Inner healing of childhood wounds

Why is it important to heal emotional wounds from Childhood?

Unhealed emotional wounds from childhood can make people feel unsafe in their bodies and relationships with others. Feeling unsafe affects relationships in both personal and professional life.

The constant need for appreciation and approval, clinging to unhealthy goals, need to achieve goals at any cost with a driving need to prove a point are symptoms of the inner need to feel safe, secure, respected, and appreciated.

Second, even if they achieve their goals, they move so fast to the next need or desire. This makes them exert themselves more at work and also at home, leading to burnout, to begin with, and later more serious psychological challenges like panic, phobia, anxiety, etc.

This affects their behaviors characterized by Angry outbursts, Rage, Suspicion, and possessiveness at one end of the spectrum while deep guilt, fear, anxiety, and insecurity on the other end.

Why does the need for Healing Childhood Wounds, gets unnoticed?

Right from schooling to college and then working to build one's own business; Succeeding and growing in one career are dominated by the need to survive with a sense of competitiveness: Comparing and Competing with others, Needing the approval of others, pleasing-rebelling seem normal.

Material Success in a way happens and one is not aware of the structures of emotions deepening within till it shows up as psychological, emotional, or psychosomatic challenges and most of the time as physiological challenges like hormonal diseases    (Thyroid, PCOS, Fibroids), Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Gastritis, etc.

Since even these challenges are considered normal and with a healthcare system offering treatment for these, the simmering childhood wounds are further repressed. 

Unexpected traumatic events, failure, break-ups, prolonged psychological-emotional imbalance, chronic diseases, etc open up the repressed wounds more powerfully when they reach a tipping point which then drifts the scale downwards.

Your timeline from the age of five and may be till the age of 60 or so is propelled by or even stolen by career and financial goals

Simple ways to heal emotional wounds from Childhood

The most common mistake that actually aggravates the process is trying to solve the issues by thinking, working with psychological frameworks, etc. All these work only with the sensory mind which is less powerful. The function of the sensory part of the mind is to give us information. Using the same part of the mind to solve problems aggravates the problem.

The larger part of the mind is held in the body and the body also holds the deepest energetic and emotional impressions.

A rhythmic body with the right breathwork is a powerful and easy way to heal and realign. With the right guidance and progressive proactive one can heal without the need to relive past experiences.

This also gives one sufficient strength to involve oneself with interventions like Hypnotherapy, Psychodrama, etc as bodywork provides proper grounding and also removes most of the impressions. We can limit the interventions for de-cathecting a few key experiences.

I do not suggest journaling, analyzing, etc without proper guidance as they may cause more harm than good as they still use the mind. They may give a sense of temporary relief but at a deeper level intensifies the identification with the trauma.

When done alone without proper guidance and bodywork they do not give positive results in my view.