Had a really amazing and touching sharing tonight at Soup for the Soul. at Unity. We talked about our shadows, the term that Carl Jung came up with to describe those aspects of ourselves that we have not embraced or accepted, and which we tend to project onto others. This tends to be things that we perceive to be negative. Everyone wrote down traits of people that they found challenging in those individuals who pushed their buttons. More often than not, we possess some of the same characteristics. But everyone also wrote down traits about people they admired. It was interesting to see how difficult it was sometimes for people to believe that they had those characteristics too. The point is that we all have shadows and they are not good or bad. They just are. When we accept them and love ourselves just as we are, we are less inclined to let those shadows control our lives. Have you identified what your shadows are? If youd like to do more study, I recommend Debbie Fords book, The Dark Side of the LIght Chasers.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:54:42 +0000
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