Signs and clues that your child may be a medium

In this article I am going to discuss some signs or clues that your child may be a medium or have psychic abilities. It’s likely that if you have found yourself here, you have noticed some unique characteristics in your child that may not be easily explained. It is my intention that this article help to identify and explain some phenomena that your child may have experienced and expressed to you.

Has your child expressed to you that sometimes they may “feel big and everything else feels small”? Or perhaps your child has stated something along the lines of “my hands don’t look like my hands”. These statements may be signs that your child is being visited by spirits of those who have passed over. Mediumship is an ability that has to do with perception. When a person in spirit visits any of us there are subtle clues that this is happening. It is easier for an adult to recognize these subtle signs. Children however have not fully developed their visual acuity which may make it difficult and confusing to navigate some of the very real sensations or perception changes that are taking place and why.

Visual acuity is the sharpness or clarity of vision. It is the ability each person has to discern how far away something is from them. Visitation from spirits does not always manifest as an apparition, but it is spirit coming close to the physical body of a medium. As a medium ages into adulthood and their visual acuity fully matures it is likely that sensations such as feeling big or small or feeling like parts of their body are not all their own begin to fade as the mind is better equipped to discern these unique sensations as not being truly part of the medium’s body.

Contrast sensitivity is another vision function that comes in to play with these feelings and sensation. Contrast sensitivity is the visible ability to distinguish an object from it’s background. If a spirit is approaching and trying to connect with a child it is likely to be very difficult for the child to discern this “object” (spirit) and can cause a child to feel out of touch with reality,

There are many studies on vision development in young children. There are not many studies on when vision functioning becomes truly adult like. Visual acuity is reached between age 5 and mid teen years, while contrast sensitivity was found to be mature between the ages of 8 and 19. The feeling of “my hands don’t feel like my hands” is likely to be experienced well into the teen years and subsiding around age 18. Here is a link to a scholarly article on the development of visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in children that may be helpful to fully understand these functions https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3972638/.

When a spirit contacts a medium it is a melding of dimensions. Each individual or child may experience this differently. The spirit will come into a medium’s awareness and the mind of the medium and the consciousness of the person in spirit will mix. While this may not be a fully visual experience such as seeing an apparition an “object” is moving closer to the medium. The medium will learn to decipher clues this is happening with training and education. A child is likely to not fully be aware of the cycles of life and death or what a spirit even is when contacts are first experienced. Further, the child’s brain development may not be mature enough to begin to decipher a spirit from the background of what is going on. For me these contacts first started happening around the age of 5.

This webinar by Claire Broad gives a good, basic explanation of the exercise “sitting in the power” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU006XehDK8. Sitting in the power is a common tool used by mediums to identify their own energy. The concept is that through exercises such as this the medium is able to identify their own energetic field. Therefore, when a spirit contact is made or happens, the medium will become aware of the shift or change in their energetic field. This webinar also gives a good introduction to mediumship and it’s history and dispels some of the misconceptions about how or why a spirit may contact an individual. This webinar may be helpful for parents to understand how mediumship works and gives insight to it’s functioning and use.

In the webinar, Claire takes us through a quick sitting in the power exercise. Interestingly she chooses the hands or feet as the focus point of the exercise. She describes the hands as being energetic centers that allow each of us to connect with our true soul essence.

I am not a medical professional, I can only speak from my own experience of being a medium, as a child and as an adult. I went to vision therapy when I was an adolescent to help me with some of the unsettling sensations I was experiencing. I do think this helped. It is up to each individual parent if they feel it is beneficial, healthy and safe to speak with their child about spirits, mediumship or anything else that goes along with that. Going to eye therapy helped develop my physical vision strength and perception without any mention of spirituality. It was helpful in the way that it taught me how to identify and relate to my body and in turn how I processed the outer world, which for me also includes what I term multidimensional. Without a solid footing in this reality experience and how my brain perceives that I believe I would have had a harder time opening up to my abilities in my adult life. Vision therapy also helped me with my school work, focus and grounding. In a way it helped me understand how to “sit in the power” and how to choose which reality I was engaging with.

The purpose of this article is to introduce you to some of the ways mediumship may be experienced by a child. Adult people choose to develop mediumship abilities every day. These people may not identify as being born a medium or born psychic. But there are many, many people who do feel and believe they were born this way and those children could benefit from specific and cultivated supports, both for their mental development and their spiritual development. I hope this will be a helpful tool to confirm some thoughts you may be having about your child and what they may be experiencing. Through reading articles, listening to webinars and experiencing practices such as “sitting in the power” you, as an adult, can begin to understand the perception of your child and develop supports and tools to assist them as they mature.

I do offer coaching sessions for parents of children with abilities. If you would like a free consultation about how I can help you and your family please email me.