Lazaris suggested how to heal the inner child and adolescent in meditation. In the tape Healing the Child Within (1991), he says to set aside time to work with each in meditation. You can work with the child at different ages for a month and than the adolescent.

Child:

1. The first week of inner child work, go find the child where they used to go to be alone, safe, and private. I actually hid in my closet to get away from my mother. Some people may go to a tree house, or out back behind the garage. After you find the child, let it talk about the pain. As it talks simply love them. Young children need lots of holding, and rocking. They need to be given unconditional love and acceptance. Keep telling them that they are loved.
2. During the second week go back to the same place with the child, but now tell it how you are going to meet its needs. Then talk about how life will be different once their needs are met. Explain to the child that you will still love it once it is healed.
3. In the third week, go back to the same place with your child, but now bring in your higher self and any angels, guides or spiritual figures that you relate to heal the child. Let them touch and hold the child, send energy, laying-on of hands, and whatever else the guides feel moved to do.
4. In the last week, go back to the same place with the child. Surround the child with light. Allow the child to play, run and have fun in the light.

Adolescent:

1. Next week find the adolescent in pain in a private place where it used to live. The two of you work together to create a safe place in nature. Ask what kinds of scenery it would like to have - rivers, mountains, fields, etc. What other magical things would the adolescent like to include? This information must come from the adolescent and be a safe place, no adults. It can be imaginative, including castles, magical ornaments, and so on.
2. In the second week bring your higher self in to evaluate the safe place to discover the symbolic meaning of the scenery that you chose. Listen to the whispers from the higher self. Receive a box or treasure chest from the higher self and put it somewhere in your safe place. Visualize it clearly. Leave it there for later use.
3. In the third week, go to safe place to talk to the adolescent about its problems. Just listen. Don't tell them what to do. If they think, help them feel. If they feel, help them think. Don't be a parent or teacher, but a friend and confidant.
4. In the last week go back to the safe place with your higher self to talk to your adolescent. Have the adolescent lie down by the treasure chest, visualizing it clearly. Open the chest. Out will come a mist, vapor or color of light which will fill the safe place. This mist will resolve the pain. As the thing is released from the box, instruct the adolescent that he or she will understand the real nature of the pain. Together, the two of you will know that you are loved by your higher self who will talk to you at this time about how much you are loved. Let your Higher Self fill both of you with love and light, and as Lazaris (1999) reminds us, "Give your Higher Self room to help you know the new you."

Beyond this, work to create communion with your child and adolescent, you must also rescue them from specific traumatic incidences from their past. In trance, go back to the time and space the trauma occurred. Let the child or adolescent express the pain and rage, fear or shame. Heal the child by loving it unconditionally and giving it evolved but age appropriate information about reality creation. In other words, reparent them with the truth, instead of the cultural lies most of us received. If the child is terrified of an abuser protect him or her in any way that makes sense to you. You can be as imaginative and creative as you like. When the intent is to heal, it is not inappropriate to imagine killing an abuser or putting him or her in jail if it helps the child or adolescent release negative emotions. Sending an abuser to jail and throwing away the key, or putting them in a space ship and sending them to another planet are also appropriate ways to deal with an abuser in meditation.

Inner child and adolescent work has four basic parts:

