When Your Inner Child Calls...Answer! Part I of Inner Child Healing

We choose our parents before we are born. Hard to believe, but we are responsible as souls before we incarnate, to select people who will give us certain experiences for our learning.  It's like being a director in our own play casting all the parts, with us as the star.

Even if on the surface you did not have a traumatic childhood, there are still parts that get stuck in our subconscious and fester,waiting for us to get tired of the pain they cause and heal. These missing pieces manifest in disease, discontent and discord.

 As our awareness and consciousness expands and opens during this mass awakening on the planet, these old issues come up for review and have to be cleared. 

A lot of us spend our whole lives trying to push away the things that nag at us. Yet the problems never vanish. Long term avoiding eventually causes the nudges to become stronger until they become impossible to ignore.  Challenges develop in our daily life played out through relationships, health or work and cause havoc.  After living amongst the chaos caused by buried emotions, eventually the pain becomes too much to maintain because the concerns infiltrate every facet of your life.

Finally there is nothing left to do but face your fears and deal with them. Unfortunately there are no shortcuts and the only way to healing is through exploring the past.

Most of the things causing challenges in your life can be traced to an event from childhood. Yes, the fact that your daddy didn't pay enough attention to you as a child could be one of the reasons you are needing extra pats on the head in relationships or at work and are labeled needy.  Or as detailed in Louise Hay's "You Can Heal Your Life," many diseases are rooted in infancy through adolescent events.

As an adult the childhood incident may seem inconsequential, but remember you were a child at the time, therefore your cognitive skills were not very sophisticated. When I mentioned earlier that you didn't have to experience a horrendous childhood for things to become lodged in your subconscious, just think about how a child interprets the world  and you can begin to see how certain events may have become skewed. Determining what the event or emotion is can be difficult to discover and might require some sleuthing techniques and extensive digging.

What is interesting about the new expansive energy the world is experiencing during this time of awakening is it hastens healing. What might have taken years in therapy to work through in the past, can be erased in a much shorter amount of time.

Even if you have engaged in inner child work before, you may find some old patterns returning for a final look. This is part of the process and it's a way the universe has in giving you one last chance to make sure you're truly finished with those thoughts and behaviors.

Understanding how childhood wounds develop is next up as we explore the relationships we brought in to our lives and how we chose to interact. Being a director in our own play is a hard concept to imagine, especially if we created a Nightmare on Elm Street. But taking a 10,000 foot view of the situation will help explain why you created  the scenes for your growth and make healing easier.

Becky Arrington guides individuals and businesses to discover their purpose and live authentically. Whether you’re a company looking for innovative ways to lead and engage employees or an individual trying to prioritize, reduce stress or decide what you want to be when you grow up, learning to accept and thrive in change is key.