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Shadow-Work/Purification

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This is a very key topic I haven't wanted to touch much, as it's so painful to face your shadow.

Anyway, for the past 3 months I've been doing different forms of purification. Clean diet, yoga, and meditation. Now I need to do yoga every day because I've become accustomed to the negative-energy release.

There is a kind of process of expansion and contraction going on. The light is first separated from the darkness inside you, so you can really feel it, then you have to allow it to flow through you and release. Then you expand with more light or get filled up with more of your true self.

This is starting to make a real difference to me now and I feel like I've had some kind of breakthrough. The energy blocks in my heart and solar plexus, the emotional centers, were the worst. I also opened up an old trauma from I was 12/13, and it felt just like it was new, but I let it be slowly healed with positive energy and after I felt better.

I guess this is what it really takes to make real progress. I also had a shift in perspective and realised the light is something you find within you or need to uncloak, and not look for outside of you, otherwise people wouldn't be able to have psychedelic experiences and feel illuminated.
 
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This was a good speech about shadow work versus positive thinking. You can notice that focusing on the positive can be impossible to do when there are too many unresolved issues in your consciousness. There's just too much negative energy pulling you down.


[video]https://youtu.be/YUfEA4yVMMk[/video]



"Dark Side of the Light Chasers

We know the shadow by many names: alter ego, lower self, the dark twin, repressed self, id. Carl Jung once said that the shadow "is the person you would rather not be." But even if you choose to hide your dark side, it will still cast a shadow, according to author Debbie Ford. Rather than reject the seemingly undesirable parts of ourselves, Ford offers advice on how to confront our shadows.

Only by owning every aspect of yourself can you achieve harmony and "let your own light shine," she explains. "The purpose of doing shadow work, is to become whole. To end our suffering. To stop hiding ourselves from ourselves. Once we do this we can stop hiding ourselves from the rest of the world. As threatening as shadow work may seem, it is often very effective in creating transformation."
 
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Allowing and releasing seems to be the core of it. Accept it, feel it, and let go. You can also surrender it to God and pray for help. You need to let it flow through you for a while until it starts to decrease in strength.

This can be very painful. We don't generally want to face our darkness and seek to hide from it (especially us who turn to drugs). But you can learn to become sensitive to the negative energies within you and release them at will. Sometimes it can feel like you're radiating black rays, but you do get lighter. You need to make the unconscious conscious or shine the light of consciousness on it. It takes time.

But there is a lot that can be done for it. Yoga/exercise, meditation and energy work, breathing techniques. You can also find many theories about it. Carl Jung wrote a lot about shadow work. The best way to describe it is maybe what comes to attack you when you're in withdrawal. We all have different issues that come up. And the more you suppress it the worse it gets.
 
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its not suppressed. it is almost tangible. I know a bit about Jung's theory's and find them interesting; I just have a hard time working through this darkness that has been with me since childhood..maybe birth. Perhaps some people are born miserable and no amount of drugs - recreational or otherwise -, therapy, or religion can change that fact. God I hope i'm wrong!
 
Incidentally, the only time I feel right is when i am in a chemically altered state. Thank goodness i did not find that out until i got older - who needs a 7 yr old junkie on their hands?
 
I can give you one good advice. This is a great blog about these subjects and a good place to start. Read through it all and many things will begin to fall into place.

http://www.spiritualawakeningprocess.com/p/awakening.html

It's amazing how accuate it is. I also recommend "Transcending the Levels of Consciousness" by David Hawkins which really talks you up through the lower levels.
 
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