Summary: Connecting to My Inner Child Mark [0:00] I’d like to welcome Theo Demetriou to the World Heart of Connection Podcast today. Theo’s a metal artist who showed me at the World Heart of Connection Day his beautiful sacred geometry. On the day we connected and as we men aren’t known for our connection it was just really lovely to have that connection beyond self with Theo. Today Theo is here to share his story have a conversation on his connection to Self, Others and ‘All That Is’ – welcome Theo. Theo [0:31] Thank you. Mark [0:32] Theo just by way of starting, how do you as a male, what’s your method, process of connecting to yourself? How do you do it? What do you do? Learning to Connect ~ Listening to my Children Theo [0:46] I think it’s been a fairly long process for me. Over the last few years, I’ve been searching for ways to connect. I feel as if one of my easiest ways to connect is when I look at my children and I speak to my children. As hard as it may be to understand that. We have a lot to learn from our children. The more you listen to them the more you actually listening to yourself. So, I believe that the connection that I’ve discovered is by opening up myself, allow myself to see my child within and not block it out. Allow ego to sort of overtake that. So, that’s one of my best one of the biggest ways I’ve found it’s helped me a lot. Mark [1:52] When you notice that child within, what do you do for that child within do you care for it? Do you notice it? Do you recognise it? Give it loving-kindness and compassion? Theo [2:04] Well, I think actually, I’m always aware of it and I never let it go. So, one of the things I explain, and I talk about this on many occasions. Especially with the kids and that is, I tell them to remember things in the past. When they were children, like small children, I asked them how far back you can remember. They’ll say to me like my son will say to me, well I can remember till I was about five years old? I’d say, “well what do you remember about that time when you’re five years old? He’ll say, well, you know, I have images of this happening, or you and I do this, and I felt like this. I’d say to him okay so never forget that. Always remind yourself about when you were five. I found that that’s the way that I’ve kept in touch with my child within, is by never forgetting about my past when I was a child. The good things that happened when I was a child. They actually help you open up your heart and remember your child. I think that a lot of people, they forget everything about the child. Disconnecting from our Childhood Mark [3:29] Is that more so for men? Theo [3:33] To be honest with you or think no. I think that’s across the board. I think men and women forget. I think that a lot of people may be, and I’m speculating that maybe people don’t want to remember some things about their childhood. Also as you get older we’re conditioned and told, it’s time to grow up. You know, you’re 20 years old now, you should be married or you’re 25 years old, you should be doing this by now or you should be doing that by now. I think that a lot of us just block out our childhood because we’re grown up now and we’re going to do what everyone else is doing. Mark [4:27] When we block that child out, do you notice any reaction from that inner child when it’s been blocked out? Theo [4:35] Well, I think that the reactions are not intentional. I think that the reactions are sometimes may seem like there a natural reaction, and we don’t even know that there’s a reaction. I’d say that s
