Our Pain Can Be Our

Jung First Gave Us The Term ‘shadow’ To Refer To Those Parts Of Our Personality That Have Been Rejected Out Of Fear, Ignorance, Shame, Or Lack Of Love. His Basic Notion Of The Shadow Was Simple: ‘the Shadow Is The Person You Would Rather Not Be.’ He Believed That Integrating The Shadow Would Have A Profound Impact, Enabling Us To Rediscover A Deeper Source Of Our Own Spiritual Life. ‘to Do This,’ Jung Said, ‘we Are Obliged To Struggle With Evil, Confront The Shadow, To Integrate The Devil. There Is No Other Choice.’

Emotional Turmoil Can Be A Powerful Catalyst To Reconnect Us With Our Divine Nature. It Propels Us Into A Journey Of Self Discovery And Urges Us To Learn How To Love And Accept Our Entire Being.

When You Invoke The Agent Of Change Called Acceptance, You Must Accept All That You Are, All That You've Been And All That You Will Be In The Future.

In Trying To Express Only Those Aspects Of Ourselves That We Believe Will Guarantee Us The Acceptance Of Others, We Suppress Some Of Our Most Valuable And Interesting Features And Sentence Ourselves To A Life Of Reenacting The Same Outworn Scripts. Reclaiming The Parts Of Ourselves That We Have Relegated To The Shadow Is The Most Reliable Path To Actualizing All Of Our Human Potential. Once Befriended, Our Shadow Becomes A Divine Map That—when Properly Read And Followed—reconnects Us To The Life We Were Meant To Live And The People We Were Meant To Be.

A Wise Person Once Wrote, “resentment Is Like Drinking Poison And Hoping The Other Person Would Die.” But The Only One Dying Is Ourselves.