We form our basic belief system and many of our ingrained behaviours from conception to age seven. Some believe we form our basic structural behaviours before the age of five. Many indigenous cultures say that our mother is here to nuture us, to show us love, from conception to age two. Our father is here to then validate us, to take us out into the world, from the age of two until five.
Usually, our childhood is imperfect. We get hurt. Some experiences can be traumatic, some experiences are less traumatic but we still get hurt. When this happens our ego, our sense of who we are, and how we orientate ourselves in the world, forms a limiting belief system. There are some fundamental core beliefs that most of us carry to a greater or lesser degree. These are beliefs such as ‘I am not worthy’ and ‘I am not capable’.
By creating a belief system, our ego decides ‘how it is’ for us in the world, and this then becomes how we orientate ourselves. Carrying a belief that we are ‘unworthy’ will impact on how our life then reflects back to us. Life is a mirror, and beliefs like this then reflect back to us. We may fail to recoginse why we struggle in relationships or with money, however the root cause if often a belief that was formed in early childhood.
Who is Your Inner Child?
Your inner child is the child in you, that still exists psychologically, and is as extension of the adult you. A subpersonality or inner child archetype. However much our parents love us, there are always time when there is failure in meeting our every single need as children. Parents are influenced by their own upbringing as well as dealing with the human energetic, emotional, physical, mental limitations we are all faced with.
Some parents have been extremely traumatised themselves, and traumas such as violence or abuse can carry on through the generations until a brave soul incarnates into the family time-line to put a stop to the abuse. They prevent it being carried on to the future generations, by stopping the behaviours. However, these children have to experience the abuse before they are able to end the pattern.
How Does Inner Child Healing Work?
As we develop into adolescents and adults, we often shelve our childhood traumas. They are painful memories and we feel safer and happier if we can forget them. However, our unconscious keeps hold of these memories and feelings, and will keep manifesting difficult experiences for ourselves, because that is what we believe. This is our belief system. Often we are completely unaware of it.
Inner child healing often involves working with a skilled practitioner who can take you back to emotionally charged times in your childhood, and bring up the painful emotions your inner child is holding onto. Therapies such as hypnosis and Akashic Record Reading are a good way to access your inner child and difficult emotions your inner child is holding onto. By making the unconscious conscious you take away it’s power. Releasing your inner child from suffering, releases discordant stuck emotions which you are unconsciously holding onto. Ultimately inner child healing helps to free emotionally, so you up so you can start to live from a place of power and harmony as opposed to recreating trauma.