Our child within when it feels the need to dissociate needs to jump up and down

Our child within when it feels the need to dissociate needs to jump up and down  for one or two minutes, or dance to an energetic, happy song. Next, ask our child to close its eyes and place both feet firmly on the ground.

 Breathe in and out very deeply and slowly and pretend that we are a tree. Tell ourselves to imagine the energy from the earth climbing up through our roots, our trunk, our branches, our leaves, and out into space.

During this exercise, guide our child through this imagery one stage at a time, all the while asking the child within to breathe slowly in and out, until we feel cleared of all our dissociated energy.

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