The Flame & The Void Meets Inner Child Work

In this session we practice, 'The Flame and The Void', combining it with Inner Child work.

Connect to our highest Self/The heart space and invite a part to work with you. Practice the Flame and the Void meditation, modeling it with your part, helping it to release and integrate.

Visualize a flame. If you notice a feeling, emotion, thought, or distraction, feed it into the flame. When there is nothing left, let the flame go, and sit in the void.

Addition: with the inbreath, take in all the emotions, thoughts, and sensations. With the out breath, offer them to the flame.

Transcript

And welcome to the session. I invite you to take a seat. Or lie down. And get yourself comfortable. You can close down the eyes if you wish. Just begin by slowing down the breath. Breathing in through the nose low into the belly. And slow. As you're taking those slow deep breaths. Take a moment to scan your body. To scan your mind. To find a part that you'd like to work with today. Part of your past. Part of your personality. Part of your body. And the inner child. Or an aspect of the shadow. Part of you that is holding onto something. But is desperate for release. Today we'll be practicing the flame and the void meditation. Combining it with some parts work. Picture of flame. And then feed that flame all emotions. Thought and sensation. And when there's nothing left. We will release the flame. Embrace the void of the self that remains. And if things re-arise. We just begin again. Visualizing the flame. And feeding it once more. But today we're going to do that in conjunction. With an inner part. Us. The Self. The part of us that is connected to the divine. A wise mind. This place of inner peace and confidence. At your highest. The intuition. I'm going to sit in that space. Call of forth apart. To work with. And guide that path through this meditation. Taking another slow and deep breath. Inviting a part that you'd like to work with today. Really feeling the sensations in that part of the body. Deeply. Opening up the mind space to that pun. Listening and feeling fully. Approaching everything that arises. With an attitude of compassionate curiosity. And calm confidence. Taking a moment. To ask this part. If it would like to practice the flame and the void meditation with us. Our goal is not to get rid of the part. Rather to help that aspect of us. To release its burdens. Anything the devias are holding on to. And help it return. Help it reintegrate. Help it to heal. So, Yeah. There's the self. The hard space. The intuition. Working with. Sitting alongside this pan together. Visualizing a flame. Anchoring to this flame. And then. In feeding this flame. Emotions. And sensations. Showing the part that you're working with the way. Guiding it. To release and the emotions thoughts. And sensations. Into this flame. You may notice memories. Bodily sensations. Thoughts. Or other things arising. From within you. Within the part that you're working with. Feed it all to the flame. Gently. Lovingly. Like an offering. Like a release. Approaching and accepting whatever arises with a compassionate curiosity. And calm confidence. With your next in-breath. Scan. Scan the body. Scan the mind. Demonstrating how to do this to the part you're working with. Scanning for any emotions. Thoughts. Sensations. Gathering it all. And on the out-breath. Releasing it into the flame. You might visualise it just travelling from you into the flame. Or perhaps you writing it on paper and placing it in there. Or some other way. Whatever resonates for you. With the in-breath. We scan. And the out-breath we release. Modeling. How to do this. Part you're working with. Really picturing that flame. Anchoring to it. Feeding it all emotions. Thoughts. And sensations that arise. Modelling how to do this. With the part of us that we're working with. Almost like we are our own inner parent. Teaching our inner child how. This is how we do it. This is how we release. This is how we attain calm. Is how we let go and embrace the present moment. This is how we heal. Is a thought. This is how I offer it to the flame. Turning your attention deeply towards the palm. With the in-breath Scanning it. Helping it. To identify. To highlight. All of the stuck emotions. Thoughts. And sensations. All of the burdens. The fears. Breathing it all in. And the out-breath releasing it. Into the flame. Comforting it through the process. Soothing its fears. Helping it to release those two into the flame. In a moment. Going to sit together in silence. Practicing this flame and the void meditation. Visualizing a flame. Connecting to a part of us. That wants to release and integrate. But needs their support. I'm going to feed this flame all emotions thoughts and sensations. All of the things that arise. Guiding this part to do the same. Helping it to do the same. Acting as an inapparent. To her inner child. With the in-breath. Scanning the body and the mind. To draw it all in. With the out-breath. Releasing it into the flame. When there is nothing left. When it's just you. In your part together. Release the flame. Simply be here. In this moment. Safe. Integrated. And if challenging thoughts or emotions or sensations re-arise. Simply begin again. Reignot the flame. And feed it once more. Trust yourself in this process. You so if you'd like to maintain the meditation you are more than welcome to do so. With everyone else just gently returning. Back to their bodies. Back to the session. To that day. In this session we looked once again at the flame and the void meditation. Originally taken from the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. This technique offers a Simple. Profound look at mindfulness. But today we added something. We combined this technique with intuitive guidance. With inner parts work. Connecting to a part that wants to work with us. Part of our past. A personality. Part of our body. An aspect of ourself that is holding onto something. Stuck in a roll. Or holding on to burdens. Part that is stuck in fight, Flight, Freeze, Born, Fantasy. Acting as our own in the parent. We visualized a flame. And began feeding it all emotions. Thoughts. Sensations. Something arose. We offered it to the flame. Releasing it. And showing the part we're working with how to do so as well. Again and again and again. This part may be. A little bit tentative of this process. So we commit. At the end of these sessions if you've been working with a partner you let it know that you're going to return. But in a later session, You'll come back to it from the self, From the hard space connecting to this part. Allowing. Accepting. Perhaps once again practising the Flame and the Void meditation. This simple technique is beautiful because it offers you a anchor Be a mindful focus. Traditionally we focus on the breath but with this we visualise a flame and rather than. When we get distracted or overwhelmed, Just releasing it. Gives us something to do with those distractions. Offer it into the flame, Feed it into the flame. And when there's nothing left. Gives us something to do as well. Release that flame. And simply embrace the void that remains. The emptiness. The sense of self. This moment. If we're doing this with a partner one another. Enact pure reintegration. To taking another slow deep breath. Committing to this path that you will return. For the moment at least. Allowing the visualisation to fall away. Thank you for joining me. And I'll see you in the next session.