Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 3, Special Mega Annual Issue 15 June 2019 | Page 5

Healing the Wounded Inner Child
Who would have known that the
slights, the rejections, the insults
that children experience would
live on as a voice of limitation for
years to come? You know, the
parent, who in a moment of
frustration tells their child that he
is not as smart as his older
sibling. Or the child who is
benched by the soccer coach
because of a team mate who is
athletically superior. And the
young girl who determines, through her mind limited by wisdom and age,
that she is not as loved as another. How about the young boy who can
never work hard enough to please his father? Or the girl who endures
taunts because of her appearance?
The emotions from these experiences, and those even more traumatic,
often remain nestled deep inside the subconscious mind, manifesting in a
myriad of ways as an adult. When the adult has an experience that triggers
the emotion from the early trauma, he is likely to respond in a way that
reflects that pain or fear
of the event. His
response may be
considered irrational or
immature by the
assessment of others,
but the response may be
all he is capable of given
that the initial experience
seemingly ‘locked’ the
emotion into place.