Life is not about doing things to please others, though that may indeed be a part of life. Life is not about giving of yourself to the point where you have no personal life of your own, though giving may indeed be a big part of life. Life is not about taking care of everyone else to the detriment of the self, though taking care of others may indeed be a big part of life. Life is not about sacrificing your dream so that others may achieve their dreams, though a bit of sacrifice may be required. Life is really about finding who you really are, what you really want, and how to go about achieving it without neglecting the self, or others, without over-giving or over-sympathizing but by gaining balance and allowing the self to have and receive equal time for self-exploration and self-achievement. Life is really about You and what You are doing there on Earth at this time. Find that out and everything else will fall into place.
When one person holds all the power there is no room for compromise or discussion about anything. When one person holds all the power there is no sense of place or prominence for anyone under that person. When one person dictates what is to happen, how it will happen, and when it will happen, there is no freedom. All of these situations warrant unrest, for a spirit cannot abide being held back. How do you currently hold yourself back? Are you sure you aren’t doing something that blocks you from taking over your life to the fullest? For life is meant to be freely lived, expressed and created, as you wish. Learn what that means in your own life by investigating what still holds you back or makes all the decisions. For if you are not at ease in your life, happy and contented, there is something else that holds the power that you yourself should rightfully own and utilize for yourself.
As the world turns in new rhythm, as new ideas and new ways of being enfold into each new day, remember your heart’s intent. Remember your heart’s goals for yourself and for the world. Keep a positive attitude. Keep gratitude in your speech and your mind. Keep love always in the forefront of everything you do, for with love as your guide you can’t go wrong.
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were the founders of a new psychology, one that grappled with an unconscious region of the psyche that cast a huge shadow over one’s fate and fulfillment in life.
Their healing technology was psychotherapy, an approach that brought to awareness those hidden influences from the depths, and enabled consciousness greater freedom in choosing the course of one’s life.
Freud’s contribution centered on one’s personal unconscious, repressed instincts and traumas that severely compromised normal adaptation to life. Jung, went far deeper into the shared collective unconscious of humankind, which contains all the experiences of human history that weigh heavily upon the present life of every individual.
Simultaneous with this fledgling new world of psychotherapy was the mystical world of hypnosis with its explorations of the fuller capacities of the subconscious mind, as well as The New Thought Movement that focused on the divine capabilities of the human mind.
Jung discusses his early meetings with William James, considered the father of American psychology, where he felt professionally encouraged to explore more deeply the mystical and spiritual depths of the psyche. However, Jung was reticent to alienate the new science of psychotherapy from mainstream science and he exposed little of his own personal transcendent experiences.
Consequently, both Jung and Freud remained steeped in bringing a rational perspective to the structure and dynamics of the shadow of the unconscious mind. Ironically, William James was far more open to validating spiritual approaches to the psyche, as well as being far more appreciative of the power of autosuggestion.
Today, mainstream science largely dismisses psychotherapy, which has been replaced by the deepening materialist emphasis upon brain functioning. New Thought is alive and well but has largely been dismissed as lay positive psychology.
The consequence of these dismissed and varied approaches to the mind has left humankind largely ignorant of both its shadow roots and its divine potential. Shadow is real, but so is divinity. Both the history of the human race and our personal history overshadow access to our human imagination, the divine center of our being.
When we are unconscious, and unreconciled with our shadow roots, it creates a veil over our divine imagination that confines it’s divine creative capability to repeating and generating the negative worldview of our suggestive inner dialogue. Our divine capacity to manifest remains fixed on generating powerlessness and victimhood.
Yes, our shadow is divine and must be lived, as ultimately, all that is, is one divine being. But the karma of shadow is to seek completion through spiritual liberation. One approach to shadow work remains with psychotherapy, as the shadow is identified and integrated through inner and outer work.
Neville Goddard, of New Thought tradition, recommended the art of revision to address the shadow. Here we are instructed to fully acknowledge the play of our shadow in our regretted behaviors in life. With total acceptance we then allow ourselves to fully inhabit, in the imagination, the state of being that fully lives out that which we would have wanted to do instead.
In order to fully imagine this correction, we have to fully feel it and live it in the imagination. When this is accomplished we indeed change, or evolve, the past into complete resolution. With this we are freed to release the divine creative capacities of the mind to manifest the reality we truly want to live in. This is not rejecting or repressing shadow, it’s evolving it.
Go to that which you desire. Imagine it accomplished. Bring your physical senses into the realness of your imagination; see, hear, smell, touch and taste. Luxuriate in gratitude and awe.
If something from down below refuses to loosen its grip to your happiness then slide down and bring light and compassion to that shadow part. Insist that it bless you and let you carry on, free at last.
Imagination is the heart of the Law of Attraction. What we truly believe about ourselves, and what we truly believe is possible, is that which we will manifest in our lives.
Acknowledge the roots of your divine shadow. Then, imaginatively grow them into the flower at the heart of your deepest desire. Truly imagine it, and just let it become.
When it seems that everything you say is taken in the wrong way, when your ideas are given no attention, and when you end up feeling down, let down and abandoned, turn inward to your inner Self, to your High Self, and find resonance there. It does not matter what is going on in the outside world, or with another person. Let them be. It matters only that you do not lose your connection to your Self, your strong and powerful, beautiful and wise inner Self who has every right to exist and to be in the world. The Earth is vast and accommodating, and she vastly accommodates all beings who reside upon her, in every valley and mountain, in every ocean and stream, in every city and village, in every place that is known and every place that is unknown. All beings have their home upon her. All beings are equally deserving of life, equally responsible for life, and equally charged to be helpful, kind, loving, compassionate and to equally share in the wealth that she, the Great Mother, provides.
