January 30th, 2012
Shamanic healers perform soul retrieval as a main service. The shamans recover the person’s vital life force, lost or stolen, which can create physical or emotional illness. The integration after the retrieval takes time.
If a stolen part had the quality of love, we may have grown up with a closed heart or a heart-wall – the protective emotional barrier around our heart – this creates a challenge in giving and receiving love. When the missing quality returns, we can begin to learn how to love, over time.
We, as adults, have survived our childhood traumas. Yet, we still suffer with various soul splits as a result of these traumas which require soul retrieval.
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December 5th, 2011
Growing up in the Western world we have been taught as children and adults to avoid showing any emotions. So when feelings begin overtaking us we stop breathing and apologize for feeling. As a result, our inner child, the emotional part of us, lives with its wounds and suffers.
Emotions or E for energy in motion wants to express naturally through our bodies. When we stop the flow of these feelings, they gather and become trapped in different parts of our bodies. Repressed and suppressed over periods of time, they can develop into physical conditions such as heart disease or cancer etc.
What is the Truth about Feelings?
1. Denying our childhood emotional wounds will not make them magically disappear. As I said earlier, emotions manifest as energy. Suppression causes them to stay trapped in our bodies. Pressure builds until we explode outward or the energy implodes inward and we suffer heart disease or cancer. Note: PTSD represents emotional trauma begging for release trapped in the bodies of war survivors.
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November 27th, 2010
Inner Child
If you came across a child who was lost, frightened, neglected, or abused would you tell them to be quiet, go to the corner and not to complain? Yet, every day in counseling offices around the world, patients are told to let go of the past and focus on the present only. While there is certainly wisdom in this approach, for “The past cannot be changed”, “What is done, is done”, “Yesterday is dead and gone”; sometimes we need to look at the victim that is crying out for help.
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September 2nd, 2010
Self-Interview with Michael David Lawrience, author of The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, and Pain
Part 1
(Conducted by Michael David Lawrience)
Inner child healed
Q: The Wounded Inner Child, Does it Run Our Lives?
A: Like most of you I had no idea I had an inner child until in my early 40’s motivated by a series of unhappy relationships, I gained an interest in my inner child and the possibility of healing him.
I grew up as an invisible lost child in a family with an alcoholic father. So I repeated the same trauma in my intimate relationships whenever I felt threatened, I retreated into my self without ever expressing my feelings. Some of my partners did the same.
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June 28th, 2010
An eternal child lurks in every adult.
Carl Jung, Collected Works, Volume 17
Our inner child represents us between the ages of birth to adolescence. The inner child’s psychological nature consists of childhood negative and positive experiences, emotions, and self-worth. Besides being the result of our childhoods, this accumulation passes down through the generations of our family. Our inner child resembles a boy or girl; newborn, age three, five, eight, or ten, who looks just the way we did at that age. This child can be the same sex or the opposite sex.
One aspect of our inner child may feel unloved, unrecognized, and fearful in other words, the neglected or abandoned child. This child craves nurturing and unconditional love. This child neither sees nor feels the light. Instead, it feels trapped, sad, and lonely inside of a dark, non-nurturing world. This feeling of lack of love passes down through our family bloodline. If we heal it in ourselves the next generation no longer inherits the lack of love. Healing our inner child heals the inner child of our children and our children’s children.
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March 30th, 2010
Healing the Inner Child - Willow Arlena
Our inner child contains all our positive and negative emotional patterns. He or she lives in our psyche as the little child we once were. He or she carries the wounds of past trauma. A clue that our inner child runs our lives emerges in the patterns of drama and trauma, which keep reappearing repeatedly in our adult lives. Another clue shows itself if we keep retelling the same story of suffering to others.
My inner child carries the wounds from growing up with an emotionally distant father addicted to alcohol. Yet, I am grateful for him allowing me, at the age of ten, to play for two summers with my younger brother. We played fantasy cowboy games amongst the groves of maple trees.
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