Moonstone Tarot

When we begin our spiritual journey of healing and enlightenment we start with the self, our hopes, dreams & challenges and that gives us a platform of purpose in the direction that we would like to guide our healing. The Inner Child is yet another stage of healing that we come to understand the value in when we realise that every experience or relationship we have here on Earth is an opportunity for us to learn and grow as souls. In order to conceptualise the role of the Inner Child, we must consider the Higher self and the Ego. The three are extremely sensitive to each other, for example the Ego serves to protect the Inner Child especially when he/she feels vulnerable but the Ego can be easily triggered into a low vibration where there is no consideration for others. The Higher self brings us wisdom and guidance and helps keep the Ego in check while still making the Inner Child feel safe. We all have access to our Ego but through intentional healing we gain more access to our Inner Child and Higher self.

The basic building blocks in unpacking the Inner Child is the paternal and maternal influence, identifying who those people are in your life since your influence would come from whoever you were most exposed to not necessarily your biological parents. There needs to be an understanding applied that as humans we are all naturally flawed and we are constantly unconsciously projecting these fears out to whoever we engage with, especially children in our care. In order to understand ourselves and particularly our challenges and woundings we must take an honest look at these parental relationships to determine where this programming of the self developed, and then the process of ‘un-learning’ can begin.

The Inner Child is a fantastic concept to work with in healing since it gives us an opportunity to be the parent or guidance we needed emotional, intellectually or even spiritually. Its all about treating your own self as a vulnerable child that needs assistance in attending to their basic needs, try to exercise that level of care, concern and patience with yourself. Start to become more conscious of how you speak to yourself, or comfort yourself and eventually you will become in tune with your inner child and able to meet their needs well or at least better than before.