Packaged inside every feeling is a tale: “I am this way for a
reason”. Be open to the story that comes
out, no matter what it is. Every past
trauma you have ever experienced has deposited its remains in the shadow
(emotional debt to the past). Having
heard the story, be accepting. Tell
yourself that you had a valid reason for holding on to negativity. You have no choice because it was secretly
deposited and then remained hidden.
Therefore, you did nothing wrong.
Your old feelings stuck around to protect you from having the same wound
repeated. Make peace with this now.
The only ones who conquer the shadow don’t fight it; they transcend
it. When you transcend, you go
beyond. In everyday life we transcend
all the time. For example, when a mother
sees her young child being cranky and demanding, she doesn’t meet the child on
those grounds. She realizes that he’s
tired and needs to sleep. What has she
done? She has transcended the level of
the problem, moving to a different level to find the solution.
Quit labeling, blaming and judging.
Give up fantasies of showing the world that you are right and others are
wrong.
Our shadow is everything that annoys, horrifies or disgusts us about
other people or about ourselves.
