Cultivate adventure, fun and curiosity during change for success.
How Good are You at Playing Hide and Seek?
Your inner child’s natural Inclinations toward adventure, fun and curiosity keys to feeling safe and trusting yourself
Do you remember playing the game of hide and seek when you were little? It was really fun to find a place to hide where you thought you wouldn’t be found easily. It was also exciting to see how long it would be before you were found. Some hiding places worked better than others. It was also great fun to be adventurous and curious as you searched and found where everyone else was hiding. There was no right or wrong, just the fun and adventure of a game that could go on for hours.
Now, let’s move forward in time and I invite you to take a little journey with me.
Imagine you’re looking toward the western horizon and watching, awestruck, as the brilliant yet muted colors paint the sky at sunset, the scene shifting slowly right before your eyes, and you cannot look away until darkness takes over.
Think back to a time you traveled to a new place — a big city, small town, or even a different country – where you explored and took in the unfamiliar sites and smells not knowing exactly where the next step of your adventure would take you, yet having so much fun with the unexpected.
Remember all of the times you’ve gone back to a favorite location, reliving old memories while creating new ones, being open to what has changed, and delighted by new discoveries.
Consider the last time you started a new and exciting project, like redecorating your home, learning a new hobby, or planning a much-anticipated vacation.
There may be a special moment you recall in your mind’s eye — the smell of the ocean or magnificence of hiking in the mountains or a delectable meal or an unexpected conversation with a stranger that made you smile — when something surprised and delighted you or made you belly-laugh out loud with abandon.
All of these are times when your inner child is flowing within you! That sense of adventure, joy, curiosity and fun — without limitations or expectations — living in the moment. Getting out of the rut, not concerned about the ‘shoulds’, and not being attached to how we think we want things to turn out. This is our healthy, fun-loving, inner-child coming alive in us.
Yet, the inner-child tends to hide a lot more than we would like. When we explore a bit more why this is so, we learn it’s because our inner child has been influenced by our outside world, our parents and our teachers. We find that the freedom, trust or feeling of safety that we had as a child has diminished over time, impacted by situations and responses by others.
However, your inner-child is still with you!
She is the key to our natural inclinations toward adventure, fun, curiosity and the ability to explore and trust ourselves. We should embrace our inner-child and encourage her to come out of hiding more often.
For today, play a new “hide and seek” game. Take a few moments and “play”, nurturing your inner child.
Ask open-ended questions, be curious, and wonder:
- How will this new adventure be even more optimal than what I had before?
- How can I have fun with this new change in my life?
- What sort of game can I turn this into?
Revitalize your healthy, fun-loving curiosity:
Think of everything as an adventure and there are no wrong turns!
Try something new or do something fun every single day!
Know there are no challenges, only opportunities.
Our inner child is an important member of our inner family… yes, we have a whole inner family we bring with and through us. And when that inner family is in harmony, we are confident, able to regain our balance more quickly, more deeply connected to our inner knowing and guidance, and take care of ourselves first.
Almine, (spiritualjourneys.com), a mystic and seer, suggests that if our inner family is in balance, we are “self-sovereign”, meaning we are not pulled into our old matrix of thoughts and emotions. When we are outside our old thoughts and beliefs, feel grounded and centered inside, we feel empowered as we in the outside world.
Next time I post, I’ll introduce you to another member of our inner family, but in the meantime, have fun, develop and reassure your inner child so that she feels safe.
Inner Family Challenge: Inner Child Comment, Share and Inspire Another Woman to share her inner child story on the blog.
The inner child challenge-Choose one or more below and tell us what happens?
- Find something outside your comfort zone and do it in the next 7 days. Post and tell us your experience.
- Do something completely unplanned and fun even it’s something small every day for the next week. How did it feel? What did you notice?
- Where can you step out of your comfort zone and think of it as an adventure instead of something scary? How did that change your experience?
- Just ask questions in the places where you are blocked and see what answers show up.
Remember to enjoy the adventure, curiosity and fun wherever you are on the journey,
Bonnie
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