Filed under: childhood | Tags: awareness, childhood, Christmas, Inner Child, natural, perception, psychology
We all can remember the joy of childhood when everything was fresh and new…but this awareness continues in the background of the right brain buried behind all our socially conditioned adult expectations and goals…but at times when we are able to suspend this continues preoccupation our inner child has a chance to express itself.
This concept called an Inner Child has been a part of the world for a very long time. Carl Jung called it the “Divine Child” and Emmet Fox called it the “Wonder Child.” Some psychotherapist call it the “True Self”. And Charles Whitfield called it the “Child Within.”
The Inner Child refers to that part of each of us which is ultimately alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled; it is our “Genuine Authentic Self”, who we know deep within us, our “Real Self.”
Social conditioning is more concerned with conformity than creative individuality. ~Sid
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud
We are detoured away from our natural intelligence of the right brain in order to develop a dominant left brain. ~ Sid
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer
Sensory perception is the natural awareness of the right brain but is usually subdued by the thinking process of the aggressive left brain. ~ Sid
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere
The left brain ego is obsessed with the past and future leaving little time for awareness of the present. ~ Sid
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~Norman Podhoretz
The left brain’s sense of order is a necessary tool for survival and maintaining a standard of living but usually mistaken as our true identity. ~ Sid
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
It is important to distinguish the difference between childishness and childlike. ~ Sid
A grownup is a child with layers on. ~Woody Harrelson
The layers are a social facade covering up our more authentic inner child and right brain. ~ Sid
Related Pages:
Childhood Memories
My Boyhood Dreams
Right Brained Children
Filed under: childhood | Tags: "Peanuts", childhood, Inner Child, psychology, Thanksgiving, thoughts
In the cartoon,it appears only Snoopy lives in the right brain which comes out clearly when he says:” My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m Happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?” and adds “to live is to dance, to dance is to live.”~ Snoopy
However the playmates of Peanuts have a completely different outlook on life !
All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. ~ Lucy Van Pelt
Auugh! I’ve been kissed by a dog! I have dog germs! Get some hot water! Get some disinfectant,get some iodine.~ Lucy Van Pelt
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.~Linus Van Pelt
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.~Peanuts
Exercise is a dirty word – Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.~Peanuts
Happiness is a warm puppy.~Lucy Van Pelt
I love mankind, it’s people I can’t stand.~Linus Van Pelt
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I’m in the wrong building.~Lucy Van Pelt
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.~ Lucy Van Pelt
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it. ~ Sally Brown 
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.~ Peanuts
If Santa Claus exists, he’s going to be too good to punish me, even if I am naughty. And if he doesn’t exist, I don’t have to worry, right? – Wrong, but I don’t know where.~Peanuts
In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.~Charlie Brown
I’ve developed a new philosophy . . . I only dread one day at a time.~ Charlie Brown
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.~Peanuts
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.~ Charlie Brown
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, “Why me?”, then a voice answers “Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”~Charlie Brown
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.”~Charlie Brown
Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I’ve just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don’t bite a cat before sundown, I’ll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That’s what is known as real maturity.~ Snoopy
That’s the secret to life . . . replace one worry with another.~ Charlie Brown
No problem is so big or so complicated that it can’t be run away from!~ Linus Van Pelt
There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters . . . I could be their leader.~Charlie Brown
This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.~ Charlie Brown
Try not to have a good time . . . This is supposed to be educational.~ Lucy Van Pelt
Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves and then we have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.~ Snoopy
Wouldn’t it be nice if our lives were like VCRS (video recorders), and we could ‘fast forward’ through the crummy times?~ Peanuts
