What is Inner Child Healing?



The term “inner child healing” may set off gales of laughter among certain people. Many take the term far too seriously, while others make light of it. T-shirts mock the concept. Therapists discuss it seriously, perhaps too seriously. On the other hand, there are also inner child cards.

Books examine the process and offer their own take. For example, Robert Burney in The Dance of Wounded Souls states: "We need to rescue and nurture and Love our inner children - and STOP them from controlling our lives. STOP them from driving the bus! Children are not supposed to drive, they are not supposed to be in control.”

Such sentiments abound among those who seek to find and heal their inner child. They seek to be a caring parent to their inner child. Some are urged to play with their inner child. Yet, what is the inner child?

Defining the Inner Child

The inner child is the being within, created during the years from age four to seven – the so-called formative years. If, during this time, a traumatic event occurs with frequency, we may bury the event within us. As a result, it may not resurface as part of the conscious. It will remain, however, buried within and ready to appear in glimpses in reaction to certain events or situations.

According to some psychologists and lay people, the trauma inflicted upon a child may influence unknowingly the behavior of the adult. This results in poor relationships and such things as co-dependency. These can harm the overall quality of life of an individual. The only way to disrupt the pattern of behavior is to locate and heal the child within.

Methods of Healing the Inner Child

Over the decades, professionals and lay people have developed different means of locating and helping the inner child. These include:

  • Therapy – various types of psychotherapy exist
  • Faith and energy healing – including hands on healing (the laying on of hands) and spiritual healing. 
  • Tapping the subconscious through awareness of self
  • Emotional Freedom Techniques – a form of energy healing
  • Reconnective healing – a form of vibrational energy work

Yet, one of the most efficient techniques used to help with the finding and then healing of the inner child is meditation.

Meditation and Helping Your Inner Child

Meditation is a common method for helping us locate and heal our inner child. This may involve finding, then calling upon, the healing power of forgiveness as I do in my spiritual healing practice.

Guided meditation can be a specific tool for inner child healing.

Meditation may use specific imagery to help us get in touch with our inner child. It allows us to dredge deep into ourselves. We can then meet the child within and help remove the pain and any obstacles that are affecting our current lives. Through meditation, we can come into contact, talk to and address any issues affecting our inner child.

Our Inner Child

Whether we're seriously interested in inner child healing or simply want to discover the inner self, meditation is a positive method of exploration. It acts as a means of uncovering what we may be hiding. Beneath our surface actions lies our past. In turning to meditation, we discover another health benefit – healing our present being by calling upon our past.

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What clients say

I went to Massimo for a healing session in which I experienced calmness and opening of my heart.
All the sadness I had as a child and images from my childhood went by and were gone. An hour treatment went by like ten minutes. In other times I experienced very deep meditations, quietness, yet very alert and awake. Thanks Massimo for helping me get in touch with the healing force within me.

- Liat, Netanya, Israel

 

Dear Massimo, thanks so much for your healing sessions. So many things changed and improved since the beginning of your treatments. You are very gifted and all you are doing arises from the depth of your heart and the depth of the knowledge you channel. I highly recommend you as a healer.

- Zvi, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Good luck: with this single word I can express what I feel to have met Massimo.
I have been knowing him for 10 years and working with him I have done a path to awareness.
He is a good teacher, sincere, honest, which guides you to the truth and peace that our heart desires and can achieve.
 
- Tiziana, Arezzo, Italy

 

For me, healing means integrity and the consistency of living my daily life, relationships and job in the way of my true "I".
Massimo has the rare ability to lead people, and therefore me, to
transform obstacles that stand between you and what you want to realize in available energy. He does so with great respect, patience and lack of judgment.
Massimo, thanks for all that I get from you.

- Maria, Udine, Italy





When Massimo gave me healing sessions online, I experienced him as a sensitive and dedicated man who has the gift to sense into deeper layers of the soul and affect them in a gentle and non intruding way. His careful way of approaching the pain in my eyes and the feedback he gave me from his sensitive perceptions helped me to gain trust and confidence in my healing process.

- Norbert, Vienna, Austria