Any life situation can be an opportunity to process stagnant energy since childhood. All our daily situations are a reflection of ourselves and our moment in life.

With this guided meditation I propose to welcome the child within you because, if we look at our life, it is likely that we will realize that there are situations that are continually repeated in different ways and with different forms and that confront us with the same place within us.

Normally that is a place that causes us resistance, that we do not want to look at or that makes us extremely uncomfortable to delve into. We may even ignore it.

When our life challenges are noticeably repeated, our ego may be attracting them and using to confirm himself, your harsh version of reality and your limiting beliefs.

If we choose to feel like victims of them, It is very likely that our ego will achieve that goal and consolidate itself in that limited way of perceiving reality.

However, we can also intuit the valuable learning hidden behind that recurring situation, and feel how the universe is tirelessly providing us with the opportunity to integrate that learning through similar situations. Once integrated, we can continue forward in our evolution.

Welcome you with compassion

The path I suggest for this integration is self-compassion. I propose that you pay attention with curiosity to the sensations that arise from everyday situations. As you embrace and fully feel these sensations, they will guide you to the core of your emotional wounds, which, very often, will have their origins in childhood.

These emotional wounds, especially when we are not aware of them, shape our reality and our reactions to it. Lovingly welcoming that emotional load stored since childhood and by feeling it little by little, we can release it and thus recover our flow towards the next stage in our personal evolution.

This also helps us cultivate a kinder way of relating to ourselves, based on welcoming us gently, understanding and acceptance of any internal difficulty that arises.

How to meditate to cultivate self-compassion

• Sit down and get comfortable with your back straight and eyes closed. Focus on your breathing and with each exhalation land more and more in the present moment, leaving behind what you were doing before and what you will do next.
• Bring to this moment a situation from your life that is stirring you especially. Feel in your body the sensations present when you think about that situation, give them permission to be there and follow them with curiosity, realizing where they are located in your body.
• Visualize the sensations as your inner child, like yourself when you were a child. Observe it, observe yourself from the outside. What do you see in her, in him? What makes her so agitated?
• Now you can tell him gently, “Hello, I’m here with you.” And observe what happens in your body when you recognize that child and let him/her know that you are there for him/her.
• Observe him/her with compassion.

Observe his fear, and ask him what he is afraid of. Let yourself feel the response in your body.

• Welcome that child the way you would have liked to be welcomed back when you were afraid. Find the way you needed to be welcomed at that moment, perhaps with a hug, with presence, with acceptance, with understanding.
• Feel the effect of this welcome, of this need being met. Take a larger breath to give space to the sensations present and observe them, welcome them.
• From this place in you look again at that initial situation in your life and realize how you see it from the certainty that the most vulnerable part in you is safe, is being welcomed and protected. Feel your body and feel if there is something you would like to do in relation to that situation.
• When you feel it, gently begin to move your body and breathe more deeply. Open your eyes.