# Inner Child > Inner child contributes play curiosity love and positive trust to creative relationships while blending childlike capacities with adult action restores relationship as creative play. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/inner-child # Inner Child Bashar invokes the inner child as a living resource for creative relationship rather than as a wounded sub-personality to be repaired. The framing is deliberately simple: the qualities that make a child's experience vital — play, curiosity, love, and positive trust — are capacities the adult can consciously blend back into the way it relates to others. ## What the inner child contributes In the source session Bashar is asked what the inner child contributes to creative relationships. He answers that it is very important to remember how to play. A child is full of curiosity; a child is full of love and trust in a positive way; a child knows the universe is beautiful and full of surprises. The instruction is to learn how to blend that child with the adult that you now are. This places the inner child inside Bashar's broader theme of creative relationship rather than inside a therapeutic wound frame. The child is not summoned in order to heal an old injury; it is summoned because its qualities — play, curiosity, positive trust, readiness for surprise — are exactly the qualities that make relationship creative. To be a creative partner is, in this sense, to be a child who has remembered how to play, blended with an adult who knows how to act. ## The child in the larger relationship field The same session frames all creative relationship as child's play. The work of relationship is to learn to play with each other; the masculine and feminine polarities within each person are to be befriended as equal playmates; and the recognition that all others are simply reflections of those same polarities is what makes mutual play possible. The inner child is thus not one ingredient among many — it is the stance from which the whole field of relationship is engaged. *An adult follows a child's pointing hand toward a garden detail* ## Practical implications Treat play, curiosity, positive trust, and openness to surprise as relationship skills to reclaim, not as childishness to outgrow. A creative relationship is built by an adult who has deliberately blended these childlike capacities back in. When a relationship feels stuck or over-serious, ask whether the inner child has been excluded. The child's contribution — beauty, surprise, trust — is exactly what the over-serious adult frame has lost access to. Extend the child's stance to the whole relationship field. Befriend the opposite polarity within yourself as a playmate; treat others as reflections of the same polarities; let play, rather than negotiation alone, set the register. This chapter presents Bashar's constructive framing of the inner child as a resource. It does not address therapeutic work on early wounds; where such work is needed, it belongs to qualified practitioners, not to this teaching alone. ## Representative passages In creating creative relationships with each other, it is very important to remember how to play. A child is full of curiosity. A child is full of love and trust in a positive way. A child knows the universe is beautiful and full of surprises. Learn how to blend that child with the adult that you now are.— Bashar, Creative Relationshipjapan (creative-relationship-japan#qa-6) ## Related - [Natural Self](https://sassani.app/topic/natural-self) - [Masculine Feminine Balance](https://sassani.app/topic/masculine-feminine-balance) - [Relationships](https://sassani.app/topic/relationships) - [Excitement](https://sassani.app/topic/excitement) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/inner-child. The HTML page is the source of truth.