  Here are some suggestions on how you can experience good vibrations:

  • Decorate yourself and your home with natural stones and crystals for their beauty and healing properties
  • Use a quartz crystal, tuning fork, or vibrating massager to activate your own or your family’s energy centers.
  • Play with rocks!  As a family, collect and track your sensitivity to certain stones.  Why do you like them?  How do they make you feel?  Head out on a field trip to a rock museum or a local quarry.
  • Go for a walk in the woods to tap into the Earth’s energies.  Dowse for water, minerals, or even caves.  Make it a fun outing for the whole family.
  • When you feel resonance within your body, ask your higher self for more details and expect the answer to come to you.  Resonance is often experienced as the lift in our heart, the bounce in our step or even a subtle all over vibration.  It is a feeling of deep connectedness.

Deb Snyder, PhD, is the author of Intuitive Parenting (Beyond Words 2010) and creator of the HeartGlow method.  She is an inspirational speaker and teacher to groups large and small and offers instruction on intuitive parenting in private sessions classes and seminars throughout the country.  FMI, visit www.heartglowparenting.com.



The changing face of parenting!
June 26, 2009, 1:50 pm
Filed under: parenting

Parenting is possibly the most dynamic role one can have.  It is not even the same from day to day.  It is different with each child and must change as the child’s body matures. 

Thus it is important to define the limited number of things that you are adamant about and leave the rest for negotiation!  You have a path; the child has a path.  The child will choose what to take from what you offer and then follow the path s/he will follow. 

A parent’s  job is to provide the best environment possible, which includes being loved and safe.  A parent’s job is to keep the link open for the child and the spirit world.  By teaching and modeling for the child the quality of listening to spirit for all things, the child is provided with a source of strength that cannot fail.



dealing with fear
June 26, 2009, 1:43 pm
Filed under: parenting, Spirituality

Fear comes from the anticipation of outcomes.  If we stay in the moment, we are usually quite fine.  When we anticipate the worst, that is usually what we bring to us, sigh…

On the other hand, fear serves a great purpose.  It keeps us from stepping off cliffs, running into traffic, and walking into other dangerous situations.  In this way fear is practical.  We simply avoid consequences with which we do not wish to have to deal.

Yet, life is not meant to be safe.  We each come with a clear vision of our path, and that always includes lessons to be understood.  When we avoid the truth of the lessons, life has a way of hitting us over the head to make us learn.  It is much easier to learn lessons with the help of a parent, than it is to postpone them until being an adult! 

Parents do not like to see their children fail.  But what is failure but a signal that we have made a mistake?  It is like the physical pain that tells we need to take care of something in the body.  Or the emotional pain that tells we are on the wrong path. 

The trick with managing fear is not to become lost in it but to gauge its message.  Is the outcome we anticipate unavoidable within our abilities?  )Those who truly are one with spirit would not fall if stepping off the cliff, but rather become one with the air and float to safety.  That, however, requires a LOT of training and practice! )  We need to always remember that all things are possible with spirit and that we will always be taken care of… we do not see the ENTIRE picture and thus often need to simply trust.



raising children to be intuitive
June 3, 2009, 1:09 pm
Filed under: parenting

In regards to understanding children, we need to remember that we are all spiritual beings having a physical experience.  What we are having to learn more than anything is how to maintain that spiritual knowing while in a physical body and a material world.  When we are born, we are very closely linked with the spiritual world as we have just come from it.  Yet like with all things, some are more closely linked than others, just like some can run, draw, write, build, or do math better than most others. 

So, we come into the world as a spiritual being stuck in this seemingly useless physical shell.  Yet, especially in those places influenced by western culture, everyone seems to pay more attention to this physical shell than to the spirit self.  People count  fingers and toes, comment on the physical appearance, remark on the amount of hair or lack thereof.  While all this is going on, the spirit self is crying out, “Hey! What about me??”  The spirit self’s me is the soul that is connected with all things.  This spirit self knows your thoughts, your emotions and has a great understanding of what is happening.  The soul is NOT too young to understand! It is just that the body is not sufficiently developed for that understanding to be communicated.  This causes great frustration in the infant body and results in crying in many cases.

As explained in our book, Soulful Parenting, we need to help the soul learn how to integrate itself with the body.  We know a great deal about the developmental stages of physical and intellectual growth, but do not address how to incorporate that growth with maintaining the spiritual awareness.  Instead of keeping our children spiritually awake, we often put them to sleep! 

So, because we are spiritual beings first, always view your child as the ancient soul s/he is.  Many children who act out do so because they are misusing their abilities or unable to use them at all! 

A second thing that is important to remember is that the body develops its world view by the time it is five years old!  We do not have a long window of time during which to keep this connection open!  We cannot wait until the body is “older” to begin working on this!  When we ask a two year old to make a scratch feel better, they simply do it.  A twelve year old with no experience would simply look at us and wonder “how on earth do I do that?”  Children learn 75% of what they know by their third birthday!  We need to have awareness and understanding of the spirit self hard wired in the brain by that time! 

The process of developing a world view is done subconsciously based on experience.  It is the thought that one will return to first throughout the body’s life.  So if a world view is developed that people are always fair and kind, that is the first reaction held when interacting with others.  (Yes, eventually the entity will learn there are people who are not that way, but it will not become the first expectation.)  If the entity decides it is a world where there is unpredictable misery and pain, then that will be the primary expectation and can only be changed by a lot of hard work as an adult, usually not until in the 30’s.  If the entity learns through trial and error, that lying can avoid much unpleasantness, then lying will tend to be the first option.  See how it works?  So if the entity is taught to stay connected with the spirit world and to seek the answers there, to trust the messages from there, then the life is a much simpler one, full of wisdom.

Yes, children are running on two tracks… physical/mental/emotional development and keeping the spiritual self alive.  It is our jobs as parents to keep up with both!  Yikes!!