![]() ![]() Because when we shine a light on our shadow, we become conscious of the unconscious and gift ourselves with the power of conscious choice.įor the next 30-seconds think about anything you want. Embracing the shadow self can lead to a greater understanding of our whole self, as it helps us to understand, control and integrate it. When we deny our shadow, we are denying a part of self. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected.” Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. This collection of repressed emotions and aspects of our identity is what Jung referred to as our ‘shadow.’ In ‘Psychology and Religion’ Jung writes: “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. Jung believed that we were all born as a blank canvas, but due to our social and cultural conditioning, we all have parts of ourselves that we push down into our unconscious psyche. Everyone has a shadow unless they are standing in the dark.”Ĭarl Jung first coined the term ‘shadow’ when he was trying to answer the following question: “Why do seemingly good people do obviously bad things?” The Swiss psychoanalyst used the term to describe those aspects of the personality that we choose to reject and repress. If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on the inside, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse. All experience is the result of contrast. So today, we’re celebrating our shadow selves, to release ourselves from the taboos that keep us trapped, defensive and fearful.ĭeepak Chopra, co-author of ‘ The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the hidden power of your true self’ says: “ In order to have manifestation you need to have opposing energies. Our shadow selves have huge gifts to offer us all. Then we can learn from them, we can create more choice in our lives, we can access more creativity and we can be fully ourselves. And instead of pretending they don’t exist, we need to embrace these parts of ourselves. ![]() We all have a ‘dark’ side to our personality. All of the sides of ourselves that we- or society- consider to be abnormal, unacceptable or wrong end up hiding in the ‘shadows.’ This binary approach to life- good/bad, hot/cold right/wrong – is the foundation upon which the shadow self-forms. Emotions like rage, jealousy, bitterness and lust may be repressed because they are typically dismissed as ‘bad’ emotions. Due to our upbringing and conditioning we have learnt that certain parts of us are not ‘acceptable’ and as a result we start to deny or hide these parts. Our shadow selves are the parts of ourselves that we believe to be unacceptable (or what we believe society considers to be unacceptable). ![]() Join us as we step into our shadow selves and unlock repressed feelings in order to connect to a much more complete and centred sense of self. And you may just discover that the darkness isn’t so dark after all, but rather the key to a much more balanced, full and connected way of living. Shining a light on your inner ‘darkness’ helps to heighten self-awareness, free you from fear and enable you to see yourself as a multi-faceted, 4-dimensional human being. It will offer ways to help you to connect to your shadow self to help you rapidly transcend to your greatest, most whole self. This article will explain what a shadow self is. In this article we’re exploring the sides of ourselves that we’re often unaware of the parts of self that get shunned to the edges of our consciousness by ourselves and often by society too. ![]()
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