What is the Shadow?

The shadow, or YOUR shadow, is the deepest, darkest parts of your souls that you tend to ignore because you feel it is “bad” or “negative”. You push this part of you to the deepest, darkest corner of your inner being, and thus we call it the “shadow”. Like the shadow that follows you around during your human life, your internet shadow follows you as well.

If you read my post about Spiritual Patterns, you know that there will be repeating situations in your life that will continue to happen until you recognize and master them. Your inner shadow will be a reflection of the Spiritual Patterns that appear in your life. For example: You seem to date the same “type” of people who treat you badly and after reflection it is because you don’t have respect for yourself. (This is just one of the reasons you could date these people….we all have complex histories!)

Your shadow does serve a purpose. We ALL have a shadow. Once you fully accept your shadow, you will fully accept yourself for who you are. That is how you fully learn to love yourself. When you fully love yourself, you have fully trust yourself. When you fully trust yourself, your intuition will be fully accessible to you! This work you do to fully accept yourself shadow is called Shadow Work. Which will be the next blog article.

So remember your shadow is an aspect of yourself that you may feel is not important. But “you can’t have the light without the dark” as they say.

Have you confronted your shadow?