002 - Your Inner Child

This is "Love Yourself Back to life" Episode #2: Your inner child! Welcome to Love Yourself Back to life. I'm your host, Nadia FleuryYou dream of living a successful life, yet you feel emotionally empty. You know something is missing, but you don't know what it is. What if the answer was already within your reach? With each episode, I will help you see life through new lenses, shining the spotlight on your inner world, eliciting awareness and wisdom. My mission is to release what's blocking the flow of your success— to awaken your full potential and love yourself back to life!YOUR INNER CHILDLet me illustrate my point with this story. I'm looking at a child. From where I stand, I cannot tell if it's a boy or a girl. All I can see is the child playing in a puddle of water. Let's just say he's a boy. He's wearing a raincoat and cute rubber boots. He is amazed by how the water moves depending on the weight of his footsteps. He gets the idea to jump in the middle. Mud splatters everywhere, including in his laughing mouth. He spits it out and continues playing, going in a circle in and around the puddle. Looking at this child's innocence is actually a beautiful scene. He certainly lives the moment. However, what if this child is you right now? What if this child is your age? What if when he looks at the puddle, it's like you looking at your tasks? DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE HEADING IN LIFE?What if his outlook on life with no care in the world was actually how you saw your own world? Living without thinking about where you are heading tomorrow. Yes, I agree it's important to live in the moment. As long as the moment is supporting your goals, no? That is, if you have goals or aspirations in the first place. Going back to the story, what if the child is playing by himself not because he wants to but because something happened to him? What if he chose to isolate himself because someone hurt his feelings? Or because of fear?What if the child is there not because he wants to but because the bus that just came by didn't pick him up?He could have been told he wasn't ready to get on the bus, or he arrived too late and missed it.What we can extrapolate so far from this story is this boy is there because he's waiting for something to happen. ARE YOU WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN?Sometimes we don't act because we feel we are not ready or we are missing something. Like we don't have the degree, the connections, the know-how, or we don't have the right environment. It is true that your willpower is not as strong as your environment. However, it is your responsibility to do something about it. TIME AND MONEY: THE TWO THINGS WE LONG FOR THE MOSTUsually, the things we long for most are time and money. So while we have neither, we stay stuck in that puddle of water. I know how it feels because I was in that puddle for several years.When you live in it, you feel all the reasons why you are "stuck" there are valid. However, know that you always have a choice.FEAR IS WHAT KEEPS US STRUGGLING EMOTIONALLY AND FINANCIALLY You can keep looking at the puddle and say, "I'm stuck, and I don't have a choice," or you can actually say what if I had a choice? What if I wasn't afraid? What if I had all the money in the world? Sometimes, the real reason as to why we stay stuck is because we don't want to revisit deep scars. How many of us bare the pain of witnessing cruelty? Or remember the sick feeling in your stomach, hiding away in the bedroom with a pillow on top of your head because your parents or the adults who are in charge of you were having a very heated argument? NEGATIVE THOUGHTS MAKE US BELIEVE WE ARE FLAWEDHow many of us have been hit as a child - making us feel we were flawed when in all actuality...