The flooding in Pennsylvania almost got me during my road trip last week.

But just as they were closing Rt. 80 I overheard two woman outside a gas station talking about how the heavy rains had effected the northeastern U.S.

I asked one of the women if they heard anything about the local weather and she replied, “Oh yeah, they closed Rt. 80… Don’t you know that?”

I checked my phone to double check the information and discovered they HAD closed Rt. 80.

But the thing is that they had only done it 5 minutes before I had this conversation with this woman. So how would I have known? And how did she know?

I am very fond of road trips and have learned a lot about manifesting from my experiences on the road.

If I had not had the urge to go to the bathroom at that point in my journey…

If I had not chosen that gas station…

If I had not overheard the two women talking…

If I had not inquired about the information they were talking about…

… I would have gotten caught up in the storm and would have needed to back track or take some back roads in Pennsylvania (which is not fun if you don’t know them… I’ve gotten lost in PA several times on such roads).

So with all of these “chance” happenings and decisions… Was it chance or fate?

Isn’t that the popular question?

Well… at the start of the trip I set the intention that regardless of the weather, slow driving speeds, traffic, trucks, etc., I was going to enjoy the journey as I got to my destination.

I didn’t think of all of that stuff beforehand…

In fact, I thought of dry roads that were clear and moving well.

And even though I didn’t experience all of that on a lot of my trip, I think that the universe assisted me in my intention.

Not to say that I wouldn’t have enjoyed myself even if I had to backtrack. But I was in a mood and mental space to enjoy and take my time.

By having a conversation with myself about your intention before I set out to do something and by putting myself in a good place, I was more likely to have the universe line up with my intention and help me (or my mind taking in stimuli on subconscious levels that allowed my intuition to guide me to the desired outcome.)

And that is the other major question…

This thing we call synchronicity? Is it this magical force of the universe propelling our visions toward us?

Or is it our minds analyzing all of the data consciously and subconsciously so that we automatically chose what is in line with our vision?

Or is it out psychic intuition alone that is guiding us?

I know that as indigo adults, we tend to say it is our psychic intuition because many of us do feel things on an energetic level.

I like to think it is a little of everything, but here is how I break it down in my mind.

Let’s say I want to buy a new cell phone.

I feel joy when I think about this cell phone and in born in the aether, but it is not in tangible form yet.

As I think about the cell phone more, and feel more joy about the cell phone, it moves me to intuitively to pick up an advertisement not only offering the phone, but offering it to me on sale with a huge discount.

There’s the psychic part.

But when I was flipping through the flyer, I saw lots of stuff that was on sale. I had not made the conscious decision to look for a cell phone in that flyer, but because it was on the top of consciousness from thinking about it so much, my subconscious mind made it pop out so that my conscious mind would recognize it and pay attention to that particular ad in the flyer.

And then we all call it synchronicity because I had just been thinking about getting that phone, and there it is… even better than I had imagined it to be.

(By the way, I LOVE this affirmation: “The things that I manifest are even better than I imagine them to be.”

Do any other indigo adults, psychics or empaths have ideas on this element of manifesting? Please mention your techniques/thoughts/ideas in the comments section below.

~ Peace ~

Indigo Leslie

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One of my favorite authors is Brian Tracy.

Though he writes mostly sales and business books, he has a lot of wisdom for indigo adults and empaths.

One of Tracy’s books that I continue to return to Goals.

The entire book is devoted to manifesting, but I think that that’s a bit “woo-woo” for the business types that typically pick up books by Tracy, so he refers to everything in the context of goals.

One of the exercises in the book involves writing your goals every day.

Yes, I know, sounds tedious… but think about it.

If they are goals that truly inspire you, the process, once you sit down and do it, should evoke ideas and inspire you. Connecting with the goals at this deep a level should connect you to the being you desire to becoming.

It is especially powerful to write goals, rather than just say them (I do both). Tracy says that there is something about (hand) writing the goals that really forces one to focus on what is being written.

My process involves writing the goals in the morning and then reading them out loud immediately after I write them, and then in the evening re-reading them out loud before I go to bed.

I have always been someone who has written goals, but I had not written them every day until I started last spring.

