Healing The Inner Child

What Is The Inner Child?

We all have what is known as an inner child. The inner child is where we subconsciously store the energy of all our emotional responses and feelings from our childhood experiences, most of which we are not consciously aware of. Experiences that are either deemed healing and nourishing, or traumatic and wounding.

As adults, when we feel triggered by situations, events, or people, our initial response and reaction is a reflection of the emotions stored in our inner child. This includes for example, any kind of traumas, unmet needs, attachment wounds, times we felt misunderstood, suppressed, abandoned, or perhaps felt shamed.

These wounds play out in our ego where these valid emotions rise up in ways that feel uncontrollable when triggered, in order to be acknowledged, felt, and healed. Though unpleasant, triggers bring subconscious parts of us that have gone unhealed into our awareness.

The definition of trauma will look and feel very different for each of us. We each have very different sensitivities to energy and our perception of what feels like trauma in our bodies, so what may feel like trauma to one person may not feel like trauma in another, and vice versa. As a society we have a tendency to label trauma or a traumatic event as having specific parameters or effects on the body (such as emotional responses like PTSD) but in truth we all experience a unique response in our energy fields to situations so in reality there are no limits as to what we individually feel or perceive trauma to be for us. Trauma is a feeling, an emotional response.

Where To Begin With Healing?

The inner child is part of who you are, your energy, and inner child healing plays a pivotal part in how we experience our spiritual journey. Our inner child just wants to feel safe, secure, free to express who they are, have fun, and be loved unconditionally.

So, where and how do we begin to apply healing?

There are many ways to apply healing. As a Reiki energy healer, my approach is to first connect and identify with our inner child. Set the intention to initiate a connection to that wounded part of yourself, and for healing to occur. Consciously becoming aware of your inner child, it’s wounds, it’s traumas. Acceptance.

Meditations can also be incredibly powerful, they can invoke the visualizing of your inner child. What age do you see your inner child as? What do they look like? What does their energy feel like? Fear, anger, sadness, joy? Do you feel emotional when you talk to your inner child, if so, where do you feel it in your body?

Talk to your inner child, befriend your inner child, ask them what they need. Spend time in creative pursuits, being playful like a child and creating moments that feel joyful and fun. Connect to that carefree spirit of childhood that is innately within us all. Let your inner child know they are loved, safe, respected, heard, and appreciated and most importantly that you are there for them, to take care of all their needs. They are safe to let go of fear, anger, grief, loneliness.

Healing takes time, patience, consistency, and most of all requires love, acceptance, and forgiveness, of self and of others. There also needs to be moments of joy and happiness in the healing, to uplift and lighten any heaviness.

Reiki For Healing The Inner Child

I gravitate towards Reiki energy when it comes to healing the inner child. I find it to be highly supportive.

Through healing sessions I have been guided to first set the intention to send Reiki energy back in time, to focus on healing the experiences and events that caused the traumas and wounds, which are mostly on subconscious levels.

Forgiveness must be brought in, and a releasing of the energetic cords that keep us attached to the wounds.

In Reiki energy sessions for inner child work I call in Quan Yin, the Goddess that embodies the energy of care and compassion who showed up in my own healings.

There are many great resources and healers in various modalities for inner child work online to work alongside conventional medical and psychological approaches that offer support. We are all unique and our support system for our healing journey will also be unique.

Find what resonates and works for you, and remember that healing is not linear. You may find one approach works for a while but then move on to a different modality as your healing progresses. Be gentle with yourself, and love yourself every step of the way. The benefits you reap from doing the work to heal will significantly enhance your life in uplifting ways!

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With love and gratitude,

Claire

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Please note that all information written here are my personal thoughts and opinions based on my own research and personal experiences with healing, I am not an expert and I do not claim to be, nor do I provide professional medical or psychological advice. You are always fully responsible for the decisions you make regarding your health and wellbeing.