Our toxic masculine culture is harming our children - children's intuition.

 

Historically, we have not provided safe spaces for our children to express their intuitive feelings, their gut. This practice must not continue. Not allowing space for our children to explore and nurture their intuition harms their ability to navigate the world successfully. It teaches them to dismiss their intuition to bypass their truths. To not learn to rely on or trust what they know to be true. To rely on others when they are competent themselves. To have a means to determine the difference between what is good for them and what will harm them.           

Intuition is their internal support and guidance system. Without it, they are lost and alone. This is an area where our ‘sensitive’ children can shine but are often misunderstood.

 

Misdiagnosed, labelled as difficult, seen as complicated or unreasonable.

Quite often, these children see and sense things other people do not.

We are all empathic. We all understand emotions to varying degrees.

Some people are just a lot more sensitive to the energy of emotions.

When we deny their feelings, we teach them not to trust their intuition.

We teach them not to trust what they feel.

This behaviour leads to confusion, anger, resentment, depression and loneliness.

If they don't learn to resolve this by the time they become adults, the impact is often profoundly self-destructive. 

 

We don't live in a world that recognises that we all have intuition.

Children have it, men have it, and women have it.

These are our heightened senses.

When we ignore or reject our intuition, we hurt ourselves, limiting our abilities and reducing who we can be. We all have a natural ability to navigate using intuition. Learning how to use it wisely is a skill that we can all learn.

 

The next time a child says they do not want to do something, ask them why. When they say they don't know, it often means they don't know how to explain. Their emotions can be complex, sometimes overwhelming. They may not understand what they are feeling. Children are new to words and emotions and have not learned how to put it all together. Patience and gently drawing it out will lead to some pretty amazing results. Children want to explain themselves, they want to share, but they can be afraid of the response if they perceive they are doing something that you will not approve of. Creating a space where your child is open to express themselves can be challenging but very rewarding.

 

Sometimes, children don't want to do things because they ‘have a bad feeling’. This is their intuition talking to them.

We must learn to adjust our approach to allow children the space to be intuitive.

Otherwise, we continue the cycle of trauma.

Teaching our children to listen to their internal voices shows them the path to self-awareness and self-fulfilment.

 

The first challenge is that to be open to listening to children requires adults to be open to listening to themselves. You can't be open and understanding of your children's needs if you are not first open and understanding of your own.

If you can't hear yourself, you can't hear them.

 

Learning to listen comes in many different forms. Meditation is a valuable ally here. As is mindfulness. It's easy to listen to the big things, ‘I am hungry’, ‘I am tired’. It's challenging to listen to the complex stuff, ‘Is this right for me?’, ‘What do I feel right now?’. Taking moments throughout your day to stop and listen, to discern what you are thinking, feeling, or desire, is the first step in learning to understand what you want and need. Once you realise what you genuinely want and need, there's nothing to stop you from going out and getting it. This is the road to fulfilment. Start doing this in all the areas of your life and we are then talking self-actualisation. It's pretty powerful stuff. I'm sure you will agree.

 

The journey of self-awareness is the route to happiness. The road to enlightenment. Your direct path to achieving the life of your dreams.

 

We all need a little support now and again. So, if you are feeling stuck with any of this, book a call through my links and website. You can do this alone, but we move faster with the proper support. You do not have to do this alone.