Dark and dangerous situations that I survived. What can keep our children safe.

Inner light.

What if we told our children and teenagers that they have all they need inside of them, and that they don’t need to look outside of themselves for validation? What if we told them that they are special and unique? What if we taught them how to connect with their souls for insight and wisdom? What if we taught them that their intuition and that still, small, voice is a superpower that can guide them in the right direction and keep them safe?

What if we empowered children and teenagers?

What if this can keep them safe?

What if this can change the world?

Our young people are looking outside themselves for direction and validation, the last place they should be looking. They are dressing to fit in, doing the same things as the other kids, looking at their friends, classmates, celebrities, and social media influencers to find out who they are and who they think they want to be.

Teaching them to look inside themselves, centering on their hearts, and paying attention to the wonderful beings that they are, and connecting them with their intuition and souls, will give them the inner power and strength to make the right choices and shine with light and love.

After dark and dangerous situations that I survived, multiple accidents and close calls, life took on new meaning.

I was 10 years old when I first felt a strong connection to my soul and intuition. I somehow knew that I was on earth for a specific reason, that my soul had a purpose for being here. However, as a teenager, feeling lonely, I put myself in dark and dangerous situations. Getting involved with the wrong crowd, I even risked my life. At 19 years of age, that still small voice inside me and my instincts for survival kicked in, and I survived an early death. A friend, drunk and high on acid, held me over the sixth floor balcony of a high rise apartment and he grabbed me and took me outside to the balcony. He lifted me and held me over the balcony. Terrified, I didn't dare move as I knew there was cement below me, and since he was both high and drunk, I knew he could easily lose his grip.

I will never know what he was thinking. But that wasn't my only brush with death. As a young adult, after multiple accidents and close calls, life took on new meaning. I also began to pray for protection. Was something insidious trying to take me out of this life?

Continuously, my angels were talking to me, but I often wasn’t listening. Then things got really interesting. I started to have dreams of places before I saw them. I began to just know things, not knowing how I knew them. I knew when I went for interviews whether I would be working at the business before the interview was even over, and what apartment I would be living in when I was looking for a place to live. I would walk into a place and get a joyful or dark feeling. Eventually, I began to pay more attention, but because of what our society teaches us, logic and science, it was a long time before I began to trust those feelings.

All of us have our intuition and our souls speaking to us, if we will only listen. That gut feeling is there for a reason. However, our society focuses on facts and discards intuition. We don’t teach our children and teenagers to connect with their true selves. They learn to focus on the world and society for knowledge and wisdom. However, their greatest inner light, power and strength resides within them in their hearts and souls.

Teaching them to listen to their intuition and that still, small, voice will empower them and change the world. It can even save their lives.

Deborah Ann Minke, M.A, B. Ed., OCT, CH-C

Energize and Rise LLC.

https://www.energizeandrise.com

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