The Indigo Adults

This is Part 5 of a 6 part series on Indigo Adults and substances.

Today we well be covering marijuana…

First of all, I want to start by saying that all that I am about to say it though personal experience. There are lots of scientific experiments that cover the physical effects of nicotine, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find articles that cover the energetic effects.

Today I realized that I sort of dug myself into a hole because I don’t really know much about marijuana… or rather… it’s affect on indigo adults.

I personally am repelled by it. And again, I have my theories, but I can’t really say for sure that this is a fully accurate assessment because in this post I’m going to write more about muggles than about indigo adults.

Muggles are drawn to marijuana to acquire the skills that come naturally to indigo adults.

My ex… the Petunia… LOVED pot and always compared his experience on pot to the things that I described as my day to day life as an indigo adult.

The telepathy, the empathic ability to feel into things and people… He got it, sort of… His closest point of reference was achieved by his use of weed.

So if alcohol opens the heart chakra, as mentioned in my last post, marijuana opens up the third eye.

This makes me think that pot is probably not helpful for most indigos, because they are already quite open in the third eye (unless they have closed up due to circumstance) and would not recommend pot for the already-open indigo child or adult.

But I have written before that I feel that it is the empathic skills of an indigo that is what will bring world peace to this planet and that if muggles must use this substance to acheive this state, then perhaps it is a good thing.

The problem, however, is that marijuana is typically smoked, like cigarettes, and so closes the heart chakra.

What I typically feel empathically when there are muggles that are high around me is that they are moving through the world looking at everything and experiencing it on a very personal and connected level, and have the awareness that all other is just another form of self, but that there is a weird disconnect that I can’t put my finger on.

It’s like an icky passiveness that gives me a sense that they’re not really there.

Perhaps it is that their passion is not really there (which comes from the heart chakra – closed from smoking the pot) and that weirds me out a bit.

I haven’t been around enough people that use marijuana in ways other than smoking to put my finger on whether it is the smoking or it is the substance… My guess is that it’s a little of both.

All I know is that I have dated a number of pot smokers and it always feels like they’re not there when they’re high. They’ve checked out and their touch feels icky to me when they’re high.

I think I was probably drawn to them because I sensed in their field the capacity to feel into other things, and mistakenly thought they were indigo.

Then, discovering that it was really the drug that opens up their 3rd eye, I am repelled and often the relationship is done shortly after they get high around me the first time.

I’m not puritanical about this, I just know how it feels to me. And it’s not good. (though, I must admit, I do like the smell)

This is often why one’s reaction to marijuana is very unpredictable.

See, with alcohol, the reaction is predictable, because it opens the heart chakra and the heart is a person’s core. That’s what the person radiates. (now the post-alcohol reaction varies depending on environment/circumstance as I mentioned in my last post)

But with pot, the third eye is open, which means the individual is taking in all this information outside him or her, from the environment, psychically. So the environment is dictating the experience… not the person’s heart/essence.

I don’t like that aspect either. And that’s why people get so paranoid on it… they get into an environment where that is floating around the ether… the high individual is going to pick up on that along with everything else coming at them.

BOTTOM LINE: I would say that most indigo adults that are already open should stay away from this. Muggles? Dunno. I’m not one so I can’t say if it helps or not. I suppose like everything else there is an upside and a downside. I just know that I am repelled by it.

(Side Note: I do advocate it medicinally and think it is tremendously helpful for people who need to increase their appetites or relieve pain)

I would love to hear other indigo adult and empath views on this one. I understand that many indigos are big fans of pot and I don’t understand this.

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This is Part 4 of a 6 part series on Indigo Adults and substances.

Today we well be covering alcohol…

First of all, I want to start by saying that all that I am about to say it though personal experience. There are lots of scientific experiments that cover the physical effects of nicotine, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find articles that cover the energetic effects.

Do indigo adults drink alcohol?

Well… this one does…

This past weekend was Homecoming at my school, so I got a recent and very direct reminder of the effect of alcohol on the indigo mind, body and energetic field.

