Our inner child is the source of joy and spontaneity in our lives but may be crippled by negative self-beliefs – from the times in our childhood when we were forced to compromise in order to survive. In this session you will learn to overcome negative self-beliefs, to discard the habit of fear, and to become whole, conscious, and fully alive.

Healing the inner child – reconnecting with your innocence and integrity

“Whatever you have been told by the society that you are – discard it.” Osho

 
As children we depended entirely on others to fulfill our needs with our need for love being the most fundamental of all. Out of the fear of being deprived of love we tried to conform to the expectations of others. As a result, we lost integrity and became inauthentic. Our natural spontaneous responses were buried under conditioned habits. As Osho says: “What are you? Just watch, and you will find a bundle of old habits. You don’t yet have anything more. That’s the whole effort of meditation: to bring something more to your life which is not a habit, something which is spontaneous, something which is nonmechanical, something which transforms you from a robot into a conscious being.”

WHY ATTEND THIS SESSION?

“There must be more to life than this” sang the man who had everything – fame, adulation, heaps of money… Sadly, he died before realizing that he was searching for meaning in the wrong direction.
If you are still carrying the wounds of your childhood conditioning you will never find fulfillment. You can distract yourself from your inner discontent by throwing yourself into any number of competitions that promise you your 15 minutes of fame; you can join the race to die with the most toys; or you can postpone the idea of fulfillment altogether by attempting to be “good”, to live in such a way as to please some god or other so as to get rewarded in the next life.
Phooey! All soap bubbles! There is more to life than you have ever dreamed of. Don’t miss the opportunity to find out what that more is. You won’t regret it.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

“Remember that at the deepest core of your being you still have the eyes of a child – wondering, inquiring, full of the mystery of life, surprised at each and everything, surprised at ordinary things.” Osho

 
Our negative self-judgments arise from the knowledge that, in the powerlessness of childhood we betrayed our own clarity of vision – our ability to mirror reality, undistorted – by pretending we didn’t see the hypocrisy around us. Over time, we forgot that we were pretending – we became unconscious of our true nature as perfect mirrors of reality. In a very real sense, we went to sleep. Fortunately, we can wake up. We can retrieve the memories of self-betrayal, own them, forgive ourselves and reconnect with our innate clarity of vision.

To support the process of reconnecting with your inner child, we will use simple, but effective, techniques such as:
• intuitive dialogue
• gestalt
• mirroring
• guided regression

You will learn how to recognize when you are reacting from the habits of the past and to move instead into the clarity of the here and now. This is what is meant by embracing the inner child. In that clarity you will find the gentle strength, the joy, and the clear-eyed innocence that comes with being at one with yourself and existence. You will learn ways to relax into this space in your daily life – it can become your home again – with the added dimension of gratitude, for paradise regained.

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

• A LIVE online session of 90 minutes. You can book one session, though a series of sessions is recommended
• Support to experience the powerful transformation of emotion and distress that occurs when you move to the space of witnessing – watching with self-compassion and without judgment
• All your questions and concerns responded to with love and respect
• Directions regarding OSHO Meditations that may support you at this stage of your journey

Osho’s guidance is that primal work is specifically designed for those from western cultures with western conditioning.

“Happiness is the function of your consciousness when it is awake, unhappiness is the function of your consciousness when it is asleep. Unconsciousness is your mirror burdened with much dust and luggage, and the past. Happiness is when the burden has been dropped and the mirror is found again; your mirror can again reflect the trees and the sun and the sand and the sea and the stars. When you have again become innocent, when you again have the eyes of a child – in that clarity you are happy.” Osho