Inner Child Party Room

[UnKnown-Self]

@Mal Content
I can smell the rich earthiness, hear the water flowing and the skittering of something on the ground or the flap when a bird first takes flight. It would be a nice cool place with the sun beams magically making their way through the canopy of trees. If you sit on the ground, lean against a tree and breathe slow and deep allowing the life around you to speak, you will hear, "we are One" and a great calmness will fill you.

 

[UnKnown-Self]

Haha, I probably should have mentioned, I didn't play as a kid.

Smiles at Mal, many if not most are things my child selves added to the playground, was remembered watching others play, uninvited to join. My cousin had a dollhouse made by our grandfather who in my cousins often repeated words "only loved her and not me because my mom was a no good pig." I couldn't argue that my mom wasn't a no good pig since I didn't like her myself.
What that said about me is what stung, I was unloved and undeserving and because my mother was no good, I was no good too.
Making a dollhouse for my little ones is very important. They are good, loved and deserve one :)

 

[trying2movefwd]

...I i tentionally bought my daughter a dollhouse for her 3rd Christmas simply so I would have an excuse to play with one. I always wanted one growing up. Lol I LOVE it when she asks me to play dollhouse with her. :)
*the games I played as a kid were not "normal" kid play* So I try to make sure my inner child gets the "normal" opportunity. :)

 

[illusionist]

Can I sit in the corner with a sensory box?....I loved touching and smelling stuff.

 

[trying2movefwd]

Of course @illusionist ! :) What's in your sensory box?

 

[illusionist]

Cotton, silk, sand, musk perfume, embroidered fabric, pebbles, leaves, lumps of coal, porcelain, bird feathers, vanilla, bag of beads, burning wood, after the rain....earthy smell.

 

[UnKnown-Self]

That is a brillent idea @illusionist!
You could wear a blindfold because it is such a safe place. Take a rose in your hand and smell the fragrance, carefully aware of the thorns on the stem after feeling their sharpness but also feel the softness of the petals and roughness of the leaves. The leaves and stem have their own scent apart from the flower, earthy and alive.

 

[Deleted member 33052]

@Mal Content
I can smell the rich earthiness, hear the water flowing an...

Alice, you nailed it! I still head to the woods when I feel a need to go *home*. I love coming here and being understood.

There is also the tangy scent of the pines and firs.

 

[Deleted member 33052]

I have this very strong memory ( Be aware, it sounds cheesy) Of me sitting on a swing looking at the s...

Cool! My husband told me almost the exact same thing last night!

 

[illusionist]

....and by blocking off the visual I could feel things I otherwise would have not have felt...to block off one sense, heightens another. Seems some adults need to be taught this...I learned it at a young age and loved the intensity.....I still do....use it as a grounding skill now.

 

[Rani G2]

Really? I found thinking about aliens, multiple dimensions or black holes (What I later understood as a teenager) Somewhat “hope giving and hurt comforting“.

Dealing with a mind gone mad and a world that seems to have gone out of control, the thought of space is kind of comforting.

 

[Silver.]

@illusionist , this might not be for everyone, but I like to shower in the dark with just a candle. Your senses are so heightened, with the warm water, the candle smells good, the soap, shampoo, everything is just heightened, and it is very calming for me x