Hello,
This is Clara Wisner and this is the cradling your inner child meditation.
Now this meditation can be done laying down or sitting up.
And if you decide to sit up,
Just make sure that your spine is erect from crown to tailbone,
But you're still feeling loose and relaxed.
So as you get comfortable either lying down or sitting up,
Start to breathe.
Start to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.
Just watching the breath.
In through the nose and out through the mouth.
Start to notice any sounds around you.
The way the air feels on your skin,
If you're laying down,
How whatever you're laying down on is holding you,
Is pushing back a little bit into your body.
Or if you're sitting,
Whatever you're sitting on is pushing back into your body.
Come into your body,
Start to notice your five senses,
Just to bring presence here.
Just notice.
Now as you're really aware of your body,
Of the way you are in this present moment,
Start to imagine that you're getting smaller.
Start to imagine yourself as a child.
We all have that part of us,
That part inside of us that is a young child.
We remember what it's like.
So just take a minute here.
I'll watch the time to breathe and to feel as if you were a little child.
To feel that innocence and that wonder.
So just breathe and start to feel yourself come more and more into this feeling of being a young child.
So,
As you feel like this young child,
Bring up a time in your childhood,
A feeling,
An experience where you felt lost or hurt or confused.
Maybe it's the first time ever as a child or a toddler even,
Where you felt disconnected.
You felt like love wasn't available to you or like safety wasn't available to you.
And remember what that feels like.
Feel it in the body.
Don't create a story around it in your mind.
Feel it in your body as this young child.
What did it feel like to feel disconnected?
To feel hurt.
To feel a loss of love.
To feel unsafe.
Breathe into that feeling.
Doesn't need to be a story around it.
It doesn't need to be moving away from it.
Really notice what it feels like in your body to feel like a hurt or scared or confused child.
We have this part of us.
It is with us.
It is okay.
So just take your breath and go to where you feel this in your body.
Maybe it's in your heart.
Maybe it's in your gut.
Maybe it's on your neck or your head or your back.
I'll watch the time.
One minute to just feel this feeling.
Notice the texture,
The heaviness.
Maybe there's a color associated with it.
This feeling of disconnection,
This feeling of fear,
This feeling of sadness.
Now,
Imagine you're this scared,
Confused,
Maybe a little hurt child and you're in a living room.
Somewhere that feels familiar.
Somewhere that feels comfortable.
And you see a big rocking chair across the room with a figure in it.
You notice this figure,
This figure,
You immediately feel drawn to this figure.
I want you to imagine a mother figure.
It could be your mother.
It could be a family member.
It could be even a character from a TV show that you believe exudes mothering,
Exudes unconditional love,
Exudes what a mother should be in your mind.
And this figure is that person.
This figure across this living room in this rocking chair,
She exudes warmth,
Understanding,
Unconditional love,
Safety.
And you feel totally warm and comfortable as you stand up and you walk towards her.
So you're aware of this hurt place inside of you,
But you're also aware that this figure knows about that place and is still beckoning you.
You stop standing in front of her,
This character,
This person,
This mother figure who exudes all of the qualities that you imagine the perfect mother would.
Study her face.
Notice her hair.
Notice her eyes in particular.
And feel this warmth washing over you.
It's almost like forgiveness.
It's almost like all that hurt,
That confusion,
That pain goes away or it gets swallowed up almost in this unconditional love.
So for one minute,
I'll watch the time,
Bathe in this feeling,
In this gaze of this woman who loves you,
Who knows everything there is to know about you and still loves you.
Now it's time for one more minute of silence,
Please,
When I summon this artifacts,
I want Now this figure kind of pats her lap or motions for you to crawl up in her lap and you do.
You sit on her lap as if you did,
As you did many times,
Your mother,
A family member,
Or just imagining a character that exudes all of these warm and comfortable and safe feelings.
So you crawl up on her lap and you feel her warmth.
You feel that comfort of being held by someone that loves you.
She knows you're hurting.
She knows you're confused.
She knows what you've done and she takes it in.
She receives it for you.
No judgment.
Unconditional love,
Unconditional comfort.
It is safe to surrender in this mother's love.
You feel completely and utterly taken care of.
You might even start to feel the rocking of the rocking chair,
That comforting motion that really originated in the womb space,
That slow,
Comfortable,
Wave-like,
Consistent motion rocking you.
Comforting you.
Nourishing you.
Now for one minute,
I'll watch the time.
Just bathe and enjoy this feeling of safety and warmth and comfort and love,
Unconditional,
In this subtle rocking.
Once I've certificates.
Now if you feel comfortable here and you need more of this nourishing,
Unconditional love,
Stay here.
Stay as long as you need.
And if you feel good and you feel ready to get up and move on,
Slowly climb out of the mother's lap.
And as you walk back towards the living room,
The place where you originated,
Kind of take a look back at her and know that she is there,
Always,
Whenever you need her,
You can come back to this place and this rocking chair and this comfort.
You can call upon it.
She will receive it.
She is there.
So if you're ready,
You can turn with that knowledge,
With this pure nourishment of this unconditional love that you've experienced,
This healing.
You can walk back to where you were and as you walk,
You feel yourself growing.
You feel yourself getting bigger.
You feel yourself coming into your adult form.
And you sit back where you originated as yourself in this dimension here now as an adult.
And you open your eyes.
