From The Eyes of a Child
Are you entangled in adulthood? Do daily demands of maturity override your innate childlike sparkle? Do you believe that the inner child is less important than the adult self? Are you afraid that an unleashed inner child could dismantle your life?
The Tibetan encourages us to embrace and acknowledge the magical child as the link into the new consciousness. The magical child is the part of us that is pure, spontaneous, playful, fresh, excited, full of wonder, curious, trusting of the mystery and wise. In infancy and early childhood our psychic doors are wide open. We see through the veils, hear the song of the Universe, are in contact with beloveds in spirit and remember past lives. Then supersensory doors shut. The magical child is obscured under family/ community conditioning, demands to mature—be responsible, lack of support for the mystical perspective that validates the “imaginary realm” disdained by adults. This is compounded by an inevitable shattering of innocence—a trauma, crisis or long-term wearing away of mystical play—that plunges us onto the solemn ground of “reality.” Sadly the magical child is buried—sometimes forgotten for an entire lifetime.
The adult runs the show and only “indulges” the inner child self on holidays, vacations, at the movies and in fleeting moments when no one is looking. Our attachment to being credible, responsible and respected compels us to send our child self to his/her inner room—ignored and discounted. But then we get cranky for no reason and feel drab, staid and humorless.
Who decided that the inner child should take the back seat to the adult? Aren’t they both equal in importance to our wholeness? To diminish the inner child as insignificant