"Why Do I Fear Meeting The Shadow?" — How To Stop Running

Why do we run from our internal baggage and "the shadow"? In this talk, Oliver Gohari explains how the mind perceives suppressed emotions as a physical threat—causing us to constantly escape. However, avoiding emotional pain only reinforces it and creates hidden stress and anxiety. You'll discover how to stop running, bring conscious breathwork and mindfulness to trapped feelings, and practice authentic shadow work. By willingly facing your emotions, you unlock the key to deep self-acceptance and lasting emotional healing.

Transcript

It's the number one thing that drives us. It's the number one thing that drives us. Our fears and bottled up stuff. Who's found that a large part of their life has been spent running away. Cause it was for me and life got better when you stopped running away. I think that people just need to hear this message more and they need it repeated because the logical mind, Which you have and which I have, It's doing everything possible 24-7 to run away because it doesn't want to be in danger. The mind perceives this fermenting jar in the same way that it perceives a tiger or a lion or a bear with fangs and it perceives it as dangerous. Just so it tries to get away from it. But the problem is that by running away from it, You actually reinforce it. You reinforce that it's there. You reinforce that you're carrying baggage. So what I always remind you guys of is that it's okay to take a breath through that stuff because it's there right now. For me, I've been meditating every day for 15 years, But in my chest right now, As I talk to you, I can feel my own person. An old jar. And I've, I've breathed through so much of it over the years. And let me just give you the, It's not all doom and gloom. Like conventionally people look at me and they say, Wow, Look how healthy you are mentally. You're so rooted emotionally. You're so rooted. And yes, That's true. But I'm also very raw. So it's the price that you have to pay to glow up and to float up. You have to get raw. Have to really get raw. Like you guys could just flick your finger now and go to another person's insight timer profile and you'll find someone who will tell you the complete opposite. That you need to focus on the positive, That you need to be positive, That you need to manifest your reality, You need to manifest yourself. Manifestation and being positive is all definitely part of the equation but all the positivity in the world and all the manifestation in the world, It gets corrupted by your own crap if you don't deal with it. One of my quotes from a few years ago is the degree to which you're willing to feel your own pain is the degree to which you will have success. So don't be afraid of it. It needs to be felt.

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Wowser! A couple of years ago I was going through an extremely rough patch in the road, I was alone, mentally exhausted and on the verge of breaking in every sense of the word. A wise man told me -"Lisa, it's time to put the chain mail on, that's where you are in this battle-draw your sword, ready your steed and KNOW that out of the fire, a diamond 💎 will appear, you've got this". And while I doubted him that day, I did as he said and have found, he was right! I send him a little thought of gratitude every day.