Why bother looking into our Shadow Self?
Douglas Eby
Writer/online publisher on emotional health, creative people, personal growth psychology, high sensitivity, giftedness, and more. M.A./Psychology. I am highly sensitive & 2E, among other facets.
"Think of the shadow as the parts of yourself that you don't know much about, that circumstances in life activate so that you can find out a lot about...the Shadow is neither good nor bad."
Caroline Myss adds, "If you don't investigate the Shadow it will cause trouble."
See short video with audio excerpt from podcast:
Listen to longer podcast episode: Exploring our Shadow Self with Caroline Myss.
From the audio podcast episode transcript:
So the shadow part of us can participate in a very destructive behavior and it is very definitely at times conscious.
So to say our shadow self does something as if to say we're not conscious of our shadow is not true at all.?
You know, for example, when you are feeling jealous, what you don't know is how jealous you are capable of being and that when pushed to ultimate jealousy, what that unknown part is capable of doing.
So that's where the shadow lives. It's in the unknown part of parts of yourself. You do know all of us know what we're capable of doing when we're angry. And yet there's a part of us that knows I won't let myself get that angry because past that point, I'm not sure what I'll do.?