How To Heal The Inner Child

The inner child is a young part of our psyche that influences how we think and react as adults. Often used in psychotherapy and spiritual settings, the inner child can symbolize hardship, trauma, and even triumph we experienced during our youth.

Yet, when we ignore our inner child and subsequently ignore how our past is painting our present, we do ourselves a major disservice. We can end up overlooking important formative experiences that may be critical in healing some of our maladaptive coping mechanisms.

We will explore why our inner child is important, what might trigger it, and how you can tap into your inner child and start healing.

Impact of Negative Messages on the Inner Child

It is not surprising that negative experiences, especially those in early childhood when protective mechanisms only begin to take shape, affect the inner child adversely. The child who repeatedly suffers from any or all of the behaviours discussed typically develops fear and mistrust of others, as well as negative beliefs about and attitudes towards him/herself. From these come problems and disorders that include social anxiety, panic, stress, nervousness, low self-esteem, self-image, and self-sabotage.

Inner child hypnosis uses a variety of tools and techniques to access, communicate with, calm, and heal a client’s inner child. Hypnotherapy to heal the inner child can create positive changes in the adult who seeks greater self-worth and self-acceptance. It can help them to overcome self-sabotaging behaviour that their inner child learned to cope with dysfunctionality. But to achieve these goals requires the full cooperation of the client who must want to heal and make the changes, must believe that they can heal and make positive changes, and must be open to using the tools and techniques provided.

Hypnotherapy: the fast track to communication with the inner child

Regression Hypnotherapy can be a very fast and effective way to identify the child parts that need reparenting. Further, it can be used to set up communication between the conscious adult self and those parts, so that reparenting can take place.