We have become like sponges, absorbing energy historically from people around us.

We have become like sponges, absorbing energy historically from people around us. When we are with loving, happy people, we tend to feel good. When we are with people who are sad, unhappy, nervous, or angry, we tend to feel bad. We have learned to easily pick up others' energy, thoughts and emotions. Child Within, especially sensitive children, are vulnerable to "absorbing" others' negative energy and becoming quickly retraumatised.

Sometimes our child within "act up", whine, or get "difficult" because they have absorbed negative energy from others. The Child Within are very connected to their parents, so they have picked up stress and worries which have traumatised them over the years.

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Using words to describe what our intuition tells us makes it easy for us and our child to express what we feel.

Using words to describe what our intuition tells us makes it easy for us and our child to express what we feel. It helps you validate our "inner child withins" experiences without having to justify them. It also conveys the message to our child that "we now understand", "we believe our child within", "we recognise the child withins energy as real". Some words we can use are: vibes (good vibes and bad vibes), my child within, my gut feelings, my hunch, my feeling, yucky feeling, feeling grounded (present) or ungrounded (spacey) feeling dissociated, feel wide open (too sensitive to other's energy). Whatever words feel right to us, ARE right for us as long as they use our child withins voice.

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There is much we can do to encourage and nurture our child withins natural intuition.

 

There is much we can do to encourage and nurture our child withins natural intuition. Here is a list of ten things we can do to empower our child within, increase our self-esteem, and help us trust in our inner intuitive voice.

Treat our intuitive experiences as real and natural.


Provide a vocabulary to express intuitive experiences.


Awaken, acknowledge and trust our own intuitive experiences.


Talk about how other people's thoughts and emotions affect us.


Offer tools to protect our sensitivity from other people's energy and emotions.


Play intuitive games.


Talk to our child within about its past experiences.


Encourage our child to look within for guidance.


Let your child know when to re-open its heart.


Find stages support.

Intuition lets us see the Truth.

Intuition lets us see the Truth. It allows us to see with all our senses and interpret this information for our highest good. It reminds us of who we really are. It guides us to find what we really need to be happy, peaceful and joyful. Intuition opens our eyes to see our child within. It tells us if someone is being honest and is trustworthy. We will know what we can expect from others and from a situation because our child within will let us know. Trusting our intuitive insights will lead us to our child within. Trusting our intuitive insights will lead us to KNOWING that we are supported and guided on our recovery path.

Child within learns by what we do. If we want our child within to thrive as happy and well integrated beings, we must show them how. We must create an environment that honours their fullest flowering. We must recognise that they, like us, are the child within, and as such they have a direct connection to our loving kindness. This connection is re-experienced as the child withins, intuition. We must develop and honour our intuition if we are to reprogram our child within.

Child within intuitive voice is our introduction to our childhood wisdom that comes from within us.

Child within intuitive voice is our introduction to our childhood wisdom that comes from within us.

When we listen to our voice within, we are paying attention to subtle energies within and around us. It brings forth all sensory information from the environment. There is more in our environment than what we "pick up" with our five physical senses.. Intuition is our 6th sense. It is a sense, which is connected to our child within and centred in our heart. Just as our physical senses keep our body connected and informed, our 6th sense's main function is to keep us connected to our Child within, who lovingly guides us in our path to recovery. We are perfect children experiencing life in a body and our intuition keeps us connected to our child within. Listening to our re-found intuition brings us peace of mind and shows how to live a more joyful, safe and loving way.

We are naturally intuitive  We all have the ability to tune-in to the energy of people, situations, and places. We all have the ability to know what is in someone's mind, an outcome before it happens, and what our child within needs to be happy and healthy. Even though this ability is inherent in all of us, some of us are more aware of its guidance. Some people are highly aware and their intuition is more developed. Most of the time, being intuitive is a choice and can be developed through practice and awareness exercises.  Consciously listening to and trusting intuitive insights is also a key aspect in our child withins development. The more we make contact and use intuition, the stronger it gets.

Intuition can also be suppressed or ignored. When we defer to outside "authorities" to dictate what is true for us, or go to others for verification or approval, we loose confidence in ourselves and loose the connection to our voice within. When we choose to focus our attention only on the physical plane and follow intellectual or ego-based laws, we block our intuitive gifts.

Children are born very connected and aware of the intuitive world because this is where they come from. Babies rely more on their intuition to figure out the world around them. . If intuition is encouraged in a safe environment,our child will retain these gifts. But if intuition is not accepted nor encouraged, our child will learn that they need to rely more on the physical world, on spoken words, and other people in order to "connect" and "understand" the world around them. Around the age of 5 is when children's brains are making the inner connections that decide what will be easier...looking within for answers or looking outside themselves.

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The Ten Stages Intuitive voice is the magical voice of the freed child within

The Ten Stages Intuitive voice is the magical voice of the freed child within that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to our answer

The largest concern of intuitive insights are how personal fears, perspectives and egos interfere with the message.

Everyone has intuitive capability.

