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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
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Sid
Your thoughts and quotes were very useful to me. I especially appreciated this statement “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.”
As part of being mindful and aware, I have been noting when I or someone I’m interacting with is “lost in one’s ego”. It helps me respond from a position of acceptance, patience, and compassion when I see this disconnect in terms of mistaking the gifts of the left brain as the true identity. Once again you have helped me gain greater awareness.
Comment by Rebecca November 29, 2009 @ 11:15 amThanks, Rebecca
Rebecca,
I also feel the quote below is an important one:
“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.”
My belief is that our true identity resides in the right brain where we are able to experience our interrelatedness with the Universal Flow in which we are intimately inseparable.
All of Nature seems to naturally flow with this intelligent energy with the exception of humans (who were expelled from the Garden of Eden)…instead humans developed a separate self image which tries to control the flow (role of ego and left brain ) and feels superior in its exploitation of their environment and extended life span…however we are alienated and lost when our ego fails and we lose control over our life.
Most human pain is caused by our attempts to control and redirect Nature’s Flow against a power that is far greater than we realize…most major religions believe it is necessary to surrender to the “Will of God or Higher Power” (move with the flow).
The flow can be expressed as a dance in which you probably feel very much at home…great dancers are ones who can abandon themselves to this awesome flow…and they may also realize this happens without self control (not an ego trip)…perhaps Snoopy from “Peanuts says it best,”dance is life…life is dance”
Sid
Comment by Sid November 29, 2009 @ 5:00 pm