Working With Your Inner Child & Emotions

This is a guided Inner Child Healing journey that can be used in times when you are feeling emotionally triggered. This guided journey will take you through a process to help you be with the emotion in your body, and slowly work with what you feel through a series of questions to access and locate the inner child version of you that is connected with this emotional trigger or wound.

You will then connect with them to learn what it is that they need from you to help you begin to activate true inner child healing. Something that is then information for you to then act upon in order to integrate and fully realised the healing potential of working with your inner child.

You may like to do this meditation in full or pause throughout the track to write down the answers and insights your inner child brings forth.

Transcript

This is a guided journey to help you work with your emotions and your inner child.

This guided journey is best used when you are in the moments of feeling the big emotions or being triggered or working with the limiting stories and beliefs that we're holding that originate from inner child versions of ourselves.

So in this practice we will begin by meeting the emotion that has arisen for you in this moment.

So this is a practice you can come back to that will really help you get to the source of these emotions to understand where they have come from to begin to understand what it is that the inner child version of you needs most in these moments that you can then begin to act on and implement in your life in order to truly feel the healing effect of such encounters with the inner child.

This practice helps us to heal those inner emotional wounds and stories and beliefs and fears that limit us and hold us back from being our true selves.

It also helps us to integrate those parts of ourselves that feel separate,

Parts that we don't like,

Parts that we might keep in shadow or hide and when we integrate those parts of ourselves we begin to feel a greater sense of wholeness.

We love ourselves more,

We accept ourselves more fully and we begin to truly sense and feel our value and our worth and as we tend to our emotions through working with our inner child we heal the emotional charge and the tenderness within us.

So let's begin this guided journey.

As I mentioned we're going to begin with really starting at the level of the emotion that you are feeling,

The charge that's present for you here and now.

So to begin I want you to locate this sensation,

This feeling,

This emotion within your physical body.

Where is it in your body that you are feeling what you feel in this moment?

I want you to place a hand or both hands on that part of your body and then as you place your hands on any area that is feeling this heightened emotion in this moment,

Begin to describe it in your mind.

Choose the words that really accurately portray what is present for you right now.

Is it a burning in the heart?

Is it an uneasiness in the belly?

Is it pain in part of your chest?

Just begin to witness and name in your mind any and all of the sensations that are present for you right now as you feel these emotions.

And now we're going to begin to get very clear about which emotions are present for us in this moment.

Maybe we have one that feels the most present and sometimes there are other underlying emotions as well.

So with your hands still placed on the part of your body that is feeling these emotions in this moment,

I want you to begin to now ask yourself in your mind the question,

What is here?

And as you listen for that answer I want you to bring all of your awareness to where your hands connect with your body and begin to sense all of the emotions that are present for you in this moment.

Begin to name them.

Perhaps there's sadness,

Fear,

Worry.

Just going through that questioning to reveal to yourself any and all of the emotions that are present in this moment.

Perhaps there's one,

Perhaps there's more.

There's no requirement or judgment on what is here.

Simply observing and being curious as to what is present for you in this moment.

And now we're going to begin to get a little bit more clarity around these emotions and go a little deeper to uncover the reason for these emotions appearing now and what they're really about.

So again in your mind I want you to ask yourself,

What am I sad about?

What am I angry about?

Naming each of the emotions that you discovered in your previous question,

What am I blank about?

And do so,

So on,

For all of the emotions you identify to really see what is underlying this feeling in the present moment.

And now we're going to begin to go just a little bit deeper.

Peeling back a layer of that surface emotion to see what it is that has really been triggered here.

What the maybe deeper belief or inner wound is that a younger version of you is connected to.

So the next question I want you to ask yourself is,

Where does this come from?

And I want you to allow yourself now as you ask that question to simply sense where this feeling really comes from.

Trusting whatever you receive,

Maybe that's a visual or a knowing or maybe you hear something inside yourself.

Now what I want you to begin to notice here is,

What time in your life does this really relate to?

Getting a sense of the inner child version of you that is at the heart of what you feel in this moment.

And as you do so,

Really beginning to sense what age is this inner child version of me?

And as you lean into that question,

I want you to begin to bring to mind a visual of yourself at that age.

Noticing this inner child version of you here with you now.

And begin to really notice how they look in this moment.

What is their body language?

How are they dressed?

