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Deep inside most of us is a child
whose hurts have never been fully healed. This is a basic problem for many in
life.
Childhood disappointments,
misunderstanding, sadness, and fears have been buried and forgotten under the
layers of passing years. Sometimes these hurts make their presence felt in
late life by a sense of uneasiness that we do not know how to explain.
Forgiveness of those who hurt us
in our childhood begins to heal the hurt child within ourselves.
Acceptance and love of our hurt child carries the healing a step further.
Acknowledge the hurt child within
yourself and take care of it. This requires some healthy
self-introspection, and it is sometimes a painful process. It is, however, the
only way to healing. If you remain unconscious of your hurt child and do
not accept and love it, then the child continues to disturb you.
When you acknowledge it with love
and understanding, then you integrate the child into your personality, and it
becomes a source of wholeness. |
