It requires presence, kindness, and utter compassion. Shadow work is a deeply personal process. The real trick to stop ignoring her/him, and to befriend your shadow twin. However much healing, conscious manifestation or even release work you do, your Shadow twin will always be there in your unconscious mind and inside your energy field, pulling strings, whether you want her to, or not. It doesn’t matter how much work spiritual work you do, unless you tap into the shadow, you’re only accessing half of yourself (and your power)… at most!
Your shadow is the “container” for the unwanted aspect, or pieces of you. SO you pushed these pieces of yourself away, stuffed them down, and told them very clearly to never, ever remerge into the life you went on to live. WHY does the shadow form?īecause at some point in your story, you unknowingly decided – probably due to a need to survive – that some parts of you were unwelcome, undesirable, unlovable, and pretty much unacceptable.
Separate, yet intrinsically part of you, as both your ego (that’s conscious you) and your shadow (that’s unconscious you) both developed simultaneously. So… the shadow is a part of the psyche that contains all of the feelings, qualities, characters, behaviours, urges, impulses, and desires that are unconsciously you. Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung first coined the term “Shadow Self”, meaning the unknown, unconscious side of the psyche. Just like the shadow that casts on the ground wherever you stand, your shadow twin is like an energetic, psychological, emotional shadow. So first off, let’s talk about what the shadow is… We all have a shadowĮven the most enlightened of folk (especially the most enlightened of folk!) have a shadow (or as I like to call her, a shadow twin). Shadow work can seem pretty daunting at first ( we haven’t all got a psychology degree!) but it doesn’t need to be. but in super- simple terms, what IS shadow work?!
This is the unconscious and disowned aspects of our identities that the ego fails to perceive, acknowledge and embrace. Shadow is a part of our identity, and we can't be frightened of it.