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Authors: Inna Segal
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different, weird, or unusual. Thus, we try to detach ourselves
from our deepest apprehension, that somehow we are unwanted, worthless, false, unlov-
able, shameful, guilty, or damaged.
In order to escape from looking within and discovering our perceived darkness, we
attempt to cover up, either by trying our hardest to please or to resist others. We also
often project unconscious aspects of ourselves on to others. This can include positive
and negative characteristics or personality traits that we disown.
We neglect to understand that our shadow aspects are the keepers of our greatest
power. Much of our authenticity, potential, greatness, creativity, success, passion, and
contribution in life are concealed within our own self-imposed barricades.
Since many of us are encouraged to strive for perfection, we lose sight that our true
beauty, lovability, growth, and evolution arise from embracing and loving our imperfec-
tions, idiosyncrasies, and individuality.
Our ability to fully love and accept ourselves and others is greatly hindered by our
need to hide and deny our limiting patterns, emotions, and behaviors. Instead of allow-
ing our highest aspects to lead, being comfortable with ourselves, and showing others
who we truly are, we hand over control of our lives to our fear, resentment, rejection,
hurt, anger, and neediness, without the awareness that we are doing so.
It’s incredible how many of us are as terrified to discover that we might be
powerful, ingenious, and extraordinary as we are of finding out we are average, weak, or
dull. Our shadow aspects become dominant when we refuse to have empathy for our
own and other people’s challenges.
The shadow can be viewed as painful, unprocessed parts of ourselves, which have
the potential to hinder many aspects of our lives at the most inappropriate moments,
when we are least prepared. As our shadow aspects are often controlled by our subcon-
scious mind, it is easy for them to permeate our daily life and wreak chaos without us
being aware of how this is occurring.
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Our self-sabotage can manifest in subtle and potent ways when we arrive to places
late, miss opportunities, become involved with questionable characters, misread things
people say, destroy potentially empowering relationships, and so forth.
When you disown your shadow, you embark on a journey of fear, guilt, anger, and
separation. You stop listening to, or trusting, the combined wisdom of your mind, body,
heart, and soul and begin the process of internal confusion and conflict.
If you choose to solely follow your feelings, you can turn into an over emotional,
needy, insecure, doubtful, indecisive, and dependent person. If you allow the mind
to rule, you can become judgmental, controlling, and over analytical. You are likely to
make decisions based on logic and what you know without taking feelings, intuition,
and wisdom into consideration. If your spiritual aspects are given all the power, you can
become impractical, dreamy, and unrealistic, lost in mystical fantasies and desires of
being saved. The idea is to create a healthy balanced relationship between your heart,
mind, and spirit.
As long as the mind, emotions, and soul feel split, and do not have an ability to
communicate with each other, you will feel doubtful and unsure about what actions
to take, how to connect to others, and how to live in harmony with yourself. Your
shadow aspects can push you toward healing, by motivating you to start asking
questions and embracing more of who you are.
In order for you to become self-empowered, you need to move from living outside
yourself to connecting to your body, intuition, and inner life. This requires bringing
light to the shadow aspects of yourself that are entrenched in limiting patterns and
helping them to mature.
For example, you may be repressing the fact that you are not
from our deepest apprehension, that somehow we are unwanted, worthless, false, unlov-
able, shameful, guilty, or damaged.
In order to escape from looking within and discovering our perceived darkness, we
attempt to cover up, either by trying our hardest to please or to resist others. We also
often project unconscious aspects of ourselves on to others. This can include positive
and negative characteristics or personality traits that we disown.
We neglect to understand that our shadow aspects are the keepers of our greatest
power. Much of our authenticity, potential, greatness, creativity, success, passion, and
contribution in life are concealed within our own self-imposed barricades.
Since many of us are encouraged to strive for perfection, we lose sight that our true
beauty, lovability, growth, and evolution arise from embracing and loving our imperfec-
tions, idiosyncrasies, and individuality.
Our ability to fully love and accept ourselves and others is greatly hindered by our
need to hide and deny our limiting patterns, emotions, and behaviors. Instead of allow-
ing our highest aspects to lead, being comfortable with ourselves, and showing others
who we truly are, we hand over control of our lives to our fear, resentment, rejection,
hurt, anger, and neediness, without the awareness that we are doing so.
It’s incredible how many of us are as terrified to discover that we might be
powerful, ingenious, and extraordinary as we are of finding out we are average, weak, or
dull. Our shadow aspects become dominant when we refuse to have empathy for our
own and other people’s challenges.
The shadow can be viewed as painful, unprocessed parts of ourselves, which have
the potential to hinder many aspects of our lives at the most inappropriate moments,
when we are least prepared. As our shadow aspects are often controlled by our subcon-
scious mind, it is easy for them to permeate our daily life and wreak chaos without us
being aware of how this is occurring.
36
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The Secret of Life Wellness
Our self-sabotage can manifest in subtle and potent ways when we arrive to places
late, miss opportunities, become involved with questionable characters, misread things
people say, destroy potentially empowering relationships, and so forth.
When you disown your shadow, you embark on a journey of fear, guilt, anger, and
separation. You stop listening to, or trusting, the combined wisdom of your mind, body,
heart, and soul and begin the process of internal confusion and conflict.
If you choose to solely follow your feelings, you can turn into an over emotional,
needy, insecure, doubtful, indecisive, and dependent person. If you allow the mind
to rule, you can become judgmental, controlling, and over analytical. You are likely to
make decisions based on logic and what you know without taking feelings, intuition,
and wisdom into consideration. If your spiritual aspects are given all the power, you can
become impractical, dreamy, and unrealistic, lost in mystical fantasies and desires of
being saved. The idea is to create a healthy balanced relationship between your heart,
mind, and spirit.
As long as the mind, emotions, and soul feel split, and do not have an ability to
communicate with each other, you will feel doubtful and unsure about what actions
to take, how to connect to others, and how to live in harmony with yourself. Your
shadow aspects can push you toward healing, by motivating you to start asking
questions and embracing more of who you are.
In order for you to become self-empowered, you need to move from living outside
yourself to connecting to your body, intuition, and inner life. This requires bringing
light to the shadow aspects of yourself that are entrenched in limiting patterns and
helping them to mature.
For example, you may be repressing the fact that you are not
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