One Minute Mindfulness - Healing Our Childhood Wounds

In this teaching, Geoff Bell-Devaney discusses ways that we can heal our childhood wounds. He talks about the importance of being present with ourselves and our emotions, and how doing so can help us find greater inner peace.

Transcript

We're all still like children at times,

Acting in ways that reflect some early fear or unmet need.

Try to recognize this child within yourself and imagine the effects of these hidden fears on your own actions and have compassion for the ways in which you've acted out of fear,

Sadness or anger as a result.

Consider a painful childhood experience and imagine it as a pebble dropped in a big pond of emotion.

See the rings of waves spreading out from the point of contact of the stone.

Unlike an actual pond however,

Which quickly returns to stillness,

We continue to feel these emotional ripples echoing through us until we're able to see them and calm them with our silent observation.

We should try to be patient with ourselves and all others and have compassion for the pain suffered so long ago that's creating these waves of emotion that are affecting us today.

We can learn to let these ripples within us subside again and again until they're lost in the firm banks of our own self-acceptance.

Then the pond that we are will be still.

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"Subsiding the ripples, so that the pond that we are will be still." Thank you for this powerful advice 💧🌊💙💜✨️