Energy Healing Manchester: Inner Child Healing

Hello! I hope you’re all really well, and enjoying the small but definitely very real signs of new life and spring coming through. For the second day in a row, I have put on my big winter jacket, hat and gloves and been too warm……Hooray!

I feel drawn this week to write about energy healing itself – and what I consider to be one of the most powerful healing modalities – the inner child healing.

As a child, we are often exposed to behaviour from our parents, and other family members and friends that we find upsetting; this can range from physical abuse to more subtle manifestations like an absent minded mother when we needed her attention or a habitually critical father when we really needed love. As a child, we are unable to process all the emotions that those behaviours bring up for us, and the unresolved part is held in the energy field. Over time leads to a blockage in the energy field, which can then manifest as physical symptoms.

When we become an adult, to the extent to which we have not worked through our childhood issues, we will act (or maybe “react”) disproportionately to situations which remind us of those patterns and events from childhood. For example, a child who has been heavily criticised will respond to any hint of criticism from others with hostility, anger, self-pity – or by pushing themselves to do so well that they will “win” that person’s love and appreciation in any case.  A child who has been abandoned, or who feels they have been abandoned, may well fear being abandoned in their friendships and sexual relationships – and be excessively needy and demanding. This energy obviously tends to push the other person away – feeding the abandonment energy or the abandonment story in their mind.

In an inner child healing session, generally the case taking stage at the beginning of the healing will identify the issue to be worked on and the time at which it first manifested in that person’s life. In the hands on healing part of the session, I would take the person back to that time in their life. Once they have a sense of being that little child, they would have the chance to express what they weren’t able to express at the time eg anger at being criticised, hurt and fear at being abandoned.

Once that stage is complete, there is a chance for the client to “reparent” themselves and to give themselves the love, acceptance and understanding they didn’t receive at the time.

All of this is profoundly healing, and cuts right through those cycles of reacting disproportionately to current events in your life based on events from the past.

People often say things like: “I don’t see things – so how do I know that I’m really going back to the past?”  It is often my own personal experience, and the experience of clients I have worked with that we don’t “see” the events or “feel” like that little child. Nonetheless, these people still report a profound change in their lives as a result of the healing; and from the perspective of the healer, I get the sense that they are in that deep space where healing takes place.

Releasing deeply held patterns from the past like this can lead to much energy being released, leaving the body free to work on healing itself of chronic illness, depression, or other health issues.