For many adults, the concept of inner child can be uncomfortable as we have spent so much time and energy in growing up and becoming the responsible adults that we believe ourselves to be.
The way I see it we have four bodies: the physical body, the mental body, the emotional body and a spiritual body.
Not everyone believes that we have a spiritual body and for the purpose of this episode, it really doesn’t matter because what we are going to be discussing is the emotional body.
We all have emotions, some of us have very strong emotions in certain situations. The way I like to explain it is like this: imagine you have your emotion body all around you and someone comes up to you and pokes it.
In other words, you are triggered. If someone comes to poke your emotional body in an area where there is no wound or bruise, you’ll just move to the side but it won’t really bother you. However, if they poke an area of your emotional body that is wounded, you will launch into fight or flight, whatever that looks like for you.
You may retract or you may attack, that will depend on your subconscious programming and that particular situation.
What I believe is happening here is that your inner child is being woken up. This “sub-personality” is the part of you that will be reminded of times that you felt emotions of fear and abandonment or shae and rejection, whatever caused emotional pain and remains unhealed will be your trigger points.
Most of us ignore that part of ourselves for most of our lives and that’s why we have the reactions that we have in delicate situations. For me, there are some situations that will trigger me but absolutely not bother someone else, because of y own emotional wounds.
I honestly believe that if we want to achieve all the inner peace, joy and abundance we aspire to create in our lives, we need to go back and heal those wounds so we can flow through life with ease and stop being triggered every time that wound gets poked.
So how do we do that? First of all, we’ve got to acknowledge the inner child that exists within us and we need to give them a space to be listened to and nurtured.
When we are in situations where we do get emotional, we need to understand the emotional wound and hold ourselves gently rather than judge the reaction.
