This is a guided meditation to help you meet your inner child.
This is a
meditation that will simply give you an opportunity to get to know the inner
child within you and have an introduction to them.
It can be a way for
you to safely practice accessing this part of yourself.
If you are looking to
work with your inner child in a way to help you process bigger emotions,
Stories
or beliefs or at a time when you've been triggered,
Please see another meditation
that I have that is for working with your emotions and your inner child.
So
today if you're simply here to meet and have an experience of connecting with
your inner child,
Then please begin to get yourself nice and comfortable.
You
may wish to lay down or simply sit in a very comfortable position.
Just taking a
moment now to really make yourself feel at ease and comfortable.
Whenever you're
ready,
Closing your eyes.
We're going to begin first and foremost just to settle
into the moment by taking a few deep breaths.
So whenever you're ready just
slowly breathing in through your nose and even slower now exhale through your
mouth.
Really taking your time to let go of your breath.
Fully releasing.
When that
breath is complete,
Breathing in again through your nose,
Taking your time and
then exhaling through the mouth but drawing that exhale out longer than your
inhale.
Really take your time to release that breath.
Whenever you're ready and
that breath is complete,
Breathing in again through your nose and then taking
that extended exhale to release that third breath.
And as you release that
third breath,
Seeing if you can also release any tension that you might be
holding in your body.
You might notice that you have that in your shoulders or
your neck,
Perhaps even the top of your head,
Your brow or even in your jaw.
So
as that breath completes,
Just quickly scanning your whole physical body to see
where else you may be able to soften.
Now just breathing in and out through the
nose and let the body choose the pace and rhythm of the breath.
You can release
control and for a moment let's just witness the breath.
Perhaps giving your
attention to how your chest rises and falls as you breathe in and out.
Or maybe
you can feel and notice how your ribs or your belly expand and contract as you
inhale and exhale.
Maybe you hear the sound of your breath.
Just finding an
anchor point for your awareness to truly witness the breath.
Noticing how
how easily and effortlessly the breath comes and goes.
How calm it is in this
moment.
Just allowing the breath to be a guide for your nervous system,
For your
body and letting that sense of ease and calm wash through every cell in your
physical body.
See if your body is being breathed,
Being breathed by this
sensation of ease and calm.
And now you can release your attention from your
breath and I just want you to begin to let your imagination go.
Let it take you
to a place that feels completely safe.
You can just make this up or you might
sense it or you might see it in your mind.
All is fine.
As you imagine this
place I want you to begin to look around.
What do you notice?
Whatever you see,
Imagine or sense is exactly as it should be.
Just taking your time to
really familiarize yourself with where you are in this moment.
And wherever you
are now just noticing what is around you.
See or sense the details.
Taking the
colors,
The sounds.
Maybe you want to touch something.
Are there any smells
here?
What's the temperature?
Does it feel warm or cool?
Noticing how that might
feel on your skin.
Let it all come so alive for you that you can almost taste
it.
And as you walk around and get to know this safe space you become aware
that your inner child is approaching.
You're about to meet the inner child
version of you.
And now your inner child is coming into view.
Your inner child is
moving towards you and is eager to meet you.
Slowly begin to move towards this
child and as you get closer begin to notice how the child is dressed.
Allow
yourself to observe and sense how the child is feeling emotionally.
Just
noticing in this moment as well what their body language is,
How they hold
themselves.
Perhaps you also notice an age of your inner child.
Just simply
observing the version of you that has come forth to meet you in this moment.
Now begin to approach the child and make contact in whatever way you sense would
be appropriate.
Perhaps that's meeting them at a similar height.
Giving them a
hug.
Picking them up.
Doing whatever feels right for you and the inner child
at this moment.
And now I want you to begin to have another look around to
find a safe space,
A safe place,
A comfortable place to be with each other
and communicate.
Once you find that place I want you to get comfortable.
Maybe you
want to go on a walk or sit down.
Now I'd like you to start to look around to find
a place where you can be with each other to have a conversation.
You may like to
sit down and get comfortable or perhaps you want to go on a walk.
Simply decide
how you'd like to be together so that you can communicate with one another.
And
then you have an opportunity now to ask the child is there anything that he or
she wants to tell you or wants to communicate to you in this moment.
There
may be something that you receive in words.
It may be a feeling or a thought
or an emotion.
Allow yourself to receive whatever the child wants to communicate
with you in this moment.
Now you can also ask the child what it is that he or she
needs most from you right now or in your life in general.
Again listen to what the
child has to tell you whether that's in words or a feeling or a visual or an
emotion or in any other way.
And now you can spend just a little bit of time here
being with your inner child.
You can allow the child to guide you in the
appropriate way to be with him or with her.
Whether that's playing together or
simply sitting close or holding on to each other.
Giving yourself this
opportunity now to simply be with this inner version of you.
Now I'll begin to
let the inner child version of you know that that you love him or her.
Let them
know that you are here now as the adult version of you.
Let them know that you
are here now and available and accessible to be able to take care of
them from now on.
Let them know that you are here to learn and be able to give
them all of the things that they needed that they did not have before.
You're
here to understand the things that trouble them,
That worry them,
That scare
them and that you'd really like to have a relationship going forward.
That you
will be returning to contact them again.
It's time now to complete your time
together.
And so you may say your goodbyes in whatever way feels good for
both of you.
Perhaps that is a hug,
Perhaps that's holding hands,
Whatever
feels right for you in this moment.
And as you complete that,
Thank the inner
child for coming forward to meet with you today.
Let them know that you'll be
back and will return.
And then slowly begin to walk away and begin to step
back and returning yourself to the place that you entered this safe space.
And
then when you feel ready begin to become aware of your physical body that's in
the room that you are in.
Maybe bring your awareness back to your breath.
Feeling once again the ribs and the belly expand and contract as you breathe
in and out.
Or noticing the chest rise and fall as you inhale and exhale.
Or
returning to the sound of your breath.
Once again witnessing the body breathing,
Your body.
And when you feel ready you just begin to wriggle your fingers,
Wriggle your toes and bring yourself back into the room.
And once you feel
ready you can get up from wherever you are and you might like to take some time
just to journal on how this experience was for you and any of the messages that
were shared with you by your inner child.
Anything that you've learned,
Anything
that you'd like to commit to doing that really would honor this meeting with
them today.
