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SPRING FASHION COLOR TRENDS – What the 2010 Color Trends Say About Our Mood
(Use color to transform your personal style and well-being)

Pantone, the leading authority on color, sets the professional color standards for the design industries each year. According to their Fashion Color Report for Spring 2010, the top color this spring is Turquoise. Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of Pantone had this comment on the spring colors -  “Now more than ever, women are vigilant when it comes to spending. Instead of reinventing their wardrobe at the start of each season, consumers want pieces to complement what they already own. Pairing a bold color with a basic piece or freshening up their look with bright accents addresses the need for practicality, as well as fun”.

Two leading color and aura experts, Elizabeth Harper and Kala Ambrose are traveling around the US this year, to discuss the power and presence of color in your life and how it affects you on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. Teaching together at the prestigious Omega Institute in New York in July 2010, one of their first stops of the spring season begins right here in Raleigh, NC as they hold a 3 Day Event on March 4th, 5th, and 6th, hosted by Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship.  The event includes a lecture on Thursday evening, private color readings on Friday and an all day workshop on Saturday discussing Color and Auras, which are the colors seen by intuitive people in a field around the physical body.

Kala and Elizabeth teach that… “Color is the mirror of the soul. Every day waves of color-filled energy wash over us and the colors we choose at any given moment reflect messages from the deep knowing part of our being. The choices of color can be used not only in fashion, but in the food we eat, our creative pursuits, home decoration and work environment to enhance our well-being. Color permeates everything in our lives and can generate significant emotions; pink invokes love, green creates space, and violet inspires reverence. As hue-man beings we possess an awareness of color, but much of this knowledge is buried beneath the surface of our waking consciousness”.

According to Kala Ambrose, “Turquoise, the top color selected for 2010, represents self-expression and has to do with communication and healing.  Turquoise worn in clothing can stimulate the imagination and bring forth creative ideas and the turquoise stone, worn as jewelry can bring transformation.  The choice of turquoise this year signifies the mood of the people around the country who are ready to have their voices heard and want to bring about change in a big way. Turquoise reflects prosperity and collectively the color represents the desire by the people to heal from what has occurred nationally in the past few years and builds motivational energy to turn things around in the economy”.

More information on the event at: http://exploreyourspirit.com/workshop-sff.html

When I was eight, I lost my most precious possession, a rubber ball I had purchased with the first dollar I ever earned.  It was the size of a volleyball, pink and smooth and soft. I liked to bounce it on the sidewalk and show it to everyone I met. I’d tell them the story of how I’d helped my mom with housework and she’d given me a whole dollar and I’d used it to buy my very own ball.

A few weeks later, I was visiting Nana in New Jersey and we went to a military picnic and clam bake. Women in bright dresses and hats served potato salad and buttered corn on the cob at picnic tables.  A brawny man with a crew cut pulled clams out of a huge, steaming vat and opened the shells with a knife.  Nana showed me how to season them with lemon and dip them in butter and pop them in my mouth.  I liked the rubbery, ocean taste of the clams and went back for a second helping.

I met other kids by the lake and we played dodge ball with my pink ball late into the afternoon. Then, without warning, the sky darkened and a storm rolled in with gusty winds and rain.  We had to pack up and leave quickly, but I couldn’t find my prized ball. I cried out in anguish while the adults grabbed my arm and shoved me into the car.  This was my first experience of how the winds could rise and carry away something precious to me.

Back at Nana’s house, I just couldn’t believe that I had lost my most prized possession. “I’ll buy you another one,” Nana had said, but it would never be the same. That pink rubber ball meant more to me than a mere child’s toy.  It represented independence and self-reliance—the belief that I could make my own way.

