“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” C.S. Lewis
(Companion oil: Young Living Inner Child™)
Talking about peace and calming and kids earlier this week got me to thinking about staying in touch with our inner child.
As did talking with a friend who’s struggling at the moment with some childhood trauma surfacing out of the blue when she thought she’d ‘dealt with it’ long ago.
Funny how our word choices can reveal so much. ‘Dealing with it’ sounds like having the muffler replaced on your car.
All well and good, but in the new-found quiet thanks to your brand spanking muffler, what if you notice an unusual sound you’ve never heard before? Could it be a troublesome mystery rattle deeply hidden in the car and lurking out of earshot when your old muffler wasn’t doing the job properly?
The rattle rarely manifests when you’re trying to find the source, but out of the blue, there it is. Perhaps a pothole in the road set it off — but it also surfaces when driving along a smooth section with no obvious signs of bumps. Turns out things weren’t dealt with after all, in spite of your best efforts.
If you experienced abuse or trauma in your childhood, it might have caused you to disconnect from your authentic self — your inner child. And this can bring about all kinds of emotional imbalances and confusion that can surface later in life, and might even be misconstrued as a mid-life crisis.
If your instinct tells you something like this is impacting your ability to live true to your nature and enjoy healthy, loving relationships with yourself and others — if a mystery rattle surfaces when you least expect it — Young Living Inner Child™ is a nurturing way to help you reconnect to your true nature.
“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince, 1943
When children have been abused in any way, they can become disconnected from their natural identity, or inner child. The sweet fragrance of Inner Child™ may help reconnect with the authentic self as a starting step towards finding emotional balance.
It feels like I say this every time I write about one of Young Living’s ‘feelings’ essential oil blends: it smells beautiful ! Take one look at this list of its citrus, floral and woodsy ingredients and you can probably close your eyes and imagine: orange (Citrus aurantium), tangerine (Citrus nobilis), jasmine (Jasminum officinale), ylang ylang (Cananga odorata), spruce (Picea mariana), sandalwood (Santalum album), lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus), and neroli (Citrus aurantium)
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Apply a drop or two around the navel, chest, temples and nose (follow the usual safety guidelines and directions on the bottle — and be mindful of possible sun sensitivity due to the citrus oils).
Be gentle with yourself, and here’s another quote I wanted to share with you. It might have you heading off to the craft store on the weekend. I hope it does.
“Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air – explode softly – and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth – boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either – not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.” Robert Fulghum
