What is the inner child?

What is the inner child?

what is the inner childIt seems that you have nothing to do with that sensitive, pure and naughty child you have been in childhood. Is not true. The 

child still lives inside you! You still feel his sensitivity, his vivacity, his spontaneity and also his purity, his innocence
and his ingenuity. Your inner child also keeps all the strong impressions that affected you, the phrases that were recorded to
you, the demand that overwhelmed you, the needs that were not met, and also the love you received, the games and the fond
memories. All this, which is stored inside you, is reproduced today. The stage and the characters are no longer the same, but
the emotions are still there, intact, repeating themselves over and over again. A tone of voice, a brusque order, a concrete
word, brings out the old feelings of yesteryear. More of the same.

The image of the Inner Child is a mental symbol, which connects directly with all these childhood memories. Childhood is not
pejorative, it is very positive to have creativity, the spontaneity of the child, and it is wonderful to continue feeling his
capacity for wonder before the mysteries and surprises of life. Children live absolutely present, vibrating in the here and
now, without losing anything of what happens and without worrying about the future or the past. But just as your emotions
often escape your control, the image of the Child you see also has a life of its own. Sometimes you wonder what he does or
says! As the image faithfully accompanies your emotions, it is a great way to keep in touch with them.

But our Inner Child does not only use us to connect with our interior, which in itself is something very important. It also
provides us with a simple, effective and loving way to repair our past! The inner child is as if it were your very heart: it
is where you can nourish the soul, by nourishing him / her. It symbolizes your capacity for surrender and love. At least, on
its first rung. Then, you will go knowing higher and more sublime levels of love. But everything starts with the child,
because he lives it all in a free, impulsive way, without reflection. Then, the experience and its consequences cause it to
repress its impulses. It is encorsetando. And these repressed emotions are those that later provoke physical and psychic
ailments.

By giving the child what he needs: support, love, protection, by explaining things to him, by blaming him, as if by magic,
your mood changes at the moment !!! If you visualize the inner child when you are feeling a huge loneliness, maybe you will
see him in a corner, very sad. If the adult now picks you up, comforts you and gives you a hug full of warmth, the loneliness
goes away and you begin to feel good. With a simple visualization! Thus, you can fill your own lack of love and also the lack
of direction and advice. It is in your hands to heal your emotions!

Imagine that you are doing a task, concentrated, without thinking about you at all. When you remember him, you see the image
of a child who feels abandoned, sad. Suddenly, you realize that you need a break, you are hungry or thirsty, that your body
needs rest, that your mind is out of control. So, stop and relax for a while. In a word: you attend to a need of yours that
you were not aware of. Your Child has made you take care of yourself. If now you remember her image again, you will see her
happy, attended, satisfied. The feeling and the image are in close connection!

You can also repair the situations that your child could not handle in childhood, due to lack of age, lack of resources, lack
of adequate support. Then it is true that you could not. But now you can! What happens is that the emotion that overwhelms you
makes you forget completely that you already have resources to spare. But we can achieve the opposite effect: by changing the
image, the emotion also changes. What is in your mind is affecting your body and your emotions and being affected by them, so
that if you introduce transformations in the images, your sensations will also be transformed! Through your Child, you can
change reactions you learned in the past to more appropriate and more pleasant ones. In short: you can change your emotional
life! Almost nothing…(Changing your mind through Hypnotherapy)