The process was actually quite accidental. I wrote them one day. Then a few days later I wrote them again. And then I eventually ended up writing them every day.

And then I made it an experiment to see how long I could keep it up. And I haven’t stopped yet!

During this time, there has been a lot of transition in my life in regards to friends, health, work, and lifestyle… everything that I have written about in my goals.

For example, with friends, within a few days of writing, “All of my relationships are full of mutual trust, respect, liking and support,” several of my friends were excreted out of my life.

I say “excreted” because even in the midst of the friendships I knew they were junk-food relationships… not really quality relationships with not very high-quality people (lacking in integrity, honesty, etc) but I didn’t want to see that because I really did like them… they were fun to hang out with (and quite frankly, Sedona is slim-pickin’s for friendships if you are in your 20′s-30′s and want similarly aged people in your life.)

But liking is only part of the goal. So the universe and I excreted them out of my experience.

This is one of the benefits of doing this exercise, but I write this also to warn you that the changes can be powerful and swift and I can’t say that the initial feeling of letting go of these people felt good. (The image that it is evoking to me is when one takes too much fiber and there is a fast ‘excretion’ on a biological level – not fun.)

But after a few weeks I did feel better and it was actually much more empowering to move forth without the presence of these people in my life.

Also, throughout these changes there were a few moments when I wanted to stop the exercise, mainly out of laziness… or so I thought.

Here is the key thought of this post… The times when I wanted to let go of the process were the times I benefited from it the most.

That is because the times that I didn’t want to do it were the times I was the most out of vibration from these goals.

In the midst of moving thousands of miles and starting a new school I was so stressed and had so many moments of questioning my ability and worthiness to be doing what I was doing. Will my choices and all the stress that I am experiencing right now be worth it in the end? Why don’t I just take the easy route?

Add to that the fact that I was around people who knew my old vibration very well and, as an indigo adult and empath, could feel that imprinting on me.

I think this happens to a lot of empaths and I realized in this process that by doing this exercise my vibration – the one that I was deliberately creating through the goals exercises – were stronger than the vibrations of family, who I was before I started focusing on these goals, my own habitual tendencies to move into my old vibration (like turning around at the first sign of overwhelm and stress), etc…

So I’m encouraging indigo adults, empaths and others who feel that they are pretty psychically open to do this exercise.

Try it for a couple weeks and observe the shifts in your life.

Remember to write in the positive (say “I am slender” rather than “I’m not fat”) and that “I am..________” statements are the most powerful statements because your brain will hear them and align with them.

Also, I like to write, “or something better.” at the end of each of the statements.

“I earn $XXX per year, or something better.” Because sometimes you might ask for something and not know that it’s not in your best interest.

I also highly recommend you pick up Brian Tracy’s book. It’s really good and goes much more in-depth than what I have written.

If you do this and have results, please post them as comments on this page! I would love to hear them.

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One year ago this month I broke up with my best friend.

Throughout those 25 years of friendship, I had confided in her almost every step of the way, naively believing that I could trust her and that she was a supportive confidant.

Well, a year ago, she was a little more overt in her lack of support. She hated my idea… a creative project that I was very enthusiastic about… and instead of stopping at her criticism, I pushed on and the project came out great!

Well, this infuriated her and she just attacked me verbally and through email unrelentingly.

We are talking about pages of emails about how I shouldn’t have done this project, even though every other person who was involved or had knowledge of it LOVED it and was fully supportive of it.

I was devastated. I didn’t know how to respond.

I didn’t want to return the attack. Even though I was mad and hurt, I knew it wouldn’t solve anything.

I didn’t want to apologize because I had nothing to apologize for. I had an idea. I implemented the idea. Several people benefited from implementing the idea. No harm was done.

I had to decide whether I wanted to work it out with her… truly work it out, for the longevity of the relationship.

And I would have, because I love her so much, but I also looked at the impact this relationship had had on my life, especially the last decade or so.

I had to be truthful and realize that many of the ideas that I had and had shared with her had miscarried after I told her.

Over the last decade, there were a few ideas and pet projects that were so precious to me that I didn’t even tell her, and they always ran on course.

