You have a special opportunity to help children accept and become in tune with their rich psychic heritage. How you treat and nurture their intuitive gifts can impact their entire lives, either positively or negatively. If they feel threatened by their abilities, they may shut them off and never use them again.

Children may begin to indicate their psychic potential almost at birth. Study their eyes and how they look at you, others, and their surroundings. Observe how they hear and the natural movements of their bodies. As they grow, what characteristics do they develop that they could not have learned during their current lifetime? Keep accurate records. Here are a few suggestions:

• Keep a daily record of your observations of behavior that may indicate psychic abilities.

• Look for behavior patterns that indicate psychic abilities.

• Videotape actions that indicate psychic abilities.

• As the child grows, watch for responses to sensory input from all the five different senses.

• When the child can talk, ask questions relating to how his mind works in the five different senses.

• Determine how the child's mental makeup functions, and keep a record with follow-up questions.

As long as you allow children to feel confident that they can trust you with their knowledge, they will share it with you. If they think that you are not sincere, they will not tell you what they know. If you lose their trust, it may be hard to win it back again.

Some adults go so far as to threaten punishment for a child whose reality does not fit in the normal world. If you observe a behavior pattern that may not be accepted by others, you may want to discuss it with the child. Children can learn when to share what they know and when it is time to keep it to themselves. Remember each child is a special human being who is different from anyone else on earth. If you observe and identify the child's special intuitive abilities, you have helped them find a tool that they can use throughout their entire lives.

Begin Early

It is very important to establish the groundwork for psychic growth in the preschool years. Children in traumatic family situations develop their psychic ability rapidly, often as a defense and escape mechanism. You may observe a child of preschool age who has imaginary friends. If you tell this child that those friends are not real, the child may lose the ability to see them. On the other hand, if the child is comfortable with this gift, those friends may remain visible throughout the child's adult life, too.

Once children start school, they can become painfully aware that they are different from other children. If children are ridiculed, they will shut down their special intuitive gifts. The more you are aware of potential struggles, the more you can help them adjust to the differences in beliefs that exist in the world around them. They may develop the ability to see auras or other things. The more you let them feel free to discuss how they really feel and experience, the more self-confidence they will develop in their own special psychic gifts.

The Teen Years

Some children may not reach their psychic potential until their teenage years. As their bodies change, they seem to open even more to the energy of the Universe. The teen years can provide some of the greatest opportunities for psychic development and growth.

You can do a wonderful service to teenagers by giving them permission to explore and work with their natural-born psychic abilities. Imagine how it would benefit mankind if someone you encouraged to take the risk to grow psychically went on to use his or her gifts in a positive way.