Known by many names, such as, gut instinct, sixth sense, intuition, inner guidance and more, each person experiences this type of non-verbal knowing at some point in their life. This in-built human ability can be brought into awareness and cultivated with increasing sensitivity, awareness and accuracy.

In a society that denigrates dreams, individuality and expression, people become accustomed to setting aside the natural, quiet guidance inherent to us all. When it comes to intuition most people start at the same place: self-doubt, fear, ignorance and self-denigration.

1. First honoring, then seeing the non-verbal inner realm is a journey.

The approaches used by the mind to communicate knowledge, experiences and stories are not the approaches that one’s heart and soul use to communicate presence.

One must learn to honor and respect the messages from within that have been invalidated by family, education, religion and society at large. This requires self-respect, self-esteem and an ability to listen and truly hear ones own authentic voice through all the stories, justifications and pain.

Though initiated within the silent, non-verbal part of one’s being, this understanding begins to be explored with words, and continues with dialogue until exhaustion brings a person into silence. No matter how much knowledge, how many degrees or experience, intuitive guidance remains a domain of the soul, operating in stillness.

This kind of perspective and relationship style is alien at first, because it is simply unfamiliar.

Intuition never needs to be justified, and being able to feel it and honor it is a step to take note of and appreciate.

2. Being able to understand and then communicate the experiences, knowledge and insights granted by intuition is another adventure.

New-agey, touchy-feely language is over-saturated with confusing dialogue used to communicate spiritual, emotional, empathic and intuitive insights.

Rational people will argue, invalidate and dismiss intuitive knowledge. For such a person, it isn’t factual or based on reality. Such individuals are never worth the time, effort or energy to express intuition with or to. They can only be a black hole, and lack the heart or imagination to consider that the world is far larger than black and white facts.

The biggest hurdle to cultivate intuitive guidance is to not be that person to our own self.

Once an intuitive recognizes and honors their own inner relationship and communication styles, adjusting to people who disagree or see things differently becomes progressively easier and easier. Such people can be gifts, providing insights otherwise unavailable through communication styles that are disagreeable.

Intuition can be expressed in ways that defy the limitations of words and verbalization, language and logic, yet make complete sense, bringing integration, insight and harmony.

3. Putting one’s perspectives into play in life with harmony and effectiveness is another depth of experience.

Seeing, communicating and acting on intuitive guidance is a life-long experience of continuing self-discovery.

At first, interpreting and putting insights into play can bring a great deal of chaos. Perhaps one’s interpretation of the insight is off, leading to false assumptions. Acting on false assumptions can destroy relationships, de-harmonize an environment, and cause stress and sickness. However, one must act and move forward—without trying there is no learning.


It’s important to keep going. A setback is an opportunity to revisit one’s own lack of knowledge, to address and move through fear, and to relinquish the destructive patterns of self-doubt and denigration. Intuitive insight demands humility, integrity and action.

4. The largest concern of intuitive insights are how personal fears, perspectives and egos interfere with the message.

One experiences this as a gut-knowing, an intuitive message. And instead of listening to it, one begins to doubt it, rationalize it, make stories that justify the perspective. Acting on this misaligned knowledge can only bring about yet another learning experience.

Another error in misunderstanding happens when emotions are mistaken for intuition. Emotional reactions are not intuitive guidance. Emotions are indicative of ego, perspectives and stories, which often cloud and completely undermine intuitive insight.

The only way to understand the non-verbal, inner domain is to endure, continue to live and express the heart’s intuitive wisdom, and breathe even deeper.

5. It is a lifetime journey to cultivate and nurture the subtle skills and the innate ability to relate to oneself and the world authentically.

The times our soul and hearts are challenged is when we are given the pure choice to be, or not be, one’s true self.

The upward spiral, breath after breath, home to heart.

Remain true.

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first stage to overcoming the consequences of childhood

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The Stages study seeks an unconditional friendship with our child within.

The Stages study seeks an unconditional friendship with our child within. This brings a sense of wellness, wholeness, and comfort in our body, mind, and being. As we move through the practice, pain and sadness will arise from time-to-time, providing the opportunity for deeper healing. The secret is not to struggle against the pain in our life. By simply being open and present we can learn to release our past pain and become our child within best friend.

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The key to loving kindness practice is realising that all the love you need is already within you.

The goal of training in loving kindness is to create an ever-widening circle of love.




We begin by learning to love ourselves. This might take some time! Then we extend our love to those we find easy to love. Then we expand the circle wider by practicing love kindness towards those who we consider as neutral like a delivery driver or person walking down the street. Next up are those we find difficult, irritating, and aggravating. Then, our enemies. Ultimately, we expand the circle to include the whole world.




Of course, we don’t expect to love all beings in a flash. We focus on one stage at a time. Understandably, it’s going to get a little tricky when it comes to the people that we perceive as difficult.




The practice involves the repetition of simple, loving phrases, and begins with directing love towards yourself. Because, if we have no love for ourselves we won’t be able to give love to others. Often, people need to spend an extended period of time on just this first stage before moving on to extending their love to others.




Loving ourselves in a healthy way is not the same as being egotistical or narcissistic, which are characterized by thinking only – or mostly – of your own self. The motivation in this practice is to unblock our spring of love for both ourselves and all others.

