Connecting To Our Inner Child

I don’t know about you, but I personally find it difficult to connect to my inner child.  More often than not I’m in “Responsible Mode”!  I’m immersed in checking off items on my “to do” list, household chores, laundry, work and planning events.  It’s NOT easy for me to just kick back and say SCREW IT lets go to the beach, let’s just take a nap, binge watch a TV show, spend hours reading a book, you get the gist. 

We are moving into a month full of opportunities to coax our inner child out.  Here are a few ideas I’m pondering: 

·        Strolling in the leaves, kicking them up as I walk

·        Watching a Halloween show or scary movie

·        Dance to Monster Mash or at least listen to it and SMILE (you will)

·        Eating a little Halloween candy (candy corn, Milk Duds, Almond Joy)

·        Dressing up for Halloween (I know I have a mask and cape somewhere)

·        Decorating the house with pumpkins, candles and flickering lights or maybe go all out with the spooking scene

·        Driving around the local area and looking at decorated houses for Halloween

·        Apple picking

·        Pumpkin picking

·        Tractor rides

·        Fall walk on the beach, drawing in the sand, picking up shells

·        Hang little ghosts from a tree

·        Take a child trick or treating and get in the spirit 

Awakening our Inner Child is all about Self Love.  If you are like me, and wrestling with bringing your Inner Child forward, give yourself grace.  We can use Holistic Feng Shui to assist us in bringing out that younger version of our selves.  You could activate your Relationship Gua focusing the intention on self-love, inner child and playfulness, OR you could activate your Children & Creativity Gua with the same intention.  Perhaps add a childhood picture of yourself to one of those Gua’s.  Or maybe a fun fall item such as some dried red leaves (think fire in the Relationship Gua) or a pumpkin in the Children and Creativity Gua as one of the elements is Earth and pumpkins come from the Earth or a metal pumpkin will work here too.  Spend time in that Gua of your house or room thinking about what it feels like to be free like a child.

I know we are BUSY and it may seem CRAZY to be a childlike at times BUT we can’t buy time (we sure can buy lots of stuff though).  We all DESERVE to belly laugh like a child, we all DESERVE to giggle like a child, we all DESERVE to feel innocence like a child YET we many and I would go on a limb and say most of us deny that part of ourselves.

I urge you to try this October in the spirit of Halloween, to try something fun or to approach something with wonder and joy.