As opposed to smoking, which I covered in the last post, alcohol actually opens the heart chakra.

That is why when people drink they say things like “I love you, Man” or are more likely to get into fights.

That is also, by the way, why smokers are more likely to be drinkers… because it does the inverse of smoking by opening the heart chakra, giving them a false sense of… well… openheartedness.

Alcohol puts lots of holes in the energy field. Even one drink can allow more “stuff” into your field from your surroundings than would normally be able to get in.

And, unfortunately, for the epath/indigo adult, being around drinkers will affect you more because you are empathically picking up on their energy field (which has more holes because of the drinking) and so not only could you feel inebriated from their presence, but you also may feel that you are picking up more crap from the surroundings just by virtue of being around them.

There is, however, a useful way to use alcohol, that I discovered a few years ago.

While I don’t encourage a regular habit of getting wasted, extreme inebriation will pull crap off of you and leave you cleaner – energetically – if you drink alone and in an energetically clear location.

I know that sounds like a one-way ticket to alcoholism, but a few years ago I was around a lot of people that expected me to carry energy for them. Despite my extreme diligence about clearing my energy field and bubbling whenever I got around them, sometimes they just wouldn’t un-hook.

Oddly enough, and I’m not really sure why, they would stop sticking to me after a night of heavy drinking alone in my apartment.

As a side note, I’m not addicted to drinking and, frankly, since turning 21 have sort of not been interested since the underage thrill was gone, so I have not partaken in the habit much. And I can get that same feeling by just being in the same room with a drunk person, and then still clear my field when it’s time to drive home, so why bother actually taking in the substance?

But in the instance mentioned above, regarding clearing energy of others hooked into me, it helped profusely.

My theory is that they hooked into me because my energy field felt so yummy. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, my energy field sort of lifted them up energetically…

But me being drunk did not feel like something the vampires in my life at that time wanted to hook into, and so, they would unhook. And I would awaken the next day from my evening of inebriation feeling wonderful… not hungover or sick as most people typically do.

Why?

Because I wasn’t carrying their junk anymore.

So getting back to Homecoming…

I have found in myself that there are two modes in which I drink.

One is imbibing alcohol for joy. The other is imbibing alcohol to numb out, like with smoking.

Homecoming was obviously imbibing for joy… and yet I still enjoyed the benefits of waking up the next day feeling much clearer energetically than I had in a long time.

Perhaps this is the crap of the people around me that cleared… I’m guessing it is.

Imbibing to numb out… I judge it as not quite as constructive…

It’s like what I said with smoking… A form of self-medication that I consider to be ok for me, as long as it’s short term.

Because ultimately, what is being numbed out is pain and pain is there to tell you something. It’s there to tell you to change something.

But as a temporary short term fix, alcohol might be a doable solution.

I’ve had mentors tell me that alcohol slows down moving through one’s karma and keeps individuals in unfavorable situations longer.

I could see that. Again, it’s a Band Aid, not a solution.

I have also heard that alcohol, along with cigarettes, grounds the energy field… but I don’t agree with that. Cigarettes might, but alcohol doesn’t do that for me.

It actually makes it more likely for me to jump out of my body… (through one of those holes in my energy field, perhaps?)

And while it chemically opens the heart chakra (and often the throat chakra – self expression), it closes the third eye and crown.

This is maybe why alcohol is considered grounding, but I don’t see that because I think people also lose touch with their 1st chakra, and, quite literally, can lose connection with the ground (and then land on their butt seconds later.)

And the unfortunate thing about all the holes in the field is that because the third eye and crown are temporary closed due to the alcohol, the individual… even one such as myself who is typically very aware when something gets into my field, is not able to detect the crap that is getting in until the next day when sobriety hits.

BOTTOM LINE:
So I would say that if you do use alcohol as an indigo adult, that you either drink in energetically safe surroundings (like at home alone, or with people that have good clean energy) or if you do go out and drink, as I did this Homecoming, to be sure to clear your energy and bubble before you sleep/pass out.

I know this might be challenging, given that you’re… well… drunk… but it will help you feel better in the morning.

