my grandson says he sees people all around him all the time some bad some good … hes been evaluated by the doctors but we fear his is not an emotional problem but real , real for him though we cannot see what he does . How do we help him
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By: kathy davis on April 7, 2008
at 11:03 am
Hi Kathy, how to support your child who sees into the nonphysical world is a great question. Thanks for bringing it up. We call his gift clairvoyance, and how to support such an intuitive child depends upon his age. We approach preschoolers different than boys in puberty, and then teens also who still haven’t closed this door to the imaginal realm. Studies of measurement of children’s brain waves in the early childhood years indicate that most children operate in a alpha state, a relaxed, alert, yet dreamy state. This is a normal age for two-to-five-year old children’s imaginary playmates, angels, ghosts, and friends on the other side, and the primary emotional issues are the child’s feeling of safety and acceptance. We use role playing and acting as methods for integration. For boys in puberty, this time of the biochemical adjustment seems especially sensitive to psychic doorways, and to the young man may seem like a time to choose to shut that door, or engage it and learn from it. For a teen, learning to balance the inner and the outer worlds is a matter of choosing mental focus and achieving emotional comfort.
So let’s continue our dialogue…..how old is your grandson?
By: coachingparents on April 8, 2008
at 7:48 pm
