I did some really interesting thinking when I was out walking
Teddy the poodle yesterday. It was
sparked off by someone talking about listening in to your
intuition. So I was strolling along with
Teddy thinking about my intuition and asking 'her' (the higher me) questions. I asked what she thought of certain things
and what suggestions she could offer.
One thought I came to was asking myself as a little girl
what I needed to be happy. I’ve heard of
this before, of asking your inner child, or the younger you about things. Look at what she enjoyed doing when she was
little and invite those things into your life now.
It’s a fun way to feel happy, peaceful, grounded and
content, and it costs nothing. Well, I
guess that depends on what your little girl wants :) But my little girl, little Fiona had some
soothing words for me when I asked her what she needed to be happy yesterday.
She tells me that she needs:
- comfort and cosiness
- routines and boundaries
- her books and pretty things like her dolls
- yummy little dinners that also make her feel good
- to play and to run around
- to go to the park and the beach
- her creative time with her pencil and her book
She makes her own fun because she has such a vivid inner world
of prettiness and imagination. She
really does love being self-contained and in her own space. She needs me to make boundaries and routines
for her when she’s at home when no-one else is, because otherwise she would, as
a young girl might, just wander around from room to room and probably get a bit bored.
But when I help her, when I make boundaries for her and when
I put little routines into place, it makes her feel so happy, and it makes her
feel safe. And she lets me know that she
needs to feel safe because she has been scared, for no logical reason, but maybe
it’s the lack of boundaries and lack of security and lack of routine that makes
her feel unsafe.
She just needs me to take her in hand and guide her. Guide her to her ultimate happiness, guide
her to find out what she loves doing the most.
I hear that little girl, because deep inside I’m still the same person,
because that’s my soul.
What she wants is to share with the world – her happiness, her
creativity, her self-sufficiency; she wants show other people ‘look how much
fun it can be when you create your own inner world to inspire you’. She wants to show other people her world, and
share it with her ladies, because she knows those ladies are lovely. She writes about what she wants to write
about, and it makes other people happy too which only adds to it for her.
How about that huh? I
didn’t expect all that when I started thinking as I was walking. And what I did to capture all this, was turn the
voice recorder on my phone and talk into it as I walked. So it was sort of like journaling, but
talking.
If this sounds like a fun exercise to you, ask your younger
you what she needs to feel happy, safe, relaxed, whatever sounds good to you. I’m not
sure of her age; I can picture her, she was definitely under ten, maybe
under five.
Please let me know how you get on if you do join in, please
leave some fun bits or perhaps answers you are particularly pleased with in the
comments.
And I'd like to wish you (and your inner littlies) a beautiful week!
Fiona
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