Actually, I credit that to why I felt so awesome this morning. Not only did I receive the clearing/unhooking effects of the alcohol from those that tend to hook in on a regular basis, but I also cleared all the crap that might have stuck to me walking around all day in the public in the inebriated state.

Oh, and don’t forget the normal, physical body maintenance… like drinking tons of water…

Hope this helps… Would love to get feedback from other indigo adults and empaths. What have your experiences been?

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This is Part 3 of a 6 part series on Indigo Adults and substances.

Today we well be covering nicotine & smoking…

First of all, I want to start by saying that all that I am about to say it though personal experience. There are lots of scientific experiments that cover the physical effects of nicotine, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find articles that cover the energetic effects.

I would also like to start by making a distinction between nicotine and smoking.

Nicotine, like caffeine, has been found to have positive effects to those who use the substance in moderation. Some benefits that are being studied include helping ADHD, Schizophrenia and Parkinson’s Disease.

The harm comes in the way that nicotine is typically taken into the body. Smoking is what makes the substance adverse and I will be focusing on that aspect, rather than simply the nicotine.

I have found in myself and others, that people reach for smoking when they want to close off the heart chakra or already are closed down in the heart chakra.

It is no coincidence that I started smoking again in Las Vegas after quitting for 12 years.

It is also no coincidence that literally, the moment I left Las Vegas for Flagstaff, I quit very easily and haven’t partaken in the habit since then, aside for a couple of weeks (1) when I was connecting with the collective where I live (with 2 smokers… they didn’t tell me when I moved in, but it makes sense because I was still addicted to the nicotine and clearing the Vegas energy off of me, I just wasn’t partaking physically in it) and (2) when a few people came to visit from Las Vegas (who are quite open-hearted, but still part of the Vegas collective which is very heart-closed.)

I have used smoking as a way to feel more comfortable in the heart-closed environments. And I do feel that in that case it was much better to do that than to sit it out and experience some very energetically and emotionally painful environments and situations.

But if one is to use smoking in this way, it must be viewed as a temporary form of self-medication, which can be challenging because they say that nicotine is quite addictive and the smoke very harmful to the lungs and body.

The other energetic reason to only use the smoking temporarily is because the toxins from the smoking lower the vibrational energy of the field so much that it makes it more challenging create positive manifestations.

The positive manifestations still happen; they just come at a slower pace.

This is because those with a positive energy field are more likely to be healthy and less likely to come into the realm of a person that is unhealthy. The vibrations just don’t match.

So, it makes sense that coming from Vegas, I would accidentally move in with smokers because I was still vibrating at a lower energetic level from being part of the collective of Las Vegas.

My roommates. living in a cleaner energetic city like Flagstaff but holding lower energy than the general (why, I don’t know), healthy collective of Flagstaff by virtue of their smoking habit, matched well with me just coming out of Vegas.

But now that I have been here a few months and have been a non-smoker for a majority of those months, my vibration has lifted and the collective in the apartment is not comfortable to me.

I am not concerned too much with the discomfort, though, because when my field has thoroughly cleaned itself enough, I will just be joyfully thrust out of the living situation to be in a surrounding that is more healthful.

So my point is that the smoking served me in Las Vegas because it blocked me from feeling the collective of that city, which has a lot of pain and is pretty dark.

Rather than feeling distraught from the city, I chose to self medicate with smoking.

It might have perpetuated my living there for a longer amount of time, but overall I can say that I was pretty happy there (even though I was a bit numb emotionally – translating to a closed heart chakra), except for the moments when I was tapping the collective.

And now that I’m in more healthful, energetically clearer city, I can easily live without it.

And here’s also how I have become acutely aware that smoking lowers the vibrational energy…

One of my housemates goes out of town quite often. When he leaves, not only are do my manifestations come faster, but but they are even better than I expect, and I am also in a better mood and it is much easier to do my Appreciation Exercise and feel the appreciation radiating from me.

The day he returns (or actually about a day before, as his energy arrives before he does) is always a bad day for me. I find it much more difficult to connect with joy and appreciation and my manifestations are clumsy and bumpy.

