Out of the minds of babes…We have all seen books that promise us that we will understand our babies after reading them. However, one man says he can read the innermost thoughts and secrets of your little one. We spoke to telepathist Derek Ogilvie to find out how and what he hears from the minds of babes…
Derek Ogilvie says he used to receive messages, in the forms of pictures and feelings, as a child but never told anyone about it. Eventually, he chose to forget the spiritual world and concentrate on things his peers were interested in. He studied engineering at university and became a self-made millionaire before losing it all several years ago. At this point, his interest in the spiritual world returned when, after visiting some friends in the summer of 2000, he realised he could hear and see what their deceased grandparents and parents wanted to say to them. This prompted Derek to start working as a medium. During his visits to clients' homes, Derek became aware of a rare ability to communicate with the young children there. Messages were coming to him fast and thick and he realised that this was the area he wanted to specialise in, to enable mums and dads to better communicate with their children and relieve some of the tension and worry in the households that was coming about because the children were too young to verbally communicate their feelings and opinions. How does it work?Derek is adamant that all babies are born psychic. 'We all have an ability to communicate telepathically from the moment we are born, or even earlier,' he explains. 'But this ability is worn down and constrained as soon as we develop verbal articulacy. There's no need for it anymore and, therefore, our telepathic and psychic abilities are lost.' 'Babies communicate messages to me in the form of pictures or feelings, which I can then interpret and pass on to their parents,' says Derek. 'An image will appear in my mind, or a pain in my body, which helps me see what they are trying to get across. For example, a picture of an arm, and a pain in my right arm, will tell me that that is where they are feeling pain, or where, perhaps, they have sustained a previous injury that might have gone unnoticed (I had this with a little boy who'd had a small bruise on the underside of his leg that no one had seen). If I feel a pain but see a picture of their mum, they are telling me that this is where their mum hurts.' However, not all babies will 'co-operate'. Some are very loyal to their parents, while others are, by nature, very restrained and will block any communication taking place. 'I'd say around nine out of ten babies will co-operate,' estimates Derek. How does communication take place?Derek Ogilvie visits the baby in his client's home. He just needs to be in the same room as the child. He doesn't 'talk' to the child as such, the baby can go about his or her normal activities, be they playing, talking, running around, even screaming. 'Telepathy occurs on an entirely different level than normal conversation,' he explains. 'It is at one with itself, and is completely separate from emotions. I just need to be in the same room to pick up the images and messages the baby is sending via his or her own "frequency". Each child has his or her own frequency and my job is to tune into it. Twins have more or less the same one, but there is an extremely subtle difference between the two.' Anyone would think that, for example, walking into a room full of children would literally do Derek's head in, with all the voices talking to him at once. This apparently isn't so. 'It's like tuning into a radio,' he explains. 'I can tune into whichever one that wants me to listen. It can be difficult - it's easy to hear children who are naturally extrovert and louder than their peers, but sometimes there's a quiet child who is desperate to communicate whose voice isn't coming through as loud and clear.' What do babies want to talk about?Babies are like the rest of us - they all have different things to say or worry about. Common issues that Derek picks up on, though, include the relationship between their parents and frustration at not being heard. Babies also want to communicate their thoughts on sleeping and eating. 'One of my client's babies was playing up at night just before she put him to bed. By sitting with him I discovered that he was trying to tell her that he liked his milk warmed up but not too much. The nights his mum made the bottle too hot, it gave him tummy pains,' says Derek. 'When I asked his mum if she found that he was easier to put down when she hadn't heated the milk up so much she agreed and we solved the problem.' 'Another baby,' Derek continues, 'Was able to tell me that he was worried about the state of the relationship between his parents. His mother was becoming distant from his father and the baby was concerned about this.' How can we all communicate better with our baby? Derek is very reluctant to be called anything as grand as a 'Baby Whisperer' as some of the press are dubbing him. 'I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I am like everyone else, essentially. We all have this gift, but most of us have lost the ability to use it. I just want to help mums out there who have problems. I am not saying parents are doing a bad job, but if I can help them be better at what they do, than that's great.' We can all help our relationships with our babies by learning to listen more. 'We are all so busy thinking about what we're going to cook for dinner and whether we have paid the bills that we are not really listening to our children, even if we think we are,' Derek says. 'We need to block out that tape that is constantly playing in our minds and really try to connect with our children to try to understand what they are telling us.' If you would like to get in touch with Derek Ogilvie, please email him on derekogilvie@aol.com Where to next?
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