Inner Child

Inner child is playful. Sometimes, our inner child is alive but imprisoned, afraid, sad, angry but afraid, still wanting to go out. This is suffering. Our behavior feeling thoughts are done to protect this child. This child is following the inner parents and adults and pretending to be the adults but not being happy. We always have that Playful Instinct, but was punished and surpressed. When it is safe, it will go out and buy whatever it wants, steal, smoke, using drugs, corrupting, acting in and out. All acting in and out is the act of this child and its rebellion. The protectors acts toward the child.

The more surpressed the child is, the more violent and compulsive/impulsive his rebellion is. He will rebel against morality (sacrifice own instinct), selflessness (sacrifice own self), pressure to perform (sacrifice own self and emotion), to be emotionally available/sensitive (sacrifice own emotion), pressure to be logical (sacrifice own thoughts), to be loyal (sacrifice on independence), to be funny, and to be controlled, and pressure to be obedience.

The inner child is still alive and source of afflictive emotion. Its nature is to play, to explore safely and happily. it's goal is the perfect environment. Playing gives the closest expression to the environment. All of our behavior, thoughts, and feeling is geared toward helping the child/victim to get to the environment. This is where pleasure is confused as happiness. Pleasure is medication for pain. We help the child by protecting the child to experience the environment.