Inner Awareness - **Internal Census
Inner Awareness - Internal Census
“Once we get aware that we are reacting, then we can start figuring out where our reactions are coming from - do an internal census as it were. Anytime we have a strong emotional reaction to something or someone - when a button is pushed and there is a lot of energy attached, a lot of intensity - that means there are unresolved emotional wounds from the past involved. It is the inner child who feels panic or terror or rage or hopelessness or desperate loneliness, not the adult. The more we can get aware of our “buttons”, our emotional wounds, the more we can have some Loving control over them instead of judging and shaming ourselves for our reactions.” “It is very important to get in touch with the different ages of the child within because the emotions of the toddler are very different from the feelings of the teenager. A five year olds anger is a different kind of energy from a twelve year olds. When the primary button that is being pushed is the twelve year olds, it is important for us to recognize that so we can deal with it appropriately.”
On this page is an article by inner child healing pioneer on how important it is to get aware of all the different parts of us that are reacting.
Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 through 2015 by Robert Burney PO Box 98 Fallbrook CA 92088.
Inner Awareness - Internal Census was originally published online as Inner Child Healing - Part 11 - Internal Census on March 22, 2001 on Inner Child / Codependency Recovery topic page I used to edit on the Suite101.com Directory.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/inner_awareness.htm