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Healing Your Inner Child

Updated: Feb 13, 2022

Inner Tapping, which involves tapping on various face and body points, is useful in healing shame, low self-esteem, deeply held fears and traumas from past events, and most significantly, your inner child. Since our subconscious minds cannot distinguish past events from what is happening now, traumatic events are experienced as if they were occurring in this moment. Inner Tapping is a gentle way to help heal unresolved inner child issues.


The key to this technique is to imagine tapping on the child or younger version of yourself while tapping on the various points in present time.


Inner Tapping is most effective when combined with “talking to” the inner child and offering comfort in the form of whatever s/he wants.


Example Process


· Since traumatic experiences happen to children without their permission, it is important to ask and receive permission from the inner child before beginning tapping sequences.

· Imagine asking your inner child if it is ok to tap on him/her. You will likely receive a sense of whether s/he is open to tapping now. If you have a strong sense this is not the time, wait and ask again at another time. You can also use muscle testing, if you are familiar with it, to determine if you should proceed. If you repeatedly sense a strong “no”, offer your inner child whatever s/he wants in this moment, be it running on the beach, getting a kitten, a toy truck, doll house or going to a birthday party. Simply imagine yourself offering your inner child the comfort of whatever s/he wants and allow a few minutes for him/her to receive what was requested. You can repeat this step until you sense your inner child has been sufficiently soothed and feels safe before beginning the tapping sequences.

· You may want to choose an event that is not the most charged to start. If you were spanked for running into the street and other time beaten so brutally that you ended up in hospital, you may want to begin tapping on the time you ran into the street first.

· It is helpful to rate the issue on a scale of 1 – 10 before you begin and after you finish tapping and comforting your inner child to see how things have shifted.

· Alternate between tapping and offering comfort to your inner child by asking him/her what s/he wants and in your imagination, giving that to him/her.

· Do as many tapping sequences as needed until the emotional charge is resolved, paying close attention to how safe and comforted your inner child feels.


Example Tapping Sequence


o Tapping on the side of the hand (Karate chop point), “Even though Mommy spanked me for running into the street, maybe I can feel better.”

o Tapping on the eyebrow point, “Even though I was scared when Mommy spanked me, I want to feel better.”

o Tapping on the side of the eye “I’m doing my best now.”

o Tapping under the eye, “I really want to feel better.”

o Tapping under the nose “Maybe I can feel better.”

o Tapping on the chin, “I don’t think I can feel better.”

o Tapping on the collarbone “Maybe I can.”

o Tapping under the arm, “Even though Mommy was so angry, maybe I can feel better.”

o Tapping gently on the top of the head, “Even though it’s hard, I think I can feel better.”

o Tapping on the eyebrow point, “I feel a little better now.”

o Tapping on the side of the eye, “I feel calmer now.”

o Tapping under the eye, “This is a bit easier than I thought it would be.”

o Tapping under the nose, “I am not so scared now.”

o Tapping on the chin, “I think I’m going to be ok.”

o Tapping on the collarbone, “I feel better inside now.”

o Tapping under the arm, “I’m doing my best.”

o Tapping gently on the top of the head, “I do feel better now.”


Make up the wording you feel is most appropriate for the event you are tapping on.


NOTE: This post is in no way intended to serve as medical advice or for diagnosis or treatment purposes. It is for informational use only.





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