You want to regain your happiness? Part 1. Reconnect with your inner child.

Tonight I want to give you something to chew on. A present.

It's about your happiness, which basicly is the most important thing for your feeling of life quality.

First step: Rediscover your inner child.



Remember when you where a child?
Remember all the wonders you experienced?
All the games you played?
All the laughs you had?
Your feeling of integrity?
You feeling of timelessness?
Your feeling of having no serious worries?

Maybe not all of your childhood was happy, but I'm sure at least some of it must have been. Before you became spoiled.
Before you became indoctrinated and influenced by the rough mercylessness of the world.

However, this is not about the world but about you.

At some point or period in your life, life wasn't really complicated, and you still had the ability to wonder about things, your self and your surroundings.

You lived in a state of wonder and you had a lust for exploration and discovery.

You got older and you started to experience dissapointments. You experienced feelings of being let down. You experienced fear.

Later, when you got older you went to school. You experienced hierarchy, to show you your place in life.Maybe violence.

You experienced failure, cause that's what school taught you when you couldn't live up to schools demands.

Maybe you just wanted to play around, but you got punished for it.

You learned that if you were honest you got punished for it. So you learned to lie - in order to protect yourself.
From yor teacher. From yor parents. From the bullies.
Lies served you well.

You got scars. So you learned to protect yourself by encapsulating yourself.

You learnt to hide your true feelings. You learned sarcasm and irony.

Finally you were ready to become an adult with all the demands that follows.

You got an education.
If you are a male you probably beacame a soldier.
You learned new levels of obedience and dicipline.

Later you got a job.
You learned the true meaning of stress.
Maybe you aspired for a promotion. Maybe you got it. maybe you didn't.

You worked yourself down, you wore yourself out, or you let others do that to you.

And now you are here. Tired. Worn out.
Most likely you are bitter and disillusioned now. Maybe life has taught you that joy and happiness is only shortlived. Maybe you have had your heart broken too many times.

Now, the good thing is that nothing really dies or dissapears.

All that you once were is still inside you. Including your inner child.

Close your eyes for a moment and remember when you were that child that hadn't experienced all the bitterness that seems to be an unavoidable part of life.

Remember a time when you played out in the sunset with your friends. Maybe it was hide and seek. Maybe something else.

Remember how you felt in that moment.
Remember.

Now take that feeling and look at it. Sustain it and let it linger for a while.

You see? It's stll inside you. It never left you. As your inner child never left you.
You still have the playfullness and the carefreeness that once were the dominating emotions in your life.

If you want to wake your inner child up, make it come back into your life, this is the first step:

Remember and let it linger.
Do it as much as you can during your daily life. As often as you can. Don't be affraid to relive the feelings that follow that experience.

Maybe you need to cry. Don't feel ashamed.
Crying is a pain releasing mechanism. Also for men.

Remember!

Do this for a while and I will give you the next step.


More to follow.

Yours sincerely.

Last Edited by Cimbrian on 06/26/2010 07:38 PM