{"id":65,"date":"2020-02-18T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisapowellmusic.com\/Blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-02-18T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:02:10","slug":"65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisapowellmusic.com\/Blog\/2020\/02\/18\/65\/","title":{"rendered":"My inner child"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-65-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/lisapowellmusic.com\/Audio\/Blog\/Feb15_2020.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lisapowellmusic.com\/Audio\/Blog\/Feb15_2020.mp3\">http:\/\/lisapowellmusic.com\/Audio\/Blog\/Feb15_2020.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>My inner child is just a component of me. She is, hopefully, the most creative, most buoyant and spontaneous part of me. I believe I arrived on earth as a fully intact spirit, open to growth opportunities. As each new experience happened, I changed, subtly and sometimes in ways that were negative. If one observes little children playing together, one notices they are free from worry and actually exuberant in their behavior. I suppose I was like that as well, being intuitively loving, so happy to have a body to run and jump and play and be who God created me to be.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in childhood, I lost some of my joy and spontaneity and became ultimately pretty shut down. I think that was a result of various experiences that one might call &#8220;negative&#8221; and even traumatic. I became less an inner child intuitive and more a sad, depressed, adolescent.<br \/>\nOne positive aspect of becoming an adult was that I realized I always have choices about how to respond to life. I can choose my own attitude and choose to use my problems as my teachers. I have the freedom to use all the negative experiences in life as a refiner and as a stepping stone to growth. There are ways to capitalize on my problems and learn the lessons from them that I probably couldn&#8217;t have learned in any other manner. More yet, I can use them as a way to change core patterns that I have developed all throughout my life. I can allow my weaknesses to become strengths.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorite mentors have been those who have overcome problems in the same areas that I am struggling in. Jesus is my favorite mentor. He has experienced everything I have suffered and struggled with already. He knows how to best help me and who to send my way in dealing with specific problems. I have a good friend in Northern Carolina. She is an artist. She has so much experience in very specific areas that I have and continue to struggle with. How the Lord brought us together is a miraculous coincidence.<br \/>\nI have another friend in Pennsylania who is 88 years old. She is so positive about life and always lives in gratitude. I have learned so much from her. I am in awe of the Lord&#8217;s handiwork here on earth. There is so much love here, if I just focus on the good, and try and become better myself. I am grateful for all my friends and family who are so, so good. God has good creative talents. And He continues to bless&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;all of us, with hard times, and good times, and in the end, they are all blessings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My inner child is just a component of me. She is, hopefully, the most creative, most buoyant and spontaneous part of me. I believe I arrived on earth as a fully intact spirit, open to growth opportunities. As each new experience happened, I changed, subtly and sometimes in ways that were negative. 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