Shadow Self

Image from  http://www.shadowdance.com/shadow/theshadow.html a resource on the web for a more in depth explanation.

What is the 'shadow self'? (Term from Jungian Psychology)

Any part of ourselves that did not develop to its full extend during our upbringing; it did not get the kind of positive response it needed from our environment to grow to its full potential; we go on growing and that part of ourselves because it has not developed shrieks away & goes into a little cupboard or attic or cellar in our being. There it sits twiddling its thumbs until we let it out and give it what it needs to develop and be in line with the rest of our personality.

As this part of ourselves gets hidden in our sub-conscious self, it doesn't get our attention, so it devises sneaky ways to get our attention and be heard!

Sneaky ways for the 'shadow self' to get our attention:

It attract to our personality people who will portray how it feels: if it is needy, it will attract 'needy people' ; so it works by projecting onto others what we have disowned because the response wasn't there. Note the use of the third person 'it' because that is what it is to us 'not me' , 'not part of me' but 'it' over there...

Resource on the web to find/heal our 'shadow self' :

1. from Robert Burney, http://www.joy2meu.com/  ,

Review: There is so much there and it is so clear; i used it myself for 2 years to recover from an abusive relationship. I don't think he used the word 'shadow self' but he talks about his own and others recovery and it just amounts to the same. 'shadow self' is just a handy way to describe it.

1. from Chuck &  Lency Spezzano :

http://www.gaia-mind.com/  then click on the 'Try our 2 card reading.

Review on that card tool:brilliant, i used it day after day to help clear al those blockages; hope they are useful for u too!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If ur interested in the account of some of my own struggles by all means peruse the following link. I never thought that i would put that on the net, didn't think anybody would want to read all the gritty bits, but here u are: its as rough as rough got..a human being in all its struggles..for light!

http://homepage.eircom.net/~martineymoeykens/twosiddha.htm