All that your inner child wants is for you to open your heart to her. And, when you welcome her into your heart, what you will find is that you no longer have any need to prove because she loves who she is. She doesn’t love being judged by you. Her life is about dreaming, sitting in the garden imagining the fairies in the trees, at the beach swimming with dolphins, imagining what’s possible…
Embracing your inner child
So, integration is about embracing your inner child as part of your whole self rather than rejecting or denying that she exists.
Heart and soul
It’s about taking aligned actions each and day. For example:
- Remember what you loved to do as a child, do things that you love, give your heart and soul to everything, have fun;
- Make real life choices that reflect your inner child…if you were afraid to speak up as a child, tended to hide, you feared you were unlovable, you might practise setting boundaries at work and in your relationships;
- Rewrite your story…accept what happened in your childhood, see it from a different perspective, through the eyes of love, let go of old limiting beliefs and create affirmations to reinforce new beliefs. For example, the old story you inwardly told yourself might have been “I have to be perfect to be loved”. That can now become “I am worthy just as I am”, or even “I love who I am”.
Then comes the fun part… visualise your future self…. imagine living without all your old fears…how does life feel?