#shadow aspect

[autel-luna]

This "im not good enough" victim shit is really getting old

[katieriverblood]

Integrate Shadow Self

In a low lit room light a candle (white or a light color is preferable), stand infront of it and look at your shadow

Look at your shadow and tell it,

"I bring my light not to remove you, but to see you, see your impulses be checked

I will listen to your pain

I put out my light now to see your darkness"

Blow out your candle and breathe in the darkness for a minute. Your shadow self could take many forms, mine came in as a child having an intense tantrum. Just be present with it. If you feel the need to say something to it, do so. Once you feel a sense of peace, leave the room (get a cup of tea or something if you feel called, it's a doosy).

After some time has passed, re-enter the room and re-light your candle. If you can bring more light into the room. Find your shadow again and say;

"I see you and I validate your pain

I choose to act from healed place

I refuse to pass this pain onto others"

Allow the candle to burn through. Follow up with a self-care ritual

[stalkerkyoko]

45 was our shadow

Case study in   psychology   

I LIKE    psychology   that was rough man

[shamanflavio]

The Rough Side of Shamanism

The Rough Side of Shamanism

Spirituality tends to be associated with peaceful, soft, bright and calm scenarios. In the fast pace world we operate it in, it makes sense we’d need a sanctuary from all that commotion, right? Well… Very often you get exactly the opposite in a Shamanic Session. The Shaman will “shake things up” with the drum (or some other tool) and locked toxic emotions will be released. This creates…

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[herodotusdionysus]

This really great video I have just watched after looking online with the words shadow work. I think exemplifies it the best:

Projection: everything is a reflection like a mirror. We are putting out the most of what we dislike within ourself. As we see it more easily and it bothers us in others.

Emotional Triggers: triggers are our best friend. As they often can help us understand where pieces of trauma are still affecting us.

Repeating Patterns: often we need a lesson to be learned and It takes many times until we learn specific lessons. What things are showing up again and again, we lose ourselves in a relationship... We take jobs that demand more than we want to give.etc.

Introspection (this is my favorite cuz it's more up to you) : journaling with these questions....

What parts of yourself do you dislike?

What parts of yourself do you judge?

What parts of self do you fear?

How I integrate... Using meditation and body scans. Definitely helps to keep a journal, I recently got 5 for different things. And I've been using most of them. I also use my tarot readings on self to give me intuition and insight on how to dive deeper.

Lastly just really being present and aware of how I, would have in the past attached meanings to feelings and let those feelings take hold within. Now I try and realize what those feelings are showing me that I need to work on.being able to work through aspects of shadow just as if it were breathe( also doing breathwork helps) INHALE the good shit, EXHALE the bullshit.

And of course. Some people have a difficult time with consistency and building routine. So I try not to beat myself up if I don't stay on task or on discipline as it is such a busy go-go-go work we live in. Just being aware of intention to do what I can in the time I am giving myself is key.

https://youtu.be/5kDN7g9kBAs

[excellentdevice]

A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

- Carl Jung, “The Philosophical Tree” (1945). In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335

[excellentdevice]

It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses- and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster’s body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost. Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature. Blindly he strives against the salutary dogma of original sin, which is yet so prodigiously true. Yes, he even hesitates to admit the conflict of which he is so painfully aware.

- Carl Jung, “On the Psychology of the Unconscious” (1912). In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. P.35

[cristianattolico]

The shadow