(BTW, sometimes I don’t know he’s when he’s getting back, but I can tell just by the shift I mentioned in the last paragraph. It’s fascinating how accurate it is.)

And then once he’s back a few days, I raise him up close to where I am (it happens automatically) and then we all feel better that we have similar vibrations (except it’s still hard for me to connect with joy and appreciation and to manifest fast positive manifestations, so I can still feel myself carrying his heavier energy.)

To be more specific about the energetic effects of smoking, I observed my own empathic reaction to his presence.

It’s harder to feel the Appreciation (from the appreciation exercise mentioned earlier) with my typical huge capacity for appreciation when he’s around because, unfortunately, his energy is affecting mine. His closed heart chakra is affecting my energy field (it doesn’t help that his bed is within 10 feet of mine… separate rooms, but I know my energy field is at least 10 feet in all directions, so I often can feel him in his room. UG!)

I might piss a lot of smokers off by saying this, but smoking, especially long-term smoking (as I’m sure my housemate has been doing… he’s quite old) lowers a person’s capacity for joy.

This is the biggest reason to only use smoking temporary… because one’s ability to manifest wonderful and joyful things is in direct connection with one’s ability to feel joy. And the longer and more thoroughly one smokes, the less capacity one has for joy.

And long-term smokers cannot even feel that they are not feeling joy. They are so disconnected from this chakra that on a scale from 1-10 (10 being the ecstatic state – the shamanic joyfulness – I reach this often when I’m on my own) they feel about a 6 and think it’s really good (which for them it is… for them.)

That pretty much sums up my housemate as an example of smoking and how it affects one’s energy field.

As a side note, the actual addictive quality of nicotine can be a challenge to give up, even if the energetic, heart-shielding reasons are no longer present.

And I feel that the energetic effects of electric cigarettes (again, self-observed) are minimal to none for me.

I would love kind feedback about this post from other indigo adults and empaths. What have your experiences been when you’ve gotten around smokers?

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This is Part 2 of a 6 part series on Indigo Adults and substances.

Today we well be covering caffeine…

First of all, I want to start by saying that all that I am about to say it though personal experience. There are lots of scientific experiments that cover the physical effects of caffeine, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find articles that cover the energetic effects (and I’m not talking about the “energetic” in terms of caffeine’s ability to wake you up in the morning.)

Caffeine elevates my emotions (which I think can be backed up scientifically) but also opens me up more psychically.

Unlike other substances, like alcohol, which also opens you up but you don’t feel the opening until you sober up, caffeine opens me up immediately and makes shielding more difficult, despite my best efforts.

If I’m in toxic collective, my urge to drink coffee is much more pronounced. I have much less desire for coffee in Flagstaff than I do in Las Vegas, and in Sedona I almost never drink coffee.

My coffee consumption in Flagstaff depends a lot on how much time I am spending at home (around my smoker housemates). If I’m not home much, I don’t have much urge to drink coffee.

So, for indigo adults, coffee can be useful to balance their own body out in a collective that is more toxic. It will help you match the collective vibration better, which should be more comfortable for you, as long as the thoughts of the collective aren’t too dark.

It’s also a more gentle way to achieve this balance than alcohol or smoking.

Caffeine also can make grounding and staying in one’s body more challenging, though this has never stopped me from indulging. I just need to focus more on grounding if I am heavily caffeinated.

Most of the indigos and empaths I know can safely and comfortably use caffeine.

Finally, coffee and espresso drinks have a more dramatic impact (especially Starbucks), so tea and dark chocolate are good choices if you have trouble grounding but still want to use caffeine to wake up.

caffeine and indigo adults

Any indigo adults have thoughts on this? I would greatly appreciate kind and constructive comments…

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This is part one of a six part series that will look at the use of substances by indigo adults.

I am reluctant to use the word “drugs” because food can be a mood altering drug for many indigo adults.

For example, maca is wonderful for me unless I am around grouchy people. It opens me up more (very similar to if I only eat raw food), so when I get around my smoker roommates, I am more acutely aware of the toxicity in their bodies and therefore become more moody.

