In this post: What characterizes spiritually aware children (spiritually conscious children; spiritually awakened children; spiritual children; intuitive children)? Who are they? And the wisdom they offer us.
What does it mean to have a spiritually aware child?
Are all children spiritually aware?
Intuitive?
Expressing unique gifts?
How do we know if our child has such gifts? And hence, should that affect the way we raise her?
What characterizes children who show psychic abilities at young ages? Or as teens? What spiritual characteristics do you see in your children? And what do we need to know as parents to nurture our spiritually aware children?
These are a lot of questions. All are related, and all hold additional profound questions and life beliefs at their base.
In this sequence of six posts, I hope to offer some perspective and deepen the questioning.
Why? Your child is unique, as is every child. Together we can raise questions and broaden our perspective and understanding. Then, each of us must shape our understanding to fit our own family, children, and journey.
There are no greater teachings than being a parent.
Raising children is one of the greatest gifts of walking a human lifetime. There are no greater teachings than being a parent.
Every possible lesson can be found in the journey of parenting:
– Learning to love and its deep meanings.
– The invitation to walk who we are in our essence.
– A path of continuous growth.
– Our relationship with Earth, humanity, and our responsibilities to them both.
It’s all there. Parenting is also the most challenging role we humans walk.
More and more spiritually aware children walk among us. And more and more of us, parents, understand that these children invite us to a shared dance. You can read more about our growth as parents in the spiritually aware parenting section.
What is spirituality?
What characterizes spiritually aware children? Before going into any one characteristic, we need to ask much broader questions: what is spirituality? And in accordance with what spirituality is, who is spiritual? Who do we consider as one walking a spiritual path? What does it mean to awaken to spirituality? Or be awakened?
We should ask these questions as our answer to them affects whether we see ourselves and our family as walking a spiritual path or not. And the same concerning our children: Do we see them as spiritual beings? And their gifts as spiritual? Without these lenses, any categorization will lose its meaning.
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Profound wisdom: Spiritually aware children offer us unexpected wisdom – First characteristic
Spiritually aware children demonstrate wisdom much greater than their years.
Spiritually aware children often seem to us as so much wiser than their biological age. A baby who is only a few months old may know how to look us in the eye and communicate to us that they have been here before, that they understand, see, and care.
Is this our wished-for interpretation?
Anyone who has experienced such a clear stare from a baby walks knowing there was something more to it than our projections.
A two-year-old may be very strong-willed. Along with their growth and developing social understanding, they may sometimes be defiant, insisting on what they want (including screaming and tantrums), and testing borders. Many call this developmental stage the “terrible twos.” I consider it more the “terrific twos”—a developmental stage of will and chosen expression.
A spiritually aware toddler will also express such will. Yet, it will not be in response to the ordinary and various conventional dos and don’ts of their family that they wish to challenge, but they will be triggered by the greater issues they perceive. For example, they may show terrific twos behavior when one of us, or their friends, forgets the loving way to relate to another or when we are not as loving as we should be to our fellow four-legged friend or to the tree in our garden. In response to matters of relationships and love. And what is love if not wisdom?
What is wisdom? Definitions matter.
What is wisdom in the case of spiritually aware children?
Is wisdom based on knowledge? On understanding? On intelligence?
Is it an ability to make appropriate judgments or discern? To bring insight and sense?
Is wisdom necessarily earned with time? Age? Experience? Formal or informal education?
Numerous definitions exist, reflecting the perspective of the writer. Using the word wisdom here, I wish to be careful since you and I may see wisdom through various lenses.
As we are talking about spiritually aware children, it is essential to note that spiritual wisdom is not bound to religion. Religion can be a beautiful way to walk life. Yet, it is not the only way to walk a spiritual life.
For our purpose here, and based on the view of spirituality and walking a spiritual life, as a reflection of one walking what they came here to do, their path, and essence, wisdom is reflected in the tiny elements of our being. Kindness. Acceptance. Non-judgment. Self-referencing. Intuition, and more.
Often, wisdom is about thoughts and acts that reflect one’s learning from life experiences. One may come to openly accept others, as our life experiences take us through non-acceptance or examples of such. Others may become more compassionate due to an experience of self-compassion or compassion felt from others.
My understanding of what life is, how I wish to live it, how I choose to parent has developed and awakened, adding to my wisdom as a result of my experience of physical healing from the car crash and from what I learned from my near-death experience. It also evolved with the gates that opened to me in my NDE, which strengthened my ability to access the web of relations, knowledge, and wisdom, the energetic field we are all connected to—hence, enabling the writing of these words and the mediation of healing to others. I share about my journey and its insights in depth in The Promise We Made Book.
While experience is the element we more easily understand, Wisdom lies far beyond experience. It is beyond wise words or thoughts shared by another. It is within us, waiting to emerge. It is in the seeds our souls bring with them to this earthly adventure. It is in the mundane.
Some refer to wisdom as a knowing. An intuition of what is right. What is the right action, choice, or compassionate harmonic way to behave to another or to nature and Earth.
Wisdom and spiritually aware children
In witnessing children, one sees incredible wisdom. Not anything they had the time, or opportunity, or experience to learn in this lifetime.
Did they bring this wisdom as part of their soul’s memory of past/other lifetime lessons?
Is it an energetic inheritance from us, their parents, or from our ancestors?
Is it their stronger connection to the universal field that connects us all?
Are they more connected?
Or is it the gates that are more open?
Do they come remembering as some suggest?
And if they come remembering, then what is it that they remember?
