I invite you to think and meditate with me about our relationship towards our childish selves.

It is common in our modern philosophy to praise wisdom as good quality. I feel that maybe this is one of the things humanity got it right, but at the same time, we should always be careful not to engage in a duality of good and bad towards the opposites, for the child in ourselves has also a lot to offer. We can understand our adult selves as our wisdom provider as does the child to our energy. It is no coincidence that in this same society we consider our within child as something not to be proud of, actually, we try to hide instead of giving it voice. Jung would always defend that for every hidden part of ourselves something would come up to bring it to the surface and make itself noticed. No wonder again that in search of defending a very mature image of ourselves we engage as simulated actors in our jobs or around other people while keeping impulsive behaviours just like children, some more than others to the extent than it can become a disease or an addiction. We are not grown without accepting how wrong, how faulty and imperfect we are. True wisdom accepts and gazes with understanding at our mistakes, making us act correctly towards it. This acceptance opens the gate for us to use the child’s energy towards the things that will bring peace and help us with our objectives. Of course, we must be careful not to believe this is a control of energy the same way we understand control as switching buttons on and off, for true control is nothing but an opening of doors for the flow of life to take its right course.

So it is a bit funny because you are indeed wiser at the acceptance of your childish self, in Buddhism, there is the thought that every concept includes the opposite within its truth, so you can only truly be without the denying of its opposite, which takes part into what makes it becomes what it is. You cannot be wise without accepting that you are also foolish sometimes, because without recognising you cannot control and take part in where it acts, or even let go. The same way that you cant be happy without accepting sorrow.

As this has a lot to do with the opening of the heart and allowing yourself to enter what hurts, with the aim to be accepting try to take a minute to breathe and recognise the imperfect parts of breathing and how it feels when you don’t try to deny them. Close your eyes and focus on breathing. Maybe you feel your weight pushing down, shortness of breath, maybe even pain, maybe it actually feels good too. Allow yourself to recognise whatever the sensations arise,  but don’t get attached to making yourself feel any specific way, allow it to be how it is. If you are trying too much, recognise that you are trying too much. It is hard to put on words that you should just see what's going on, in written language, we feel that always something should come up after, a conclusion. But there is no conclusion, its always there, the most we can make is see that it has a face. Feel free to stop and keep your meditation for longer.