Inner Healing of the Wounded Child
Before I sewed up the black and white fabric I cut this hand out of the red fabric that I got from Ann Johnson.
I have a problem with throwing anything away...even when it didn't work. When I put it on the black and white fabric it looked more like a war protest image.
So I decided to use the hand as a visual representation of something that I read in my journal.
I didn't write down where I got this and if you know I will be happy to give credit.
"GETTING RID OF BAGGAGE
When we have IT in our mind, break IT down literally into smaller pieces. With your mind, however it works for you personally. Take the rock or BOULDER that IT is as a symbol of IT and then make IT smaller in size. Continue to do this until IT is small enough that IT no longer over powers you or feels bigger than you are. Continue to do this until you can literally blow IT into the universe for her to now take care of with a breath, and watch IT dissipate into thin air and nothingness. IT feels really good when we do this. It allows us to take something that we once gave huge merit to and no longer see it in the same way. It totally changes our perception. This helps us to realize and recognize that we were the ones that was allowing IT to remain in a controlling nature to us. What is your relationship to IT? We were also the one that took IT down and CHOSE TO CHANGE IT'S NATURE. We have now taken back our control by taking responsibility for what we gave IT."
I actually did this exercise at a charged moment. I managed to reduce what I was reacting to...then I got a handle of how I wanted to respond. It was quite empowering.
Before I sewed up the black and white fabric I cut this hand out of the red fabric that I got from Ann Johnson.
I have a problem with throwing anything away...even when it didn't work. When I put it on the black and white fabric it looked more like a war protest image.
So I decided to use the hand as a visual representation of something that I read in my journal.
I didn't write down where I got this and if you know I will be happy to give credit.
"GETTING RID OF BAGGAGE
When we have IT in our mind, break IT down literally into smaller pieces. With your mind, however it works for you personally. Take the rock or BOULDER that IT is as a symbol of IT and then make IT smaller in size. Continue to do this until IT is small enough that IT no longer over powers you or feels bigger than you are. Continue to do this until you can literally blow IT into the universe for her to now take care of with a breath, and watch IT dissipate into thin air and nothingness. IT feels really good when we do this. It allows us to take something that we once gave huge merit to and no longer see it in the same way. It totally changes our perception. This helps us to realize and recognize that we were the ones that was allowing IT to remain in a controlling nature to us. What is your relationship to IT? We were also the one that took IT down and CHOSE TO CHANGE IT'S NATURE. We have now taken back our control by taking responsibility for what we gave IT."
I actually did this exercise at a charged moment. I managed to reduce what I was reacting to...then I got a handle of how I wanted to respond. It was quite empowering.
I got the term "wounded child" from Dr. Margaret Paul, who
wrote the book Healing Your Aloneness.
