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Remember the Bad Boys you mom warned you about - here is one
Love me but don't fall in love with me. I may hurt you.. In fact I will leave a mark on your bottom.
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One of the forbidden patterns.
Theme builds on the darker side of a person and a sneaky "swish" to get you in there (shadow).
Essentially
it seems this pattern is best suited to encouraging one to get in touch
with their hidden desires (thus connecting emotionally with them).
Then eliciting their appearance in an extroverted way.
The Shadow and the Rising Sun.
You know, I was thinking about something the other day
About polarities.
About the whole concept of the Yin and Yang
Hot and cold.
Black and white.
Light and darkness.
And how opposites are really the same thing.
Just varying degrees on the same spectrum.
Possibilities.
How one is defined in relation to the other.
How there are no absolutes.
I remembered something that a Psychologist friend of mine said.
He said.
"I have to go feed my shadow".
I wasn't quite sure what he meant at the time.
Until I read something by Jung.
We are born completely whole and it isn't until we learn what our
current culture tells us what is good and what is bad that we start to
both repress and express these parts of ourselves.
He said that everyone has a Shadow.
A hidden side.
A place of forbidden desire.
This is that part of you that you hide from the rest of the world. maybe even from yourself.
Where you can experience and imagine these thoughts
These thoughts…
Things you don't tell anyone about.
Where you really want to experience all the excitement of this moment.
To let go of all the things that had been holding you back before.
To just let go
Experience all that life offers you now.
The Shadow is a good thing he believed, because it brings a sense of balance.
Now,
this sense of balance is very important because the concept that
whatever you repress grows and begins to spill over into other parts of
your life.
If your shadow is repressed it grows and grows.
Until it just takes you over completely.
Jung said it was like the Rising Sun.
In the morning, the Sun rises in the sky.
It gets higher and higher.
Closer and closer to the highest point in its path (midlife).
Until at mid-day it changes polarity completely.
Everything that was once true has now changed.
Now the opposite is true.
And the sun goes down.
This was the concept behind mid-life crisis.
So balance then is a good thing.
Jung believed that the first part of our lives is about separation from the shadow.
The latter part of our lives is about integration with the shadow and about being whole.
Now what if you were to see your shadow right in front of you.
Talk to it.
What would it say?
Now what if you were to step into your shadow right now, and see the world through the eyes of your shadow.
What would that say about the person that you were before.
What does this say about the person you are now?
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| Age: 24 |
| Fort worth,
Texas |
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