The inner child is also your ‘habit body’

The inner child is also your ‘habit body’

The door did not closed on the inner child after John Bradshaw, in the 1980s, as some might imagine. Rather the topic was expanded on fruitfully again by Bertrand Babinet in the 1990s in Babinetics.  Most of his teaching was live and in person.  The only book he produced is called Healing the Inner Family but is out of print. Many of his topics are taken up and discussed in more accessible language in the books You Have Three Selves, Your Habit Body, and The Inner Court.

Bertrand’s major innovation, in my words, was reframing the inner child and the etheric body as our habit body. The term may be mine or Bertrand’s, I forget which.  I hope Bertrand will claim it if he invented it. The term “habit body” pulls together, converges, many functions known to psychologists, metaphysicians and energy healers but never pulled together into a coherent phrase until–habit body.

For example, your habit body is functionally equivalent to your sub- and unconscious mind, with your memories, habits and behaviors in all FIVE of your bodies:

- physical reflexes, routines and habits,
- habits of imagining, ambition, liking and disliking,
- emotional habits of how you go highs and go low,
- mental habits; we call these beliefs, judgments and evaluations,
- unconscious memories, habits, behaviors and mythological archetypes such as victim and Queen.

Seen thru the widest angle lens, the inner child is functionally equal to all of these:

- habit body
- immune system
- “feelings and needs” in the NVC sense
- operating system of the body,
- neural default mode
- the body electric, life force,
- inner child, reactive emotional self
- memory body
- the ‘Little Artist’ of The Artist’s Way
- innate wisdom of the sum of your cells
- morphogenetic fields
- subconscious, unconscious
- gatekeeper of the etheric centers
- etheric body, etheric double
- Growth body, “etheric formative forces”

Because the habit body has been termed all these things, can do so many things, is so clearly multi-talented and multi-dimensional, John-Roger likes to step back and simply call it the “basic self,” a very language-neutral term.

This more neutral term permits us to talk about what this being can and cannot do without tripping over unwanted associations with 3D children and our own childhood memories.

Q: How similar are all these terms above?

A: I estimate the functions above overlap with each other about 90% because from the conscious self’s point of view, you contact, communicate and take care of all these exactly the same way. They are all functionally equal because they are all equally essential to healthy human function.

If you ask HOW and WHY all these overlap, the answer is more technical. They overlap and weave together closely for very good reasons, beautiful reasons, having to do with the character and nature of the etheric body, beyond our scope here. See my books if you are curious.

Q: Why do you say we locate, access and communicate with each of these above THE SAME WAY?

A: The only way the conscious self can communicate with ANY of these is the way it communicates with ALL of them; that is, thru whichever sensory channel(s) is most open between conscious and basic self, the sensory channels the two of you have most in common. NLP called these visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory and gustatory, VAKOG but Rudolf Steiner expanded this to 12 senses and this helped too.

Home work exercise

The easy part is beginning to communicate and negotiate with your inner child

1) Call in the Light for your Highest Good via your own personal prayer of protection

2) Pick a topic you wish clarification on. It could be what clothes to wear today. It could be what food to eat for lunch or dinner. It could be whether to date Sam or Hank. It could be whether to go to this practitioner or another practitioner for health services.

3) Put both your hands gently on your tummy, one above the belly button one below.

4) Ask your basic self a SINGLE question: May I ask you a question? If you get no answer, please take this as a yes, as permission to ask another question.

5) Next question: How do you feel about doing X

(X = dating Sam. or X = dating Hank. But not X = Sam or Hank?)

6) If you have a questions with two choices, after you ask yes or no, expand or contract on the one possibility, ask about the other possibility. If you just asked about Sam, now ask about dating Hank.

Only ask about ONE THING at a time. Keep it simple.

7) LISTEN and notice if you get the thermometer, contraction or expansion, feelings, hear words or music, or even see images (the more rare communication from the basic self but most clear if you can get these representations).

Keep practicing.

9) Practice some more.

10) Practice one more time then call it quits until tomorrow Then practice some more.

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Author of 12 books/eBooks on self-healing, Bruce has been seeing clients professionally since 2001. His passion is resolving wellness concerns for people who wish to avoid drugs and surgery. He founded Spirit of Giving Holistic Consults and co-founded the Westside Chamber of Commerce. With masters in both school counseling and Spiritual Science, he follows both the Law of Spiderman and the Law of Gentleness for Healers.

In his own words: With your permission, I talk directly with your immune system to learn what is oppressing your cells. When your habit body lets go of the negativity, your cells go back to being healthy! How do I do this?  The easy way, from your own Guidance and not from my mind. All solutions are tested against your highest good to make sure they work for you.

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