Inner Child Visualization

In this gentle, guided journey, you’ll connect with your inner child and deepen your relationship to the tender, wise, and playful parts within you. Through visualization and imagination, you’ll go on a soulful adventure together, nurturing trust, safety, and emotional healing. Inner child work can help release old patterns, soothe core wounds, and bring more joy, presence, and self-compassion into your life.

Return to the innocence and magic that still lives inside you.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to your guided inner child visualization meditation.

I hope you're ready to go for a journey.

Go ahead and take a moment to settle in.

Grab anything else you may need for the journey.

Light a candle or incense.

Get comfortable.

And once you've landed,

Allow your eyes to soften and close.

And simply begin by slowing your breath way down.

Feeling the physical sensations of the breath in your belly,

In your chest,

And at the tip of your nose.

Feel the earth below your body supporting you,

Holding you upright.

Feel the temperature of the air on your skin.

Notice the taste in your mouth.

Any scents present in your nose.

And take a few slow breaths here to call all of yourself into alignment and into command in this present moment.

And I want to invite you to draw your conscious awareness from the mind down into the heart.

And again,

Feel the breath in your chest.

And see if you can zoom in and notice the physical sensation of your heart beating.

As we move through this guided visualization,

I want to invite you to the best of your ability to keep your conscious awareness in the heart space.

While your imagination will play a crucial role here,

It's a bit different than the thinking mind.

Instead of getting back up into the head and thinking,

Is this right?

Should it look like this?

What about?

See if you can stay in the heart space and trust whatever images naturally arise.

And with that,

I want to invite you to imagine your childhood home or a safe home that you spent some time at as a child.

Take a moment to imagine yourself standing in front of this home,

Taking in all the little details on the outside,

The yard,

The color and shape of the house,

Any lights on that you might be able to see through the windows,

The weather outside.

And I invite you to imagine that you could walk from the street up to the front door,

Making your way slowly,

Taking in as many details as you can on the way up.

When you arrive,

You might notice the color of the door,

The shape of the doorknob.

You wonder for a moment if you should knock.

After all,

You don't live here anymore.

But you feel this inner sense of permission to quietly walk right in.

So you reach for the doorknob.

It's not locked,

The door opens easily.

And you take that first gentle step inside.

You pause to listen,

To notice if anyone's home.

And you don't hear much.

So you begin to make your way through the house to your childhood bedroom.

As you make your way there,

Again,

Take in as many details.

What are you passing by?

What haunts you?

What hallway or room do you need to walk through to arrive at your door?

And when you arrive at your childhood bedroom door,

You pause to listen,

Pressing your ear to the door.

And you hear a little version of you playing inside the bedroom.

You listen in and notice what they're saying or what they're doing,

What game they might be playing.

And then very gently,

You turn the doorknob,

Cracking open the door just a few inches enough to see in and notice this younger version of you playing in your childhood bedroom.

You pause to just take them in,

Noticing what age this younger version of you is,

Noticing what they're wearing,

What they're doing,

What mood or energy or emotion they're in.

And you give a little knock to the door,

Signaling to them that you are there.

And when they look up,

They're so excited to see you.

They already know that it's you,

That it's an older version of them.

And so you walk into the room and greet them in whatever way feels right,

A hug,

A high five.

And you take a moment to just take you,

This younger version of you in.

And then you ask this younger version of you if you can join them in whatever they're playing,

Reading,

Doing.

Maybe you curl up on the floor with them.

Just take some time to be with them,

To interact with them.

We're gonna rest here for another five or six breaths,

Playing or interacting with this younger version of you in any way that feels organic.

And then I wanna invite you to ask this younger version of you what they want you to know.

Ask them,

What do you want me to know?

And then I invite you to ask them,

What do you long for or what do you need from me?

And then I wanna invite you to ask this younger version of you if they want to go on a little adventure with you.

If they say no,

That's okay.

You might choose to pause this meditation and simply be with them for a bit longer.

But if they say yes,

If this younger version of you wants to go on a journey with you,

I invite you to stand up,

To go to the closet door,

To hold out your hand,

To hold the hand of younger you and then reach your other hand out for the closet doorknob.

