Gnomes live behind waterfalls. Fairies dance in my garden. In my dreams I’m a fairy named Blue. That flash of light was a glimpse of Faery magic.

It’s so easy today to find kids who know all about “reality". They know that in “reality" people backstab and connive their way to millions in prizes. They know that in “reality" people have habits and ideals that would make the Adams’ look like the Cleavers.

Sadly these days it also seems that their “reality" also lacks the magic, wonder, and enchantment that we took for granted just twenty short years ago. Though as of yet they haven’t done the research to back me up on this, I truly believe that these things contribute in large part to many of the ailments that currently weigh down our young people today.

From an overwhelming trend toward violence to the soaring stress rates of even very young kids, it’s very clear that something is incredibly wrong. Bringing children intentionally toward magic and the wonder around them can only have a positive impact on these things, and in fact in my experience, in my REALITY significantly reduces or even eliminates them.

By connecting through their hearts, bringing a child’s focus back toward their imagination, helping them to connect to the amazing things that are happening around them at a minute level, magic helps them to engage in their world and to deeply experience interrelatedness.

To help a child to reconnect to their inner sense of magic, begin by exploring, hunting for, and actively seeking the signs. They are all around you, under the leaf on the ground, hiding between the flower stems, peeking out from the meadows edge.

Begin to notice the wonderment that is all around you. Make the conscious choice to be enchanted. Take the hand of a child and whisper “Let me show you something amazing!" Dream, share, uplift, imagine what might be.

Build a fairy house, craft some fairy wings, sip some nectar and sing a fairy rhyme. Call them into your house, invite them to share your meals, and thank them for their blessings in your garden.

Fairies are real. Perhaps you have been so thoroughly soaked in “reality" that you’ve blocked out their existence and prefer instead to think about much more “important" things, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are still there, waiting for you to notice them again.

As you well know, everything in life is a choice. Have you ever asked yourself what you gain by choosing to believe that magic isn’t real? I guarantee you that it is far less than what you will gain if you will open yourself again to the possibilities around you.

It is one of the worlds great tragedies when you tell a child they must color inside the lines, bear the burden of a label, or stop believing the wonder that they so clearly see. It is not the fault of the child that this should befall them however, only the sad reality.

Children will mimic and follow wherever you lead them, it’s their instinct. You can choose where you want to lead the people, young and old, who will follow your lead. Will you lead them to joy and magic, or to today’s “reality"?

When you connect yourself, or help someone else to connect to the possibilities and magic that exists in the world out there, it is much more plausible to experience the enchantment and wonder that resides within.

Cheyenne Black builds her own brand of magic through her website at http://www.fairiesfae.com