Regression and the timeline

I was doing some research on self-worth today and I found some interesting information. Looking back in my life, I saw various events that caused heartache. Most of these events took me back to my childhood years. A myriad of options and possibilities to resolve these traumatic issues came to mind. My focus was on observing my parents and their behaviours. I was hoping to find something that would explain my subconscious behavioural programming. Instead of finding answers down this avenue, I found trauma I had experienced later in childhood. The early sub-seven-year-old period was apparently not relevant. Inner child work usually involves finding your younger self and exhibiting love and acceptance. One technique used towards this end is regression, but there is a problem with conventional regression. Regression uses a timeline format. We see the visit with the child self as a going back in time and once we make contact we speak in the past tense. This technique works at a certain level but it's not accurate enough to generate ownership. We still see ourselves as being a visitor to that time and being separate to the child self. What we don’t realise is that we are reinforcing separation and not integrating into the higher self. Subscribing to the timeline format at an important moment when counselling your younger self, is a mistake.

I saw this clearly during this meditation. I asked for clarification on issues that currently elude me, and this is what I found. Joining with my younger self, I started showing love. While I was doing this, I found myself talking in the past tense. I was saying things like, I’m sorry you were alone. But you were never alone because I was always with you. Somehow, it felt wrong. My higher self showed me to be present in the moment with my younger self. I changed my perspective to the present and included my younger self with me in the room and continued to talk. I still found myself losing synch with the time option. I still kept falling back into talking about the past, but no sooner had I done that than I realised it and switched back to the present. It took a while to make the changes permanent but I soon settled into the new format. It felt good and talking to my younger self as if it was with me in the room. It felt so right! I spoke to my younger self and the fact that I am always with him and he was/is never alone. This moment of integration was amazing! I felt like the higher self and I AM and compassion was evident.