Inner Child Healing & Joy Activation

Meet your inner child at a playground, and then give them your undivided attention. Once they feel seen, loved, and heard, you will feel their true essence of love and joy and innocence, which is in you. Be guided to two more scenes with them, wherein you both ask questions and share challenges for deep healing and heart-opening.

Transcript

Welcome back to Guided Meditations with me,

Garrett Wood.

I am so excited that you are here today.

This is a really,

Really gorgeous,

Really sweet,

Connecting meditation.

I hope this opens your heart.

I hope this helps you find self-forgiveness,

Self-knowledge,

Self-forgiveness,

And just pure,

Innocent love today,

Wherever you are in space and time.

Find a comfortable place,

Whether you're sitting up or laying down.

However you can find a way to release any tension in the body and find an element of deeper relaxation.

Go a step further than you've gone since you woke up today and really allow yourself to unwind for this one.

Once you're comfortable,

I'm just going to take you on a guided journey.

So closing your eyes,

Taking a big,

Deep breath in through the nose,

Holding for just a moment.

Exhaling out the mouth.

Big,

Deep breath in through the nose.

Exhaling out the mouth.

One more like that,

Nice and easy in through the nose.

And exhaling out the mouth.

From here,

I just want you to breathe gently in and out of your nose.

Closing your eyes,

Maybe slightly rolling your eyes up and back in your head.

I want you to imagine yourself out in a field.

Someplace in nature,

If a field isn't resonating for you,

Realizing that you are in a big,

Open space.

Sometimes when we're in a big,

Open space,

We're more present to our own energy.

Sometimes it's actually when we're in a crowded room that we're more present to our own energy.

But regardless,

In this big,

Open space of nature,

I want you to feel your own essence.

Imagine what age you feel right now,

Regardless of your actual age.

What does your energy feel like?

I want you to start walking,

Just walking in this space of your mind's eye in nature.

And all of a sudden,

A doorway appears.

As you open the doorway,

You see a park.

You see a few children playing.

They're pretty young,

So they're not really playing together.

They're kind of playing on their own.

Maybe one is playing in the sandbox.

Maybe one child is playing with a toy.

Maybe one is climbing on something.

And I want you to gravitate towards the child that you're seeing most clearly.

And as you focus on them,

Everything else melts away.

You see them as if they're your kid.

They're so adorable,

And they're so cute.

And you start walking towards them,

And they see you.

And they actually walk towards you as well and grab your hand.

And together,

You start walking,

And as you're walking,

You're just feeling this innocent,

Pure,

Loving presence that this child is exuding,

This pure innocence,

Pure love and joy.

They want to show you something.

So they start walking you over to another playground,

One where you guys feel like you have it to yourself.

And you stop,

Because they want to tell you something.

So you get down to their level.

Maybe you're kneeling,

Looking at this child,

And you see the familiarity.

At first,

You think,

Is this my child?

And then you realize it's you.

It's your younger self.

Maybe they're a toddler.

Maybe they're five,

Eight years old,

Whatever you're envisioning.

And they have something really important to tell you.

And at first,

It's really good,

Exciting news.

They have something exciting they want to tell you about their life.

They need a space to be seen and heard.

No one at this point is available for them except for you.

So you listen with the most open ears and the most open heart,

Looking into their eyes,

Mirroring back to them their innocence,

Their joy,

And their love.

Communicating energetically,

You're hearing all about this exciting thing they want to share.

And maybe it's helping you recall some memories.

Maybe something you hadn't thought about in a long time.

And holding space for them and mirroring to them their unique,

Loving presence.

They feel safe.

They feel seen.

And this little version of you feels love.

And in the safety of that love,

They start to look potentially a bit sad or maybe perplexed,

Like they're about to open up.

But instead,

They take your hand and they walk you back somewhere else.

As you guys start walking away from the playground,

Maybe you're back in nature.

Maybe you're on a trail.

Whatever's coming up for you.

And they're going to take you to a place that only you guys know about.

Maybe it was a secret hideout from childhood or your childhood bedroom.

Maybe it was your favorite restaurant as a kid.

Somewhere.

I want you to open a door that's on that trail.

And as you guys walk through it together,

Holding hands,

You're in that space.

A space from your past.

A space perhaps in the child's present space and time.

And as they continue to feel safe and seen and heard and loved with you,

They want to tell you something.

Something they're challenged by.

They want to get this thing off their chest that's making them feel sad,

Feel uncertain,

Maybe feel trapped.

With the same love,

Safety,

And joy,

You are going to listen like it is the most important thing you've ever heard.

Holding them with tenderness just by being the most present for them to share this thing that they're experiencing.

This challenge.

This challenge they may feel like they don't have anyone else to share it with.

And maybe you're recalling this time.

This time of your past timeline.

As you hold the space for them,

You might feel your heart opening.

You might feel grief.

Maybe you feel called to hug your inner child,

Telling you this challenge they're going through.

Giving and receiving love in a circular nature.

Healing energetically for both of you.

