Growing up, being an adult, it’s not just accumulating years, seeing a wrinkle on the face or accumulating material goods, growing up means knowing how to mature over time, keeping everything good for every stage lived, every cycle of our existence.
However, it is not always easy to mature with harmony and happiness. Is my adult sometimes frustrated, full of unresolved conflicts that bind and drown us, that turn us into sullen creatures that have lost that daily illusion for things, for those around them, and worse, for themselves.
- When it comes to talking about our inner child?It’s possible that a lot of people laugh.
- They don’t understand their meaning.
- Sometimes we associate childhood with a period of ‘?Blind innocence.
- Where I still didn’t quite understand what the world or that entity calling life called it.
- That’s why children are entitled to a touch of madness.
- Of spontaneity.
- Because they just “don’t know yet.
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However, they may know much more than we do that they have values that we have already lost, we also say that we all still have our inner child very hidden, but it still allows us some balance. between the rational part and that freer, purer and deceived part, which continues to demand love.
Believe it or not, our inner child is not gone to give way to the serious adult you are now, he still lives in you, even if he remains, for the most part, hidden and repressed because we cannot afford to leave what he is. was, as far as he stands.
The inner child demands aspects that we don’t always know how to hear:
? She asks you not to give too much importance to things, to put the problems into perspective, to draw that shell of sadness, and to draw a happy face capable of going for a walk.
? Your inner child asks you to take care of her and love her, wants to be kissed, pampered, cared for and become the center of her life. It’s self-esteem.
? Sometimes it also requires you not to be so picky about yourself, asking you to relax and pay attention to the simple things that exist around you, that you value the basics, the joys, it asks you to play and experiment. don’t lose the illusion of life and yourself. He wants you to be spontaneous and brave.
However, there is also a vital aspect that we cannot overlook, your childhood may not have been exactly happy, that you have kept many wounds, empty and moaning inside.
Could circumstance force you to grow violently without?These dimensions that nourish each child: love, gratitude, emotional bond of affection, support?
All this makes us grow up with the insecurities, suspicions and fears that this child transmits to us that we could never be, this wounded figure that remains within us What can we do in these cases?Here’s what we’ll explain next.
It is said that those who live off creation, art, who know how to live with the minimum and understand the value of giving away a smile for no reason, have never broken the union with their inner child.
They may sometimes be called crazy, for their spontaneity, for their eccentricity, believe it or not, maintaining this umbilical cord with this healthy and happy inner child can undoubtedly be a rewarding experience capable of healing many emotional wounds. and boost our self-esteem.
How can we cure this “inner child”? To write
1. See yourself as a child, take a picture if you need it. It’s a simple exercise with which we seek to make you think, an act of introspection towards your essence yesterday, where that child you were still hiding was.
2. Think of this image, bring to your memory some point from when you were 7 or 8 years old. Are you an uninhibited, a little noisy, tongueless?Ask yourself if you’re still the same person, do you see a child kissing his parents?Remember that love.
Have you noticed perhaps a pity from the past, a painful wound?Then accept it and forgive it; you’ll feel freer. You must bring calm to this memory, a balance where there is no hard feelings and that allows you to live in peace.
3. Continue with your personal vision and establish a dialogue with this child now. With that childish you. You must establish a strong union with him, ask him what he needs now to be happy again, listen to his words, his demands.
You must convince her that you will take better care of her from now on, that you will love her, that you will take care of her, that together they will move forward with new dreams, relativizing problems, laughing, being purer and not suppressing those needs. . basic.
Hold it firmly out of your hand and never lose it again.