What is the look on their face in this moment?

Just beginning to really notice and become aware of this inner version of you that is present for you in this moment.

That has come forth due to the feelings and the trigger that you're experiencing right now.

And I now want you to make yourself known to this inner child version of you.

You might like to imagine that the two of you are sitting across from each other.

You may wish to kneel down to meet them at the size that they are,

Or simply sit together side by side.

But make contact with this inner part of you.

Perhaps giving them a hug,

Grabbing their hand,

Anything that feels appropriate for you in this moment.

Just beginning to connect in the here and now this version of you and them.

And you're going to now spend some time asking this inner child version of you some questions.

So finding a space in your mind,

Perhaps you'd like to create a scene that feels safe and comfortable for both of you.

To sit and have a conversation.

See yourself sitting together now.

And to begin I want you to just express to this inner child version of you your gratitude for them being present for you here right now.

That you're grateful that they shared these emotions with you.

And let them know that you are here now so that you can better understand them and understand what it is truly that they need in this moment.

And so as you sit with this inner child version of yourself I want you to ask them what is it you want me to know right now?

What is it you want me to know about why you feel how you do in this moment?

And then simply allow yourself to receive an answer.

Trusting whatever comes through for you.

That bit may be something that you hear or that you see or that you feel or that you simply intuit.

Taking your time to allow yourself to receive an answer now.

And once this inner child version of you has shared their response you can now ask them what do you need from me right now?

So that you don't feel this way in the future.

And again I want you to just open yourself to allow a response and an answer to come through for you.

Trusting whatever you receive.

Again maybe it's something you intuit that you hear or you see or you feel.

Taking some time now just to receive that answer.

And as you receive that answer I want you to let the inner child version of you know that you are going to act on the information they just shared with you.

As soon as you are finished here in this meditation you will go back to your life and begin to implement what they shared with you so that you can be the one to truly honor how they're feeling and what it is they need most in this moment.

Letting them know that you care and that this information is important to you.

And as you share that information with your inner child begin to notice how they look in this moment.

Has their body language changed?

What are their facial expressions now?

What is their energy like now?

Noticing if there's been any shift for them in how they feel.

You may now wish to give them a hug or thank them for coming forward.

And again reassure them that you are here for them now to take care of their needs so that they don't need to feel this fear or sadness or whatever emotion it was that arose for you and that you'll be the one to honor them going forward.

And from here you can begin to now part ways with your inner child.

Sharing any last words that you might feel you want to say to them or if there's anything else your inner child wants to share with you before you part.

And if it feels appropriate you may simply just wish to end this experience here bringing yourself back into the room.

Or otherwise there is an opportunity now for you to ask one more thing of your inner child and that is if they would like to come back with you,

To be present with you,

To leave this experience being more connected with you.

And if their answer is yes ask them where within you they would like to reside.

And again allowing yourself to sense and intuit or feel what that answer might be and where in your body they'd like to be held within you.

As you receive that answer now begin to imagine creating a space in the exact place that your inner child asked to be located.

You can visualize them now moving into that space and letting themselves feel at home where they are.

You may now wish to move your hands to that part of your body to kind of hold them energetically in that space.

Taking a moment once again to see how they feel here located within your physical body,

Within your energy body.

What are their facial expressions?

What is their energy?

How are they feeling now?

And with that knowing that when you wish to connect with this inner child version of you as you act on the insight and information they shared with you today about what they need you can consciously connect to where they are right now in your body.

Let them enjoy that experience as you provide it for both yourself and for them.

And just taking a nice deep breath here slowly breathing in through the nose and then exhaling and sighing that breath out through the mouth.

Another deep breath in through your nose and a big sigh to exhale that breath out.

One more time deeply inhaling through the nose and a big sigh to exhale.

Beginning now to really sense your physical body here either laying down or sitting in a chair.

Connect in with how it feels to hold the position of your body,

The weight of your body.

Begin to wriggle your fingers and toes and deepen your breath.

When you feel ready gently opening your eyes and bringing yourself back into the room.

You may now like to take some time to journal on this experience.

Revisiting the questions that you asked your inner child and writing them down.

Committing to now act on what it is you received as guidance of what your inner child needed most in this moment.

And seeing to act on that and complete that as soon as you possibly can to really seal in and integrate the healing that has happened today.

To really complete this experience for yourself.