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Friday, August 5. 2011

Getting in touch with your inner child

Yes, you do have one of those psychobabble things.

Your inner child is selfish, self-centered, greedy, jealous, envious, angry, spiteful, grudge-bearing, hyper-sensitive; feels deprived, entitled, fearful, passive-aggressive, and often destructive. It's a nasty thing and results in misery (for others) in life.

My general advice is to avoid being "in touch with" one's inner child as much as possible. Reaching down and finding one's inner adult is a much better plan.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 17:10 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hey, my inner child is a sweet and funny kid. Keep your iconoclastic hands off my icons! lol

#1 twolaneflash on 2011-08-05 17:12 (Reply)

I love it!!!
Quite some few years back I got in touch with my inner child. I kicked it's butt and told it to grow up. I have been much happier since. Great advice Dr. Bliss.

#2 Jeffersonian on 2011-08-05 20:26 (Reply)

Someone call CPS, I've met a lot of people whose inner child is out without adult supervision. If fact, I'm fairly certain the adult has been shoved into a closet.

#3 JKB on 2011-08-05 20:46 (Reply)

I have to give my inner child Five Across The Eyes every day just to function. To bad more people (most of them in my management team) don't do the same.

#4 Randy Rager (Link) on 2011-08-05 22:00 (Reply)

I ever found my inner child I'd swat him on the butt and send him to his room.

#5 Alan Kellogg (Link) on 2011-08-05 22:29 (Reply)

Hear, hear! Well put. As the wise philosopher H. Simpson says, "It's funny, 'cause it's true!"

#6 Phil in Englewood on 2011-08-05 23:29 (Reply)

I'm so in touch with my inner child Michael Jackson used to envy me.

#7 BlogDog on 2011-08-06 11:10 (Reply)

Well, h'm.
The inner child sounds like the id, "the one who frolics". Certainly our sense of entitlement, our urge for immediate gratification, our various drives for pleasure must be moderated. But pretending they don't exist would be very Vulcan of one -- and when a Vulcan blows, look out. And actually not having an inner child might make us all automatons: having the means of pleasure but losing the experience. There seems to me to be no point to prosperity without enjoyment.
Perhaps our inner children are like our outer children: to be enjoyed but surely to be managed.

#8 Geoff Brown on 2011-08-08 09:56 (Reply)

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