How do you find your inner child, if you did not have a good childhood?

Question

Just wondered!

Answer 1

Start now, try to have a sense of wonderment out of each new thing you learn, appreciate the fact that you are alive, can breathe, can make positive choices, have the ability to make a positive difference in your friends and families lives. Be giving, loving, kind, honest, forgiving, gentle, innocent. Go out and discover nature, take long walks and explore your surroundings. Play games with your friends, board games, card games, sports games. Choose to have an enthusiastic attitude about what is coming up next in your life. Enjoy your job, your home and your friends. Hang out with positive upbeat people and avoid grumpy people. Live and let live!

Answer 2

Buy a nice big rag doll, one that is the size to fill your arms the way a little girl's 18 to 20 inch doll fills her arms. Then project your rather sorrowful child self onto the doll, and hug her and comfort her. That's really hugging and comforting your inner child.

I know it sounds crazy, but it is the one thing I remember really did make me feel better in all the therapy programs I ever had. And that was quite a few.

P.S. Don't listen to those who say your inner child has nothing to do with your experiences as a child. It has a great deal to do with those memories, although this is not simply a time-warp thing.

Answer 3

Actually, your inner child is not about your childhood. It is about the childlike, carefree nature that you have now as an adult. Mind you, I think I find my inner child almost everyday lol.

Answer 4

Your inner child has nothing to do with your childhood. Your inner child is who you are. Just as being childlike has nothing to do with being childish.
It's the way you express yourself, the way you have fun, the way you percieve things, the way you react to things - or not. It's 'letting go' - stopping to smell the flowers [or the coffee lol].

Answer 5

If you have chilren or family members that are children then you should spend time with them. Play with them and go to various different locations like the park and festivals and places where children go. Chuck E. Cheeses is also a great place to find your inner child.

Answer 6

The inner-child is the unpolluted self. The self before it submitted to the external forces of the material realm.

It is the self that discovers, experiments, investigates, inquires, develops, and improves. It is the self that challenges its self and obtains guidance. It is the self that says "Hey I can do this all by myself!"

It sticks in his thumb and pulls out a plumb, and says 'what a good boy am I.' It strives to be good to the self and other selves.

Answer 7

Your "inner child" has nothing to do with you actual childhood.

It's the carefree side of you. The side that isn't concerned about bills or appearances. It's the side that wants to feel good, let loose and have fun.

Answer 8

if you didnt have a good childhood, your inner child is going to be hidden in buried pain

i was annihilated by grief and i met my inner child, and then he left me because i smoked!

at the bottom of tragedy is comedy

extreme tragedy is funny

the theatre masks of tragedy and comedy are ultimately the same

see my other answers

Answer 9

She's hiding in the little ditch at the side of the house, crying her eyes out and wishing there were some way to get away from it all.

Answer 10

find ur inner child and give it the life it didnt have during its time u catch what im pitchin?