With knots in my stomach and tears rolling down my cheeks, I bolted up to the bedroom and opened the drawer with my grandmother’s Bible, a book I knew she regarded as holy.  At that young age, I wasn’t quite sure what religion I was supposed to follow.  My mom had been raised a Catholic and my dad had been Moslem, but neither practiced nor taught me anything about the religious beliefs of their families.  Nevertheless, a part of me had always felt that a spiritual being I could neither see nor touch nor hear had created me and protected me.

I ran my fingers across the worn, brown leather Bible cover and asked for a sign.  Flipping it open, I pointed to a line on the page and read: In the Lord, put your trust. (Psalms 11:1)  Upon reading these words, a loving feeling washed over me, like I was being embraced by angel arms and reassured that everything would turn out okay.  Breathing a sigh of relief, I sprinted down the stairs to find my grandmother.  I informed her that my ball would be found, that the Bible said so.  Within the hour, a friend called and said her teenage daughter had found the ball and she would bring it to the house.  On that day, I learned to ask for help and to trust that it would be provided, but how or what or by whom was still a mystery.

In my youth and early twenties, I explored numerous religions, but nothing ever really stuck.  I always wanted to know what other groups thought or practiced or believed.  I couldn’t accept the idea that one group had the whole truth and everyone else was wrong, or confused, or infidels, or a cult, or going to burn in hell for all time. I wasn’t content with one book or one set of beliefs or practices.  To limit my thinking for religious purposes was like living in a cubicle and not being allowed to look over the wall and see what was going on outside.  I wanted to think for myself, to study, to analyze and to practice without inhibitions.  Why would God only accept the practices and prayers of one particular group and not others? An omniscient God couldn’t be that petty, could he—or she?

I finally concluded that I just didn’t know and floundered in a spiritual void for a time.  But when I was diagnosed with a serious illness and reunited with a childhood friend, I cracked and fell to pieces.  Deep, buried emotions erupted to the surface, shaking me to my core. Propelled to seek answers and find inner peace, I tumbled into a spiritual adventure that exploded my concepts of reality and opened me to a brave new world where souls talk, trees emit energy fields, rocks have life, and God is everywhere. *excerpt from the book, God Outside the Box

Listen to the interview with Kala and Patricia Panahi on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show.

The show airs on September 4th 2009.

More about Patricia Panahi…

Over the course of her thirty-four year career, Patricia Panahi has been a teacher, business owner, healer, workshop coordinator, program director, and, of course, writer. Her short stories and essays have been featured in several publications including Kanilehua, Hilo Sunrise, and the East Hawaii Observer.  In the 1980’s, Patricia owned and operated The Light Spot, a metaphysical bookstore and coffeehouse in San Diego, California.  In 2007, Patricia resigned as director of the English Language Institute at the University of Hawaii at Hilo to pursue her passion for writing.  She is the author of The Well Woman Cookbook, God Outside the Box: A Story of Breaking Free, and she has just completed her novel, Veil of Walls the story of a young American growing up in pre-Revolutionary Iran. Patricia lives on the Big Island of Hawaii with her husband and a mischievous cat named Pixie.  More info at: www.patriciapanahi.com

Who Are They?

All children have the natural intelligence of intuition (II). Some children are highly skilled or gifted in this talent in the same way that others have a talent for math, music, languages or physical dexterity.

Since each of us has a preference in how we relate to the world, the book, Raising Intuitive Children, shows how children with an intuitive learning style and intuitive intelligence view and interact with people, tasks and the environment.

Children with intuitive intelligence have traits that manifest in different ways along a continuum of normal skills to gifted talents:

•    Children who learn through feelings and process information kinesthetically. (Intuitive learning mode)
•    Children who are creative and artistic and intuition drives their motivation. (Artistic drive for exploring and creating, entrepreneurial)
•    Children whose intuitive intelligence is like a radar reading other people and understanding them. (Empathy and interpersonal skills)
•    Children who have intuitive episodes like dreams or a flash of creative insight. (Deep insight, precognition)
•    Children who are psychic. (Awareness of non-physical worlds through all senses or a specific sense.)
Intuition is the common denominator of these talents, and all children have the same intuitive capacities. Like musical prodigies and math geniuses, children display their intuitive talents differently. Some educators call the intutive kids the right-brainers! (Better than no-brainers, I guess)

