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Projection? Who, me?
“Projection? You project. I am objective. we truly want to. Notice what drives you
I observe.” That’s our ego talking to us up a wall in others. What makes your
or someone else. The actuality is our skin crawl? And then the opposite is also
ego develops slowly in increments and true. What fascinates you? What do you
is often barricaded behind a belief that get mesmerized by? Where do you lose
it is the center of our psyche and that it yourself by projecting a part of you out?
always knows who we are and what our We don’t know where they end, and we
motives are. Well, it most certainly does begin unless we are willing to engage in
not. The older you get the more you will honest self-examination.
know about your many selves, and when
you look back you will realize there is a Carl Jung said it like this, “How do you
gradual movement towards becoming find a lion that has swallowed you?” It
conscious of your whole self. takes an attitude of I want to know myself,
all of myself and love myself completely.
People often ask me, “How do I start We cannot change or heal what we
doing Shadow Work?” I tell them we don’t know or love. Whatever enters
have to really accept that projection is our lives for good or ill has meaning.
real, that we all do it. One of the primary Journaling our thoughts and experiences
ways to begin to do inner work is to and reflecting on what happens in our
accept this fact. Then and only then daily interactions is essential. We all
can we acknowledge that we can bring project shadow parts of ourselves out
unconscious contents to the surface if onto people, events, objects, groups, and
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