Hello beautiful one.
I am going to guide you through this journey of connecting to your younger self,
Your inner child.
And as we go along this journey together I invite you to sit or lie comfortably and if it feels safe to do so just closing down your eyes.
And I just want you to start to pay attention to your breath.
Noticing the gentle ebb and flow.
Not trying to change it but just bringing our awareness to it.
And I invite you to place one hand on your heart and the other on your room space,
Your abdomen area.
And now I just invite you to take a nice deep inhale from the pit of the stomach up to the top of the chest.
Holding it for a couple of seconds there and taking a nice big exhale.
And one more of those right from the pit of the stomach all the way to the top of the chest.
Holding it for a couple of seconds and releasing anything that doesn't serve you.
An ode to your younger self.
To my younger self there are things I want you to know about the road ahead for you.
Although it may seem scary and unknown I'm here to guide you,
To remind you that you are held,
You are safe and you are loved.
You're going to fall in love and out again as you watched your parents do.
But you'll come to understand that the love is always within you.
You're going to travel because you never did as a child.
You're going to search for love in everyone else but yourself and realise that you were only to go inward to find it.
You're going to experience true joy which you thought only existed in the books you read and the movies you watched.
You're going to experience loss but you'll learn that this is the way the world works and souls never really die.
You'll know how painful lies are and you'll strive to advocate for telling even the most painful truths.
There will be times when you don't know who you are but you'll go on a journey to find out.
You'll endure a period of extreme sadness and despair but you'll wake up one day grateful that you're still here and you'll embark on a journey of self-discovery,
Healing and growth.
You'll come to realise that your parents did the best they could with what they knew and although trauma isn't your fault you'll love yourself enough to work through it regardless.
As you grow older and sit and reflect on your childhood you'll have clarity on why things happened the way they did and how the universe was always holding you through it all.
You'll come to understand that everybody is always doing the best they can including yourself.
You'll come to appreciate the small things in life,
The morning sun,
A cup of tea,
A soft gentle hug and you'll realise that they are more important than anything that can be bought.
So keep going my love even when you feel that the mountain is too steep,
That you're getting buried under the rocks,
Keep walking one foot in front of the other.
Because I promise you the universe doesn't give you anything that you're not ready for.
I invite you to take a nice deep inhale from the pit of the stomach up to the top of the chest near the heart space and exhale.
I invite you to visualise a big cave-like opening right by your abdomen space.
In this opening is just you.
You look around and you see that there is a slight ray of light ahead of you.
You walk towards it to realise that it is a step upward.
You take the first one and another appears.
You follow the flight of steps taking one at a time.
Knowing that each one is a moment in time,
A memory,
A lesson.
You follow the trail only to realise that it is a step forward.
You follow the trail only to find that it ends at your heart space.
Big wide opening and inside you see your younger self.
Back turned,
Knees tucked to the chest,
Arms wrapped around,
Head down.
You slowly approach them.
You sit next to them,
Wrapping your arm around their shoulders.
They lift their head and look you in the eyes.
You see that their eyes are full of fear,
Sadness,
The unknown.
And you simply smile,
Looking back at them with eyes full of insight,
Wisdom and complete knowing.
You come to tell them all that you've learned.
Every lesson,
Every hardship,
Every piece of joy along the way.
You tell them that everything always works out the way it's supposed to.
That although things get hard,
There is always love at the end of it.
They look at you with eyes that are now filled with hope.
So you both stand up,
You embrace each other in the biggest hug.
You give them all the love that they deserve.
You take each other's hand and you walk back down those flight of stairs,
One by one,
One foot in front of the other,
Knowing that you are helping each other.
One foot in front of the other,
Knowing that you are held through the process of coming back home to yourself,
To love.
