Shadow Work Exercises

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TODAY'S LEARNING
Shadow Work Exercises

Exercise 1: Watch Your Emotional Reactions

Remember that the shadow is elusive; it hides behind us. The purpose of our defense systems is to suppress and hide the shadow archetype.

You will become more adept at identifying your shadow the more you observe your emotional responses. Recall that we frequently project our disowned aspects onto other individuals.

Observing how you feel about other people is one of the best methods to perform shadow work.

Sure, your colleague might be aggressive, arrogant, inconsiderate, or impatient, but if you don’t have those same qualities within you, you won’t have a strong reaction to their behavior.

Exercise 2: Engage in Inner Dialogue

A lot of inner work involves having an active conversation with your shadow.

Given that many people think "only crazy people talk to themselves," this may initially seem unusual. However, each of us possesses multiple subpersonalities, or separate, independent aspects of our minds. These subpersonalities were dubbed archetypes by Jung.

Many different integrated psychologies offer ways of working with these disparate parts, including:

Jung’s Active Imagination

Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems

Stone and Winkleman’s Voice Di alogue

Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis

When we don’t pay attention to these parts—one or many aspects of our shadow—they influence our attitudes and behaviors.

Exercise 3: Challenge the Good Part/Bad Part

A lot of us consider ourselves to be "good people." Being called a "good boy" or "good girl" when we were little caused us to identify with that praise. The division between the shadow archetype and our conscious self-identity grew as a result.

The instant you tell yourself, "I'm a good person," your mind will begin to filter out everything you say, do, or think that doesn't align with this belief.

Therefore, those who consider themselves to be "good people" almost often bring great suffering to both themselves and other people. Even worse, they are completely unaware of it! (That is, they are cut off from their true thoughts, feelings, and behaviors hidden in their unconscious.)

It also works the other way around: Your mind will likely ignore a lot of your excellent traits if you believe that you are a "bad person." This is sometimes called the “golden shadow.”

Enumerate all the good things you have to offer. Then, highlight the opposite. Make an effort to recognize the opposite in yourself. For example, if you define yourself as disciplined, you’re likely repressing your laziness. Hiding in the shadows is the lazy side of me.

Your conduct and mindset are influenced by the pieces you have disowned. They incite internal conflict all the time. So, in this case, try identifying with this lazy part. See it. Accept it. Make friends with it. It’s okay to be lazy too.

Ego confrontations of this kind are essential to shadow work.

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WEEKLY ASTROLOGY

May 27: Mercury in Taurus sextile Saturn in Pisces; Moon enters Aquarius

May 30: Moon enter Pisces

May 31: Mercury in Taurus conjunct Uranus in Taurus

Although the week opens with a subtle invitation to engage in practical planning for the building of your life, it closes with the less subtle invitation to take your visioning, beliefs of what is possible, and perspectives far beyond where they currently exist. We've created a structure to support us while we take care of the practical aspects of our life, and now we're letting that structure take us into the great reaches of space.

POSITIVE NEWS OF THE DAY

A ‘green’ pesticide showed promise

A nature-inspired alternative to toxic pesticides has shown early promise in trials in the Netherlands.

The innovation relies on a biodegradable ‘insect glue’ made from edible plant oil, which mimics the natural, defensive secretions of some plants. The substance acts like a sprayable fly paper, snaring small pests but leaving larger beneficial insects such as bees unaffected.

In tests on the western flower thrip – which attacks 500 species of vegetable, fruit and ornamental crops – 60% of the bugs were captured within two days of spraying. Work continues to see if the glue can be made more attractive to both pests and their natural predators.

Nick Mole, from Pesticide Action Network UK, said more research was needed to establish the environmental impact. “This is a very interesting piece of research that could result in much-needed decreases in the use of synthetic pesticides,” he said. “Using natural oils to make physical traps for disease-carrying insects could be a sustainable alternative to toxic pesticides.”

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SOUND HEALING
Shadow Work Meditation

This meditation is not an exercise in relaxation, rather, it is a conscious journey towards your Shadow. Only do this meditation when you feel in a good psycho-physical state.

You will be guided towards encountering the things you fear, your guilt, your unresolved issues. You will be guided to truly face these fears and retrieve the energy stuck in them. To do so, though, you have to become the light illuminating the shadow, and you need to let your fear be able to express itself through you, without fighting it and without trying to control it.

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