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condemning. If you start by times does something have to happen to
recognizing and accepting you for something to occur to you?”

the existence of these states
within you, the groundwork When you hear negative mind talk that

is then laid for dealing with shifts you into judgment, ask yourself, “what
them.” am I judging here; what am I not willing
to embrace; what is the opposite that could

When we blame others very well be in my unconscious?” Take any
and see every problem as personal characteristic. For example: You see

being only in them, then others as selfish and greedy while mentally
we are back to square one contrasting yourself as selfless and giving, or
and then we have to start you encourage others to become dependent

all over again because the on you only to end up resenting it. We do
unconscious is relentless these things unconsciously to ourselves.

in its ability to bring us
the same situation over In Meeting the Shadow, which is a
and over. This is painful compilation of essays, Ken Wilber says,

because we Embrace both “Does it inform you about

will have to acknowledge their behavior or does it
our own capacity for sides for balance affect you emotionally?” If
whatever it is we find so because the rejected it affects you emotionally, it

reprehensible in them and qualities do not is about you. These people
that is exceedingly difficult cease to exist simply are brought to us as a gift

for our ego. Think about if we will look at them
it — you’re asking me to because they have differently. We can’t change
look at these difficult and been denied direct others, but we can change

challenging people as expression. our own minds.
MIRRORS FOR ME? Yes.

Despite this uncomfortable fact, take And doing Shadow work is not about
comfort in the understanding that we getting rid of anything, it’s about
needed this particular mirror to achieve including more. MORE OF YOU! I am

wholeness. The Self in us is orchestrating this and I am that too. Embrace both
all of these events, situations and people sides for balance because the rejected

whenever we are unwilling to see our qualities do not cease to exist simply
own blind spots and create balance for because they have been denied direct
ourselves. My teacher, Episcopalian expression. Instead, they live on within

priest and Jungian Analyst, J. Pittman us and form this secondary personality
McGehee, D.D. once said, “How many that Jung calls our shadow.
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