After connecting up with our Inner Child, we move on here to see how our Inner Child impacts on our every day life.
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During this video I talk about recognising your inner child in the emotions, feelings and responses you have during your every day. When we can see, and acknowledge these feelings, we can start to use some of the things we tried in the first video, such as soothing, self talk, parenting ourselves, to deal with these rising emotions and feelings. I talk about how I first used soothing to help me through a problem that came up for me often, and about how to not get caught up in other peoples emotions.
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Exercise:
Spend the week noticing the feelings, emotions and responses that you experience during your everyday life. Recognise your inner child in them, by seeing they are the same that you discovered during last weeks exercise using the inner child visualization. Notice where you feel the emotions, what your inner child is trying to tell you, and if they come up at regular times, so you can try to see what triggers them. Then use your soothing, and parenting self talk to calm down the emotions, acknowledge them, and let your inner child know how you will take care of them. Let them know they are safe. Then, when your emotions and feelings have been quieted, you can try to take action, if it is needed, from this quieted place. What action you take should be that of a parents action, protect, support, set boundaries, or give love. Whatever is required.
Use a journal if you like to note down what you discover, how you supported and soothed yourself, what situations brought up what issues, emotions and feelings for you. Have you done the Happiness Survey lately? Why not take a look at that, and see if there is some changes to your overall Happiness level?
Meditation: {Haven’t started meditation yet? Click here for my meditation post}
While meditating on the first chakra (red/base) try to spend extra time clearing out any fears that may be coming up for you and your inner child. In the yellow chakra (emotions) spend extra energy clearing out sadness, loneliness, hurts, disappointments that you are discovering as you take notice in your every day. Then spend time in the yellow pumping in inner power and strength there, and also parental care and protection for your inner child.
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