The Indigo Children 1978-1995
Indigo Children is a term used in spiritual and consciousness-based communities to describe individuals believed to be born with heightened intuition, sensitivity, and a strong inner sense of truth. These children are said to have been born between 1978 and 1995. These children are now adults who feel called to challenge outdated systems and bring about more conscious ways of living.
Commonly associated traits: While every individual is unique, those who resonate with the Indigo concept often report strong intuition and deep inner knowing, heightened empathy, and sensitivity to environments. They have a natural resistance to authority that feels misaligned or unjust. They have difficulty conforming to rigid systems or expectations. Indigos have a strong sense of purpose, even if it feels unclear early on. Indigos can feel “different,” misunderstood, or out of place from a young age.
Many Indigo individuals were historically labeled as “difficult or overly sensitive,” or “non-compliant,” when in reality they were responding to environments that didn’t honor their nervous system or authenticity.
Indigo Children & the Nervous System: From a holistic lens, Indigo traits often align with high sensory processing and deep emotional intelligence. These individuals tend to perceive subtle cues-energetic, emotional, or relational- that others may overlook. When supported, this sensitivity becomes a strength; when suppressed, it can lead to burnout, anxiety, or disconnection.
Today, Indigo Children, who are now adults, often seek meaningful, heart-centered work. They value authenticity over tradition. Indigos are drawn to healing, creativity, advocacy, or consciousness work. Indigos learn to regulate their nervous system while honoring their depth. At its core, the Indigo concept points to integration, learning how to live fully human while staying connected to their inner truth.
~Sue
A note on language and labels: The term Indigo Child is not a diagnosis and is not meant to elevate or separate one group as “more evolved” than another. Instead, it can be viewed as a symbolic framework, a way to describe a certain kind of sensitivity, awareness, and role within collective evolution.
Spiritual Embodiment
In spirituality, embodiment is the moment where insight stops living only in your mind or awareness and moves into your nervous system, tissues, breath, posture, and behavior. You don’t just understand truth, you become organized by it. Instead of spirituality happening to you, it happens as you.
When something is embodied, it is no longer symbolic or imagined. It is somatic, body-based. People often describe it as a felt presence in the torso or core. It’s like “wearing” awareness like a suit or skin; there is a sense of weight, density, or groundedness that can tangibly be felt in the core of the body. There is a calm alertness rather than emotional intensity within. There is also a quiet solidity that doesn’t need to move or explain itself. These things happen because your nervous system has reorganized. Your body is no longer bracing, searching, or orienting outward for safety or meaning.
What’s actually happening inside the body is that the nervous system stops running on survival loops. Embodiment begins when the system says, “I am safe here.” This shifts your baseline from sympathetic activation (seeking, fixing, awakening) to ventral vagal regulation (presence, connection, grounded clarity).
Awareness drops from the head into the body. In non-embodied spirituality, awareness sits above or outside the body. In embodiment awareness inhabits the chest, belly, and hips. The breath deepens without effort, and the posture subtly changes. This is why it feels physical. Awareness is no longer observing the body; it’s inhabiting it.
You may notice less internal dialogue. Less emotional charge around opinions and less need to be understood. There will be less of an urge to define yourself spiritually. Your sense of “I” moves from a mental narrator to a felt continuity. You are not empty, you are not dissociated, you are just present.
People say “it feels like a suit” or “in my core,” and this description is very accurate. Embodiment creates a subtle inner boundary. There’s a sense of containment, a quiet authority without dominance. It’s not expansion anymore, it’s inhabitation.
You may notice fewer highs and lows, less spiritual excitement, and more trust. You may notice emotions move through instead of sticking, decisions feel obvious, not dramatic. There will be compassion without over-involvement, and boundaries without defensiveness. Some people may feel bored at this stage, the fireworks are over, and the integration has begun.
Embodiment is not the end of spirituality; it’s the beginning of living it. This is the phase where wisdom becomes behavior, presence becomes your nervous system’s default, spirituality becomes relational, practical, and human. You’re no longer trying to transcend being human. You are inhabiting being human consciously.
