Connect with the inner child, what does it mean?

We often hear about the connection with the inner child. But what does it really mean?

In the first place, this expression refers to the fact that no matter how much we have gone through infancy-childhood, and later adolescence until reaching adulthood, there is a part of us that persists and manifests itself in adult life. From this perspective, the journey through infancy and childhood leaves its mark, and, no matter how repressed, these children's contents continue to have activity and generate effects in our lives.

Connecting with the inner child is not becoming a child, nor does it imply an avoidance of maturity or adult responsibility. It is a resource to give rise to those aspects that, if they are not present and are not made aware, can have effects in the present. 

The capacity for wonder, curiosity, exploration and play develops spontaneously in a healthy child. Being able to develop them in adult life implies a connection with those childhood aspects. With how we were in childhood, and what is the legacy that those experiences leave us.

When the childhood experience is limited and inaccessible to the adult self, many behaviors and responses are ignored and repeated that, if they could be made aware, could be adequately elaborated. The inner child is also the one who throws tantrums in full adulthood, connecting with the child is not behaving like a child, but being able to get in touch with those childish responses, being able to make them aware so that they stop being so automatic. It is being able to dialogue with our deepest aspects, to be able to choose and respond more freely.

Many times this proposal of connection with the inner child is misunderstood and is associated with a refusal to grow. Quite the contrary, it is not possible to advance in adult life if the important aspects of our childhood are unknown, and that implies the connection with that part of us that is still active even if it is unconscious.

Adults who block their inner child, that is, who put total distance from aspects of themselves present in childhood: fears, experiences of lack of protection or vulnerability, frustrations, parental rejection, playful and creative capacity, among many others, burden throughout life with blocks or unresolved issues that they probably don't know what they are associated with or where they come from.

The connection with the inner child is nothing more than the connection and work on one's own infancy and childhood: what that transition was like, what events marked us, what images we form or remember of that important period of life. This level of connection is what allows us to recover, in turn, very valuable aspects, such as creative and exploratory capacity and the ability to enjoy the present, which is so often lost in adult life.

The true connection with our childhood parts is not a simple romantic proposal, it is a commitment to make visible and access extremely valuable information, which can stimulate changes in position and important decisions in adult life. It is allowing contact with one's own essence in order to experience adulthood in a more complete way.

 

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