So I use denser foods to come into alignment with their toxicity. It makes living there more tolerable, though I am attempting to move out because a non-smoking empath living in a house full of smokers means that not only am I elevating their energy field (as we will learn in part 3 of this series), I am healing them and, despite my best efforts, carrying some of their poor health.

Food with lots of toxins in them is a substance for most people… especially indigos. Foods that are very processed or have a lot of chemicals in the will illicit bad moods and negative feelings in many indigo adults and children that I know. In the situation with my housemates, though, it is actually helping because it it helping me to match their more toxic vibration.

Other examples of “substances” that are substances to indigo adults and non-indigos (but not considered official “substances”) are crowds, the collective of crowds, water quality, TV, electric radiation, etc…

I won’t be writing about all of these. But part 1 of this series is just meant to have you be aware of factors when looking at the indigo adult experience…

Peace,

Indigo Leslie

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Here’s another great link!

Last week I posted about John Lennon’s birthday, and found another link related to John and Yoko.

Imagine Peace

I LOVE this site and it has a really YUMMY energy. Yoko is so cool!

Anyway, scroll half way down the page and watch the video called ONOCHORD. This is awesome and also has yummy energy. I got goosebumps.

The one thing I didn’t like was the end of the video “War Is Over” above the ONOCHORD video.

The beginning was good, but when it gets to “Give Peace a Chance” and they are showing all of these images of pain and war (the opposite of the energy of the song and the site), the empath in me felt my energy shift in a not good direction.

I almost feel compelled to write to her and ask her to let me reedit the video to show images of peace, love, kindness, compassion, which would mesh so much better with the vibe of the site and what she is wanting to accomplish.

Still, you should watch “War is Over”… Just watch the beginning… skip the end when the song begins.

I recently received an email from someone asking about how to deal with the experience of loneliness as an indigo adult.

Sometimes we can feel isolated if we don’t have others to share our experiences and thoughts with and this is especially true with indigos who are not in a collective that accepts and/or acknowledges their experiences or the non-physical world.

This was my response to the email:

Hi,

Thanks for the email.

I wish I knew of indigos in your area, but I sometimes find it hard to find others in my own town.

Ways I deal with it…

Well, first of all, I started this blog so that I would have some place to express my experiences without having to have someone in my physical vicinity. I created this blog, and those that are interested have found me.

I also do various searches on things related to indigo adults. There are lots of chat rooms/forums out there. I like indigoworld.com and will be adding them to my blogroll soon.

If you can’t find others who are indigo, at least surround yourself with positive people. Join clubs with happy people. I will be joining a weekly dance class soon just for that reason. If you are empathic, surrounding yourself with happy people will help you to vibrate with happiness, too.

APPRECIATION EXERCISE
Finally, and most importantly, every day for 5 minutes when you wake and 5 minutes before you go to sleep, make a list of things you appreciate in your life… Your health, your smile, your feet, your bed, your favorite pillow, the tree outside your window… By doing this, you will create a habit of looking for the positive in your world and you will also manifest more of those things you appreciate in your lists.

Hope this helps!

Let me know how it’s going after you do this for a little while.

Peace,

Indigo Leslie

So here are two communities that I have found recently that I really like:

Indigo World
Empath Community on Ning

(if you join the Empath Community on Ning, be sure to look up Indigo Leslie and “friend” me.)

Any indigo adults out there have any additional advice for those experiencing loneliness? How do you deal with it?

As an indigo adult, I consider myself pretty well versed in the non-physical, intuitive world, but I also recognize that there is always space to learn and improve.

I was surfing the web the other day and came across Elise LeBeau’s website.

She has a number of different programs that I think would benefit indigo adults. Two of them are free so you may want to start there…

You can get there by clicking here.

To be honest, I have not done either of the free programs yet.

I have, however started on the Money Manifestation Program.

This is a 20 lesson program and she lets you try it out by giving you the first four lessons for free.

