Becoming Our Own Loving Parent

In this practice you might find it useful to get a cushion or pillow to hold as if you are holding and comforting a hurt part of yourself. Developing a sense of becoming your own loving parent and caring inner voice to balance out any critical voices which can be quite harsh and brutal at times, enforcing a sense of being unlovable and not good enough. You might experience it as the pillow or cushion as the hurt part of you, maybe ourselves as an infant, a small child, or teenager. It may be an adult child or a wounded part of ourselves that you can hold and comfort. You can develop the sense of being a healthy adult, a loving parent to ourselves, giving comfort and safety to the hurt part of you. Then also receive the comfort as the wounded part of you. So you give and receive love, compassion, kindness and safety to yourself. Soothing the hurt and pain, while feeling the hurt and pain being soothed by the healthy secure adult within you.

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Becoming our own loving parents. And caring in a voice meditation. Take some time now to settle. Some time to connect. With a sense of being our own loving parent. Guardian or carer. Becoming a kind and caring and a voice of love and compassion. Understanding. For the hurt and wounded part of ourselves. You might find it useful to have a pillow or a cushion to hold. Is that your comforting hurt in a child? And the hurt child is being comforted by you. A healthy loving pair and care. Holding the cushion in the pillow. As if you are holding the hurt part of yourself. The wind. Upset car. Settling. Sitting in a comfortable position or lying down. Adjust the body so you feel supported. The weight of the body dropping. Going on the side. Chair or the ground, The bed supporting you. Allowing the senses to open. Curious of any thoughts that are coming and going. Sam. Rising and falling. He smells. Maybe taste if you've eaten or drunk something. The touch of the chair or the bed or the floor. Sensing the room, The walls. Snailing. Flow. The surface you're resting in. Supporting you. Holding you. Moving the body if you need to, Just giving yourself an extra bit of comfort. To go into this practice. The intention of connecting with. Developing. Loving. Caring inner voice. Your own loving parent or guardian. It's always there to comfort you. Nurture you. Kind in a voice of compassion. To help balance any critical voices. To help soothe any hurt and pain. That your child may be experiencing. The body is settling. Gravity. Feeling the body of sensation. Mail. The lips. The face. Air in the nostrils or gently exhaling lengthening the breath on the lips. The arms. And anchor the body. The legs and feet. Just feeling or imagining the sensation of the body. Feel the sensation of breath. Movement of the tummy or the chest. Maybe lengthening the out-breath through the lips. Feeling the sensation of breath on the lips. And help to soothe the nervous system Calm the nervous system. The intention of this practice is to and help develop an inner voice of compassion. To balance any critical voices. Its roots from the past. If you're holding a pillow or a cushion. Imagining you are becoming and you are the loving caring parent or guardian. You're the resource of safety. The hurt child or any part of you. Should you hold the pillow or the cushion? Imagine you are holding the hurt child within you. And sense how you are being held and comforted. Are you as your loving parent? You're being held. Are you? Yeah. Becoming the loving, Caring parent or guardian. And I like to tell them they're safe. Their love. Be careful. Reassure them. You might like to tell them that you're here for them. As you hear those words, Repeat back to yourself as the hurt child I'm safe. I'm careful. Unloved. Fail it. And again as the loving, Caring voice of compassion. I'm here for you. You're careful. Your love. You're safe. Or any other words you want to say. As you reassure and comfort. Her inner child within you. And feel it as the hurt part of you. Repeating that I'm safe. I'm careful. I'm loved. Or any other words you have given to yourself. So you are giving the words as a healthy loving parent. And receiving the words of comfort and ease and reassurance. Is the hurt child or part of yourself? Just giving and receiving the hand. Feeling the heart. So you can be the hurt part of yourself, Receiving the hurt. A kind, Caring, Loving parent of compassion and kindness. Giving the hug. Holding the hurt child. Becoming the loving, Caring, Healthy adult. Guardian and protector. Helping to integrate the her inner child. Feeling that in the body. Nurturing and developing the relationship. Giving and receiving love. Compassion. Kindness and reassurance. Feeling the body of sensation. Feel the body being breathed. Feels a hug. The womb. Owning yourself. And being held by yourself. Her child. Held by healthy, Loving, Caring. In a voice and guarded. I love you. I care about you. I'm loved and I'm cared for. Becoming it. This short practice is coming to a close. Anytime as you feel the body on the chair or the bed the feet on the ground or the surface you are resting on. Feel the body being breathed. Feel the connection of the cushion or the pillow. The connection of the wounded or hurt part of yourself. And feeling the loving, Caring, Healthy adults. Becoming it. Taking your time as you reorientate yourself into the world. When you're ready. Open and close the eyes. With the toes of the fingers. Now you want to continue just holding yourself. As we complete this practice. Sitting with yourself as long as you need to. Reassuring the hurt child that you're there. On affirming as the hurt child and part of yourself. But you're there. And I'm safe. I'm careful. And I'm loved.