Healing your past to also walk now in the present moment healed.

And whether you hugged or you shared a tear together,

Your inner child grabs your hand again.

They want to show you something else.

So you guys start walking.

You leave wherever you were,

Out one door.

You're back in the field,

The open,

Beautiful space of nature.

And now walking with your inner child,

You're feeling not only your adult energetic field,

But you're feeling that presence of their youthfulness.

Again,

Of their joy,

Their innocence,

Their hope,

Their infinite potential that is also still within you.

You sort of feel your energetic fields merge together.

And you're walking.

You're walking.

You're wandering.

Maybe looking at some of the interesting things there are to see in the place you find yourself.

Then there's one more door to go through.

And when you open the door,

On this particular scene,

You guys are actually going to be sitting,

Walking,

Approaching,

Rather,

A park bench that is overlooking a river.

So you walk towards it.

You find a seat,

Watching the water flow in front of you.

It's an energetically clean,

Cleansing space.

And your inner child looks to you,

And they have a question for you.

Be in the listening.

What are they wondering about?

What wisdom do you hold now that you can give to them back in their space and time that can impact the future that you are?

What did they need to hear from an adult that they didn't get?

And how can you give that to them now?

Their ask is their curiosity.

Your inner child is asking you for your wisdom.

This time isn't real.

This is you helping you.

And you being in remembrance of the desires,

Of the wisdom,

Of the hopefulness,

And of the pure,

Beautiful joy that you are.

And you are still.

But space hold for yourself.

Be in the listening of their question.

What wisdom do you need to give to them,

To you,

Your inner child?

You might feel tears welling up.

Just being in the field of the wisdom that you are,

The joy that they,

Aka inner child you,

Hold.

And being in remembrance of this piece of yourself can feel like a beautiful homecoming.

Allow yourself to receive this beautiful energy.

Especially as you gift yourself,

Your inner child,

This wisdom.

And potentially a very big answer to a question they have at this young age they're at.

And after you've shared your wisdom,

Your answer,

Your learnings,

You're going to ask them a question.

Maybe it's something you're spacing right now.

Maybe it's something you've been contemplating for a while.

Maybe it's actually a parenting question for yourself,

For your family.

You're going to look to your inner child,

This really sweet little being that is you,

And ask them for wisdom.

What would your inner child say about the problem that your mind thinks you're facing?

How would a child,

How would you as a child solve this problem?

And how can knowing a solution or learning from your child's mind's perspective help?

How can you support you?

Be in the listening.

Stand in the truth of the joy and the innocence and the love that you and you,

Adult you and inner child you hold.

Again,

Maybe there's a hug between you both.

Maybe there's hand holding and eye gazing.

And of course,

There's heart opening here.

As adults,

We like to harden ourselves to protect because we probably started doing that as a child.

But the safety you've created for your inner child today and allowing them to feel seen and heard will allow them to stay open,

To stay innocent,

And to stay hopeful in that space and time.

And by doing so,

They're giving you back that energetic feeling and experience of being open,

Of being hopeful,

Of being in innocent,

Loving joy.

You always have access to each other.

Energetically communicate to that to each other now.

We always have access to each other,

To ourselves.

Taking a deep breath together,

Your inner child is going to stand up first,

Maybe throw a little rock into the river,

And start to walk away and fade into effervescence of this beautiful scene.

You're going to close your eyes on that park bench,

Bringing your hands to heart center,

And imagine that river washing away anything out of your field that would not be in coherence with your inner child.

Washing away anything that your inner child would not hope to become,

Would not hope to carry someday.

Allow it to wash away,

Taking out any toxins from the body,

Anything that no longer serves.

Keeping your hands on your heart,

Bring present loving awareness to any guides,

Any ancestors,

Source,

Divine light,

The divine mother.

Anyone from our team,

Highest Good,

That's brought us here today to be in remembrance and connection with this aspect of self that's always here,

And always a source of love and wisdom.

And also being in gratitude for the presence and the guidance to sit in meditation,

To sit in connection,

To sit in remembrance.

Thank yourself for coming on this journey,

Opening this app,

And finding your way to remembrance and to connection with your inner child.

Taking your hands to heart center again,

Where you are in your room,

In space and time,

If they're not there already.

And imagine your body by the river,

Walking away from the river,

And as you walk towards a nature trail,

You see a door.

That door is going to open up to the room you're currently in.

You're going to just imagine bringing all of the cleansing nature of your aura,

The innocence,

The joy from your inner child,

And all that you just energetically transmuted right back into your physical human body,

Hands on your heart.

Feeling into that energetic shift you have cultivated for yourself and your energetic field.

We're going to close with three beautiful deep breaths together,

In through the nose and out through the mouth.

Here we go.

Again,

In through the nose.

Out through the mouth.

One more.

Out through the mouth.

Thank you all so much for joining me here today.

I hope you'll find your way to other meditations I've posted on Insight Timer before.

And I hope that this was supportive for you on your soul's journey,

On the path you've chosen in this lifetime.

Thank you.