Inner Child Practice

This session guides the practitioner to connect with one's inner child - or wounded self - on the pathway to healing and transformation. When practiced over time, this meditation has the potential to cultivate a warm and compassionate friendliness with the unprocessed parts of Self, leading to integration, emotional balance, self-trust, and confidence in dealing with 'triggers' that may present themselves in challenging moments.

Transcript

Music This meditation incorporates imagery to connect with the wounded child within.

It is a deep practice that has the potential to create integration with parts of the self that have yet to be understood and healed.

And if there's trauma in your childhood,

Please attempt this practice after having some degree of meditation practice as a foundation.

It might also help to have a list of self-soothing and comforting coping strategies available to you to apply afterwards if needed.

If at any point in this meditation you become overwhelmed,

You lose the ability to take slow and deep breaths,

If you feel too distressed or not able to regulate the emotions that arise,

Try opening your eyes for a time,

Getting a sense of the room and the present moment.

Or you may choose to end the practice entirely,

Which is perfectly fine.

Please trust yourself and do what is most compassionate and wise for your mind-body state and the pacing of your healing work.

And coming now then to sit in a posture that will be comfortable for you.

You may choose to sit in a chair or on the floor in a cushion,

Perhaps lying down,

Which is fine,

Allowing your hands to rest on your lap or at your sides in a comfortable and pleasant way for you.

I'm taking a few deeper breaths into the lungs now to come into presence,

Letting go of what came before this moment,

That you grace yourself with this gift to sit and to practice presence.

Breathing in,

Feeling the lungs expand and letting go as you breathe out naturally,

Seeing if you can soften any areas that might be carrying some tension or tightness.

Breathing into these areas and seeing if you might soften or loosen as you breathe out.

Breathing into the head and face,

To the eyes and the forehead.

As you breathe out,

Letting the mini muscles that work so hard to express our inner feelings just soften and relax.

Breathing into the neck and shoulders and down the arms to the hands,

Sensing what's there.

Feeling the aliveness in the hands,

Aware of the breath in the chest and the torso area,

Belly,

Perhaps a sense of its rising on the in-breath and deflating and falling as you breathe out.

Allowing this next breath to enter into a softened and relaxed belly.

Breathing into the pelvic area,

And down into the legs,

And to the feet and toes.

Just settling the awareness into the body fully as you breathe in and out,

Cultivating a greater quality of presence to this moment.

Softening and alert and aware and awake right here.

Now inviting you to bring to mind an image of yourself as a child.

Going back to age five,

Six,

Perhaps seven.

Just a glimpse from this period there around any age,

But younger than ten if you can.

Going back as far as you're able to your small self.

You might have a photo of yourself around this age that might help bring the image to mind.

And just as best you can,

Seeing yourself there younger than ten.

What are you doing in your mind's eye?

Is a child playing with toys or running,

Jumping,

Or sitting still?

And what are you wearing?

Noticing your hair,

Your dress,

Your shoes,

If you have any.

Just really bringing to mind the scene in this image.

Are you alone or are there other people around you?

If there are others in the mind's eye,

Inviting you to freeze them in the scene and just seeing them as statues for now.

Noticing all that you can bring to mind in this scene.

The facial expression on your child self and that of others.

What is the tone or the mood?

And it could be a memory that comes up here or perhaps not.

Perhaps just bringing it to mind in a way that's like using your imagination.

Either is fine.

It's not a problem.

Just whatever comes,

Comes.

And noticing what arises in you as you bring your little self to your mind.

Aware of the sensations or emotions that might arise.

Can you get a sense of what this child is feeling?

Not searching too hard,

But just seeing if you can get a sense.

Perhaps an overarching tone or theme the child feels.

Perhaps this little one feels lonely,

Ignored,

A sense that they're craving attention.

It could be more feelings of confusion,

Feeling lost or scared if there's chaos in their surroundings.

Maybe there's a pain of injustice,

Feeling like things are not fair amidst the other children that could be in the home.

Feeling like being treated differently in a way that is feeling into the vulnerability this child is living with,

Experiencing in the scene.

