For example- infidelity, past drug or alcohol abuse, stealing, judgement, your ego, or fighting with someone you care about. Many regrets are not a big deal and we get over quickly, but the really bad things- we usually push them deep, DEEP down. Have you ever done something you regretted? Everyone has. These are things like fears, ego and past regrets. Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung, M.D., established the term ‘the shadow self’ to describe the dark side of your past that you have tried to repress. When you accept and understand your shadow self, you can set boundaries, identify your deepest desires and find out why you are the way you are. My mom saw me dancing with it one day and said that I had made friends with my shadow and I guess I did. Eventually, after studying it quite a bit… watching it move as I moved, I started to ‘play’ with my shadow. It is scary when you think of it?!Īnyway, my mom told me to face my fear of my shadow and so I tried and I began to accept that even though I didn’t like this black thing following me around, it was here to stay. It was attached to me, just like the the things we try to push down and ignore. When I saw it, I would try to run from it and cry because it was always right there behind me. Your past does not have any power over your present or your future, unless you let it.Īs a child, I was scared of my shadow. These shadow work prompts can help you heal and move on from these shadows.Īlthough you’ll never be able to forget your past, you can heal from it by addressing it and changing how you feel about it. Things like bad decisions, regrets and emotions we don’t want to confront are sometimes pushed down into your unconscious mind, but they never really go away. Shadow work is visiting the deepest, darkest parts of you that you have attempted to hide over the years.
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