Shadow,self

Mental suppression can also lead to physical pain and disease. John Sarno has healed thousands of patients of chronic back pain by helping them acknowledge the repressed rage in their unconscious. With Jungian shadow work, you liberate a tremendous reservoir of energy you were unconsciously investing in protecting yourself. As long as we deny our shadows and repress certain parts of ourselves, a sense of wholeness and unity is elusive.

Integrating the shadow brings you one step closer to realizing a sense of wholeness. One of the greatest benefits of Jungian shadow work is that it unlocks more of your creative potential. Creativeness, as psychologists like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers found, is a spontaneous occurrence in mentally healthy integrated individuals.

This is perhaps the most important thing to do before you engage in shadow work. Only from your Center can you get to know these parts. This will inhibit your ability to integrate your shadow.

Before you begin working with your shadow, you want to be a calm, clear, neutral space. Start by accepting your own humanness. Remember that we all have a shadow—everyone is in the soup together, as Jung used to say. I find it helpful to connect to my heart: place your attention on your heart. Breathe in and acknowledge your heart. Seeing the shadow requires a self-reflective mindset—the ability to reflect and observe our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.

Mindfulness meditation helps foster nonjudgmental awareness —the ability to stay aware of the present moment without involving the inner critic or other modes of judgment. Self-awareness and self-reflection are a precursor to shadow work because they help us observe and evaluate feelings and emotional reactions without judgment or criticism.

If you need an easy and powerful place to start, check out my audio program, The Mastery Method. It is often uncomfortable to come to terms with your disowned parts, which is why the ego invests so much energy in repressing them.

Seeing and accepting your insecure selfishness and tyrannical nasty parts can be challenging. To take an honest look at your attitudes, behaviors, dark thoughts, and emotions requires courage. The rewards are worth the discomfort, as these honest confrontations with your shadow help heal the splits in your mind.

This courageous act unlocks more of your creative potential, opening a new world of possibilities for your psychological development. Similar to how a dream slips out of mind moments after awakening, our disowned parts can elude us.

Remember that the shadow is elusive; it hides behind us. Our defense mechanisms are designed to keep our shadows repressed and out of view. The more you pay attention to your behavior and emotions, the better chances you have of catching your shadow in the act.

One of the best ways to identify your shadow is to pay attention to your emotional reactions toward other people. Get to know that part, accept it, make it a part of you, and next time, it may not evoke a strong emotional charge when you observe it in another. Focus on what and who evokes an emotional charge in you. But all of us have many subpersonalities —numerous unrecognized, autonomous parts in our mind. Have you ever done or said something and then wondered why you did or said it?

Bringing them to the surface is the only way to heal them, understand how they came to be, and ultimately replace them with healthier beliefs. Understand what these repressed parts are trying to tell you. Are they trying to protect you from something? Listen to their reasoning. For example, you may have an inner part that opposes your conscious desire for beautiful friendships with trustworthy people. In doing so, it tries to defend you ferociously.

This is a noble cause, but without moderating this desire, it can take over your life to the point of isolating you from those who could be compatible friends. They simply believed they deserved it. Here is a radical, counterintuitive thought: You are already deserving, just as you are. It is your birthright to have the life of your dreams. You were not put on this earth to play small.

I am worthy of everything and anything I desire. I am deserving. I deserve all good things in my life. I embrace all good things coming to me right now. I allow all miracles to enter my life. A lot of us are told that we need to be grateful constantly to manifest the life of our dreams.

I find that repressing your emotions just for the sake of gratitude actually creates more subconscious blocks of resentment and unhealed stress beneath the surface. This depletes your internal resources.

Finding the sweet spot between gratitude and a healthy sense of emotional validation is necessary. Emotions should never be ignored or swept under the rug. They should be validated, heard, honored. You should be able to seek support to heal anything that needs to be healed. We spend hundreds of hours every month writing, editing and managing this website. If you have found any comfort, support or guidance in our work, please consider donating:.

Your email address will not be published. We would love to hear from you:. Display a Gravatar image next to my comments. Receive our latest posts in your inbox! I just wanna talk with people about my experiences and have real friends, with real connections. I just wanted to share this and hopefully, someday I will have some close friends that I can really trust.

Maybe have some lifelong connections. It really is quite a lonely path sometimes hence our websites name. That said, I do think the counselor approach is still very helpful. The victim lens blocks them from seeing and experiencing their personal power and ability to co-create reality and willfully bend the matrix. People who are playing the Victim Persona will have blockages in their 2nd chakra and 2nd DNA strand. These are all misconceptions caused by twisted energy patterns in the DNA that can be resolved quite easily, saving you 10 years of misery at the psychologist!

You cannot simply talk away soul fragments, occupants or shadow self personas. We use specific codes and commands designed to permanently transmute these karmic miasmas that spawn the Shadow Self on all levels of your awareness and in line with your Higher Self. This energy work helps a person truly integrate their Shadow Self and allow their soul to own as wisdom, past experiences that they already learned the lesson from. So they keep making free-will choices which are directly against Divine Right Order.

Here the Law of Cause and Effect is not acting as a punishment, but rather as an opportunity to learn from mistakes and be able to make different choices. The problem is that with so much karmic buildup and inner turmoil it becomes extremely to make the right choices.

Once a person stops trying to suppress or hide their Shadow Self, they can begin to accept that part of them, work to reorder it, and then integrate it to become more WHOLE. In order to get a different output, you require a different code. This is why people will often read books or attend workshops and have huge realizations but then find it really hard to implement and embody what they have learned.

In the Shadow Self Integration Mastery Training participants will learn the minute details of over 12 different personas related to the Shadow Self but most importantly how to transmute them using the Shadow Self Integration Harmonic Resonance Code.