Without knowing the source of their incredible wisdom, if you are reading this, you probably, too, have witnessed a young child showing surprising wisdom, greater than their age.
Examples?
We witness this wisdom in children’s inherent ability to see beyond religion, stereotypes, gender, or race. Kids do not care about skin color or language. Put two social children together, and they will naturally find a way to connect and become friends in seconds. They recognize the other’s energy. They have the ability to meet each other as souls in a body, ignoring the specific clothing each chooses for this lifetime.
For some, it is an intuitive recognition of who they should interact with and who they should not. Where they belong, and where they should cry their heart out so that their parents will take them back home. Sensing the energy of a place or a person.
Love is wisdom. Knowing love, and the love that is our nature is wisdom. Spiritually aware children often express love, in very surprising moments, exactly when others around them forget they are love. They hug quietly or sit nearby, knowing how to just be there for another – without words or logic. They communicate with their pets, entire conversations and understanding. Often with no words. They are connected to nature. They remember its healing properties and that it is safe and nurturing.
They can be “distracted” in seconds, shifting from negative emotions into positive ones, elevating their view. They do so, not with any conscious choice. It’s an innate wisdom of what is right and what energetic state is good for them.
We, their parents, and other significant adults work hard to cultivate our awareness. An awareness we were also born with (not as open as the children of today are born with, but still), but forgot.
In a way, that’s why we should refer to children as spiritually aware, and to adults as spiritually awakened.
Questions of meaning
Spiritually aware children ask meaningful questions, such as how this world works? What are we, and why are we here? What is death? They bring ideas, innovative and new, and wish to explore them. They will keep asking as long as we, their parents, or other significant adults encourage them and stay open to what they bring.
Often children stop asking their questions because we, adults, dismiss them. Mainly as we do not know the answers or feel they are too young to be talking about death.
Are these spiritually aware children wiser than we, adults, are? Many definitely are. As always, this depends on our underlying definition – in this case of what is spirituality? And what is wisdom? Some of these children bring a profound understanding of the universe and our journeys as individuals, on Earth, and as One.
For many of them, the wisdom, seemingly greater than we expect according to their physical age, is based on a connection to all that is. They are in the now. Being in the now allows them, as it allows us, parents, when we manage to be in the now, to be connected to the energetic field around us, our essence, and to be one with all. When we are connected, we can experience everything from a higher perspective. The perspective of oneness. The source of wisdom.
I tend to feel that this above notion is true for all children, regardless of the spiritual gifts they present. Still, some spiritually aware children bring unique gifts from an early age, such as directly communicating with the natural elements and higher guidance, downloading guidance or knowledge and mediating healing for others.
Did they gain it in other lifetimes/dimensions? Are they bringing it down from universal ‘universities’? Are they evolved souls from other planets? The answers may be fascinating.
Regardless of the source, as human children in this lifetime, in this now, when the knowledge brought is used for the good, they bless us all.
But… As parents, we must be aware of our limiting beliefs.
On our way to perceiving and observing the deep wisdom expressed by spiritually aware children, we, adults, assimilated to our cultures and their limiting beliefs, should be cautious about labeling or dismissing because of the lenses we have on our nose.
For example, many, but not all, spiritually aware children know how to be alone, listen within, not needing many friends. In many western cultures, socially, having many friends and knowing how to socialize is often considered a strength. Being shy, introverted, or quiet was considered, for many years, a weakness. Which is right? Employing our deep wisdom, we all know that there is no right or wrong, but what’s right for our child.
Children, all children, and even more so, spiritually aware children, express wisdom in so many profound, mundane, and even funny ways.
Recently, an amazing two-year-old I am blessed to know told her mother, with sparkling eyes: “Mom, you are so beautiful, like the cows.” They were walking by some cattle in the fields. This little girl adores animals and walks with an amazing ability to communicate with them. She felt the cows as whole, enjoying their moment chewing the green grass. She beautifully shared with her mom, in her two-year-old ability, that she sees her—her mom, whom she loves the most—as whole.
Wisdom is a matter of the seeing eyes.
What happens as they grow? Wisdom and when spiritually aware children grow…
As children grow, our society, at least the western one, unfortunately often communicates to them that many of their questions about the nature of our world are not to be discussed. It is difficult for us to see the enormous damage we are creating as humanity, so we would rather not discuss this. A family member continues on, and the children can’t talk about the spiritual aspect of a loved one’s passing with their parents. This family member’s soul might visit them or communicate with them, but it is not something they can share.
They ask about the environment? The nature of people? Or of conflict? They meet adults who are not walking their true path, lying to themselves and others, or who are constantly exposed to a culture that reveres looks and outer characteristics as sacred.
A few take their rebellious teenage nature to fighting for the environment—Mother Earth. Most stop asking questions or sharing their wisdom. Unless they are fortunate to have a communicative, curious adult around them. It doesn’t have to be someone who understands or knows the answers. It just has to be someone who respects them enough to walk with them, is interested in what matters to them. Someone who may ask about their dreams—those they experience at night or when they journey, in shamanic journeying, not knowing this is what they do. And reciprocally, someone who shares the ones they, as an adult, experience and the questions they walk with.
The older the children are, the more it is about an open door. For talking, sharing, and for not-knowing together. The journey we walk together with our children, like the one we walk with our parents, is always a shared journey.
How does your child express their deep wisdom?
This was the first post, out of six, about spiritually aware children and who they are.
Learn about my journey, and the insights it offers to parents in The Promise We Made: Three Universal Soul Promises We Made to Our Children 🙂
