Finding Your Shadow

There is a great technique that I learned that can help you to discover what parts of yourself that you have disowned and forgotten. In this video I share this with you so that you can discover what parts of yourself you aren't dealing with.

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Summary of the Process:

It's best if you journal this.

1) Write a first person description of what is bothering/attracting you.

2) Write a second person imagined dialog between you and the person with whom you are having the issue.

3) Write a first person description of how the object of your aversion/attraction would see the issue and you in relation to it.

4) Analyze what you have written to see what parts of yourself you have projected onto the other person.

5) Acknowledge, own, and honor those projections as part of yourself, not the other person.

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• integral
• consciousness
• shadow
• psychology
• suppress
• repress
• emotion
• spirituality

[leeta1one]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. :) I'm using the techniques you discussed and halfway towards journaling I am already feeling liberated and settled all at the same time.

I want to know if when using these techniques you felt a sense of permanent change the first time, or did you have to keep referring back to what you wrote in order for your shadow to become more conscious?

[TranspersonalEffects]

@leeta1one When I have exposed a shadow side of myself, then it is in the light. I cannot overlook it anymore. Like any habitual act, it will undoubtedly come up again, but each time, I will be able to see it for what it is, and each time, it will have less and less power as I consciously choose not to allow it to control me.

[jaja1113]

what if that thing you are running from is an object, or money???...how would you go about working that out?

[TranspersonalEffects]

As silly as it sounds, you can imagine a conversation with the object. For example:

PERSON: "Money, I think you're evil."

MONEY: "Ok, name one thing that I do that is evil."

PERSON: "You inspire greed, you manipulate people's lives and keep people separated in economic classes."

MONEY: "Do I? I'm just bits of paper with fancy artwork, and metal disks impressed with various symbols. All that other stuff has to do with how people use me. I don't inherently have any will or power."

[tequanyin]

great work! Thanks a lot for posting!

[TranspersonalEffects]

I'm glad to be of service.

[leeta1one]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. :) I'm using the techniques you discussed and halfway towards journaling I am already feeling liberated and settled all at the same time.

I want to know if when using these techniques you felt a sense of permanent change the first time, or did you have to keep referring back to what you wrote in order for your shadow to become more conscious?

[rozziebuddy22]

I'm going to try this I have a lot of things that repel me that I need to deal with & I thank you for sharing this with us!

[JesusManson323]

My shadow is a total asshole.

But I love the guy.

[sunnybuttercup]

Thank you for the tips in this video:) I have been searching for ways to embrace my shadow-your video has been very helpful. If u haven't seen Dimitri Halley's youtube page it is an amazing thing and fits in with what you are touching on here :) the adress is daniela1771. Check it out :) Your videos are great-Keep up the great work of enlightenment :)

[DwayneBSapling]

Recently, a technique has come to me that is similar to the what you advocate here: I hold an internal conversation with my actual shadow (representing my shadow self), in an attempt to know that aspect of my self better. It seems to be working. Thanks for the videos.

[Phyle9]

It's called "integration" (Jung)