“The most potent muse of all is our inner child.” – Stephen Nachmanovitch
News of lives lost and sadness in response to painful events shakes my heart to the core. I have been meditating and encouraging peace and love in my posts on Facebook and Twitter, but my inner child is crying out for relief. The perpetrators of these horrific acts were once innocent babies and toddlers who asked for something and did not receive it. They felt something and it was not pleasant. They tried to create from their core and the path seemed too difficult to manage. They were too young to understand that if they just stood still, what they wanted would come to them; the love we all seek is right here now.
Inside all of us sits an inner child that offered herself to the world and did not always get a good reception. We react in different ways to thwarted dreams and internalized aggression. We bump around through life and try to create a life that we love as teenagers and adults, but that inner child keeps crying out. Some of us offer our talents and professional expertise, and when it seems rejected or questioned, we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and keep learning and trying. During these times, the inner child cries out again,” Please don’t abandon my innocence and my passion to create something unique in my life.” We hear it in our own way and feel it in our disappointment, like a heavy weight on our chest. For some of us, a compassionate hand or voice comforts us in these moments, and we find a way to carry on. For others of us, the pain remains, and the cries continue.
Stop for moment. Listen to the cries of your inner child. Offer forgiveness. Say, “Please forgive me for not always listening to your cries.” Tell your inner child that he is loved; that love has always been present for him. Introduce your inner child to the present moment of peace, and reassure her that peace is available any time it’s needed. Honor your crying inner child. Offer to wipe away the tears, and invite that inner child to breathe deeply with you in the silence; and with a compassionate, soft voice, whisper to your inner child that the way to love is to be love, and that the universe hears all cries. Do this as a testament to the power of our oneness. The love you allow to emerge from your true self is the same power that honors the muse that is our inner child.
With much love,
Eleanor
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This is SUCH a powerful way to understand what we are currently experiencing across the U.S. and around the globe! People are at a loss to the understand how it is that we can witness astonishing abundance and possibility even while way too many are still steeped in poverty and the inevitable conflict that emerges from the contrast in that dynamic. It is difficult to be still long enough to listen to our Inner Being, The God Within, our “Inner Child,” while those who are most distant from their own voices raise a cacophony of fear as distraction. I appreciate your gift of calling us back to our Selves. Thank you!
A few weeks ago I began daily exercises to become more conscious of my Inner Child. Once I lovingly invited her forth, she began to trust me again to recognize her as always present. I realized as she implored me that the same requests she asked of me is the same that I ask in prayer, just different semantics. Her presence, as with most children, is a gift of remembrance of my oneness with my Inner being. There’s no separation, only sacred oneness.