Reverend Noelle Uebele-Keys is a Reiki Master/Teacher, psychic, medium and metaphysical teacher who has been helping individuals for ten years by doing past life regressions, Shamanic soul retrievals and channelings. Working with crystals and gemstones, she creates Reiki enhanced essences that allow earth energies help cleanse/heal/raise the vibration of the physical body. She has traveled around Central New York and Pennsylvania helping parents recognize and understand their Indigo children. She owned and operated a gemstone bead jewelry business and works on alternative healing modalities out of her home in Central New York State.

More and more, the term "Indigo Child" has not only entered into the mainstream, but is being recognized by counselors and teachers. The short definition of an Indigo Child is, simply, a more finely-tuned human who is sensitive in many ways above and beyond what we have come to believe -- simply because they have brought a higher spiritual vibration into their physical bodies.

I had heard Jan Tober and Lee Carroll speak of Indigo Children. My curiosity was aroused when they suggested that there are also Indigo Adults. Though, according to Kryon, the eldest of the current influx of Indigoes are now in their 30s, and I was in my mid-50s, I seemed to have so many of the characteristics of those children that I had to wonder . . . could there be any "older" Indigoes?

The answer came about in 2002 at a channeling by Steve Rother. The entity (or entities) that he channels call themselves "The Group." During the question and answer session, I asked if there are Indigoes over 50 years old. The Group spoke of two other Indigoes in the room at that time - and then said to me, "Yes, my dear, you are an Indigo. You came in as a scout to see if those of that energy could survive."

I was floored. In that crystal moment of verification, so much about my life made sense. I had always felt different and was always an outsider, but years of psychological counseling convinced me the "wrongness" was with me, not others. As a high school English teacher, I never fit into the educational environment. I had few close friends. I felt uncomfortable in large groups, except for retreats and workshops where experiential work was the focus: in those places I thrived. Back in the ordinary world, I had to "shut down" every time I walked into my classroom, because instinctively I knew too much about the youngsters sitting in front of me, and would feel their sensitivities if I remained open.

In the years following my retirement from teaching, my husband and I traveled throughout upstate New York working at craft shows, health fairs and psychic fairs. Our focus was semiprecious gemstones and sharing their energies with people we met. Many were young people, from eight years old to teenagers, who already knew they were sensitive to stone energies. Some were new to such things, but awakened quickly as they held a particular stone for which they seemed to have an affinity. There have even been young parents of Indigoes who are Indigoes themselves, but had no idea of the advanced energies they carry or nurture.

Of the Indigoes we've met at these events, most felt to us to be open, expressing their feeling of "waiting until someone understood" -- appearing wide eyed and innocent, yet with a firm connection to their inner Self. If they did not already know this, they sometimes recognized it when it was gently pointed out to them.

This is one of the outstanding characteristics of Indigoes: they have a strong intuitive voice and need help recognizing it and trusting it. More than two years after leaving the work force as a full time teacher, I finally began to trust my own inner knowing. This, after so many years of struggle in a society that prefers observable facts over intuition, brushing the latter aside as an unreliable source of knowledge.

We Indigoes are special, but not better. This is a factor that is most important for non-Indigoes to understand. Non-Indigoes are no less precious or special than Indigoes - all have their own gifts to share; Indigoes are just differently "assigned." Discovering those gifts is often a lifetime process, sometimes difficult for Indigoes and non-Indigoes alike.

It has been true for many years that our children are our teachers. Often, a parent will go through his or her own childhood issues as a child goes through the stages of infant, toddler, child and adolescent - yet most parents of school age children are ignorant of this fact. According to both Kryon and Steve Rother's Group, Indigoes have come as humanity's teachers. Many Indigoes have come into families who know nothing about their abilities; others have chosen families with strict religious beliefs and values which include the belief that any psychic gifts are evil. These are the choices they make before they incarnate.

While all children are teachers to some degree, the difference that sets off most Indigo Children is that they often know more than their parents, in that they can perceive lessons from their own remembrances. All humans have access to this information through various techniques and alternative healers; and some have an easier time of change and understanding than others. But Indigoes -- Indigoes just KNOW, viscerally and with deep understanding.

Much has been written and discussed regarding Indigoes mistakenly diagnosed as having ADD and ADHD. These traits are merely the result of an extremely intelligent, active, and questing mind combined with intuition. The Indigo mind moves in ten directions at once, and is often several questions ahead of any speaker and several pages ahead of whatever they read. Focus and self-disciplines are skills that need to be taught to Indigoes - a difficult task, yet they can adapt quite well, with minds that are superlative at multitasking.

This kind of encompassing mental activity, going on "behind the eyes" and not evident to an onlooker, often makes Indigoes seem reserved and uncommunicative, especially teenagers who desperately want to fit in. They learn quickly to keep their minds separate from their social activities and their circle of friends in the name of acceptance, often paying the price in loneliness and isolation - yet, knowing they are somehow intrinsically "different"; the need for acceptance can be overwhelming. Truly, this is a Catch-22. Explaining why they feel different - and reassuring them of their own value -- seems to be the task set for my husband and me as we meet Indigoes and their parents in our geographic area. Once they realize what it means to be Indigo, the child opens up and begins to discover his or her special gifts, often unable to stop talking about their own surprise, awe and wonder.

