To engage in the journey that takes us from living outside of ourselves to processing the world inside ourselves means bringing light to our shadow.
- Your shadow aspects are primarily rooted in fear patterns that have more control over your behavior than does your conscious mind. This limits your ability to make choices in which you are aware of your motivations.
- Your shadow self includes emotional and psychological patterns that come from repressed feelings that you do not wish to deal with consciously for fear of the consequences.
- Your shadow also contains the secret reasons why you would sabotage the opportunities that come your way.
- Having an unknown force controlling so much of the creative expression of our lives is a shadow.
Re-source: Receptive
Your highest potential is that part of you that is not limited in its expression by the fears of the physical world and the business of living.
- It is what you actualize when you are willing to confront your shadow, openly acknowledge the reality of its presence within you, and then take steps to deal with it.
To rely on your inner resources and to follow your inner guidance before all else is to express your highest potential at all times.
- It shows you how it would be if you could live constantly within
- The knowledge that genuine power exists inside the self and never outside of it.
Learning to confront – and ultimately manage – your shadow, no matter how daunting it may appear, is an essential step on your road to spiritual maturity.
craving and resource from “Sacred Contracts” by Carolyn Myss
