Inner Child Therapy- A Path To Freedom And EmpowermentDo you know that you, without being aware of it, may have been living with your past or childhood pain or grief? If such is the case then your past experiences tend to control your present behavior and action, which must be resolved with inner child therapy. Inner child healing becomes essential where you have a recurring reaction to specific issues, people, places, or even things for a reason and that is probably related to your childhood. For example, if as a child you were told that you never did anything correct, then as an adult, when that message is again conveyed to you either directly or indirectly, it will bring up the same pain of the past. Similarly, if in your existing relationship you find yourself too much worried with the fear that your partner will depart you, you may react to an old experience or say when one of your parents left your family. These examples imply that, if you remember your past or childhood when you were hurt, then the similar hurt in the present would be larger than the hurt for you to bear today. Thus, it becomes necessary to understand that you react strongly to certain issues for a particular reason. You need to discover the reasons that can heal the situation that caused it. Only then you would be free to act in response to your current interactions and may not react to them because of your past. Obviously, you cannot change the facts about your past, but you certainly can change the manner you relate to those facts. For this, you may have to rework each scene of your past incident several times. This repetition will modify the experience and each time you heal your inner children, it will be lesser the hurt. The lesser the hurt, the less they will control your adult life. You can heal your inner child by looking for the real memories of your life, or else create their symbolic images, pictures, sounds, and voices and then restore them with the better ones. Your inner children are parts of your heart which is the emotional center of your body. It will be helpful to heal your inner children if you picture them outside your body so as to communicate with them more effectively. The inner child healing process consists of firstly recognizing the bereavement of your inner child and healing your wounded child of the past and secondly nurturing your inner child of the present. When you grieve the wounds of your inner children, that is, the emotional wounds that you suffered from, you will be able to change your behavior patterns and clear your emotional process. Thus, inner child therapy involves knowing your inner children and healing them up by releasing the emotional grief so that you may love the person you are. Healing the child within is not some popular psychology; rather it is becoming more conscious of the cause and effect link between your early days and adult lives. |