There are many different ways that you can work with your inner child.
In this meditation I'll be starting with the most important step and that is connecting with your inner child.
The second most important thing to learn is to embrace that child.
As you listen to the meditation you can be creative about how you connect with your child and how you embrace your child.
The things that I say are just some possible ways that you can do this.
So relax about it and let it unfold in a way that's natural for you.
You can do this meditation either sitting or lying down.
Begin by finding a comfortable position.
And now close your eyes.
Just naturally when you close your eyes you become more aware of what's going on inside you.
You'll notice thoughts going on.
Perhaps you'll be feeling some emotions.
You may be aware of sensations in your body,
Pleasant and unpleasant.
Simply being with whatever is happening,
Not trying to change anything,
Not resisting anything.
From time to time you may become absorbed in a train of thought.
Doesn't matter,
Just easily come back to the meditation.
Bring your awareness to your breath.
Notice the breath moving in and out.
The breath moves in and out without effort.
Be as effortless as the breath.
Notice if there's any tension held anywhere in your body.
Let that go.
Let yourself relax.
Now continuing with an easy,
Open awareness,
Not resisting anything,
Simply being with whatever happens.
Let your inner child to come forward.
How do you sense that child?
What are the emotions that child is having?
You might actually remember yourself as a child,
Some memory,
An image of yourself as a child.
Allow that to appear.
You may see your child or simply feel the presence or the emotions of the child.
Allow yourself to connect with your inner child in whatever way feels natural for you,
However it comes about spontaneously.
So you may perceive the child in some way within yourself or you may even feel yourself as the child.
Your inner child will bring to you what needs to be embraced,
What needs to be held.
Simply being with that child.
Seeing how the child feels,
Noticing the reactions you have to that.
What does the child want?
What is the child trying to express to you?
Take some time now to ask some questions of your inner child.
Take some time to explore the needs,
The feelings of that child.
Ask what the child needs and just see what comes up spontaneously.
Be fully present to whatever that child needs.
You can ask your child what he or she has to say.
What do they want to tell you?
Just trusting whatever answer comes.
Just trusting whatever pops into your mind when you ask these questions.
Now ask the child how you can help.
Ask what you can give to nourish that child within.
Let yourself respond to that just as if that child were standing before you or sitting in your lap and the adult part of you responds to that.
Allow yourself to give that child exactly what he or she needs.
Embrace that child completely.
Good and now feel the space in which all of this is happening.
Let your awareness expand beyond the child and beyond the adult that's holding the child.
Let the adult and the child both be held in a field of compassion.
Let them be held without judgment.
Perhaps judgments will come up,
The mind will be evaluating the experience.
It doesn't matter.
You'll simply be present to the child,
To the adult who's learning to care for that child.
Simply present,
Steadfast,
Reliable.
Let that field in which both are contained,
That field of your own awareness,
Hold both.
Embrace both.
Now the music will continue on for some time and you can continue with the meditation a while longer.
Let whatever wants to happen,
Happen.
You can be creative and find your own ways to embrace your inner child and express your inner child.
And then when you're ready to end the meditation,
Take your time,
Come out slowly.
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