Awaken Your Inner Child’s Wisdom

In this meditation, we dive deep into the power of reconnecting with your younger self. Often, we dismiss our inner child as a chaotic or naive part of us, but what if that very energy holds the key to profound healing and transformation? In this session, you’ll learn how to embrace your inner child’s wisdom and playful spirit to overcome emotional blocks, release tension, and rediscover joy.

Transcript

Welcome to this guided meditation for reconnecting with your inner child.

You know,

Usually we think of our inner child as this little runt who's up to no good and can't actually teach us anything,

But I believe over the course of this guided meditation we are going to learn together what we can actually take from our inner child and apply it to our current lives.

So,

I invite you to find a comfortable seat and close your eyes.

Listen to the sound of my voice as you enter into this guided meditation.

In your comfortable seat,

Feel your two sits bones against the floor.

Feel your spine absolutely perpendicular to the floor.

Bring your shoulder blades back and down to open your heart.

Tuck your chin slightly to lengthen the back of your neck,

And now just pretend your head is a helium balloon and let it stretch one inch up towards the ceiling.

Now turn your awareness to your breath.

Feel the cool air entering your nostrils and the warm air leaving your nostrils.

Focus on your breath as a way to let go of all the thoughts,

All the noise racing around in your brain.

Just focus on the cool air entering your nostrils and the warm air leaving your nostrils as you assume this poised meditation position.

Slow,

Deep,

Silent,

Soft breaths.

Very,

Very good.

Now,

This is going to be a visualization exercise.

Visualization is a very powerful way to transform our reality by using our imagination.

And guess who was great at using their imagination?

Our inner child.

So,

That's why we're calling on them for today.

But first,

I would like you to visualize where you are right now.

I know your eyes are closed,

But think about where you're sitting.

The walls of the room you're in.

What clothes do you have on?

Where in the world are you?

What is the weather like outside?

How does your hair look?

How does your facial expression look?

How does your posture look?

Beautiful.

See yourself in your perfect stillness.

And breathe into this awareness.

Now,

Let's change the visualization.

Let's imagine our younger self.

Somewhere between the ages of four and eleven.

Taking a nap.

Resting peacefully in a bed.

See their little body.

See their soft hair.

See their outfit.

See their facial expression.

And ask yourself,

What room was this child in that they were sleeping?

Maybe at home.

Maybe at school.

Think about a place where your inner child felt really safe to just doze off.

And feel calm.

And just watch yourself sleep.

Ask yourself,

What was my younger self thinking about at this time in their life?

What were their main problems?

What were their main desires?

What were their main relationships?

Meditate on these questions as you watch your inner child sleeping.

In perfect peace.

Answering these questions will probably conjure other images from the life of your past self.

Maybe waking moments.

Maybe more emotional moments.

Just keep imagining these moments as you answer the question of,

What details made up the life of your younger self?

Now that you've had some time to examine what your inner child was dealing with during these times in the past,

I want you to shift the visualization.

No longer are we looking at a younger version of ourselves,

Peacefully resting.

I want you to look at your inner child,

Your younger self,

In their most emotional moments.

What comes to mind?

Is it a tantrum?

Is it radiant laughter?

Playing with friends?

Is it getting in a disagreement with a parent or a sibling?

Are there tears flowing?

Is there yelling happening?

Is there violence?

However triggering or unsettling it may be,

Allow yourself to just sit and watch.

Knowing that there's distance between you and your younger self.

Knowing that this is just something that you are imagining.

But watch and observe and ask yourself,

What thoughts were going through the head of my younger self at this time?

What were they thinking about?

Try to just focus on one memory,

One emotional state.

And totally unpack it.

Visualizing every detail from the environment to the clothes your younger self was wearing,

To who else was around,

To what the weather was,

Where in the world were you,

And most importantly,

What was your younger self thinking about at this time?

See it all like you're watching a movie on a screen.

And now try to see it from a first person point of view.