How to Open Your Chakra System
Root Chakra ( Red ) Grounding & Safety: Open by feeling safe in your body and connected to the Earth. Practices include grounding (walking barefoot, deep breathing), creating stability in daily life, and tending to basic needs like rest, nourishment, and security.
Sacral Chakra ( Orange ) Flow & Emotion: Open by allowing emotions to move without judgment. This can be done through creative expression, gentle movement like dancing, pleasure, and honoring feelings, which help restore flow and openness.
Solar Plexus Chakra ( Yellow ) Personal Power: Open by reclaiming your sense of inner authority. Practices include setting boundaries, acting from self-trust, and releasing all shame or self-doubt through awareness and compassion.
Heart Chakra ( Green ) Love & Connection: Open by softening into compassion for yourself first, then others. Gratitude, forgiveness, grief release, and heart-centered breathing naturally expand this space.
Throat Chakra ( Blue ) Truth & Expression: Open by speaking and living your truth. Honest communication, journaling, singing, and releasing fear of being seen or misunderstood support this chakra.
Third Eye Chakra ( Purple ) Insight & Inner Knowing: Open by quieting the mind and trusting your inner perception. Meditation, reflection, and reducing mental overstimulation allow intuitive clarity to emerge.
Crown Chakra ( Violet ) Unity & Awareness: Open through surrender rather than effort. Silence, contemplation, prayer, and a sense of awe or connection to something greater allow this chakra to unfold naturally.
Me & THC
First of all, I am not here to promote substances; I am here to show you how incredible a mindshift can be.
For most of my life, I couldn’t tolerate THC. While others relaxed, I would freeze. I’d feel anxious, overwhelmed, and trapped in my own mind, vowing never to touch THC again. I always assumed something was wrong with me.
Years later, after a deep spiritual awakening and finally understanding my neurodivergence, something unexpected happened. I tried THC again because my insomnia was real, and I wanted to use something other than prescription medication. This time, I found that I could enjoy it without the horrible mental side effects. Nothing about the substance changed……..I changed; my thinking had shifted.
I became someone who finally felt safe inside myself. I healed my nervous system through my spiritual awakening. When we heal and truly arrive in our own body, even the things that once overwhelmed us can become peaceful.
This is why I support others on their awakening journey, because when we come home to who we are, life stops feeling dangerous and starts becoming livable, meaningful, and real.
Tinnitus or Monad Ringing
The monad ringing term is used in some spiritual and metaphysical frameworks to describe a high-frequency inner tone or ringing associated with contact or alignment with the Monad, often understood as the oversoul, higher self, or divine spark that exists above the soul level. This isn’t a clinical term, as it’s different from ordinary tinnitus in how it’s described and experienced.
Spiritually speaking, monad ringing is said to occur when awareness shifts beyond personality and even soul identity, into a more unified, singular presence. The Monda is considered non-dual, not fragmented. The sound is often described as: Very high-pitched, pure or crystalline, steady rather than erratic, sometimes perceived as coming from everywhere, not just the ears. Many people say it feels less like a noise and more like a vibrational state.
Monad ringing is experienced in the body as a sense of stillness in the core. Pressure or expansion at the crown, upper spine, or behind the eye. The nervous system feels quiet, neutral, or spacious. The ringing may increase in silence or during meditation. There’s often no emotional charge, just presence. Some describe it as the body “tuning” to a higher octave of awareness.
Monad ringing differs from other types of spiritual ringing. Emotional or integration ringing fluctuates and comes with confusion or processing. This can overstimulate the nervous system and become agitating and uncomfortable. Monad ringing is calm, stable, non-reactive, and almost background-like. It’s often noticed after major integration phases, not during upheaval.
Interpretations vary on monad ringing, but commonly it’s said to indicate: Stable embodiment of higher consciousness. A shift from seeking to being. Less identification with story, role, or path. Awareness is anchored in unity. Importantly, many traditions say this isn’t something to chase - It’s something that becomes noticeable when the system is already coherent.
My grounding note is that not all ringing is spiritual, and physical causes should always be ruled out if there’s discomfort, hearing changes, or distress. But when people use the term monad ringing, they’re pointing to a felt, embodied state of alignment, not a symptom to fix.