1. Relive: spend 1 or 2 minutes watching the traumatic event from start to finish as if it were happening now. Become a compassionate observer. Vaughn (1996) states, "Re-accessing the energy field is a simple matter of visualizing the events leading up to the traumatic incident and then getting in touch with the feelings the events have caused." Pretending that it is happening now is the key.
2. Re-feel the pain and let the inner child or adolescent express it. The true adult must evoke an emotional response if none is present. Usually, asking how the child feels is all that is necessary. As the adult, you might be required to help elaborate. At this point, the pain, fear, trauma, shame, or anger should actually be felt in your body. If the child felt fear then, if you are doing this meditation effectively, you will actually feel it again in your adult body. Don't be afraid to make it up and just pretend. "Fake it until you make it" is totally OK. In time, the real emotions will come.
3. Rescue the inner child and adolescent by becoming their authentic inner parent, advocate and protector. If abusers need to be told off, or hacked into bits, do it. If they need to be put into jail, put them into jail. If the children or adolescents simply need better social skills or to be more adequately prepared for life, tell them what they need to know. It is up to the adult self to do what needs to be done to defend and protect their child. This gives the child the message that he or she is not a victim. This is an important part of the healing process for you, the authentic parent, must learn to generate a resonance of self-protection. In other words, you must know right from wrong and do what needs to be done to pro­tect the innocent.
4. Heal the inner children and adolescents by bonding with them, which usually includes physical touching like holding or rocking, and telling them that you love them and won't leave them. You can also do an imaginative healing ritual with angels and guides, cleansing baths and magic potions that make them feel comforted and cared for.

When we relive past events as though they are happening now, we re-access the energy field of who we were then. Expressing the emotions releases pain from the energy field. Rewriting the script in the way just described keeps it out. Talk therapy doesn't work because we don't re-access the energy field. All it can do is help us clarify the issues, which never go away. They just get analyzed to death. If we don't act on what we've learned by releasing the charge, we will never be healed. Past wounds will still haunt us.

In order to heal we must heal through love. Lazaris (1999) tells us, "Love's magic is the most powerful magic of all… You are loved more than you know." The child and adolescent must be unconditionally loved by the true adult self. They must also be creatively taught the truth to give them a motivation to evolve. When we do meditative work with child and adolescent, the emotions become easily accessible. Eventually, the emotions must be brought into the adult body where they can be felt, ex­pressed and released.

Vaughn (1996) says: "If the child or adolescent is numbed out, not feeling any­thing, the adult can ask them questions to get them to talk about their feelings. Eventually, emotions will be felt. A single meditation may have to be done several times until this happens. If the child or adolescent isn't feeling what "should" be felt, some belief stands in the way that must be dealt with before healing can occur. For example, I once worked with a woman who had been date raped at age thirteen by two 18 year old teenage boys. Her feeling was one of shame and stupidity. She thought she should have known better. Out of trance, I had to help my client see that the boys needed to be held responsible for their behavior and that rage might be a more appropriate response. Your adult self may have to be creative in the way it helps the children or adolescents discover the truth, because all their feelings must be honored. The adult self must learn to move emotions when none come forth. I usually do this by asking probing questions that produce feelings."

Rescuing the child and adolescent may only take the form of re-education. Bonding is an important part of inner child and adolescent work. Bonding is an experience of genuine, deep, unconditional love that allows us to make mistakes without being humiliated by them. It may take time to develop, especially if you thought your child or adolescent was stupid, a failure, inadequate, or some other negative aspect.

If you do not like your child or adolescent, give the part of you who hates them a voice and let it talk: See what's in there. Talk to your higher self about how you feel. Think about what it would be like if you dumped that amount of hatred on an external child. Would they grow into happy adults? Every time you tell yourself how stupid you are, you are addressing your inner child.

If it is difficult to express negative emotions to an abuser who was both good and bad, do a split off technique in which the abuser splits into the good person and bad person. The good person can be acknowledged with an award or medal. The bad person must be told what the impact of their behavior was.

Identify what your complexes are. Complexes revolve around feelings of inadequacy, valuelessness, and survival. Address these issues in every child rescue session. It is important to heal all issues involving sexuality, for almost everyone has received many erroneous messages about sex. Sex is a driving force programmed into the body through the DNA. If this force is given to a negative ego, it becomes very destructive. The child and adolescent must be reprogrammed with a spiritually mature concept of sexuality. If you don't know what that is, research what some of your favorite spiritual teachers say about the subject.

As we heal the child and adolescent, our resonance begins to lift and change. Bradshaw (1990), affirms, "Three things are striking about inner child work. The speed with which people change when they do this work; the depth of that change; and the power and creativity that result when the wounds from the past are healed." When the child and adolescent have learned to love life, their love for life will create a resonance that's bound to heal us.