Bring your awareness into your belly area.  Breathe into your belly… long, slow breaths.  Now, with your mind’s eye, imagine you are with your inner child while keeping your awareness in your belly.  Really feel your inner child in your belly.  Once you have made contact,  give your child a gentle hug (just as you would an actual child or a small animal) and ask him or her what s/he would like?   What “playful” thing would be fun to do together?   Then… go and do it.  (If it’s something that is not feasible to do in “real life”, come up with something together that you can do).  You will be amazed at the level of trust, cooperation and flow that develops within you as you do this exercise over time.

Give this a go, and let me know about your experience!  Post a comment or send me an email at tarnie@bodyfreedom.com

Spend some time breathing into your body (which hopefully you are doing every day by now!), moving to some music (again a great daily practice), and spending time within. Next, become aware of any resistance, tightness, contraction, uncomfortable feeling in your body.  Now… just be with it … “hang with it”, embrace it, befriend it!  When we surround our resistance with attention, when we include it in our sense of feelings (rather than push it away or try and get rid of it) or even love it (what a thought!), something amazing happens.  You will find that the resistance often dissolves!  Or, it reveals what it needs so that it can let go.

Try it! Post a comment below and let me know how this goes for you and what you discovered!