But the ones I told her about almost always got derailed, or sucked in the end, or ended up being a horrible experience.

This is not to say that most of the time she was all supportive and clapping on the outside… face to face.

But after thinking about the course of our relationship, I realized that she had been digging her *energetic* heels into every project that I loved and was encouraging to take off.

By doing so, she was bringing the entire project down or killing it outright.

So I didn’t call.

We haven’t spoken in a year.

Results:

I was sad for a long time, but after I stopped being sad, the ideas kept coming and I kept making them happen and it was easy because there was no one dragging them down.

And it was kind of a relief to not tell her stuff. I thought that’s what best friends did – they told each other stuff that they hold dear.

But maybe that’s not true.

Maybe that’s a pretty sophomoric way to look at BFF relationships.

And towards the end of our friendship, I would dread telling her things, knowing that the energetic impact could be powerfully negative.

Since our friendship has ended, this has been the most productive and amazing year for me. Really. I am feeling a freedom that I can’t remember feeling in a really long time.

It’s the freedom to create without someone I love looking over my shoulder and telling me or thinking “It sucks”.

And I’m so much more positive in general.

She had been mentally criticizing me for years without me realizing it, and now that I have shut her out and her criticism out, I am so much happier.

I can hear my own voice and the voice of the very awesome friends I have now, telling me positive and kind words.

Words, sentiments and thoughts that never would have come out of ex-BFF’s mouth.

And I replaced her with a dog. And the dog is so much cooler! And a lot more supportive!

So I will say it again, my advice to indigo adults is do share your ideas, but in the early stages of your musings, be very careful with whom you share them.

Or keep them to yourself until they have enough structure in the physical realm to stand up to the potentially destructive energetic forces of others.

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I picture a new idea as a soap bubble, floating in the air.

Energetically, it’s fragile and able to be taken by a gust of wind or some other gentle shift in the environment.

In order to preserve an idea, energetically, it is important to protect its energetic environment.

And the way that can be done is to keep it to oneself until it has grown strong enough that mild fluctuations in the environment will not effect its stability.

One of the most valuable lessons I have learned is that a new thought has an energy of it’s own, but it must be protected.

If the idea is shared with those that do not support the idea or that do not believe it can be pulled off (like a plan or decision) their thought energy will then be part of the energy of the idea.

But unfortunately, it will be the part that can make it go awry.

For example, let’s say you are going to write a book. That idea is whole and complete and intact. You are inspired.

Then you go and tell John Doe that you are going to write a book. It is possible then for John to pull you off course by a single comment, or even to support you face to face and then mentally hope that you will fail or think that you will fail.

John’s ability to do this is tenfold if you are empathic or psychic, as many indigo adults are, and are not able to filter out others or distinguish between what “stuff” is yours and what “stuff” belongs to other people.

I’m writing this at a time in my life where there are many projects going on. Some are still in their fledgling stages… some are further along.

And a few have been derailed because it was too tempting to me to spread the word about what I am up to because I am excited about it.

And in this modern age, things like facebook and twitter make it so easy to shout your plans and ideas from the rooftops prematurely.

In my case, I did so, and I started to feel a shift in the way I felt about the idea.

I felt insecure and like I wasn’t that into it anymore.

And then I realized that I had just posted something about it on a social networking site and that that was swaying my attitude about my idea.

Knowing this, I have cleared energy of others around the idea (you can clear anything energetically) and since then I have been back on track.

As I have gotten older, I have also learned to dig in deep and push myself beyond what I am hearing in the ether.

The one upside to sharing ideas is when it is truly with a helpful and supportive person. But sometimes you never know. (see my next post)

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I just completed a project in which I was closely working with a bunch of people (making a short film), many I suspect to be indigo adults.

Regardless or not of indigo status, I have noticed that every time I work on a crew, I have seen the empathic effect of groups upon the members of the group.

It is often said that in mastermind groups, the “mastermind” raises the abilities of all members of the group, and lowers the effect of the members’ weaknesses.

I have found this to be true in many ways, but none as much as when working crew.

The first time I worked on a project, I was director and producer and had no idea what I was doing, but to my disbelief, I knew exactly what I needed to do when I needed to do it.

