AFFIRMATION
I am open to embrace the shadows within me in order that I can reveal
more of my light.
What is the shadow side of ourselves? This is the energy that is fuelled by fear
and the ego that causes us to expose our frustrations, anger, negative
behaviours, unskilled outbursts and generally the darker side of our
nature. It will also cause us to have unkind
thoughts and possibly follow through with acts of wrong doing. We all have a darker side to our nature and
contrary to belief it is not for us to totally eradicate this part of ourselves
but to actually embrace it. The
spiritual journey is one of paradoxes, statements that seem to contradict each other
but are in fact the duality of all life , for example how can you know good if
you do not know bad or that the idea of beauty depends upon something being
identified as ugly.
Such is the place of our shadow side and our light side, the
two that generally oppose each other but could not possibly exist without each
other. When I use Louise L Hays phrase
of “You are perfect, whole and complete,” it means that the duality that we
perceive of ourselves is in reality just one.
All from the one mind and the one consciousness, living in perfect
harmony. We can exist happily within the duality of
life, once we have learned to recognise our shadow thoughts and habits. Our higher mind can view the shadow side of
ourselves impersonally, by acknowledging the dark. For example, you get frustrated by a loved one’s
behaviour which irks you and you become
angry or unkind in your thoughts. You embrace
the feeling of this anger rather than supress it and you acknowledge yourself
in that moment that the angry side of you feels hurt or annoyed. Now instead of voicing your anger and
annoyance which will result in only talking to the other person’s ego, you
direct the feeling more positively. This
is where all your practice with choosing higher thoughts come into play because
with an unskilled mind this will not work.
Whenever you are pointing the accusatory finger at someone else always
remember that three fingers are pointing back at you, this observation taught
to me many years ago, is a helpful reminder that instead of looking at someone
else’s shadow, you have three major reasons to look at your own shadow….so look
at them.
Flipping the negative to a positive means that the energy of
anger you feel can be redirected with your thoughts and dialogue with your
higher self that enable you to take a wider view of the situation rather than your
current narrow egoic view. You ask the
question, are you really angry for the reason that you think or are you really
frustrated at yourself and taking it out on someone else? When you answer honestly, this energy is
redirected from dark into light because your authentic self takes the reigns
and steers you towards healing, towards love and towards the ever increasing
light that resides in you. More often
than not in my own personal experience, I release any pent up emotion by either
punching a pillow and screaming out loudly or I exercise by giving my body a
good work out. The point is in the first
instance I give my emotions a safe outlet for expression
Just for today, have courage to acknowledge the shadow side
of yourself, for it is only when we truly look at our behaviours that we
diminish the illusionary power it has over us.
Nameste
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