"two opposing forces will teach each other something" (if you are able to sit with them long enough)

The more UNCONSCIOUS you are about *yourself*, the more material will show up in your life that pulls out judgment, shame, rage, blame, etc (these are your shadow parts).

Let me say that in a different way.

The more?UNAWARE that you are about your “dark parts”?(judgments, shame, fear, etc.), the more that you will MAGNETIZE INTO YOUR LIFE situations, people, or things that will invite you to REACT so you can see these hidden parts of yourself.

If you have only been half awake for the last 2 years, you have been watching the biggest SHADOW EXPERIENCE of our lifetime.

And by SHADOW, I mean watching and participating in all of the:

• Judgment
• Shaming
• Hiding
• A-fearing
• Controlling
• Damning
• Domination
• Silencing
• Raging

None of this is BAD or WRONG because?we live in a world where we learn about ourselves through the polarities. I know light because I know dark. I know hunger because I know satisfaction.

These?polarities live in ALL OF US; therefore, what is unfolding on this planet is a?demonstration of who we are (and therefore who YOU ARE), which is why you, me and everyone else is participating in it.

This is a time pregnant with possibilities for you to look at your own PARADOXES and be present with them.

Here is an example:

I am a proponent of FREE SPEECH. And by free speech, I mean all speech…even speech that I don’t agree with, because everyone gets their perspective! And as a powerful human being, I get to TURN THE CHANNEL if I don’t resonate with what someone is saying.

I remember a time when I was driving, I saw a rally for the Canadian Truckers on a street corner in Tucson. I honked in support and cheered them on because I support people exercising their American right for peaceful gathering and free speech. Bravo!

Later that day, my husband was talking to a friend of ours and I watched myself want to correct how he was speaking. I didn’t feel like he was communicating and had all kinds of thoughts and feelings about it.

I felt the impulse to want to control and edit him.?I was not appreciating his form of speech in that moment because I had some belief or agenda that I wanted to impose on him. (Otherwise known as censorship!)

This is not new for me…I have spent 20 years dancing with the impulse to edit his speech, cut his speech off because it is taking too long, or wanting to correct his words. (Fortunately, I am actively aware of this, so I no longer violate his right to free expression.)

We could call this a CONTRADICTION, or if you are engaged in shadow work, you would see it as?a PARADOX which means it is showing up something inside of me?that is worth being curious about.

The value of engaging in self-inquiry when you notice a paradox is you learn to be in relationship with both “sides” of yourself.

And when you allow this in a container of self-love, curiosity and wonder for long enough, something new emerges.

Or as the Jungian analyst Robert Johnson writes,

“If I can stay with my conflicting impulses long enough, the two opposing forces will teach each other something and produce an insight that serves them both.”

Imagine.

What might our world be like?if any world leader was able to be present to opposing forces long enough for something new, vibrant and alive to emerge?

Well, in my opinion, “they” will never be able to do it until I am practiced at doing it daily.

?Because, the world outside of me (and you) is a reflection of the world inside of me (and you).

Warmly,

Jenny

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