Sometimes parental concerns lead to a professional diagnosis of disassociative disorder, with the diagnosed person mentally disassociating from their surroundings when they become bored or feel threatened with non-acceptance. While I do not presume to diagnose medically, as such are not credentials, through my observation and experience I would question the validity of such a blanket diagnosis. I would ask that another paradigm be considered with equal weight: that it is merely a learned behavior born out of boredom or wariness from a mind that moves many times faster and in different directions than even those with exceptional intelligence.

The Indigo mind automatically thinks "out of the box." It was an Indigo youngster who solved the Y2K computer dilemma leading to uneventful millennia New Year's Eve celebration 1999. Even before I discovered I came with the Indigo Energy, I often thought of myself as having been born as a right brained person with flairs for artistic and creative endeavors but trained by our educational system into a being left brained person. It has been a difficult journey moving back to and learning to trust the right brain/intuition. It is vital that our new crop of Indigoes not be shoehorned into a similar situation.

Most Indigoes also have no use for information which they perceive as inapplicable to anything practical, or contrary to their own interests and skills. No longer are many of these youngsters willing to accept the general liberal arts curricula offered by our educational institutions. Even those of us who did not rebel while we were in school give short shrift to topics, discussions or entertainment that cannot captivate us quickly and thoroughly - but for those things which fascinate, we Indigoes can never get enough information, staying with it for hours at a time. When the creative urge hits an Indigo, hours seem to disappear like minutes.

Indigo children need help learning to pay attention to that intuitive voice and recognizing which experiences point them in meaningful directions. This knowingness is the cornerstone of the Indigo's life. Humans of this energy vibration know when they don't feel up to par or feel grumpy, but often they don't know why. While current physical ailments can be from abusing the body in earlier years, that's not the only difficulty. Indigoes open to a higher vibration seem to be more sensitive to their surroundings and the foods they consume.

In my journey to physical health, I have learned much about everything that affects me, including chemicals I ingest and those around me. My skin can no longer tolerate cleaning compounds. Your Indigo Child may evidence this in the form of irritations when in contact with clothing, bedroom curtains, furniture coverings, and bed sheets. Synthetic fabrics and chemicals in detergents leave their residue on skin which is our most extensive sensory organ. How can we NOT be affected by harmful synthetic substances? It's time to educate ourselves with the abundance of available information, scientific AND intuitive, supporting our growing need as a species to forego those elements which contribute to not only our physical ill health, but weaken our vibratory level, making all of us less aware of our intuitive voice.

Many foods we consume have been proven harmful to the physical body and many ailments for which we seek physician's advice can be directly related to nutrition. Refined sugar is a major culprit; chemical food additives contribute immensely to depleting those natural elements essential our physical well-being.

Let's take magnesium as an example. Sugar depletes magnesium levels; specific dyes and chemicals in preserved foods and drinks deplete magnesium. According to Nutritional Healing by Phyllis Balch, CNC, and James Balch, MD, magnesium deficiency can manifest as insomnia, confusion, irritability, poor digestion, rapid heartbeat, seizures, tantrums, asthma, chronic fatigue, and chronic pain. If this is true for one vital nutritional mineral, magnify this many times and speculate on the results in our youngsters, Indigo and non Indigoes alike!

Perhaps those who seem overly concerned with health foods and exercise have good reason for being adamant in their cause. They could well be the ones leading the way, teaching us that taking care of our physical well being better serves our spiritual well being. When it comes to Indigoes, this is not an option - it is a necessity. As they show us the value of acceptance, diet, exercise, and paying attention to that inner knowingness which we label intuition, they show us by example that we truly are spiritual beings manifest in physical form.

Finally, there is a powerful need to reconnect with the natural world. Natural sunlight is, for Indigoes, as necessary as breathing. Seasonal Affective Disorder is recognized by the medical community; it is merely a lack of the ultraviolet sunlight upon which our spiritual bodies feed. Full spectrum lighting (NOT lighting such as found in tanning booths, which is harmful) has been proven to change mood and behavior in hyperactive children. Additionally, communing with nature -- touching the earth, the stones, the waters and feeling the breath of air and the warmth of the sun on our skin -- gives us tangible reminders of our physicality and oneness with Mother Gaia. This is a human need, enhanced and magnified by the energies that Indigoes bring with them into physical reality.

Nelson Mandela shared these concepts in his 1994 Inaugural Speech, quoting from Marianne Williamson :

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be? . . .

We were born to make manifest he glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone . . ..

Welcome our Indigo Children. Understand that they are different - not "better." And that they come bringing marvelous gifts to prepare us for the generations of Lightbearers to follow.

For more information on Indigo Children, resources and useful websites, please Contact Noey.