I believe that it is not only the “mastermind” of the film crew that does this, but also the collective mind of producers, directors, etc. everywhere and anytime. Perhaps it is very faint, but those with an intuitive mind are unknowingly (or knowingly) tapping the abilities of expert technicians like Hitchcock and Spielberg.

The nice thing about this, is that by tapping this universal knowledge, you start to own the knowledge, and then can pass it on to others because you carry it with you.

I most recently became aware that I was “tapping” into the ether, when I had to light a set. While I have been learning a lot about how to do this, I knew that the knowledge wasn’t “part of me” yet.

I struggled a bit at the beginning, but once I started owning the position, I started to instinctively know what to do and where to put things. Even how to act in the position.

It was truly fascinating to me.

And I have also come to realize that the closer you are to a collective (like one that knows cinematography), the more clear you receive useful information when you have to draw upon the collective to get the job done.

And it doesn’t really matter whether you are with indigo adults or not. This ability is universal. Muggles just aren’t as good at it because they don’t have faith in it.

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I recently got an email asking me about a indigo adults experiencing an Octarine transition, and I didn’t really know what to write.

I just researched Octarine transition. Honestly, I wish I could help with that but I don’t know much about it.

There is not much posted online about the Octarine Transition but this is the best article I have found.

I do have some theories about it, though.

Some of the sites I saw referred to Octarine as a color of aura. So one would be an Octarine Adult, rather than an indigo adult.

The other sites implied that the transition, called “Octarine Transition”, was the shifting of an individual from an Indigo Adult to a Crystal Adult.

Also, the descriptions of Octarine Adults were different than the typical descriptions of Crystal Adults.

Regardless of what color (of aura) you are, I believe that all of these classifications can be grouped under one classification, which would be the NEW CHILDREN (or in some of our cases, the NEW ADULTS).

I have found that different indigo adults and children (shall I call them New People?) have different psychic abilities.

Perhaps the color indicates the type of mission one is on on this planet and that determines the abilities necessary to achieve that mission.

Whenever I am having a difficult time, such as when I am transitioning to a higher vibrational state, I consider it to be a time that will allow me to be able to better handle changes that are coming up for EVERYONE (Muggles included).

I once had someone say to me, “The psychics, healers and intuitives go through everything emotionally/psychically BEFORE the general population so that they may help them through that time with even emotions and a clear head.”

I have found this to be quite true for me.

I was working across from the World Trade Center three months before 9-11 and I was incredibly distraught every day I had to go to work. All I kept thinking was, “I have to get away from here!” which was weird because I was earning an ENORMOUS amount of money and I liked my job.

But now I know why.

So do your best not do despair. There will be a time when you will be needed and you will be able to see clearly when others are needing your guidance.

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I have described some of the strange indigo adult powers that I have, but one of the ones that fascinates me the most is my perseveration (mental focus) on topics that someone else in my life is focusing on that I pick up on psychically.

I usually don’t find out until a few days later that this other person is focusing on this topic.

And that’s what’s weird about it.

So, this Christmas more than any other in the past, I was focusing on our Christmas tree.

I wanted to hug it and mentally send it love and decorate with the intention that every piece I put on it is a piece that is saying to that tree “I love and appreciate you”.

Dear Christmas Tree: I love and appreciate you!

And when I water it, to give it water that I have briefly meditated with and infused with my love.

This didn’t seem too weird to me. After all I’m pagan and empathic, even with plants, and could feel the tree’s reaction to my appreciation.

Then, just two days ago, I get an email from a friend who has a sight that is similar to my own. Her entire email is about… YOU GUESSED IT… Christmas Trees!

She wrote about the history of the ceremony of bringing in the tree, what the evergreen symbolized in pagan religions and how that was adopted by Christianity, what it means to her, etc…

And I realized that I was feeling her thoughts.

This happens a lot to me.

And the lesson is always that I should always surround myself with the people that think things that I want to think…

Positivity. Spirituality. Peace. Joy. Creativity. Cooperation.

It really puts into perspective how much impact one person can have, even if that person is spending his or her entire life in a cave, meditating.