And as you turn the closet doorknob open,

Expecting to see clothes and toys and whatever else is in your childhood closet,

You're surprised because when you open the door,

None of that is there.

Instead,

There's a pitch black hallway,

A tiny light at the other end of the hallway where you can see another door.

And so you and this younger version of you give each other a little nod,

A curious,

Mischievous grin on your faces.

And you step through the closet door into this long,

Dark hallway,

Walking for what seems like a long time,

Hand in hand,

Slowly making your way down this dark hallway toward the other door.

Eventually you arrive at the door and you turn to the younger version of you and you ask this younger version of you,

What do you think is on the other side?

Before you open the door,

Ask your younger self,

What is on the other side?

And then you turn together to turn the doorknob,

To open the door and to your surprise,

It is exactly as this younger version of you said it would be.

Whatever they guessed it would be,

It is that place.

Together,

You walk hand in hand into that place and explore together.

Well,

You're going to rest here now for another 20 to 30 breaths,

A couple of minutes.

And I want to encourage you to trust your inner guidance,

To trust this younger version of you,

To lead you through this space that they guessed was on the other side of the door.

Let younger you lead you through this place for a couple of minutes and I'll let you know what your next steps are from there.

Beautiful.

You are welcome to continue to explore with this younger version of you for as long as you'd like.

But I want to invite you for a moment here to within this space you're exploring,

Find a little hideaway,

Some little place where you and this younger version of you can tuck away for a brief conversation.

Go to that place together.

And when you arrive there,

Settle in for a moment,

Seated across from each other,

Perhaps holding hands with this younger version of you.

And I invite you to ask your younger self what advice they might give to you for this season of your life.

Again,

You are asking your younger self what advice might they give to you in this season of your life.

And then I want to invite you to tell your younger self what you want to tell them.

You might want to give them a piece of encouragement,

Comfort,

Love.

Take a moment now to express what's on your heart,

To express to this younger version of you.

Beautiful.

Again,

You are welcome to linger here with this younger version of you for as long as you'd like to.

If you want to keep chatting with them or continue to explore this space you came into together,

I invite you to pause this meditation now and continue as long as it feels right for you to do so.

If and when you are ready to conclude this journey for today,

I invite you to stand back up,

Walk through this space that you came into with this younger version of you,

And make your way back to the door you came through.

As you arrive at the door,

You pause with your younger self to turn and take in this place one last time.

Then you turn to your younger self with a smile,

You may thank them or express any last thing you wish.

Then together,

You open the door and see you've arrived back at the long,

Dark hallway you first came through.

You open the door,

Make the slow trek down that long hallway together until you arrive back at your closet door.

To your surprise,

When you open it back up,

You are in fact back in your childhood bedroom,

Just as you had left it not long ago.

Take one final moment here to say goodbye or really see you later to this younger version of you.

Then make your way back to your bedroom door,

Turning to take one last look at your childhood bedroom.

Waving goodbye,

You shut the door,

Walk back through your home to the front door,

Out the front door and back in to the world,

The driveway,

Making your way back to the street and again,

You turn to take in one last look at your childhood home.

And with that,

You begin to bring yourself back to the breath in your body,

Seeing now the darkness behind closed eyelids,

Feeling the earth below you,

Feeling again the temperature of the air on your skin.

And I invite you as we close to place one hand over your heart and one hand over your belly and take a moment to cultivate some gratitude for yourself as you are now,

For yourself as you were then.

And together,

Let's take a deep breath in and a sigh out.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

Thank you so much for going on this brief journey to connect with your inner child,

This younger version of you.

I highly encourage you to jot down even just a few notes in your journal,

What younger you had to say to you,

The advice they gave you and any other insights or images that really stood out to you during this journey.

Stay with it.

The imagination is a powerful tool that can help us deeply connect with and build trust with our parts.

So know that in the coming days,

More insights may continue to arise,

Especially for those of us that take the advice of our inner child seriously.

Until next time,

Be well,

Love.