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Is Your Inner Child Begging for Your Attention?


As an adult you may have lost touch with your inner child.  Being all grown you may be living with a mind-set of responsibility, productivity, and accomplishment.  This mind-set may be keeping you from honoring and nurturing a very important person in your life – your inner child, your true self!

Think about a time when you interacted with a small child – maybe it was your own child, a niece or nephew, or a child you met in the course of your day.  What kind of feelings did you have for that child?  Love?  Warmth? Care?  If you had a long enough interaction with them, how did you feel about meeting their needs?  If they were happy, did you share in that joy with them?  If they were sad, did you try to understand what made them unhappy?  Did you find yourself trying to cheer them up or did you scold them and shame them for their feelings?  If so, how did you feel afterward?

When thinking about our inner child it is often easier to visualize this “child” if we first think about a child in our life.  I would bet that most of us feel love, compassion and tenderness toward little children, whether they are ours or not.  We see the innocence and vulnerability in their eyes.  We understand that they need tender loving care.  Guess what – so do we!  No matter what our age, we all still have that child inside us - the child who just wants to be loved, to be accepted, to smile, to laugh and to be carefree. 

How are you doing listening to and nurturing your inner child?  Have you turned your back on your inner child’s needs for play?  For rest?  For creativity or laughter?  Self-nurturing is about your relationship with yourself.  When you ignore your inner child you are ignoring your SELF!  Some impacts from this: you are limiting the love in your life; you are limiting your love for yourself; and ultimately, you are limiting the relationships in your life.  Remember, we treat people how to treat us by the way we treat ourselves!  If others are not treating you well, take a look at how you are treating yourself, especially your inner child.

Nurturing you begins with an internal journey of loving yourself, and taking care of that child inside you.  My challenge for you this week is to be very mindful of what your inner child is asking for.  Try to keep logic and your mind out of the way and really listen to what your heart is saying (this is where your inner child lives).  Love this inner child this next week by acknowledging it’s feelings and requests then do at least one thing that it is asking for.  I guarantee you will feel your heart glow with love and that love will project on to all those you interact with.








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