Yes, I did learn. Yes, I feel the exercises helped. And I liked the program because it meshed well with my intense study of Abraham-Hicks’ material.

I especially liked that she used Abraham-Hicks’ emotional scale (she credits them on her site, too) and with almost each lesson you check in before and after the exercise to see if you have moved up the emotional scale.

Every time I did an exercise, I did move up. So YAY! I like!

Here’s a taste of a couple of Elise’s videos from YouTube:

This first one is about increasing one’s intuition. I liked it but I’m already more intuitive than I can handle sometimes.

And I don’t know if the “fit is supposed to hit the shan” the week you do this exercise, but it did for me. I feel a bit more open than I did a week ago, and while that doesn’t feel good, I think that being more open will put me in a new situation that is more appropriate, rather than one that I am just tolerating (I have been looking to move out of my current housemate situation for about a month).

This second video is great! This one is about programming yourself to trust and is also supposed to be performed each day for a week. I really liked this one and can feel the shift in myself.

Indigo Adults, Psychic Minds and Empaths… If you try this stuff out, let me know what you think! How does it work for you?

“I love my life and I’m really happy”

I’ve been hearing this a lot in my head lately. Is it my thought? Is it someone else’s that I’m hearing telepathically? I do consider this stuff, you know, with both the good and the bad that runs through my brain.

I tried a Pendulum test…

Result: Negative for other.
Mine? Yes, but sort of wishy washy…

Then I flashed to a memory from a few months ago.

I was meditating and I started to ponder some unpleasant memories from childhood.

Not wanting to dwell on the unpleasantries, I instead decided I would have a conversation with my young self… my 10 year old self.

We sat and talked and I assured her all would be better in the future. That though things might get a little rough during my teens, things just keep getting better and better. And then I imagined I hugged this little girl.

It was funny because I felt quite protective of her and at the same time greatly comforted by the feeling of being embraced by my younger self.

So then, I think about time bending and jumping and I have always felt that because thought has energy we can put our energy to different times and therefore almost change the course of our modern linear time.

And so, if we take that one step further, the me that is my future self could be doing what did in my meditation and guiding me and whispering affirmations in my ear in a way that I am only semi-conscious of, but conscious enough for me to be effected by it and for it to bend the course the the reality that I was laying down.

Then we must get into reality because there are many possibilities of what will come next for me.

I could almost feel it tangibly when I was on my cross country trip last year. The decision to stay in one place rather than another, or road or restaurant, would feel like a wave to me, and I could feel before the choice was implemented if I was making the right choice because just with the shift of intention and a few step in the direction of “I WILL TAKE THIS ROAD” I could feel whether I felt better or worse than I did with the choice I originally had that I was giving up.

In the same way, if my future self is whispering at me “I love my life and I am so happy” it’s going to orient me even more toward that direction.

I feel that I am already headed in that direction and nicely there in a lot of ways, but maybe she’s been saying this for a while and that has a lot to do with me being here now. I can’t say that I was happy a few months ago. I was OK, but I’m much better now.

I’m vividly happy. And I feel that I am in a great place for me.

And that’s no affirmation. That’s how I feel.

So this whole thing about time jumping and talking to future and past selves… That’s kind of wacky.

I mean, I’ve done time-line therapy… NLP practitioners are very big on that stuff and I do believe it works.

I guess it’s also like that scene in Harry Potter (third book) when Hermione has the timekeeper. She mentions that wizards have gone crazy by seeing themselves when playing with time.

I can see that. I guess I have the framing intact to be able to imagine the concept of jumping time, at least in an energetic way.

Your thoughts, comments, concerns, and knock knock jokes would be greatly appreciated…

Peace

Indigo Leslie

I am an indigo adult and I cannot specifically label myself as one religion because I pull beliefs from several religions.

If I HAD TO label, though, I would say I’m sort of Pagan/Wiccan/Judeo/Christian/Kabbalist (whew, that’s a mouthful!)

I stopped being Christian I was 16.

I strongly disliked everything and anything having to do with Christianity. People would say these high-minded moralistic things, base what they were saying on a book written 2000 years ago, and

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