This is why when I meditate, I think about sending love and healing energy to the planet and to my friends, loved ones and to all, and I encourage other indigo adults to do the same.

~ Peace ~
Indigo Leslie

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I have written a lot about the challenging side to being an indigo adult and empath and I just wanted to write a little about one of the upsides of being empathic.

I have also written a few posts about the education system (especially in America) and the current way it is run and how it clashes a lot with the way indigo adults naturally learn.

One of the ways I have found that is the best way for me, an indigo with a powerful empathic side, is to sit next to someone who knows what I want to learn.

Even better if I can touch this person (platonically, of course) or look at this person in they eyes for a minute or two.

The first time I discovered this, I was in massage school and I wasn’t understanding how to do a foot massage stroke. My teacher came over and sat shoulder to shoulder with me while we each had a foot of the person receiving the massage.

Not only did my ability get instantly better without her even saying anything, but I was able to rattle off bones of the foot that I didn’t know and I also knew exactly why I was touching the foot in that manner.

I suddenly had a depth of knowledge that I knew was not mine and I looked at my massage teacher and said, “Oh my god. I’ve got this in a way that I never could have gotten it. Just now… in this moment.”

She just looked at me for a moment, confused by what I had said, but then she got it. Empathy is not that abnormal or unusual amongst the massage therapy community.

Since then, I have noticed that when I have conversations with individuals about their area of expertise, I can usually speak at their level without having any strong knowledge about their field.

The long term learning effects and way to leverage your empathic ability come from getting the knowledge “under your hands” aka… once the knowledge you have gleaned with your empathic ability becomes your own through memorization or practice, it is yours forever.

And if you’re an empath like me, it makes it easier for those around you to pick up information, because it is easier for others to tap MY expertise by virtue of my empathic tendencies.

Additionally, there are no/minimal adverse effects on those individuals you “tap” to learn.

I have found that when others “tap” me, sometimes I will get their thought process or confusion about the topic in my mind, even if I normally am very clear and with a high level of understanding about the subject.

However, this has happened quite rarely.

Soooo, any indigo adults have similar experiences? Would love to read about them…. Please leave comments below!

~ Peace ~
Indigo Leslie

Muggles

One are the Petunias I have mentioned frequently, who are drawn to the abilities of the indigo adults and children, and the other are the Uncle Vernons that hold strong distain for all things indigo.

There are many reasons why Uncle Vernons feel this way and I know one of the main ones because occasionally I feel it myself.

If you are in a environment that provides constant contact with intuitives, psychics, empaths, etc, you sometimes come across individuals with different skills than your own, or with those that are more developed than your own.

I can remember my first experience in a new age shop.  This was when I was 16 and long before I even knew what an empath was.

I remember walking in the store and feeling as though I was being watched. But not just watched… read.  I didn’t know how to pinpoint what it felt like, and at the time I didn’t think I was particularly psychic, so I thought I was going a bit nuts, but in retrospect, I probably was being “read”.

Since then, I have had many experiences with psychics… true psychics… that can see all of my “stuff” with me just standing there.

And I always feel very vulnerable when I am around people with this ability.  I feel energetically naked and I do my best to shield but I can’t say that I’m particularly successful, usually because by the time I think strengthen my shield, the energetic exchange of information has already taken place.

I get “reads” on people, but for me it’s not usually as blatant… It either comes across as a physical sensation or a strong shift in emotion or intention, but is rarely a fact or image running in my head about the person before me.

That being said, this is still more access to the etherial than most Muggles have.  And I imagine that because they have not had the experience of accidentally picking up on information on a psychic or empathic level, the awareness that someone they are with can do that leaves them feeling vulnerable and uncomfortable around that person.

The upside is that a majority of the people that I have met that get this intuitive information very clearly usually have the spiritual/social awareness of what to do with the information once they get it (which is usually nothing).

Like, I don’t feel judged when someone gets a read on me.  It’s just information.  And it is that non-judgmental attitude that comforts me.

And I say it is a “double edged” ability because often the knowledge that the intuitive, empath, psychic or indigo adult has is very profound and would be helpful to the evolution of the soul of the individual being read, but the act of revealing this information could also jolt the individual into a healing crisis.

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