Children also exhibit certain uncomplicated openness, and they are ready to answer your questions truthfully- the masking we teach ourselves as we get older. In Hans Christian Andresen’s fable of The Emperor’s New Clothes, everyone marvelled at the magnificent magical cloth that swindlers wove for the Emperor, claiming that only those who were worthy would be able to see it- otherwise they were ‘either stupid or unfit for their posts’. No one dared say that the Emperor had nothing on except for a little child who suddenly gasped ‘but he has nothing on’!

Other ‘creative’ ways of dealing with your child-like aspect are to distract it, or to dangle a carrot in front of it. Certainly, try saying what you mean, and meaning what you say. The more you do, the more all aspects of yourself merge together.

Tips for connecting with your child-like self:

• If the wiser, all intuitive, spiritual aspect of yourself is the higher-self then think of the child-like, or earthly self, as your ‘lower self’. Try to get in touch with it frequently as you do with your ‘higher self’; bridging the two.
  

• Spend (more) time around children. Allow a little of that natural innocence and creativity to rub on you.
  
  
• Ask yourself: ‘how interesting am I to children?’ If you can fire a child’s imagination- the chances are you are very much in touch with your lower-self.
  
  
• Be creatively silly. Do something child-like for yourself, or with a child. Fly a kite, colour a poster, read a children’s story, take yourself out for a fun a day. Creative homework of any kind, walking outdoors alone, or reading poetry, will enhance your spiritual creativity channels, so long as you keep your inner eyes and ears open.
  
  
• As you develop your spirituality, consider helping children to develop theirs. Life can be full of magic for a child. Children can understand simple spiritual laws intuitively, and it makes growing up more interesting.