NMR ISSUE 49

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Blessing the Self
Calafia
Chaos: A New Approach to Magick
Common Elements of Ceremonial Initiation
Cults! Confessions of an Outsider
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Esoteric Symbology of the Tarot
Etymological
Fundamental Wiccan Rites
Getting More Magick Out of Your Meditations
Hail to the Hunter
Heathens Idolize School Prayer
Home Protection Amulets
Imbolc Ritual
Legend
On the Path of Destiny
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Sistrum Sisters
Tarot Looking Glass
The Magick of Franz Bardon
The Sacred Home
The Truth about Sex Magick,
Working with the Sun and its Properties
Working with Your Inner Child
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Working with Your Inner Child

The Sunflower Kid

By Ka-Sandra Love

Many of the fears, energy blocks and unhappiness that most adults experience today trace back to their primary sensory setup in childhood. These setups and behaviors are now hidden in the subconscious mind where they still affect us. These same core patterns are the basis for much of the panic, disappointment and failure that we now have as adults. For the most part, these patterns were learned from adults who had authority over us in childhood. By accessing and changing the primary setup from the past in our childhood, we can clear the magnets of suppressed energy that interfere with our lives today and break the chains that prevent us from having satisfying, fulfilling adult lives now.

The adult authorities of our past, our parents, grandparents, baby-sitters, teachers and the like are often the primary source of these inhibiting, unbalanced and dysfunctional problems. But in addition to these, we often experience many other traumas that can also become serious stumbling blocks to our growth and happiness. One of these is the setup for disease. Childhood is filled with attacks of the creepy crawlies, cooties and other invisible contagious little bugs that our bodies must build up a resistance to. It's a serious emotional focus for all children. We all come to fear the signs of disease and the invisible attackers known as bacteria, parasites and viruses. Additionally, our parents are usually the innocent supporters of the dreaded chorus of disease symptoms, antidotes and cures, all of which fill a child's fear monitor to overflowing. So even if we are not aware of it, disease marches on and we march with it.

This article offers a journey to take with your inner child self that can change your original setup and unconscious belief systems regarding contagious diseases. Do you remember taking biology in school? You probably studied photosynthesis, plants' process of incorporating sunlight into matter. We're going to do a process called homophotosynthesis: photosynthesis that humans do. Pretty impressive don't you think? But we can't expect an inner child to comprehend such a complex process, so we'll just simplify it into a journey where the inner kid becomes a sunflower, and in the process does homophotosynthesis, healing its body of disease. This in turn changes the setup for the way your body, then and now, recognizes and destroys the disease germs of the past, present and future. Sounds silly, huh? Well, what have you got to lose? Try it. It just might surprise you!

Think of a time when you were a child, sick with one of these awful germies. Any of the contagious ones will do; measles, chickenpox, whatever. Now, go back to that time of your life. Just as the adult that you are now, go back and meet your child self. Let them see and recognize you. Tell them that you've come to help them to feel better. Tell them that you know a magic way to make the sickness go away. Sit on their bed and both of you close your eyes and start your magic journey.

You are running through a field of sunflowers. Tell your child self to run on ahead of you and find a special sunflower, and that they are allowed to put their name on it. Let them stand next to it and hold its flower carefully in their hands. Then you both take a deep breath, close your eyes and pretend that you are the sunflower. Stretch your limbs and leaves skyward and feel the sunshine dancing on your sunflower face. Now, open yourself up to all those wonderful energy rays and let the sunshine in. Feel the light energy traveling from the crown of your head all the way through your neck, arms and heart. Then pass its energy into your solar plexus and down the stem of the sunflower. Imagine and feel the light energy flowing and being absorbed into every part, every cell of your body, all the way through your body and down your legs. As it travels along, its light rays grab all the bad germies in your body, zaps them and makes them disappear. Then as the energy travels into and through your feet projecting deep into the ground, visualize all the bad energy and toxins being flushed out of your body and into the ground for the earth to purify and recycle. Have you and your child self wiggle your toes deep into the ground like the roots of your sunflower plant. And as you wiggle your toes, feel yourselves absorb fresh, new nutrients from the ground. Now feel the earth nutrients and the sunshine kiss and hug each other inside your body. Feel the joining and the energy incorporating into matter inside your body fresh, whole and healthy. All the germies are gone and you can feel your sunflower body dance with sunshine from the inside out.

You and your child self have just walked into a new and better way of being healthy and whole. Take the time to touch all the other old memories from other illnesses in the past with your inner child, and do the sunflower journey again with each memory. This will dissolve your body's setup regarding the acceptance and permission levels of disease. Ask your inner child to help you also in turning your adult body into a sunflower body by doing an adult version of the sunflower kid. In a short while, you will see and feel the difference.

Ka-Sandra also maintains a private inner child counseling/therapy practice. You may contact her for more information or to schedule an in person or telephone appointment by calling 760-753-2634 or e-mail her at KASS125430Please feel free to join Ka-Sandra H. Love Ph.D. in other inner child journeys in New Moon Rising.