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Our elusive INNER CHILD

12/10/2015

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Barbara Stevens

​Our 'inner child' refers to the original self, the open hearted, freely expressive and spontaneous self inside.


Our programming sets itself up within the first 6 years of our lives. Psychologically, this programming will determine how each of us reacts and deals with life, our self confidence and how we define what love feels like.

The relationship with our parents and caretakers is the most important connection we will establish and becomes our first understanding of the meaning of love. 

Your inner child stays with you as you become an adult. It is hidden in your subconscious - holding onto any pain, rejection and programming that you experienced throughout your childhood years. When we have a strong emotional reaction to something or someone - when a button is pushed and there is a lot of energy attached - that means there is old, subconscious stuff coming up. 

It is the inner child who feels panic or rage or terror or perhaps a sense of hopelessness.

Throughout your life your inner child will continue to manifest outwardly and may create all kinds of problems, unless the emotional wounds are made aware of and healed. You may find that you repeat the same scenarios in life, such as finding partners who mirror your original household upbringing, yet make your life miserable.

Until we can bring these wounds into our conscious awareness, they will continue to live deep in our mind. Our 'inner child' is looking to be heard and healed.

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Prolonged stress during childhood

In cases where children and teens suffer from prolonged stress and especially unpredictable stressors, they are left with deep, long‑lasting scars. When the young brain is thrust into stressful situations over and over again without warning, and stress hormones are repeatedly fired up, small chemical markers, known as methyl groups, adhere to specific genes that regulate the activity of stress‑hormone receptors in the brain. These epigenetic changes hamper the body’s ability to turn off the stress response. 

In ideal circumstances, a child learns to respond to stress, and recover from it, learning resilience. But kids who’ve faced chronic, unpredictable stress undergo biological changes that cause their inflammatory stress response to stay activated.

Our thoughts, beliefs, emotions and the body are all connected, so anything manifested by the body first begins on an energetic level, brought into by our thoughts and facilitated by our emotions before it is physically realised.

When a person has experienced prolonged stress in their childhood years they are likely to then churn out a damaging, inflammatory cocktail of stress neurochemicals through their endocrine and immune systems in response to even small stressors as an adult – a disagreement with their partner, a car that cuts in front of them on the road, a sudden loud noise – for the rest of their lives. They overreact to, and are less able to recover from the everyday stressors of life. They are always reacting and setting off inflammatory responses in their body, leading to disease down the road - in the form of autoimmune disease, heart disease, cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, fibroid tumours, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, migraines and asthma.

Researchers have seen a correlation between specific types of adverse childhood experiences and different types of diseases. For example, children whose parents die, or who face emotional, physical abuse or neglect, or witness marital disharmony between their parents are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease, lung disease, diabetes, headaches, multiple sclerosis and lupus as adults. Your chances of having chronic fatigue syndrome as an adult increases six fold with a difficult childhood. Kids who lose a parent have triple the risk of depression in their lifetimes. Children whose parents divorce are twice as likely to suffer a stroke later down the line.*

We don’t just get over something in time, instead pain is concealed in our body that will eventually become disease later in life.

It is possible to change your self sabotaging or destructive thought patterns so that your mind is no longer your enemy. 
When you heal the inner child and start loving and respecting yourself more on a core level everything on the outside changes.
 

By consciously communicating with that little child within: to listen to what he/she feels and needs from us in the present moment. The primal needs of the inner child - love, acceptance, protection, understanding, nurture - remain the same now as when we were children.
When we acknowledge and heal our inner child, setting boundaries, letting go of trying to control, seeing life more clearly, stopping the victimization, etc., will eventually become automatic and intuitive. 
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Sources:
*Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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What is Qi and how is it affected by our emotions?

7/10/2015

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Qi pronounced “Chee” and spelt Chi or Qi is defined as the circulating life energy that encompasses the mind, body and spirit. Thoughts, emotions and actions are all Qi. It is an ancient chinese concept that can also be found in other cultures, such as Prana in the Hindu religion.
 
Our emotions control the flow of our Qi.
 
In Traditional Chinese medicine, there are 5 yin organs of the human body that produce five kinds of essential Qi. The root emotions attached to these organs are joy (Heart), anger (Liver), grief / loss (Lungs), worry / overthinking (Spleen), and fear (Kidneys).
 
The emotions are considered the major internal causes of disease in TCM. When balanced, emotions do not cause weakness and disease in the body. But when prolonged and extreme, and when emotions become so strong that they are uncontrollable and overwhelming, they can cause serious injury to the internal organs and open the gates to disease. For example: extreme grief will eventually affect and weaken the lungs.
 
Symptoms of various illnesses are seen as the product of disrupted, unbalanced or blocked qi movement through these organs and through channels (energy pathways or meridians). Also through the chakra system (energy centres) in the body.
 
The key to health is a continuous and steady flow of QI. Stagnation of this flow is the root of illness.
 

Acupressure and the flow of Qi
 
Qi is at the foundation of Mind Body Medicine – for example, Acupressure is often utilised in clinic to help balance the flow of Qi and bring the body back into a state of health.
By applying pressure to specific points along meridians of the body we can effectively energise or sedate the flow of Qi in the body where there is imbalance or blockages.These specific points have a high electrical conductivity at the surface of the skin and conduct the body’s energy most effectively.
 

“There is force in the universe, which if we permit it,
will flow through us and produce miraculous results”

Mahatma Ghandi
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