Monday, February 27, 2012

Inner Child - Emotional Body


Unless we connect with our Inner Child state in a safe setting, the Child Within will remain isolated and alone.
Unless we reclaim our childlike feelings, sensitivity, wonderment and aliveness, our Inner Child will remain wounded.
Unless we do this Now, we will find it so difficult to feel WHOLE.


The Inner Child refers to your emotional body. 
Carl Jung called it the 'Divine Child'. Emmet Fox called it the 'Wonder Child'. Charles Whitfield called it the 'Child Within'. It is also called the 'True Self'. 

Childhood is dictated by those who raise us and often causes scars that will take years to heal. 
For the most part, our issues go back to childhood and what impacted on our emotional and physical bodies at that time. 
The inner child remains with us all of our lives. 
We are all children at heart, innocently searching for our meaning in life.

The Inner Child is the emotional self. It is where our feelings live. When we experience joy, sadness, anger, fear, or affection our Child Within is coming out. When we are being playful, spontaneous, creative, intuitive and surrendering to the spiritual self, our Genuine Authentic Self, who we know deep within us, our Real Self is being welcomed and encouraged to be present. We all have an inner child and the wounds our inner child received can and do continue to contaminate our adult lives. Our parents helped create this Inner Child part of us, society also helped with the creation. When this child self is not allowed to be heard or even acknowledged as being real, a false or co-dependent self emerges. We begin to live our lives as victims.
  
Then we have situations that arise in our lives which develop into unresolved emotional traumas. The gradual accumulation of unfinished mental and emotional business can lead to and fuel chronic anxiety, fear, confusion, emptiness and unhappiness through all of our life.  
Besides the Inner Child / adolescent part, we have many other selves which are trying to be heard and take control, without us really hearing the voices until we make an effort to do so. Initially, it is very important to tame the Inner Critic part of us. That voice from the past often keeps beating up our Inner Child. This voice invades whatever trauma and pain there was in our childhood. The wise Nurturing Self part of us can learn to stand as a protector self for the Inner Child. It’s the job of the Nurturer to be loving and self-affirming. This part of us can also teach the Inner Critic a new job of support instead of beating the Child self up, and can love the Inner Critic so that the Inner Child self can relax and not have to work so hard. 



Your inner child is the key to healing and recovery. Unresolved abandonment keeps people separate from this essential part of self. Being separated from the inner child and his or her abandonment issues keeps people stuck in unhealthy, dysfunctional, and/or toxic relationships. 

Inner Child Healing is a path to freedom, serenity, and empowerment

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