Let your eyes be your younger self's eyes.

Embody your younger self as you're experiencing this emotional state.

Feel free to shift through a couple now.

Choose one point of anger or sadness,

An emotional tantrum or a point of misunderstanding.

Choose one point of jubilance,

One point of fear,

One point of shame.

Take your time with this.

Through the eyes of your younger self.

If you get distracted,

Come back to the visualization.

Stay with your younger self.

Beautiful.

Now let's shift the visualization.

Imagine yourself holding hands with your younger self.

The two of you are strolling down a beach at sunset.

Feel how their hand feels in yours.

Feel how your paces are just a bit bigger than theirs.

And notice where they're looking on this beautiful beach.

Notice how they walk.

What their facial expression is saying.

And now give your younger self space to ask you all the questions that are on their mind.

I'm going to give you some time here to dive deep into this visualization.

A conversation between you and your younger self.

Allow your younger self to unleash their curiosity.

One of the greatest strengths of youngsters is their curiosity.

So let your younger self ask you all the questions that are on their mind.

No matter how stupid or embarrassing or taboo the questions may be.

And your job as your present self is to patiently answer the questions that you can answer and just open a discussion about the ones that you can't.

Don't stop until everything that your inner child has to say has been said.

Just enjoy this conversation strolling down the beach.

How deeply can you listen and empathize as your younger self asks these questions?

And how deeply can you nurture them in your responses?

And as you continue this conversation walking down the beach,

Ask yourself what can I learn from my younger self?

Now,

Allow the conversation to shift away from questions and towards compliments.

The two of you can now mutually exchange compliments about what you admire most in each other.

Let your younger self be so proud of the version of you that has emerged.

And let your current self remember how wonderful you were as a child.

Don't hold back.

Let every nice thing that's on both of your minds come to light.

What do you want to thank each other for?

Now,

Allow yourselves to enter a state of play.

Maybe you start dancing,

Splashing in the shallows of the ocean,

Skipping down the beach,

Playing tag.

Imagine in this visualization how you and your younger self would just have a little bit of fun.

And in your real physical body,

Try to feel the emotions associated with this state of play.

Let the oxytocin spread.

Let your breath deepen.

Let your smile spread.

Maybe some vocalizations emerge from your mouth.

Let it happen.

And bring your awareness to the fact that this adolescent whimsy and playfulness is the perfect antidote for so many of our adult problems that are polluted by being too serious.

Understand that maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if your younger self was given the steering wheel of your life just once in a while when it was needed.

And rather than suppressing our younger self,

We can actually invite them to be part of our life,

To be part of every moment.

Recognizing this,

Come back to the beach and give your inner child a big hug.

Maybe you have to kneel down in order to do this.

Or maybe you pick them up into the air,

Your choice.

Just visualize it clearly.

How they smell,

How they hug you,

What they might whisper in your ear.

And now imagine that the two of you fuse until you just become one.

Know that your younger self has been absorbed into your body and they will live there forever in perfect harmony with you.

Breathe deeply into gratitude knowing that you will always be guided by the innocent wisdom of your inner child.

Thank them.

Thank them for something specific.

And now using your real physical body,

Wrap yourself in a hug.

Wrap yourself in a tight,

Loving hug and say thank you one more time.

On your next inhale,

Bring your palms together in prayer at the center of your chest.

Exhale,

Bow down to yourself.

Inhale,

Open your palms like a book.

Exhale,

Open your eyes,

Look into your palms.

Try to notice something in your palms you've never seen before and recognize that these are the same hands that your younger self had.

When you feel ready,

You can lift your eyes back up and take a deep breath of completion.

Thank you for joining this inner child guided meditation.

I hope it helped you.

Just know I post lots of different guided meditations for every topic under the sun so I encourage you to check those out.

My name is Itay and I'll see you next time.

Hope you have a delightful rest of your day walking with your inner child.

Peace and love.

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