Spring is a good time to step back, take a look at where you are and where you’d like to be.
Take some time to refresh, rejuvenate and restore. And then, while the world around you is in the wild abandon of creating new life, do the same.
Enjoy a blog from Chuck this week: Chuck’s Blog.
Soulbytes are paused but will resume the week of April 17th.
As Kahlil Gibran taught us, the child’s soul dwells in the house of tomorrow, which we cannot visit, not even in our dreams.
The child within us is our evolutionary spirit, which is childlike in its innocence, yet ventures beyond the known, fully adult self.
The notion of an inner child who never grows up, requiring the enduring parenting of the adult ego, is a recipe for stunted growth and entitlement. The ultimate goal of all parenting is to launch the child into their own house of tomorrow, as we obey the rite of passage to release their arrow.
The inner child’s role in the adult personality is to follow its bliss with curiosity and innocence. These are the treasures mirrored by young children at play, fully alive to the creative imagination, open to interaction with the subtle energies present in the world, unsullied by the constricting veils of the real world.
Of course, there is the work of resolving traumatic psychological complexes, unprocessed fragments of self that split off in childhood, that require the adult ego to discover and reintegrate into the wholeness of the adult personality.
Ultimately, this inner work restores true innocence to the adult self, the work that Jesus Christ suggested was essential to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
In psychological terms, one must fully recapitulate all of one’s life experiences to achieve full individuation, the wholeness and fulfillment of one’s life.
Fragments of experience that remain triggers, or unneutralized emotional experiences overshadow the open road of innocence and instead become one’s fate, or necessary next stop in this life.
Of course, all children require the support and boundaries of adults on their road to maturity. But the goal is always to prepare them for their independent launch, not to keep them forever children, however well adjusted. So is it with working with our inner child.
The inner child’s gift to adulthood is its insistence on taking the road less travelled, because Spirit is intent upon infinite exploration beyond the nursery.
Let’s not confuse the childlike behaviors, or excesses, we engage in with the inner child. The ego must assume responsibility for all its choices, whatever their etiology.
For the ego to mature into its own innocence, it must be willing to take the hero’s journey to retrieve its soul, all of its parts that were lost in its trials of Earthly life.
A journey of recapitulation transmutes one’s life energy into that of a magical being, fully alive, fully in awe, ever-loving, ever-venturing. That’s the true role of the inner child in the human personality: innocence restored.
On life’s journey,
Chuck
Watch the words you use to describe yourself so that you don’t constantly reinforce negative ideas. Visualize and speak of yourself in positive terms and watch the transformation that you so long for take place. Words matter, for they define, describe and structure who you are. If you are in need of change, start with your words, the words you use in your head and your heart to describe yourself to yourself. Everything begins and evolves from words. They are magic!
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Balance in mind and body, in physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of self, as well as between inner and outer worlds, is key if you are to seamlessly navigate life. To navigate life seamlessly is to accept and work with all that comes to greet you each day, whether good or bad. For all that comes into your life guides you and shows you where to go next and how to handle it. Maturity comes in learning that you are not special, that taking responsibility for yourself is your job, and that as much as you need and want, so should you also give. That too is balance.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Find peace and calmness in the minutest of things, in the first spring flowers, in the first warm breezes of the season, in the trickle of running water in a stream, in the budding and flowering trees. Find calmness in the sound of your feet upon the ground, the crunch of gravel, the rustle of old leaves beneath your feet. Look up, look down, look all around you. You are not alone. The whole world is your companion.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne