Comments on: Inner Child Guided Meditation

By: CoachMarieWetmore

CoachMarieWetmore — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:11:04 +0000

Hi,

I have found inner child meditations indescribably helpful personally and in coaching (I’m a life coach). I find them to be a powerful way to love all aspects of ourselves – even the parts we at first think aren’t so great. I posted a very simple inner child meditation on my blog, if you’re interested: http://wp.me/P22Vnn-O

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:32:52 +0000

Hi Pat, sometimes deeper layers of wounds do come up. I wonder how you healed through the other layers previously. Sometimes we need to revisit some resources for help. Persisting with the meditation may also help you to move through the fear and find the adult parts of yourself that can love and help your child so she doesn’t feel so alone…

I’ll add your request for a meditation on fear to our list. We also have a special program for anxiety which might help. “At Ease – Anxiety and Worry Relief” – is available as an iPhone/iPod application and as an android app. It’s also available on our website — http://www.meditationoasis.com/courses-programs/at-ease-anxiety-worry-relief/ Best wishes.

By: Pat Rusk

Pat Rusk — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:14:35 +0000

Mary,
Love your voice. I am listening to the inner child meditation every other night. there is a lot to absorb. I am going thru a difficult period where all the old fears related to a wounded child have come up again. Thought I had it all “solved” many years ago, but the deeper layer came up.
I am hoping this will help. I was a lonely, only child…and only remember that. a lot of fears…..
Will you do a meditation on fear?
Thanks, Pat

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:46:11 +0000

Laura, this is such a beautiful, moving experience. Thank you for sharing it. May you grow daily in love for your inner child and yourself.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:34:22 +0000

I grew in many ways as a sad and lonely child. My parents believed in total obedience and exhibited a sense of ownership over me. I always had a sense of not being good enough and spent many years being constantly corrected.
When I saw my inner child I found myself wanting to fix her hair and then she told me to stop. I knew then that I was treating her like she needed to be fixed. I told her I was sorry and that she was perfect as she was. I hugged her like I have never hugged before. I gave her all my love, and told I would protect her. I also told her she didn’t belong to my parents anymore, she belonged to me and I would set her free to be happy and full of joy.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:57:22 +0000

You are welcome, Cat. Thank you for sharing these profound experiences. Wishing you all good things as you continue your journey with your inner child.

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:27:05 +0000

I would like to thank you so much for your meditations and especially this one. I had tried it initially in order to connect with my grandiose ambitiousness of my childhood that has waned in adulthood, but found that this meditation took me elsewhere. The first time I did it I found myself as an 8 or 9 year old playing in my room alone, but I was nearly bombarded with overwhelming feelings of loneliness and frustration that evoked a very emotional response. I burst into tears beyond my control as if someone had burst a bubble unexpectedly. The meditation took me into someplace very deep that I was not previously conscious of and despite being extremely emotional, I stayed with it. When it was finished I was suddenly aware of some issues of my childhood that I was unable to connect with before. Afterwards I even wrote a letter to my inner child to address some things that came up in the meditation.

After a week of just digesting what I experienced, I finally came back to this meditation with much trepidation, but ready to face my inner child again and prepared to deal with some heavy issues once. This time, she was a gleeful, innocent, and playful 6 year old unaware of anything but happiness and laughter. I actually laughed out loud several times! The fleeting nature of all her actions were refreshing to say the least. We had a great time and I awoke feeling like a silly little girl for ever dwelling on the traumas of daily life and my past. I am blown away by this experience and am grateful to have this to come back to many more times. Thanks again!

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:00:55 +0000

Hi Andi, it sounds like the release of painful feelings in the first meditation paved the way for the positivity of the second meditation. You had a big clearing. The image that comes in any of the meditations where you visualize isn’t necessarily “accurate” in the sense of being like a photo. It’s like you are using your imagination like a paintbrush to depict what’s going on within you. It can be only a vague sense of things, or you can see yourself represented in a different way than you usually do. The mind comes up with what helps you grow.

By: Andi

Andi — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:16:02 +0000

The first time I did Inner Child, I chose to visualize an image of myself from a childhood picture because nothing else about what she looked like “automatically” came to me. However, about a week later I did the meditation again and her image came to me automatically – my inner child was a few years older. And the image was not an image that I remembered from any pictures of myself. I’m curious about this visual change of my inner child…has anyone else experienced that?

I agree that this meditation is powerful. I cried so hard during that first meditation. I felt painful feelings that left me depleted afterwards. But the second time (the time when the image had changed) the meditation was positive and loving. To my surprise, I was smiling throughout the meditation.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:34:49 +0000

You are welcome, Anne. It’s moving to read this and see how strongly you’ve connected with your inner child (yourself, of course). Each meditation will be different, and sometimes things won’t feel resolved by the end of a meditation. It may be that something difficult may come up, like the awareness of this judging, but awareness of what needs healing is the first and most important step to healing it. Sometimes it takes being with something painful, seeing it clearly, to help it start to unravel. Let the judging be there. Observe it with curiosity. What does it feel like? How does the child feel. How does the judging part of you feel. In exploring it, it can move. And be easy about it all. It will move through in its own way and in its own time. Thank you for having the courage to take this journey with yourself!