By Jeanne Jess
Dear Angel,
If in your daily life, you observe yourself struggling with self-worth, self-esteem, self-confidence and feeling insecure, then it is possible that you got a “wounded inner child” somewhere within you. Healing this wounded part of you will truly change your daily experiences and your relationships.
Where does that wounded inner child come from? It happens that – no matter how much parents do their best – a child does experience some family situations as traumatizing, even they were not supposed to be so. And there can be other situations which definitely would have been traumatizing for everybody. Both type of experiences can be very painful and terrible for a child. Also it happens sometimes that those experiences are repeated during many years over and over again, for example the experience of being rejected or criticized – and the wounds can not heal until the child leaves the house when around 18 years old.
When then later leaving the family, there is a grown up person – with a wounded heart. And the natural reaction of that young human being is: self-protection in a very high form, to make sure not to get hurt again. And the person may experience fears and insecurity in normal daily situations. Walking through life with an unbalanced self-esteem, a lack of self-confidence…. it is not easy to create stable and healthy relationships.
Now, how can this be healed? (Also the help of a certif. therapist is recommanded.) When sitting in meditation, ask for divine guidance and call your Higher Self, your Soul, your Angels and Guides to help you. Then go within your heart and invite that wounded inner child to join you. Imagine if you like a nice living room and invite the child to sit there with you.
It is possible that this wounded inner child may be crying, may be very sad, insecure or very angry. Just allow it all to be. Depending on what has been experienced, the inner child may not want to talk first time you meet. Anyway, see how it changes when you offer your hand, when you offer a hug. Maybe the inner child got questions and would like you to explain why happened what it experienced. Maybe it was so traumatized because in those situations, nobody did explain things, nobody did offer protection, compassion or respect. You now can give all these things to your inner child.
Offer your inner child all the love it may need. You will naturally feel what it needs. Stay with your inner child as long as you like, or until you see it feels better. Try to talk with your child with loving words, healing words, and take it your arms. Your love and compassion will heal it step by step. And ask your Angels to help your inner child to heal. You can also invite Mother Mary for this healing meditations.
After your meditation, it may help you writing a letter to your inner child. Or maybe your inner child would like to write you a letter, who knows. Getting to know your inner child within your heart like this, will allow you to get to know yourself better and change your feeling of self-worth.
Loving and nurturing your wounded inner child like this in meditations is only one of the many existing tools to heal yourself. Repeating this little exercise on a regular basis during a few weeks and months (or whenever needed) will help you healing from the painful situations of your childhood. Once your wounded inner child feels loved and does receive all the care it needed, you will observe yourself and your feelings changing step by step. You then will feel better in your daily life, more and more.
And know that often it happens that a father or / and a mother did love their children – but for many different reasons at that time they were not able to show or express their love in the way that the child did need it. But in their hearts, they truly do love their children. Maybe they did not learn it from their own parents.
And very often, the Souls did agree to the experiences and family situations before coming to Earth.
with love,
Jeanne
This article is a guest post written by Jeanne Jess originally posted on http://www.jeannejess.net/2/post/2013/08/healing-your-wounded-inner-child.html