II is the new kid on the block
Education, parenting and psychology professionals recognize that children have multiple intelligences, and intuitive intelligence is the new kid on the block. All intelligences exist on a continuum of normal to gifted. There are math prodigies, musical geniuses and intuitive psychics. The traits for intuitive intelligence cluster into several groups:

•    Creative and inspired artists,
•    Sensitive and empathic feelers, and
•    Talents involving inner psychic awareness,
•    Spiritual intuitives
Intuitive intelligence stands as an entity deserving recognition. Brain mapping using EEG topography found that creativity and intuition are associated with theta waves usually linked with daydreaming or fantasizing. Theta waves are calm states in which intellectual activity at the conscious level isn’t occurring. Children and adults with ADHD produce excessive theta waves.

Our logical mind addresses stable patterns, snapshots of reality stored in our memory banks, for the practical living. The holistic or holographic side of our reality, intuitive intelligence comes from within. By focusing our attention on how intuition presents, we act from deeper understanding.

Intuitive intelligence operates on gestalts or whole pieces of information and functions from our memory, not logic. Intuitive ability is finally recognized as the fuel behind innovation, creative thinking, inspiration, insight, and psychic experiences.

Intuition is an essential part of the human mind, which includes our conscious processes and unconscious processes—thought perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. Intuition involves nurturing self-awareness of the inner world, the outer world, and the connection in between

Connection is the key!
There is much we can do as parents to direct expressions of inventive and creative thoughts, help empaths deal with emotional overwhelm and establish resilience, face fears of ghosts. Children with intuitive intelligence, challenged by cultural systems which do not know how to connect with or teach them, need permission to follow their personal path and optimize their talent. We can give that permission and model it for them by developing our intuitive parenting. We also need to become intuitive parents.

Our truest parenting success is the feeling of resonance with our child, the connection of hearts, the meeting of minds—congruence.

Listen to the interview with Kala and Caron Goode on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show.

The show airs on September 25th, 2009.

More about Caron Goode….

Dr. Caron Goode is a licensed psychotherapist, author and inspirational speaker. Gifted with compassion and a deep desire to assist others in living their passionate purpose, Dr. Goode has become a well-respected leader in the parent coaching industry. In addition to founding and operating the Academy for Coaching Parents International that trains students in the empowerment model of parent coaching, Dr. Goode shares her holistic approach to achieving parenting success and managing family relationships in magazines, newspapers and radio. She is also the author of twelve books, including The Art and Science of Coaching Parents and Raising Intuitive Children. (read a free excerpt on www.RaisingIntuitiveChildren.com)

Do you have a highly intuitive child? Read the following 10 traits and check those that apply to your child.

£    My child has a way of finishing my sentences and reading my thoughts.
£    She has an ability to “see” things before they happen and is surprised that other people respond to her predictions with amazement.
£    My child frequently translates the needs of younger siblings and pets for me and is surprisingly perceptive.
£    Noisy, crowded events agitate him and it takes him a long time to bounce back after such disruptions.
£    My child “catches” others’ emotions or upset moods almost like a cold.
£    He is prone to headaches and stomachaches related to other people’s stress.
£    My child feels tension during traumatic world events, maybe even drawing pictures of them or spontaneously talking about them with no knowledge of the events.
£    It is hard to keep a secret or surprise from her–she routinely guesses her birthday presents, for example.
£    My child has a tendency to have insights about other people and the world that outpace developmental norms.
£    She reports feeling different from her peers.

