I had the pleasure of holding space for a Brilliant teenager recently, and I was gifted awareness of remarkable perceptive powers, not dissimilar to some of my own. We found ourselves talking about what it means to tap into what we might like to consider the divine.
I was quick, noticeably quick, to detach it from any religious connotation, which says less about what I was sensing in my young client and more about what I still carry within from my youth. But I needn’t have been so hasty to free the divine from any belief system because my young client immediately seemed to grasp that the divine is simply alluding to who we are in our fullness.
How Brilliant to know at that age that we are more than what meets the eye, that we have subtleties to our Being unseen. How Brilliant to appreciate that who we are is outside the ability to be defined, because when we hold ourselves free from any mind-based definition of truth, we hold ourselves free to simply be.
When I’m working with young people, something I’m drawn to more and more, I allow them to lead the session from their heart. Yes, I ask questions and I might prompt further deep-diving, but the pathway to self-discovery is determined by them.
“Let her lead” was the Wisdom I received throughout this particular session. I didn’t share it; I simply used it to remind me to let her lead. But towards the end of our session, leadership was revealed through her colours, and my young client instantly associated it with pointing herself in the right direction, being a leader of herself, and helping her friends to do the same.
No wonder I was guided to let her lead — this Brilliant Being is a leader we need!
The divine is within us all. It shines through us as our uniqueness. So when we allow our uniqueness to be seen, we’re sharing the divine that we are.
But not only that — when we share our uniqueness, it means we have freedom within to honour our truth, and this has enormous repercussions, especially for teenagers.
Imagine a young person so OK with being unlike any other that when all others are making one choice, they feel empowered from within to make another. So aware are they of their divinity that they trust their gut feelings with certainty, and they know with even more certainty that their action must not be guided by any other, but by the Brilliance that they are.
Wow, if I’d had this mirrored to me, explained to me, nurtured in me, if I’d known the enormous gift that was resting at my heart without me realising it, I think my decisions and actions as a teenager would have aligned more closely with my truth.
Instead, who I was became almost invisible to me and I struggled to even know what I needed. No wonder I looked outside of myself to gauge how to be in any now — something that had dire consequences for my Being.
When we want to guide our young ones in order to protect them, let’s remind them that who they are within is the divine, empowering them to listen to their heart, trust their intuition, follow their instincts, and know that they KNOW what they need.
And if the divine is not a term that resonates with you, then feel free to substitute it for any other, for all we’re trying to do is help our young ones recognise that at their core they have an enormity of power to tap into, and that powerfully being who they are is the most powerful use of that power.
With Love Kirsty
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