Love: the Antidote to Anger and Fear




Loving kindness is considered an antidote to both fear and anger. The following delightful story describes how the practice first began and the power it holds to transform fear.







“This practice was first taught by the Buddha as an antidote to fear. He sent a group of monks to meditate in the forest that was inhabited by tree spirits. The spirits resented the presence of the monks and tried to drive them away by appearing as horrible visions. The monks were terrified and ran back to Buddha, begging him to send them to a different forest. He said, ” I am going to send you back to the forest, but I will provide you with the only protection you need.” He then gave the first teaching on loving kindness. When the monks returned to the forest and practiced loving kindness, the tree spirits were so moved by the loving energy that filled the forest that they resolved to care for and serve the monks in whatever way they could. So not only did the practice of loving kindness remove their fear, it also transformed the beings around them.” – The Heart of Compassion, Part 2 Loving Kindness, The Rigpa Study and Practice Program




The ability to love ourselves is extremely important because – as this story illustrates – it contains the power to heal the world.




The key to loving kindness practice is realising that all the love you need is already within you. We simply need to unblock it and let it shine. In doing so, we bring about our own happiness and add a dose of happiness to the world. It’s a process that any of us can move through successfully with time, patience, and perseverance.

Our life’s work it is to recover our child within.

Our life’s work  it is to recover our child within.  As we awaken from the child’s nightmare of despair we begin enlightened living.  As we heal the crippling trauma of the past we become free to develop our gifts—without fear of inner censorship.  Living and working authentically, we discover our life’s true meaning and make an original contribution to the world through our daily existence and labor.  We help others see the way, and we help life evolve further into consciousness.  This is our true recovery.

In becoming recovered, we must work to know our story and its implications.  We must toil in the fields of past feelings and trauma.  As members of a traumatised species, we all must face the fact that our past is troubled, filled with brambles, weeds, and disappointment.  When we struggle to root out the secrets of our painful history, we free our vitality and our garden grows.  Our dreams of artful, purposeful living become a reality.

With conscious living, our work shifts from survival and drudgery to vocation.  We develop our talents and gifts from the point of view of a life’s mission.  We sing, we dance, we write.  We become scientists, healers—and visionaries.  We no longer beg sustenance from life as an indigent child.  We strive to contribute to life from the surplus of an awakened adult.  Famine is over—the harvest is abundant.

As we become more awakened, we view the unconsciousness of others with compassion.  It was only yesterday that we were lost in our own nightmare of despair and our work seemed only to keep the wolf from the door and our pain at bay.

When we approach life awakened, our daily labor, even a routine chore, transcends its specific form.  Now every task expands our recovery—for we are conscious.  The example of a recovered person affects all who come near him or her.  The fruits of our labor as the recovered bring humanity closer to its consonance with truth.

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When we’re on the path to recovery, what seems like chaos is many times intuition in action.

When we start living our life from the inside out, when we take our power back from people, places and things, when you start trusting our child within – there is one very important thing to keep in mind: chaos happens.

But here’s the thing about chaos - when you’re on the path to recovery, what seems like chaos is many times intuition in action. You see, we expect this great big vast and intelligent inner universe to act according to human reason. But the problem with that is what we humans actually know about the inner-universe is so limited compared to what there is to know. So, many times we see chaos when actually it is just part of a greater and wiser order that we do not understand.

Also, because we don’t know what’s going to happen next in our lives, it is incorrect to assume the worst when we perceive chaos happening in our life. Our inner universe speaks in chaos, change and the voice of intuition many times what appears to be chaos, and right before revelation is usually some form of death of the false self.

What does that mean?

It means that for us to understand and come into harmony with greater Truths about ourselves and our inner universe, our old perceptions AND fears have to be shed (aka die) for new insight to come. Knowing this cycle can be SO helpful when we are going about the business of manifesting our new reality..


When we lean into our faith we invite a higher order of living into your life. It is part of our calling on The Path to recovery to develop emotional fitness and proper insight to see that when things “seem” to be going “wrong” or “changing”, not to freak out and apply some doomsday meaning to these events of our lives. Instead, we step back, observe and know that in any seeming change, crisis or chaos is both potential risk AND a potential opportunity.



It is those of us who have trained our mind to see and trust the bigger picture (knowing that our inner Universe is FOR us and never against us) that benefit most from change, chaos and crisis. It is backwards to ask for an easy life that works out perfectly AND desire faith in ourself. Faith counts the MOST when the sh*t is hitting the fan.


So today, in our life, whether it be financially, romantically, emotionally, spiritually or any aspect of your life, if there is chaos or change, just decide that our recovery is working on our behalf and choose to assign a constructive and positive meaning to what’s happening in your life. Ask our child within to reveal the Grace of this moment to you. See the opportunity instead of the fear; decide that you have the power to not only make the best of this situation, but to actually make a better life for yourself BECAUSE of this situation.

For our recovery to come true it’s vital that we learn to be flexible enough to adapt to and make the best of change. In fact, don’t just make the best of change and the unexpected, get EXCITED by it!

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