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In the first year of life from baby to infant, the human child appears to possess a naturally creative self expression. Children do not arrive here as blank slates, but with the seeds of a complete creative intelligence, capable of centring and guiding the child through their life. The Inner Child is the “essential energy” in universal creativity. I believe children arrive in their human life with this energy intact.
Our Inner Child is like our Inner Peace. Both are intrinsic elements contained in the ‘profoundly peaceful moment’ that launched our human consciousness. Both remain within us for the duration of our lifetime, exactly as they existed in the very first moment. Both can be realised in the fullness of our human potential.
Our Inner Peace and our Inner Child are archetypal in the understanding of our self and the world we enter. Through our Inner Child we inherit the qualities of playfulness, creativity, imagination, joy, enthusiasm, excitement, inspiration, unconditional love and belonging. These, and many other creative components are within us from the beginning.
Many children naturally create their Inner Child in a quasi-physical form. Together, they can happily play for hours. I have seen this happening in the lives of my own children and it is something I will never interrupt. If invited, I will always acknowledge the reality of the Inner Child. If encouraged and supported, the creativity we naturally express as children, can be reconstituted as we go forward into adulthood.
As children, we come into our awareness of self through our interactions with family and surroundings. Our sense of human-self is gradually formed through our core beliefs. These beliefs are determined through the reference of our Inner Child. If we are coerced into a belief that conflicts with the fabric of our natural creativity, we can become confused and unhappy. Sensitive parenting is of critical importance in the world today. Allowing your child to follow their natural creative way is essential to nurturing a happy child and potentially, a happy adult.
With the value of hindsight and meditation, I have been able to recall life-defining moments in the realisation of my Inner Child. From ordinary everyday events, to the extraordinary nature of clairaudient encounters and creative gifts. I have always felt a connection with a kindred spirit so close as to be within me.
It has been my Inner Child that has validated my happiness and inner peace. Firstly as a child, and now in the years of my adulthood.
In the old paradigm, childhood lasted until puberty, and then it was time to discard the child and become the adult. In this transition, the Inner Child connection can be lost. Subsequently, we have adulthood without healthy emotions, healthy bodies and healthy minds; all products of an absent Inner Child. Many ageing adults would agree that the happiest times of their life were their child years. This is a direct result of the Inner child being suspended from our human expression as we grow up.
Adults without the connection of their Inner child, often find relating to children a difficult task. Parents without an Inner Child connection can also find the same difficulties with their own children. The absence of the Inner Child in parents will often cause them to comply with the social rhetoric of identifying problems in their children without firstly realising the solution is within themselves.
As I recall my childhood, there were two distinct levels of relationship. Firstly, there were the human relationships that I formed with family and friends. Secondly, there was my relationship with the physical world, or more specifically … Mother Nature. As a child, she seemed just as meaningful to me. She was alive. Human relationships varied in dynamic. I was more comfortable with some people than others. With the natural world, it was always the same. The continuity and stability of my relationship with Nature was such a natural feeling. It was consistent, and it was always there. When I was around nature I always felt I belonged …
We are the Inner child that evolves out of absolute and profound peace. One is a quality of the other. Both are essential elements of our innate spirituality. The Inner Child emerges from the infinite heaven of Soul Consciousness . . .
In Soul Consciousness we are infinite and intimate at the same time. Imagine being a single drop of water and falling into an ocean. While your surface definition would disappear rendering you one with the ocean, the energetic signature of your singularity remains. As Soul Consciousness takes on our human form, we fall into the majesty of our own creation. Rather like the scene from the movie “Mary Poppins,” where Mary, Bert and the children jump into Bert’s painting and have a real life experience!
In Human birth, we are now as a drop of water leaving the ocean. We become an individualised stream of Soul Consciousness, embodied in the physical vibration of our Inner Child, and our Inner Peace.
By virtue of its emergence from Soul Consciousness, the Inner child becomes the life of a single unique human being, carrying the synchronistic vibration of the child’s creative desires. Within this vibration is contained everything the child needs to fulfil its human destiny.
Fulfilling our destiny, is what we are here to do and it is impossible to fail. From the place of our Inner Child grows the human childhood and the myriad influences that shape our lives into adulthood. But through all this, the essential nature of our Inner Child remains within us … unchanging.
The feeling of “belonging” in the universal sense, is what is missing in the world. We may emulate its feeling in our families and it gives us great joy. But humans are all of One family. We belong to the universe along with every other living entity. Equally, we belong to the universe through our Inner child, just as a drop of water belongs to the ocean. Our Inner Child is the realisation of this wholeness.
Irrespective of our childhood experience, our Inner child is still very much intact and a part of who we are as an adult. We may not experience it consciously, but it is there at the cusp of our first moment in life.
Close your eyes and think about the feeling of who you were as a child . . . Then, think about who you are now … are you still that same person?
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This is something many people today have little sense of. With the pressures of adulthood and the on-going challenges of material survival, childhood along with the Inner Child are discarded as irrelevant to the adult life. But in severing childhood, the essential quality of the Inner Child can also be lost, leaving adulthood without life-giving creativity and a sense of belonging or purpose.
Each of us has an Inner Child that began our human journey. It is there to enrich our life and bring us to peace within, no matter how young or old we are. When the distractions of life seduce us away from our essential self and purpose, it is our Inner child that restores our connection in the remembering of who began this life we live today.
The distinguishing differences between the Inner Child and childhood, means that despite the circumstances of our childhood, the Inner Child in its essential form, is always available to us. Whether you consider your childhood to be good or bad makes no difference in accessing the creative beauty of your Inner Child.
There is a great healing in the reconnection with our Inner Child. Integrating its energy into our current waking consciousness not only develops a profound sense of belonging, but also realises the universal connection we have with everything and everyone around us.
Close your eyes and try this yourself . . . You may recognise the feeling of just being YOU . . . The “you” you have always felt you were . . . but maybe never really thought much about . . .
My Simply Stillness meditation program features the integration of our Inner Child. Over time its essential vibration brings a refreshed creativity to life. Feelings of enthusiasm, excitement and inspiration help to balance the stressful responsibilities and commitments of rational adulthood.
Sadly, adulthood diseases such as we are seeing in the world today, are the outcomes of an absent Inner child. But these diseases are completely reversible. Imagine being the adult you already are, and at the same time having the capacity to express the authentic freedom and happiness of your Inner Child. You can, and meditation will help you get there. Once integrated, there is no human disease capable of bringing you down.
Your Inner-child is where your life began. Anchoring yourself to its feeling memory creates an alignment with who you were from day one. For me, connecting with this experience is much like the feeling of having “solid ground” beneath my feet . . . very reassuring as I reach upward in life.
The qualities of our Inner Child underpin our natural ability to experience joy and freedom. In the deep relaxation of a meditative state we can revisit such beautiful moments with profound clarity and bring them forward into our present day.
Dis-connection happens when desperation enters the pursuit of our goals. We can lose our sense of direction, finding ourselves in places never intended. Re-connecting with our Inner Child returns us to our centre. The Inner Child carries within its matrix, our human potential and the gifts we inherit to achieve it. From here, we can make the appropriate adjustments to realign ourselves on purpose.
When it comes down to it “Who we are in life” is a reflection of our Inner Child. Apart from the biological differences, becoming an adult simply amounts to our acquired skills. The rest is held in the universal creativity of our Inner Child.
Thank you for reading and for sharing
May your peace be within …
Much love
Jeffree
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