Learning to Find Your Inner Child – A Route to Creativity

Have you ever thought about the child you used to be and how as you developed into adulthood that child inside you changed and evolved? Yet some of that inner child always remains inside you and if you wish to be more creative it can be a useful exercise to access that child again.

The challenge about doing this is that for most people it is a sign of immaturity to do so-called ‘childish’ things and you will have been encouraged to let those childish aspects of yourself remain hidden and not accessed. However if you are able, from time to time, to connect once more with that childish part of yourself which remains mostly hidden, then you are better able to be more creative and connect with your innate creativity too.

There are several ways to find your inner child and become more creative.

1. Think of a few questions you would like to be able to ask yourself when you were a child. Then take your pen or crayon and hold it in your non-dominant hand when you ask yourself the question. Using that non-dominant hand write the first thing which comes into your mind in response to the question. Just write, don’t edit or think too deeply about what to say. The result may surprise you because it will be written in childlike writing and the answer given may touch an unexpected chord inside you.

Make sure that one of your questions is ‘What do you want?’ Again the answer you come up with may be a surprise to you.

2. Imagine yourself as a small child and in your mind’s eye tell that child that you are going to do what they want. This is great if it involves going somewhere. As you go to that place imagine you have yourself as a child with you and do things perhaps you weren’t able or allowed to do when you were that little child. Notice your child’s reaction and enable them to be happy at what you are doing or where you have taken them.

3. Spread out a lot of different materials such as paints, crayons, pencils, felt pans and paper as swell as glittery beads and buttons and tell you inner child they can do whatever they wish. Don’t decide beforehand what you will do, just let the child inside you play and enjoy yourself having permission to do just that without being attached at the outcome or what you produce.

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