Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child
Please tell me all your suffering, all your pain. I am here, really listening.” And if you know how to go back to her, to him, and listen like that every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place. When you climb a beautiful mountain, invite your little child within to climb with you. When you contemplate the beautiful sunset, invite him
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From the IFS point of view, the quieting of the mind associated with mindfulness happens when the parts of us usually running our lives (our egos) relax, which then allows parts we have tried to bury (exiles) to ascend, bringing with them the emotions, beliefs, and memories they carry (burdens) that got them locked away in the first place. Most of
... See morePh.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
I first encountered re-parenting exercises in a seminar handout written by Dr. Richard Landis, a neo-Ericksonian therapist from Southern California. Dr. Landis recommends imagining a meadow in a vivid, multi-sensory way, focusing on unresolved issues and feelings from the past and then looking over to the side of the meadow to see a child with the
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