Awakening the Inner Child, Remembering What You Already Know

During the Inner Council Inner Child workshop we gently awaken our Inner Child. The Inner Child is our divine blueprint. It was the part of us that was there when we were born, and if you ask your Inner Child—they may tell you how they represent the crystalised eternal aspect of yourself. In fact, they may tell you many things that you thought you didn’t know.

They may tell you that you know everything and have access to every detail of the universe.

But, as you don’t yet know that you know you have to learn again. It’s a game, and this game requires you to be creative to realise what you already know all over again in your current human form. All that is standing in your way of accessing this Everything is your own doubt. There is a psychological mutation that can be engaged, a spiritual metamorphosis. A sudden illumination of a different segment of reality where the radiance of perception shines upon something new. This is the birth of your inner child.

Our inner child cannot be born until we feel ready to address our emotional needs, to tend to the guardianship of ourselves and set a firm intention for her arrival. We set new terms and build an intuitive readiness that encourages new ideas to be delivered to our spiritual inbox. Many people come to inner child work after feeling the stirrings of divine rebirth as a powerful calling to birth a fragile yet infinitely powerful spiritual infant. This child represents our eternal self, the essence that travels beyond lifetimes carrying wisdom, love and light into the infinite. Nurturing this inner child is to align with our highest purpose and to embrace the boundless potential of our soul.

Are you a person who has self-authority? Do you think that ‘clever’ people—out there—know more than you? Maybe those people have a better brain, or had a better education than you? They studied and became special, that’s it! But is it? What if I told you that nobody has access to any information that you don’t, and you don’t need a library to access it, or have to play academia. Who—for example—knows the best about you? What about your health? Or what is best for you to eat day-to-day?

If you like to play the game where you give power over to other people in order to convince you of what you already know, then that’s fine. We all do it—but how much do you give over? I’ll make a guess that it’s comparable with the level of responsibility that you feel you can manage for yourself? – Thank you Miguel Ruiz!

Here’s a story. Marie-Louise Von Franz, a famous Jungian psychologist visited a very renowned palm reader, who had a few books published on the subject. The astute palm reader very carefully made ink prints of Marie-Louise’s hands and sat down to begin the delicate work of tracing the intricate lines along both of her hand prints. He gave her an insightful reading, with some very accurate details. Impressed, she thanked the palm reader for his sincere advice. Then—before she left—she plucked up the courage to ask the palm reader a question. She asked: Do you really need the palm prints to know what you know about me? He smiled. Actually, to be perfectly frank with you. No I don’t. But would you believe me if I didn’t read your palms?

Jean Gebser, German poet, linguist and philosopher said that “we become aware of such presumably invisible processes only when they have reached sufficient strength to manifest themselves on the basis of their cumulative momentum. The apparent continuity is no more than a sequence subsequently superimposed onto overlapping events to lend them the reassuring appearance of logically determinate progressions.”

We go through life surrounded by intricate forms which could all provide the symbolic divination that could reveal aspects of ourselves, past & future, but we spend most time ignoring them. Then we might find a certain excitement in a hobby reading the stars or playing with cards, ruins or coins. But I can assure you that the same can be accessed introspectively if you learn how to play the game. So, how many people do you want to be part of your healing journey?

When the Inner Child wakes up, you have the truth that resides inside in one concentrated form. It’s innocent, perfectly delicate, outrageously vulnerable, but at the same time absolutely untouchable with crystalline perfection. The Inner Child is your connection to the divine and all that it holds. She’s sitting on the door-step of the first house that you remember living in, waiting for you to come and play. Waiting to play the game that she’s the young and innocent child that you once were. Knowing that she is the key to your healing and self-realisation. Knowing that she is the absolute liberation that you’ve heard about. The ALL you need that you already have. Peacefully waiting in eternity to be woken up – by YOU.

Awakening the Inner Child is not a single event, it is an initiation. A psychological, emotional, and spiritual metamorphosis that begins the moment we agree to remember what we have forgotten.

Marie-Louise von Franz reminds us that the soul speaks in symbols long before it speaks in words. Jean Gebser points out that the invisible only becomes visible when it has gathered enough strength to take form. And Mircea Eliade writes that myth is not fiction, it is memory from before memory. In this way, the Inner Child is not merely a psychological construct.
It is what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called “the within of things”, the divine spark of consciousness evolving through us, waiting to be heard.

The great spiritual teachers and mystics agree on one universal truth: You do not learn the divine. You remember it.

The Inner Child is a pathway to that remembering. A fragment of eternity in human form. Crystalline, fragile, powerful, and untouched by time.

When we awaken them, we awaken ourselves.
When we listen to them, we rediscover wisdom that has always belonged to us.
And when we protect them, we finally learn what it means to love ourselves without condition.

This is not a journey of becoming. It is a journey of returning.

This exercise is designed to support the gentle awakening of your Inner Child, the eternal, crystalline spark of consciousness that has travelled with you through every lifetime of the soul’s evolution. It is not about forcing connection. It is about creating the perfect conditions for a natural arrival.

This exercise can be done sitting, lying down, or even outdoors in a quiet place in nature.

Step 1 — Set the Intention

Place your hands somewhere that feels symbolic:
on your heart, on your belly, or holding your own hands together gently.

Quietly say:

“I invite my Inner Child to awaken in their own time.
I am ready to listen, ready to learn, and ready to remember.”

Notice the quality of this request. There is no demand and no pressure—
only permission.

Step 2 — Create the Sanctuary

Close your eyes and imagine the very first house or environment you remember as a child:

• A garden
• A bedroom
• A favorite spot outdoors
• Or simply the feeling of that time

There is no requirement for accuracy. Even if it feels blurry, trust the impression.

See the doorway, the steps, or the threshold of this space.

You are not going inside yet.
Simply sense the environment where your Inner Child might be.

Step 3 — The Awakening

Imagine your Inner Child asleep somewhere in this memory-space.

Maybe:

• Curled beneath a blanket
• Resting beneath a tree
• Sitting quietly on a doorstep

Now, without touching, call softly:
“It’s time to wake up.”

Not a command.
A gentle announcement.

Pause.
Let the silence do some of the work.

Step 4 — The First Meeting

When they appear—or even if you only imagine a presence—notice:

• Their age
• Their posture
• Their expression
• Their energy

You don’t need dialogue.
Just a first moment of recognition.

If you feel emotion, let it move.

If nothing appears, your Inner Child may simply be waiting for consistency.
Silence is not rejection.
It is preparation.

Step 5 — The Truth They Carry

Place one hand to your heart and repeat slowly:

“My Inner Child holds truth in its purest form.
They know what I have forgotten.
I am willing to remember.”

Sit with that feeling for a few breaths.

Step 6 — The Gift

Ask your Inner Child to show you one symbol:

• A color
• A shape
• An object
• A word
• A memory
• A sensation in the body

This is their first message.

Do not interpret it today.
Just record it in a journal, poem, or drawing.

The message becomes clear over time, symbols unfold as we grow into them.

Step 7 — Close with Devotion

Before leaving the exercise say:

“Thank you.
I will come back.”

Because awakening requires consistency, not intensity.

After-Practice Integration

Write down:

• The place you visited
• How your Inner Child appeared (or didn’t)
• The symbol they showed you

Symbols are the language of the subtle world.
They are often wiser than words.

Further Reading:

Jean Gebser: The Ever-Present Origin
Mircea Eliade: The Myth of the Eternal Return
Marie-Louise von Franz: Alchemical Active Imagination
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: The Phenomenon of Man
Miguel Ruiz: The Four Agreements

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