31/07/2024
SIMPLE SHADOW WORK
The following is a simple method for balancing emotions:
Transfer your mind back to a time in your early childhood, perhaps, when you were three years old. Remember how totally free and joyful you were. You had no preconceived notions of what was right or wrong, good or bad, beautiful and ugly, etc. See yourself interacting with other people with wonder, total ease and innocent openness. You are interested in all there is and you feel safe, nourished and loved. Now go forward in time to a situation in your life where you no longer felt this way, where you felt a lack of love or ignored, rebuked, criticized, abused, etc. Notice the contraction and coldness in your heart. Once again, go back to the innocent spirit of your childlike nature and bring it into that situation that caused you so much pain. Fill yourself with that three-year old innocence and untainted joy and radiate it all around you. See it filling everyone with that same joyful radiance. Now move to another event in your life that caused you unhappiness and repeat this process. Go through every difficulty or negative experience in your life and heal it with your three-year old joyful self.
This exercise is so efficient because in reality there is no linear time; it is just a concept we use to separate events that have occurred, occur now or may occur in the future. So, in truth, past events have just as powerful effects on us today as they had then. For this reason, there is so much fear, tension, stress, anger, conflict and violence in our world. Most people cannot let go of their past experiences and, thus, recreate similar scenarios to deal with them in one way or another. But, by undoing their negative impact through this simple exercise of self-empowerment, you can literally change your past and, thereby, your present and future realities.
It may take 1-2 weeks (20-30 minutes per day) to sift through and heal all of your past unbalanced emotions in this way, but it is worthwhile. Whenever you react negatively to something in your life it is because you have had an unbalanced emotional experience prior to that. By balancing all the unwanted experiences that have occurred between your early childhood and this moment, you can literally wipe out the root causes of every emotional, mental, physical and spiritual problem and prevent new ones from occurring.
