Here are two easy healing exercises that you can do no matter where you are on your inner child healing journey. You can do these as often as you feel necessary, follow your intuition and inner voice. Some good indicators you may need to do a check in with your inner child are:
-You feel triggered by someone's words or actions, and it feels like it hits a deeper level for you, like there's something that this thing struck that comes from your childhood. This could be a childhood insecurity, limiting belief, or it brought up a traumatic memory
-You find that you are more reactive than usual
-You are having a hard time expressing your emotions
-Or even just you can feel your inner child energy pulling at your attention
EXERCISE ONE- MEDITATION
-Get comfy and ground your energy. You can put on heart space frequency music if that helps you (639 hz).
-Grab any crystals you intuitively feel pulled towards (not necessary but they do help). Some suggestions are rose quartz, rhodonite, sunstone, citrine, green aventurine, moonstone, amethyst, or carnelian. It really depends on what you're needing at the time.
-Once you are grounded and ready, invite your inner child to sit with you. Ask them what they are needing. How are they feeling? Are their needs being met? Do they need anything from you? Do they feel safe to express their feelings? Just sit with them and comfort them, observe them and see what comes up.
-You will see them appear as different ages usually, I have found it can vary. Sometimes my inner teen comes out, sometimes my inner child. If there was a traumatic event at a certain age and that trauma is being brought up, likely they will appear at that age.
-One thing you can do is send love and support to them at different ages. So, if something painful happened to you at 5, imagine you at five and send them love and comfort. Say what you would've needed to hear at that age. Be the adult you needed then. This can be really challenging so be easy with yourself and stop whenever you feel you need to. You can always revisit this at a later time.
-Do this for as long as you feel led.
-You can choose to journal your
experience; in fact, I highly recommend this. A lot of insight can come from journaling.
EXERCISE TWO- JOURNALING
This one is great for when you have trapped emotions that need to be expressed or further insight into a situation. Get out your journal and invite your inner child to come forward and write. Let them write about whatever they need to get out. Let them be angry, hurt, resentful, angsty, sad, etc. Give them a safe space to feel.
You might be surprised that what you're writing sounds like a more unhealed version of yourself, or more emotional. Thats ok, try to not let your adult logical brain get in the way of their expression. Grounded logic comes later lol right now they just need to express their feelings. Let them get it all out. This is very cathartic!
Afterwards, read what you wrote and then write any reflections you have. I always find a lot of clarity after releasing those emotions.