If most of these qualities ring true for your child, your child may be an intuitive empath, or a highly intuitive child. We are all intuitive and capable of empathy, but intuitive empaths possess these abilities more than most people. Intuition involves the ability to pick up on subtle information that is not perceived directly through any of the five senses, but rather is detected through an invisible sixth sense. Empathy is the ability to tune in to how another person is feeling by registering those feelings through the body. Intuitive empaths experience these ways of perceiving the world through an extra-magnified lens.

Gifts and Challenges
Intuition and empathy are incredibly useful abilities in life. Intuition is a source of inner guidance, creativity, imagination, personal direction and meaning, a decision-making tool, and even a personal security system. Empathy helps us step into someone else’s shoes and deeply feel what the other person is feeling. This capability gives rise to qualities such as kindness, compassion, and understanding, all of which can be immensely helpful in creating and sustaining successful relationships.

On the other hand, as the parent of an intuitive empath you may be running up against some unusual parenting challenges that are not readily discussed in most parenting books. For instance, what do you do when your child can tell you’re having a conflict with your spouse, even when you and your spouse have been tight-lipped? What do you tell your child when he has intuitions of danger that turn out to be accurate? How can you help an intuitive child when he feels a friend’s pain so deeply he can’t shake it off, absorb so much of a classroom’s stress during the day that he has trouble falling asleep at night, gets confused by conflicts and thinks that another person’s feelings are actually his own, and even feels the pain of the world? While intuitive children certainly are not rare, they are not the majority either. Most classrooms and school activities do not lend much importance to intuition, and this can leave the intuitive child feeling different or even needing to suppress his or her insights about life.

How to Support an Highly Intuitive Child
As parents and adults involved in nurturing intuitive kids, we can make a big difference in supporting children’s intuition and empathy by not only giving positive feedback for these abilities, but also by helping kids learn how to deal with the stressors that can emerge from living with heightened intuitive abilities and teaching them real life skills designed with their abilities in mind.

Here are ways you can help and support an intuitive child:

•    Stay open to her perceptions without judgment.
•    Try not to inflate or deflate her intuitive experience when you respond to it.
•    Realize that she may need your help in learning how to manage the stressors associated with this trait.
•    Help her see that her way of feeling and seeing life is an important part of who she is–just like any other gift or talent.
•    Remember that these abilities are fundamental to your child’s natural intelligence.
•    Let your child know he is never alone and that you’re available to help him problem solve his intuitive and empathic stressors.
•    If he has empathically “taken on” someone else’s mood, aches, pains, or worries, help him to practice asking “Is this feeling mine?”–and remind him that he’s not responsible for someone else’s feelings.
•    If your child is stuck in a pattern of being very in-tune to others or to the pain of the world, then help your child switch to being on the “self channel.” You can do this with exercise, by encouraging him to express his feelings in art, or even by taking a couple of slow deep breaths with you.

Intuitive children’s messages for us can be simple and direct. Often, they simply require a quick recognition and action, as in the case of Deanna. One day my client Amy was driving her daughter, Deanna, to a toddler play group for the first time. As they drove down the long, winding driveway, Deanna exclaimed, “Watch out for the chickens!” Looking around the clear driveway, Amy asked, “What chickens, Deanna? There aren’t any chickens, honey.” Deanna continued to insist on chickens. While Amy enjoyed her two-year-old’s wonderful imagination, around the next blind curve she was shocked to find not one but four chickens pecking around on their neighbor’s driveway.

You can help keep your child’s intuition alive and help ensure it as a life long gift, instead of a burden. Intuitive empathy is not really a choice in a child. It is an innate lens through which the child perceives life–and it deserves respect and support.

More about Catherine Crawford…
Catherine Crawford, LMFT, ATR, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and registered art therapist specializing in the needs of intuitive empath children and adults. Her new book is The Highly Intuitive Child: A Guide to Understanding and Parenting Unusually Sensitive and Empathic Children (Hunter House, 2009). Her website is www.lifepassage.com

Listen to Kala speak with Catherine Crawford about Intuitive Children in her upcoming interivew on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show!  Interview coming soon!