Many if not most of us, carry wounds from childhood that affect us today. They may be small or traumatic, but we can see there are ways that we think, feel and act that we do not consciously choose. Instead, they happen unconsciously based on painful experiences from a very long time ago.

Even if this is something that rings true for you, you may think there’s nothing to be done because no one can change the past.

The good news is, even though it’s true the past can’t be changed, what we can do is relate to the past in new ways when it appears in the present. It is exactly because the past erupts into the present that we have the chance to be with it in ways we simply could not have as a young child–and heal.

Mindfulness Exercises offers this step-by-step inner child guided meditation as a place to start. It will show you how to respond to your inner child when he or she is upset, and you’re not able to “talk them out of it.”  The practice mirrors how a good parent would behave with a child who is upset:

much love 

Rhushana Kamaldien