Requiem For Your Inner Child

I can remember going to healing school and seeing adults in ages ranging from 30 to the 70's holding onto stuffed animals and baby dolls in order to heal their wounded inner child. It seemed rather odd to me. And I wonder if this regression actually worked.

Our spiritual evolution depends heavily upon our recovery from our addiction to the victim archetype, which traps us in the past and saps our life energy.

Inner child work that I learned and experienced looks at all the pain, hurt, betrayal, victimization, abuse, and so on...

What makes matters worse- there is no one to protect or save them, no one to turn to, no one to talk to. Alone. Helpless. And worst of all, hopeless

What I see as time for a greater healing is to finally say good bye and farewell to our wounded inner child.

This victim archetype anchor to the past has to go so that we can go on with life.

So, in order to be truly free, I say let's pronounce our inner child dead and hold a requiem mass for him/her.

For those of you who have no idea of what I am talking about and can only remember a fun filled happy and joyous childhood, this may be inappropriate for you.

For all the rest of you, if you care to join me...

Listen to this music as you begin your meditation:
YouTube - Mozart - Requiem - Karl Bohm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqkMbk8eX6Y


Begin to take a few relaxing breaths and know that with each breath you will sink deeper and deeper. Melting into nothingness. And go deeper.

Let's take a look inside and search for your inner child who holds your memories of being abused, ignored, betrayed, abandoned, unaccepted, unloved.

You find your inner child hiding and sulking in a dark and stagnant room. He/she looks lifeless to you. Their eyes are dark and vacant. Skin is pale pasty white.

You say hello. And your inner child responds timidly. You take a step closer and continue talking. "How are you?" You quickly hear your inner child recount yesterdays pain with such precision with a memory so strong that they can recite all the names, all the offenses, crimes, and even the punishment they wish to inflict on all the people who have hurt them. Tallies of painful experiences frozen in time and place flow effortlessly from their lips.

You reach out to help yet your inner child is too frightened to let go and get out into the world. So fearful of living. Afraid to begin true effort, only to be victimized again.

Pitiful right? Joyless. Somber. Locked in pain and victim consciousness.

Being fully aware now that it is past the time for a change, you lovingly speak to your inner child and thank them for holding vigil. You tell them you would love to set them free.

Your inner child looks around the musty dark room, agrees and says "It is time for me to go. It is time for me to grow. It is well past the time for me to change."

You walk across the room and slowly open the windows to let in the light. As the sun floods into the room there begins a transformation.

Take a last look at the little person who has lived in this dark room for all those years keeping resentment scores day by day.

Now watch as he or she broadly smiles with joyous expression.

"Thank you. I am finally free to go," the child says. "I've been waiting for you to release me from this miserable job. I should have left years ago."

Your inner child looks around in this lonely room for the very last time, turns around to you and says, "Good-bye. I will always love you, but in a much different way".

With that, the little person dies, looking peaceful and serene.

Saying farewell to the past, you can finally lay to rest all your pain.

Lovingly, you wrap your little in a beautiful white cloth and take the body upstairs and out into the light.

There waits a beautifully decorated funeral horse and carriage. Ever so gently, you place this beloved child of yours into the wagon with all your love and respect.

Angels hover overhead. And a choir of cherubs sings softly.

All the people who have ever been in your life are waiting to pay their respects.

All past hurts are released. Love is everywhere.

The bells on the horse and buggy ring softly as the entourage slowly begins its journey up the hill to the graveside.

Everyone sings and great joy envelops the group.

Your angels are with you and support you as you say your last farewell.

Watch as your inner child is being lowered lovingly and gently into the grave as the celestial choir continues to sing.

As a stone is moved over the grave, you feel a new sense of freedom and love moving through you.

Your inner child is laid to rest.

Finally.

You ride to the bottom of the hill where you find a beautiful water fall. Walk under this water fall and allow it to wash all the past away from you. Feel the cleansing water running through your being, transforming all the pain, sorrow and hurts from your history.

Feel the energy of the waterfall intensify as it thoroughly purifies and restores you.

Open your mouth and catch some of this sparkling waterfall water. Rinse your mouth with it.

Taste this refreshing liquid and swallow some as it absolves and clarifies your body, purging everything from your past.

You feel totally cleaned, clearer than you have ever felt before.

With great expectation you call back your soul fragments and they return cleaned, washed, and rinsed, filled with the Creator's Light and love.

As you leave, you feel the sun warm your body. Notice how differently you feel.

Empty, transformed, lustrated, free. And oh so light.

Know your life energy will increase

Open your eyes whenever you feel ready to do so.