When inner child work is done correctly, the rewards go beyond just healing. You not only become a better person, but you also evolve as a being, because inner child work helps you recover your psychic abilities and personal awareness. One of the skills you’ll relearn is the ability to be in more than one place at the same time.

In the physical world, it’s impossible to be in two places at once, but as multidimensional beings, we can exist in multiple places simultaneously—just not physically. While we are anchored to our bodies through breath, the “We” that is Soul and Spirit exists in many places at once. We incarnate to learn that we can experience both physicality and multidimensionality simultaneously. Those who have mastered this lesson are often called shamans, gurus, and wise ones. The rest of us are still learning, but we are closer to graduating than we think.

Inner child work is the conscious act of being in two places at once. While your body remains relaxed and comfortable, your mind connects with your inner child to the point where you can feel yourself touching him, and he knows that you are there. This practice reinstates your ability to be in more than one place at a time, as you sense yourself in both your safe present space and your inner child’s time and space. Once you learn this, exploring past and future lives becomes less intimidating, requiring only relaxation, sensing, feeling, and seeking.

A simple example is driving while mentally solving a difficult problem, explaining yourself to someone in your head, or rehashing a personal trauma. In these moments, your consciousness is elsewhere—your body is driving while your emotional and mental bodies are engaged in non-physical space, processing past or future events. You may arrive at your destination without remembering the journey because your awareness was divided.

Daydreaming or being mentally distracted are common physical explanations for not being fully present in the moment. When you are truly “in the now,” you are fully aware of your physical surroundings, emotions, and body sensations, paying attention to everything happening around and within you. Most people believe they are present in the now, but they are often lost in thoughts of the past or future, performing tasks on autopilot. This disconnection can lead to unintentional self-harm or damage.

Inner child work will help you understand when you’re not in the moment by showing you how to consciously experience more than one place at a time. When you “will” yourself to stand next to your inner child, while simultaneously being aware of your adult self in the present, you are experiencing three places at once: as the adult in the present moment, as the adult in your inner child’s time and space, and as the child you once were.

One of the hardest lessons in this process is learning to step into your adult consciousness while observing and feeling yourself as you were as a child. The child’s consciousness develops through stages, with each stage almost entirely forgetting the one before it as it adapts to new responsibilities. Your role as an adult is to use your compassionate and empathetic consciousness to travel back to your child’s time, support him, and help resolve his problems. While your inner child experiences emotions in a limited way—feeling his as either good, bad, or indifferent—your adult consciousness can differentiate and interpret these feelings.

Your inner child may feel isolated in his emotions, thinking no one else could possibly understand. But you, the adult, are there to help. Who else but you can do this for him?

This process is not self-serving; it is self-actualizing. The goal is to let go of control, see your inner child as he is, and change what isn’t serving you in your life while keeping what works. This is the essence of wisdom and requires developing the skills you gain through inner child work—learning to be in more than one place at once and navigating the vast realms of time and space consciously.