drugs hellllpp erasee the built up shadoww, makes things easier tobe aware of because most of the past is forghotten thanks to the mystical experience
"Meditation, by itself, really won't take care of shadow elements . . ."
Not necessarily true. Certain types of body-sensing sitting practices address "shadow elements" very effectively as they arise in the body -- which they inevitably do.
What IS true . . . is that those practices are pretty slow-developing ("inevitably" can be a long time) and not everyone is temperamentally suited for them.
Good psychotherapy is admittedly quicker (if you're temperamentally suited to it . . .).
Meditation is not slow developing, in fact, it is the only things that has showed to cause development on a consistent basis, unlike psychotherapy and many other approaches.
For shadow practices specifically, the 3-2-1 Process and Self-Inquiry are recommended.
I'm suggesting . . . that body-sensing meditation practices act INDIRECTLY against shadow and so take a longer time.
Ideally, psychotherapy leads to the original experience whose ongoing denial is the source of the shadow's energy -- and so DIRECTLY reduces that energy.
Body-sensing meditation, on the other hand, leads to experience of the shadow's energetic manifestations in the physical body -- and so INDIRECTLY reduces that energy.
drugs hellllpp erasee the built up shadoww, makes things easier tobe aware of because most of the past is forghotten thanks to the mystical experience
kvn89 2 months ago
"Meditation, by itself, really won't take care of shadow elements . . ."
Not necessarily true. Certain types of body-sensing sitting practices address "shadow elements" very effectively as they arise in the body -- which they inevitably do.
What IS true . . . is that those practices are pretty slow-developing ("inevitably" can be a long time) and not everyone is temperamentally suited for them.
Good psychotherapy is admittedly quicker (if you're temperamentally suited to it . . .).
greenrate 1 year ago
Meditation is not slow developing, in fact, it is the only things that has showed to cause development on a consistent basis, unlike psychotherapy and many other approaches.
For shadow practices specifically, the 3-2-1 Process and Self-Inquiry are recommended.
plague613 1 year ago
@plague613
Are we misunderstanding one another?
I'm suggesting . . . that body-sensing meditation practices act INDIRECTLY against shadow and so take a longer time.
Ideally, psychotherapy leads to the original experience whose ongoing denial is the source of the shadow's energy -- and so DIRECTLY reduces that energy.
Body-sensing meditation, on the other hand, leads to experience of the shadow's energetic manifestations in the physical body -- and so INDIRECTLY reduces that energy.
greenrate 1 year ago
Right, but research didn't show psychotherapy to directly do that either.
That's why there are things like the 3-21 Process and scientology (kidding).
plague613 1 year ago
@plague613
Actually, I found a lot of the Dianetics "spiritual technology" pretty worthwhile looking into in it's own right.
It's just advisable (generally speaking) to do so . . . independently of the Scientology religious framework.
greenrate 1 year ago
@greenrate Interesting, Thanks!
plague613 1 year ago