As you continue to breathe,

See if you can glean the tenderness that this child feels a lot of the time,

Allowing your curiosity and interest as an expression of caring for this child.

What core pain are they suffering with that you're tuning into and witnessing for them?

While the wild breathing,

Aware also of what's there for you in the body,

Any sensations,

Emotions that are here as you hold this image of this child in your mind.

What is there in your heart as you see this child in your mind's eye as you sense into their pain?

Notice any feelings that arise towards this little one.

Can you sense compassion?

Perhaps sadness or sorrow is there.

Maybe anger arising in a wish to protect the child,

Anger at the helplessness that might be there,

Anger at the injustice of this child,

This innocent child's suffering.

Just aware of it all as you breathe.

Do you have an urge to respond to the child in any way,

An action perhaps?

And follow that.

Allow yourself in your mind's eye to reach out,

Perhaps bringing the child into your arms to hold them.

What words do you feel inclined to say to this dear one?

It's okay.

It's okay,

Sweetheart.

I'm here for you.

It's not your fault.

You did nothing wrong,

Sweetheart.

I'm sorry that you're suffering.

You're not wrong.

You're not bad.

It's not your fault.

I'm here for you.

It's going to be okay.

Choosing the words that fit for you and some way letting the child know they're loved,

That you care,

That you're here for them or that you want to learn to be there for them.

Notice the look on the child's face as you whisper these words.

How do they react?

Are your sentiments well received,

Taken in,

Or is there a sense of uncertainty by the child not believing or mistrusting?

Whatever is,

Is perfectly fine.

Whatever the expression or the response,

That's okay.

Letting it be okay right now.

I'm now inviting you to say goodbye for now to the child.

Offering any last gesture or words if you feel inclined.

Letting this young one know that you're always here for them and you will come back and visit whenever they want or need you.

And now imagining this little special dear child going off to a place that you know is safe and comforting.

This little one will have toys or games,

Art or sports,

Whenever they want to feel happy and at ease.

And letting the image dissolve in your mind.

Becoming aware of your breath as your body breathes as a whole.

Breathing each in-breath into every cell of the body,

From your head to your toes.

And breathing out with awareness,

Sense of groundedness.

Letting any sensations or emotions that may be here to be okay.

Just allowing and accepting what is with a kind and curious attention and attitude.

And perhaps also before the practice ends,

Acknowledging yourself for carving out this special time to tend to yourself and to move towards healing what longs to be healed and for valuing your needs and wishes for greater emotional balance,

Connection and trust in yourself and peace in your life.

In any case,

I end my speech at this time.

Stay tuned.

Thank you.

Reviews

I loved her gentle tone and no background noise.

Thank you this was really lovely I will recommend this to others. Practice it myself again and nourish and nurture that little one in me and around me.

I loved that, thank you 🙏🏻

My first inner child meditation! Thank you for reminding me to love, support and acknowledge my inner child. This was so beautiful. 💜

Really sweet.

That was really really good, it allowed me to open up to myself and was exactly what I needed 🫶🏼

Thank you!!

Thanks for the lovely meditation I intergrated a part of me ,

Deeply moving and cathartic. Thank you ❤🙏

A beautiful discovery of truth and healing. Thank you 🙏🏼

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this safe and soothing space to be and to feel exactly what comes ❤

I really appreciate how you helped me focus on grounding and feeling into all parts of me before meeting with my child self. It felt like your guidance was personal and yet could work in different scenarios. Thank you so much!

I loved this. Really took me to a place of love for my little self. Thank you so much 🌿🙏

So powerful and tender and holding..really appreciate the lack of soundtrack or background noise just your soothing voice..thank you so much..brought me to a hopeful place!🙏🙏🙏💗🌹

Amazing. I didn't think I would be able to connect to my inner child, but it was much easier than expected. Thank you!

Beautiful guidance, noninvasive compassionate voice, excellent inner child healing meditation

Very much needed & greatly appreciated
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I really love this meditation and get something a bit different from it everytime I do it. The only thing I am not a fan of is the bell at the end I find it to be very jarring. Thank you for creating this!

This was really lovely; I totally cried when I had to say goodbye and leave her behind. You have a wonderful voice, very soothing. Thank you :-)