Nervous System Healing by Spiritual Awakening
Safety replaces survival. Before awakening, many people live in a quiet fight-or-flight state. Always thinking, always bracing, always scanning for what’s next. A spiritual awakening often brings a felt sense of safety, not because life is perfect, but because you stop resisting reality. When the body senses safety, the nervous system shifts from sympathetic (stress) to parasympathetic (rest and repair). This is where healing happens.
The mind stops overriding the body. Chronic stress teaches the nervous system to ignore signals and to push through. Awakening reverses this. You begin to notice sensations, rest when tired, breathe more fully, and listen instead of forcing. This restores interoception ( the brain’s ability to feel the body), which is essential for nervous system regulation.
Emotions finally get to complete. Unprocessed emotions keep the nervous system stuck on “high alert.” When old emotions surface, they’re felt without suppression, and they move through instead of being stored. This discharges stored stress from the body and is often felt as sighs, tears, shaking, yawning, or warmth.
Identity softens because there is less threat. Much of nervous system stress comes from defending an identity: Having to be right, being enough, being safe, being liked. Awakening loosens this grip, and you stop taking life so personally. When there is less perceived threat, fewer stress signals are sent to the brain.
Presence regulates automatically. Presence isn’t a concept; it’s a biological state. When our attention rests in the present, our breathing slows, our heart rhythm smooths, and our muscles soften. This directly activates the vagus nerve, the main regulator of calm and connection. You don’t “heal” the nervous system; you stop activating it unnecessarily.
The system learns a new baseline. Over time, the body relearns: “I don’t have to be on guard to exist.” This creates: fewer stress reactions, faster recovery after triggers, deeper rest, and emotional resilience. That’s a nervous system healing.
A spiritual awakening heals the nervous system by restoring safety, presence, and emotional completion, allowing the body to exit survival mode and return to its natural state of regulation.
Why the Holidays May Feel Different in 2025
Many people are feeling a quiet disconnection from the holidays, not because something is wrong but because something within has shifted. From a spiritual perspective (nothing religious), holidays are collective rituals rooted intradition, expectation, and emotional momentum. When inner awareness deepens, those external rhythms may no longer resonate in the same way.
As people move from living by programmed roles into living from presence, forced cheer, nostalgia, and overstimulation can feel hollow or overwhelming. Time itself may feel less linear, making seasonal markers carry less emotional weight. Meaning becomes continuous rather than tied to specific dates.
This disconnection isn’t a loss of joy or gratitude; it’s often a sign of integration. The spirit may be asking for authenticity over performance, subtle connection over symbolism, and gentler ways of honoring what truly brings joy now.
It’s important to note: feeling disconnected does not mean being unloving, ungrateful, or broken. It often means the inner world has matured beyond symbolic reinforcement. The heart may be less reactive, less driven by sentimentality, and more grounded in subtle presence.
For those navigating this shift, there is no requirement to reject the holidays or to force yourself into them. Many find peace in participating gently: honoring loved ones, creating small personal rituals, or simply allowing the season to pass without self-judgement. Spiritually, this is not disengagement. It’s integration. Integration is when spiritual understanding settles into your nervous system, behavior, relationships, and choices.
Sometimes the most sacred thing we can do during the holidays is to listen inward and let that be enough.
Spiritual Coherence
Spiritual coherence means inner alignment. When your thoughts, emotions, body, and energy are working together in harmony rather than pulling in different directions.
Spiritual coherence is the state where your inner self aligns with how you live, feel, and express yourself.
When you’re coherent:
Your mind is clear rather than fragmented.
Your emotions flow without being suppressed or overwhelming.
Your body feels regulated and present.
Your intuition and actions are aligned.
Your values, truth, and behavior match.
Energetically, in spiritual language, coherence often describes:
A steady, calm nervous system.
Smooth energy flow rather than spikes or collapses.
A feeling of being centered, grounded, and whole.
Signs You’re in Coherence:
You feel settled but awake.
Decisions feel simpler.
Boundaries arise naturally, without force.
You respond rather than react.
You feel “more yourself” and less performative.
Coherence does not mean constant bliss or positivity. It means authentic flow, allowing sadness, joy, stillness, and creativity to exist without inner war. Spiritual coherence is wholeness in motion.