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- Jul 4, 2022
“[Shadow work] is the idea that we all have different parts to ourselves,” Sweeton explains. “The parts of ourselves that have been exiled… tend to become the shadow parts.”
“As a child, there are many times you’re told to stop doing something… or repress parts of yourself that… for whatever reason have [been] deemed unacceptable,” says Short.
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But of course, our parents had their own internally bloated instincts and unresolved traumas, or were cruel psychopaths.
Collectively it's a similar thing, with our piece of shit systems.
Our internalized parents, if not worked, are as shitty as our worldly ones
For example, if you had a sadistic and manipulative mother, you could be very masochistic
If you had a dumb and brutish father you could be sadistic
Here is some stuff I collected from the internet, I didn't read them fully and don't necessarily agree with everything they say.
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"What is the shadow?"
Eckhardt Tolle calls the shadow the pain body, it is the unconscious aspect of our being that we do not identify with, that we are in denial to, feeling separate from."This is simply part of us that is judged not good enough. Here we encounter the wounded child but also our wounded feminine and masculine aspects. The shadow holds our fears, our insecurity, our self-sabotage, self-sacrifice, self-punishment and other anti-life programs. Here we store unresolved past memories and unconscious beliefs that perpetuate suffering."
"Shadow work is the process of owning up to the aspects of ourselves that we tend to deny or repress.
It’s about coming to terms with the parts of ourselves that we don’t like or that make us feel uncomfortable, and it can be a difficult and challenging process.
It typically involves exploring our dark side – the parts of ourselves that we keep hidden away – and can be a very confronting and painful experience.
For that reason, it’s not uncommon for people to feel scared or even terrified when they first start doing shadow work."
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Many insecure macho men could be absolutely terrified of confronting their own sensitivity, and the more scared they are the more gay they really are inside