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Access Your Creativity With Your Inner Magical Child

March 26, 2008 |

The Magical Child is a part of us all that when we integrate into our psyche can make us more creative. This Magical Child is around quite a lot when we are children but when we start to identify with the rational adult selves, it starts to disappear. The Magical Child is very imaginative, it often doesn’t make sense, and it sees magic in our environment. You can see it in children when they make up fantasy worlds and sing non-rational rhymes and songs. I believe that the recent extraordinary success of books like the Harry Potter series is due to the widespread disowning of the Magical Child and our yearning to have some of it back in our lives.

Creative adults, such as artists and writers, normally have access to their Magical Child, and often they identify with this part of themselves so totally that they can find it difficult to take care of practical aspects of life. The Magical Child isn’t the only creative inner self there is - there are the artistic selves, the musician selves, the writer selves and many more. What the Magical Child does is see solutions and opportunities that the rational mind cannot see. People sometimes describe receiving answers to problems as coming from ‘nowhere’ or from ‘left field’ - this is often the Magical Child contributing. Inventors and business entrepreneurs who will see something others just can’t perceive, often have strong Magical Children.

The Magical Child is disowned or repressed in many people because the more adult, rational selves become the primary parts of the personality and can’t understand this child, and so see no need for it. It can seem quite silly to them - and if you are identified with a very rational and reasonable self, you might also see this child as irrelevant.

So if you feel you are lacking creativity or are always concerned with the more mundane or practical aspects of life, all you need to do is reclaim your inner Magical Child and bring some of its energy into your life. If you are a creative person anyway, the Magical Child can bring you fresh new perspectives and add another dimension to your work. If you are primarily logical and rational, the Magical Child can literally add magic to your life and, as stated above, can give you new ideas with your usual activities.

The following exercises will help to access your Magical Child:

1. Set out to write a poem, but don’t try to make it ‘intelligent’ and fit in with a particular poetic style. Instead just allow yourself to write whatever comes to you. Pick a topic to begin with such as ‘eggs’. Write a line about eggs and then another one, and so on. For example: Eggs are best when scrambled up, they roll and dance around a lot, eggs can smile like humpty dumpty, who is very fumpty lumpty.

Keep going and don’t censor yourself with your more rational side. What you write doesn’t have to make sense. If you allow yourself to do this, no matter how silly your poem is, you will soon be able to draw on the immense reserves of creativity coming from your Magical Child and use them in many areas of your life.

2. Get some colored pencils, crayons or paints and some paper, and have some fun drawing with these. Allow yourself to draw or paint whatever you feel like. Don’t worry if you think you can’t draw. Abstract art is all you need here. Just allow yourself to experiment with mixing colours, with drawing shapes and squiggles - much like a young child would.

3. Buy or borrow some good children’s fantasy books and read them. For example, the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, or Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Such books will delight your Magical Child, and reading them will serve to honour it and to make it more a part of your life.

Astra Niedra is a teacher and facilitator of the self-awareness technique Voice Dialogue which enables you to get in touch with the various parts of your pyche so you can have more choice in your self-expression. She is author of the internationally-acclaimed book The Perfect Relationship, which is about navigating the bonding patterns between partners in long-term relationships, and of the newly released book Enlightenment Through Motherhood, a humorous guide on using motherhood as a spiritual path. Subscribe to her free e-newsletter at http://www.voicedialogue.com, her blog Self-Awareness for Better Parenting at http://parentingawareness.blogspot.com, and Voice Dialog for a Better World at http://astravoicedialogue.com

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