Inner Child Stuff

After a hiatus due to some continued travel and contraction after the expansion, i am ready to continue reflecting, sharing, and learning.

In this post, i'd like to explore our inner child.

Of the many topics James, Megumi, and i touched on, our inner child was a crucial one. Exploring the pain deep within us, we uncovered much suffering that needed our nurturing. We uncovered our little boy, our little girl, who needed a hug from our adult self. That little boy, that little girl, needed unconditional love and acceptance.

There are times when we hear about this being in a light hearted manner. When we want to play, when we want to have fun. The truth is, tending to our inner child can be a pretty tough responsibility. Remember those shitty times when you were a kid (i'm assuming we've all had them), when you felt like you had no control over the situation? When you may have felt like you didn't have a voice? When you needed something you didn't receive? Those emotions and the thoughts associated with them may still be in your body, causing suffering.

Go to your inner child right now. What does your inner child want to express? Let those thoughts and feelings emerge now and observe what sensations and thoughts arise. Are they comfortable? Uncomfortable? How is your body shifting as the memories reemerge? What people are showing up?

Chances are, exploring these feelings are deeply uncomfortable. If you haven't tended to your inner child in a while, the more uncomfortable the feelings probably were. We seldom take the time to go to this place.

If healing starts with self love, the journey of self love starts with our inner child. Healing will always require going deep inside, to meet our inner child, to recognize when innocence, purity was taken away. To return to that wholesomeness may be the essence of healing. To reclaim.

Healing is incredibly dynamic. There are so many factors within the equation (who would have thought i'd bring algebra into writing). The experience at Usha shined so much light on the factor of emotional baggage. Even if we're not aware of it, that baggage drains our energy- energy that can be used for healthy functioning of the whole self. Knowing how dynamic healing is, i see that s l o w i n g  down and making s p a c e  is crucial in actually noticing our ailments and the causes of them. To lay all the cards out, and make connections.

i am feeling that going through this inner child work brings joy back into life. What's not to love about that?