Ever hear those words?  “You’re oversensitive.”  Or “As a child you were so sensitive.”

What determines oversensitivity?  And how does it relate to the early development of being defined as clairsentient?

Reflecting upon my childhood, I can only site examples for parents to watch in their own children.  It’s going to take exceptional listening skills and an open mind.

A Few Early Year Examples:

I was five and my teddy bear fell from my bed to the floor.  I felt Teddy land and instinctively said “ouch” out loud.

Coming home from school my mother often insisted that I go to my room.  I cannot adequately communicate the trepidation and fear I felt knowing that I had to go to my room.  Standing in my living room and looking up the staircase, which led to my room, I could hear “them” walking back and forth and hear “them” talking, waiting for me.  “Them” were past relatives who were in Spirit.  Scary stuff.   Scarier still was my mother saying, “Don’t be ridiculous, there’s no one there!”

Playing outside in the woods and seeing a Native American warrior emerge from a huge boulder and begin talking to me.

Having reoccurring dreams of being in a lush, tropical jungle and a giant flower bending down to swallow me.  Sliding down the inside of the stem I was deposited into an even more vibrant world of plant life where leaves were luminescent and the water had crystals growing in the lakes.  A stern voice telling me, “Do not drink from the water or you will forget this place.”

Loud noises made me a nervous wreck, to the point that my hands would lose all feeling rendering them absolutely useless to hold anything.  Hence an expression I still use today when my body reacts to fear, “My hands have gone to jelly.”

Hearing profanity hurt my ears so badly that it felt as if someone slapped me hard all over my body.

Capturing butterflies.  I started to pin a couple beauties on a board and could hear them say to me, “Please let me go.”  So I did.  The thought of capturing butterflies made me physically sick to my stomach after this experience.

Now these are only a few examples. 

Who protects the vulnerable child from the unseen?  What parents even know the musings of a child’s mind, let alone one who is sensitive to unperceived stimulus?  Have parents and adults been so far removed from their own memories of childhood that they have forgotten what it’s like to be a child resonating like a tuning fork to all six senses?  It’s not a belief system; the senses react and experiences happen in childhood regardless of the developed logic impinged upon them.

Children emerge from a spectrum of awareness as an inverse of the very aged submerging back to that source of awareness.

Celebrate your sensitivity.  Share your childhood experiences with your own children in support of helping them to open their worlds to you in a gesture of hope that the circle of sensitivity is acknowledged and accepted.

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