Empowering Your Indigo Child: A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit [Paperback]

Wayne D Dosick PhD (Author), Ellen Dosick Kaufman MSW (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2009

Since the 1980s people have been writing about the indigo children. Today, many believe that nearly 80 percent of all children born are indigos. These are exceedingly creative, high-energy, perceptive kids who often don't fit in. They seem to have an awareness that is light years beyond their age and quite often they are labeled as ADD, ADHD, or ODD when in actuality they are, in the words of the Dosicks, simply "children of spirit." What sets this book apart from other books is that it approaches the issues facing indigos on a spiritual-energetic rather than purely cognitive level, and it is prescriptive, teaching a specially developed set of games that can help heal indigo children both in their own bodies and in their earthly relationships. Here the Dosicks name seventeen particular emotional wounds indigos hold in their bodies and give specific exercises for healing each one. The games have proven enormously helpful to these often-troubled kids--even preteens and teenagers. They celebrate the children's different ways of perception and calm their agitation. The games involve some hands-on healing techniques, some scripted meditations, and other quick and simple techniques. Each game takes no more than two minutes to play, and this book features 101 black-and-white photographs showing parents exactly how to use the practices.

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"This book may very well be the ultimate indigo handbook." --Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, authors of the best-selling book The Indigo Children

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Today, many believe that nearly 80 percent of all children born are indigos. These are exceedingly creative, high-energy, perceptive kids who often don't fit in. What sets this book apart from other books is that it approaches the issues facing indigos on a spiritual-energetic rather than purely cognitive level, and it is prescriptive, teaching a specially developed set of games that can help heal indigo children both in their own bodies and in their earthly relationships.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books (March 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157863444X
• ISBN-13: 978-1578634446
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Empowering Your Indigo Child, March 6, 2009

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Randy S. Collins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Empowering Your Indigo Child: A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit (Paperback)

I have just finished reading the new "Empowering Your Indigo Child - A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit" by Wayne Dosick, PhD and Ellen Kaufman Dosick, MSW, published by Weiser Books.

I highly recommend it to all parents or caregivers of today's children. You can see my blog [...]

This book not only offers helpful, detailed descriptions of some of the kids today, (they focus on Indigo children) but included are three separate processes to help heal energetic issues carried by all sensitive people, but especially the children.

The Dosicks have published these inspired processes which include fun, guided games for parents to play along with their children.

The book contains 3 parts, along with an introduction. Part 1 is "The 17' Spiritually Healing Children's Emotional Wounds. These are games for parents and children aged 7-17. Part 2 is " Gracelight", the process for Weaving Harmony for the Littlest Indigos ages 0-7. And Part 3 is" The Point of Essence Process", which is Pro-Claiming the Truth of Who You Are. This process is for 18 years and up.

My 14 year old son and I performed "The 17' yesterday and I experienced myself becoming emotional several times when he and I connected on such intimate levels. I realized that I had not been really seeing and supporting him as clearly as I thought I had been and I think he felt a closer bond with me after we were through as well.

The games were fun and easy and didn't take that much time to complete.

I also performed Part 3, The Point of Essence Process for myself and then with my husband. I felt an immediate calming within.

I think this book would benefit any parent and child who invest the small amount of time it takes to play the games. The outcome may surely be relaxation and connectedness to one another as well as the environment, which can benefit everyone, young and old.

"Empowering your Indigo Child" will be released on March 1, 2009 on Amazon.com. You can order your copy today. Buy 2 and give one as a gift!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Guidebook for Psycho-Spiritual Healing Techniques Parents Can do With their Indigo Children, February 11, 2009

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L. Erickson "Mommy Mystic" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Empowering Your Indigo Child: A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit (Paperback)

I have my issues with a lot of what's written about Indigo children (click through to my blog on my Amazon bio if you're interested), but wanted to review this book because it outlines specific psycho-spiritual exercises parents can do with their children to release negative emotions such as anger, fear, despair, etc. The authors have developed these techniques based on their own work with children, and with help from their spirit guides. Although I'm not comfortable with everything they say about Indigo children, I do like the exercises, and they describe them very thoroughly - with pictures - in a way that will allow any parent to do them with their child.

There are three sets of healing techniques outlined in the book. The first are the `YouMees', seventeen exercises for children ages 7-17, designed to be performed in a ritual, game-like fashion, between parent and child. Each of these exercises is meant to address a particular form of negativity in a child, such as anger, grief, fear, distrust, despair, etc. Specific instructions are given for each exercise, including how to set up a sacred space to conduct them in, how to initiate each session, and how to close each one out. The exercises themselves are very easy to perform, mostly involving statements on the part of both the parent and child, and simple movements. The YouMees are the heart of the book, and considered the primary healing method for Indigo children.

The second healing method is designed for children under 7, who "have not yet developed the cognitive abilities and skills to participate meaningfully in a healing session...and are connected to their parents by a 'spiritual umbilical cord.'" In the ritual associated with this method, called Gracelight, the parent is acting as a surrogate for the child, until they are old enough to participate in the YouMees.

The final healing method is for adults who feel they are Indigos, and revolves around energy work with the seven primary chakras, and issues associated with their blockage.

If you subscribe to the Indigo Children theory, and are a parent looking for new ways to work with your own children, you will probably really appreciate Empowering Your Indigo Children. If you aren't so sure, or aren't a parent, you may still find it interesting. In any case, the instructions for trying the techniques are clear and accessible, and something anyone can do.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heal your child's emotional wounds, July 14, 2010

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New Connexion Journal (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Empowering Your Indigo Child: A Handbook for Parents of Children of Spirit (Paperback)

Among children born today, more than 80 percent are Indigo children. So what makes an Indigo child? They are highly intelligent, intuitive and extremely likable creative kids that don't fit into the norm. This book is hands-on for parents and caregivers of Indigos, who are advanced spiritually and highly sensitive children. Three sections offer demonstrations to spiritually heal your child's emotional wounds. "Gracelight" gives directions for a spiritual healing process for children up to age seven, while "The 17" is for ages seven to 17 and "The Point of Essence Process" heals adult Indigos.

The techniques or special "games" include hands-on healing, scripted meditation and other simple exercises that take about two minutes to play. Plus, more than 100 black and white photographs illustrate the techniques.
As a mother of two Indigo children, I felt this book shed some light on some of the issues occurring at home. I can't wait to see the results of playing these games.

-- Tiffany LaRue