The Shadow

Set the world of darkness against light.

If you look for your spiritual path then you will meet your dark side.

In meditation the dark side is brought to the surface. To deal with it you need morals, strength, knowledge and learning. Education is necessary to deal with it We repress the shadow so we rarely see it. But you must experience your own dark side to deal with it.

Nothing is more unreliable than a superstitious witch. Ageing and death are a part of the dark Freud called the shadow the personal unconscious. Jung said that we cannot see the shadow. All these are just below the surface and are known by Jung as the personal shadow.
The shadow is the person who we think we are not and are the things we deny we are. Things we know we don?t like are part of the Ego. The shadow is things we do not consciously know about.

Five ways to recognise the shadow

Exaggerated reaction in others dont know why but it reminds you of you.

Negative feedback of others in your mirror.

Impulsive inadvertent acts i.e. dont know why you said that.

Humiliation and embarrassing behaviour.

Exaggerated anger of other peoples faults i.e. homophobia & laziness

Meeting the shadow can be shocking to your self-image, and little things are harder to deal than the big things.

You want to believe that its never you fault, maybe hunger thats pushed into the shadow then we may be more likely to over-eat. By blaming others, we are giving up our responsibility for our lives.

By being aware of our shadow we can help to ease off projecting our shadow onto others. Because we know that we can deal with it and you can be less harsh on yourself! Owning your shadow can be useful and can be portrayed in arts etc. To see your shadow ask friends ? but be selective as they may advise you because they see you at one time in your life.

Try to understand what you strongly like and dislike in other people or you may just dislike a person. Also look at inadvertent behaviour or reaction. Try to examine strong negative emotion, look for patterns in your life.

Shadow dreams- the shadow figure of dreams is usually same sex as you or doing something you normally wouldnt do or it could be an animal that chases you

wow but for some of us all we have is a dark side
so what do we do then

Theres a popular myth floating around on our planet today. It goes like this: All humans have a dark side to them, evil lurking beneath the veneer of goodness that most humans project.

And so the myth goes on: The reason you are all tainted by your dark, evil natures is because of your programming from the past. The past of this life and the past of other lives. That dooms you to live in the endless darkness and to repeat the pain of the past.

And yet that ''does not compute.'' By that we mean this: If you are eternal beings of light, how is it you can have this malignant entityyour dark sidelurking just beneath the surface of your awarenesswaiting to pounce upon you and destroy forever any chance of happiness you might have had.

For many people, this purging of their so-called dark side is a never-ending, lifelong process. What a miserable way to move through your years!

And its especially miserable if you acknowledge that your souls intent, upon your incarnation, was to have a joyful lifeto have fun. Challenges and opportunities for growth, your soul knew, there would certainly be plenty of. But its all supposed to be fun and joyful.

Dear ones, you do not have a dark side. Period!

There is nothing dark or evil about any aspect of this being you know as you. Oh, we realize you have been taught you were born tainted, as it were. You were born, as some of your religious traditions teach, with ''original sin.''

All of that is utter nonsense!

You were born pure. You were born of the light. You were born good. And nothing can ever change that.

Your societal programming can certainly exert a huge negative influence upon you. And convince you that you are indeed more dark than light, more evil than good. But that also is utter nonsense.

You are goddesses and gods, all of you, in human form. Let no one convince you otherwise. For it is truth.

The only darkness that exists in your life or in your being is in those areas where you refuse to let in the light.

if the only darkness is not letting the light in then i only have a dark side because i dont let the light in and never will

I believe we are born with sin. We are born into darkness but we also have the light that some will be attractive to the light and some will not. Even when we are in the light the darkness is still there waiting to be touched.

but no matter what there will always be darkness for without darkness there is no light

Darkness is the only thing in me keeping me sane from the banter of religions so in essence i'm free from ignorance.
-Nero

But if I have emotions of love and peace. How do I kill those emotions, or suppress them ? What if I have a little different character. The character that says : I want to become, but actually does nothing for it ?
How do I get rid of emotions and only make myself want what I truly think is for me, or force.

Why does everyone associate darkness with evil a bieng of light can be just as evil as any dark entity just as any dark entity can be just as good as one of light. Evil is found in those who wish to do unjust harm bring imbalance and discord. Evil is not reserved only for darkness...Sometimes even the good guys wear black.