We all love to introduce big and happy changes in our lives. Who doesn’t love to have a life full of abundance and prosperity? We all want each day full of lovely surprises which can be celebrated with childlike enthusiasm to enjoy life like never before. We all want each moment of the day to be filled with a plethora of happiness and passion.
Who is the Inner Child?
The inner child is our childlike aspect, which resides inside each one of us. The health of our inner child depends on our childhood experiences. Childhood is one the best phase of our life, full of love and playfulness.
There can be some negative memories as well. The suppressed feelings of anger, rejection, insecurity, vulnerability, guilt, shame, or anxiety form the shape of an unhealed wound, which often aggravates when triggered with strong emotions. Healing of the inner child is essential for every one of us, as it involves accepting the traumas and wounds that caused us pain in some of the other forms, instead of fighting with them subconsciously.
Our childhood forms the base of our personality. It is how we see ourselves. Healing of the inner child is the fastest step towards self-love and self-acceptance. Our childhood forms the basic foundation of our personality. It is the total of all the emotions which we lived a long way back in the past, somewhere when we were little boys and girls, full of innocence and exuberance. Often hopeful aspirations for the future get overclouded by fear and uncertainty, affecting us, and our behavior throughout our life, triggered by specific situations and circumstances.
Over time, we get so engrossed into day to day affairs of life that we seldom think about our inner child. From our childhood till adulthood, we unknowingly suppress our true identity, especially our inner child.
How to Heal the Inner Child?
ONE SIMPLE FORMULA: ALWAYS BE HAPPY AND ENJOY THE PRESENT MOMENT
Healing is an ongoing process. With awareness and willingness to bring desired changes in our life, we can live a perfectly healthy life.
Healing the inner child starts with acknowledging our hidden fears and traumas, and taking ownership to heal them through deep introspection and identifying their root cause. It is letting go of all that which is not beneficial for our highest good. It is accepting us wholeheartedly and unconditionally.
Some of the ways in which you can heal your inner child:
- Take care of yourself like you take care of a small child– Do all those activities which give you true happiness and joy. It is one of the ways to heal our inner child. We must not suppress our inner feelings. Go for it, if you feel like eating ice cream or enjoying the rain, or laughing aloud. Through constant care and paying attention to what the inner child is saying, we can take a positive step towards our self-development.
- Write a letter to your Inner child: You MUST write a letter to your inner child, and believe me it feels fantastic. It helps us to vent out our hidden feelings. The feelings or negative emotions that are deep in our hearts also get a chance to come out on the surface.
- Meditate: Meditation pays off. Meditation is also one of the important techniques which we can do to heal our inner child. For our spiritual development and chakra balancing, it is very important, especially for Heart Chakra. Mediation helps in the overall balancing of mind, body, and soul.
In the journey of life, we often neglect our happiness and sacrifice our freedom for the superficial growth and development of materialistic accomplishments, or the public image. We hesitate to pamper ourselves and seldom give importance to our inner contentment.
Only you can heal yourself through unconditional love and acceptance.
