Your Shadow Self
Art by Ruth Clotworthy
Your Shadow Self is the part of your
unconscious mind where you accumulate everything that you do not accept about
yourself. All your own feelings of
anger, jealousy, fear, repressed weaknesses and shortcomings etc are suppressed
and pushed down, deep into the depths of your psyche where you think no-one
will see them. Your Shadow Self holds
everything that you perceive as not being acceptable to reveal to those closest
to you, and the more you suppress or hide it, the blacker and denser it
becomes.
You feel
that in order to be accepted by others or to feel good about yourself, you must
reject these shadow aspects that you hold.
Unfortunately your Shadow Self is also a part of you that needs to be
heard, and if you do not give it the attention it desires, it will reveal
itself – often coming out of left field when you are least expecting it. When this happens you realise that no matter
how far along the path of lifting your vibration you are, you still have to
address your Shadow Aspects. There is no need to fear your Shadow Self. It is simply another part of you that needs
attention in order for you to clear blockages in your psyche and allow you to
lift your vibration. Whenever your
Shadow Self appears, it brings with it an opportunity to learn and integrate
its teachings for your personal expansion and growth.
Your
Shadow Self will, more often than not, reveal itself when everything in your
life seems to be running quite smoothly and then all of a sudden it will take a
turn for the worse. Sometimes it is
difficult to understand why this happens because you feel that you are doing
everything right to create the life you want.
But your Shadow resides in the unconscious part of your mind which does
not accept these negative aspects of yourself.
You have not been taught how to deal with negative feelings about yourself
in a healthy way, so you hide them deep within yourself, disconnecting them
from your conscious mind.
This can
create an unwillingness to look inside yourself in an honest way, because you
realise that at some point you are going to have to face your Shadow Self. Everyone holds a Shadow Self, and the only
way to heal it is to bring it into your consciousness and to stop rejecting
it. When you allow it to be heard and
accept it as part of yourself, you create a wholeness within you that
accelerates your healing.
The Ego
Self and Shadow Self are very closely connected. The Ego Self wants to create feelings of
separation within you and will also deny that you have a Shadow Self because it
recognises that if you integrate your Shadow you will also ultimately integrate
your Ego Self. It may be hard for you to
recognise and connect to your Shadow Self if you are deeply influenced by your
Ego mind. But to heal your Shadow Self
you need to embrace the negative feelings that you have suppressed, and accept
this side of yourself. In this
acceptance of Self, the feelings are no longer kept in the shadows, but are
bought out into the light to be healed.
Love & Light Fiona♥
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