Inner Child
Inside you, the child waits to be seen,
not for what was wrong,
but for the love that was always deserved.
May you meet yourself with tenderness,
and walk forward with a freer, lighter heart.
HEALING THE INNER CHILD: A PATH TO FREEDOM AND JOY
In this work, you will be accompanied step by step back in time, through the stages of your development, recovering parts of yourself at each stage (mostly during our first 7 years of life). At Art of Flow, this work is based on the buddhist method of Prati Prasav, which is about going back in time and reliving and completing what still lies unfinished in our unconscious - both “negative” and “positive” sides we forgot about.
There is a fundamental difference between remembering and reliving.
Remembering is watching something from the outside, without being fully emotionally involved. When this is done consciously, remembering can allow you to include all the angles of a past situation which you couldn’t notice and understand as a child.
Reliving is re-entering the past situation; you feel back in the body and the feelings of that time. By reliving fully and expressing what couldn’t be expressing what couldn’t be expressed in the past, you free energy that was blocked inside. Whatever you express and live out completely, becomes again just energy, available to you in your life now. This is transformation.
You will be guided to:
reconnect with the child in you, learning again to listen to its needs and longings
discover the adult part in you that can take care of this child and appreciate its qualities and how they can transform your life now
experience the rules and roles that have been imposed on you by your surroundings, and how they have molded a false personality around you.
be supported to express and release old emotions that block the flow of vitality in your body.
explore your family setup with depth and compassion, completing what has remained unfinished.
experience the difference between a past oriented reaction and a mature response to the present.
By healing yourself at the roots, you will have access again to your potential, and you can celebrate the lightness and freedom of being that is regained when the old weight you carried has dissolved.
Parts of ourselves we will be working with:
THE CHILD - represents our feelings, our energy, our individual essence
THE ADULT - represents our experience, our know how, our wisdom and compassion
THE PARENTS OF THE PAST - whose unconscious and conditioning we have absorbed, which we carry inside us as our SUPEREGO
Very important thing to understand is that this work is SELF TO SELF. Even when we work with the parents of the past, we are dealing with WHAT WE STILL CARRY INSIDE IN OUR UNCONSCIOUS. This is not about simply trying to change the parents of the past, or blame the parents of now. Your love for your parents is always there and will not change because of what we carry inside.
How this work happens:
The Adult in us finds and reconnects with the Child.
Often in life, situations remind our unconscious of the past, and we react and become the wounded children like in the past. This often and most likely happens without us realizing.
The more we establish in this work the Adult part, the more the Child in us will feel safe, connected and supported to just be himself/herself.