Shadow Work: The Key to Unlocking Your Hidden Power

Hey guys,

Welcome back.

In this video we're talking about shadow work and how it can actually bring more power to you when you look into your shadows.

Now shadow work was coined by Carl Jung when he talked about that there are some unconscious parts of ourselves that we deny,

Suppress or hide which then if they are seen or triggered then they create some kind of conflict within us and we can always observe them whenever we have a trigger about someone or about ourselves.

Each time we have a trigger there's some shadow lurking in which we haven't fully integrated yet and this when we do this work as I said before this gives you so much power,

Your true power and it unlocks so much of your potential which is why it's so important to do this work so that you heal and become this version of you which is whole and complete and from there you can actually be the best version of yourself.

To put shadow work in very simple terms it is actually light work.

I love to call it light work because what we're doing is we are bringing into light into awareness the things that are not seen so then every time you bring these things into the light you see them in front of you whether it comes from someone else or from you doesn't really matter because each time you get triggered it's actually in you there's something in you which is as I said it's a shadow work which you then see oh wow this person just showed me what I have not completely fully brought into light yet and the same goes for you when you get triggered about yourself maybe you did something maybe you thought of something and then you get triggered by yourself then also it's the same thing you haven't really fully brought something into the light because after you bring something into awareness your job is to truly accept something whatever you have not accepted and the mind will tell you so many reasons that no this is not acceptable this is not good and from the mind's perspective it is true that there are evil things there are quote-unquote relatively bad things or negative things but the thing is if we don't tune in to the acceptance of all awareness and then acceptance of all then we're going to continue to get dragged by these shadows and it will continue to haunt us and it will not bring us the true power that we are so which is why we actually want to accept unconditionally this is what unconditional love is you accept something so unconditionally that no matter what even if it's the worst ugliest part of you or someone else if you have this acceptance of that okay I also accept this even if I'm traumatized even if I'm triggered by that even if I really from the mind don't fully agree with it if you accept it as it is and if it helps you can also understand it that okay I understand this perspective I understand this person is doing this I understand myself when I do these quote-unquote mistakes so whenever we completely accept and understand something then we move on to integration we can then integrate that shadow in a very healthy way so that we don't become this destructive person but we use that shadow to actually bring our gifts to people that's what we do with the shadows so how then do you do that there are two main ways to do shadow work one is to see the upside of something and also see the downside of everything so if you want to be holistic if you want to bring everything into awareness into the conscious mind you've got to see the upside of the positive things and the negative things and also then you got to see the downside of the positive side and the negative side if you can do all of this then you have a holistic acceptance and picture of everything and then from there of course you pick up what you truly want to express as now the second way to then do the shadow work is to be grateful for the negativity when you can't find a way to see okay what's the positive of that let's take an example of violence let's say you can't find anything positive in it although maybe we can if you look but let's say you cannot find anything positive in violence now one another way to do it then is to just be grateful for violence so that the positive non-violence can exist so that kindness and compassion can exist or can be realized or expressed if it didn't have this we also wouldn't have this because the world works on polarity this world here that we're living in it has to have the villain and the hero the negative and the positive so this is how this works that's why these movies are like that this is why your life is like that if you see that there is some deep negative things in the world then you know that actually it allows the positive to exist which is why we become grateful for that negativity for that shadow and we can do that every time we can't find anything positive that we can actually extract from that now let's get back into the shadow work we do when we can actually extract something from the negative from the shadow the first example is judgment now sometimes we judge people or yourself now the upside of that is discernment that you're discerning the truth or for justice or whatever it is you're discerning what is better so the upside of judgment is that allows you to discern but of course if it comes with this negative vibration of hate then it's not expressed in the best way possible but nevertheless if we don't look into that shadow fully that whoa this is judgment then we can't extract the positive from that also another example is lust now lust in society can be seen in so many different ways and if you want to extract a plus from that is actually love it's actually love making and pleasure and giving and receiving it's so beautiful this energy exchange that can be used if we learn to see the upside of that but of course people then distort it and that's why it becomes a shadow because we see oh people are using this power this thing as a negative and that's why we then resist from that we like repel from that if you don't actually throw the whole thing all together and keep the positive from that then we are using those quote-unquote shadows as light then we have a greed and envy and when we look at some person who has something and then we say that wow I also want that and then I feel bad about it because I don't have that now if you extract the positive of that it's your dreams and desires of your soul's true desires which I made a video on and you can take a look later that you are here to express your soul in a very beautiful infinite ways so then you can extract the positive from that that wow this person is expressing themselves and has so much abundance for example then I can actually take inspiration from that another one is laziness and that's a great way to actually recharge to replenish and rest so that you can come out stronger but if you don't see that positive aspect you're gonna continue to resent laziness and you're gonna continue to feel bad about yourself which will then continue this negative loop and you're gonna feel more and more down by your shadows another one is anger now anger is such a beautiful energy if it can be channeled well if it can be used as passion as an energy to destroy old patterns and bring new things bring new creations into the world it can be great energy but if we suppress anger then we also then use that anger in random ways which could be disruptive to you or others another one is pride pride comes from ego but if we take that pride and extract that there is some positive aspect of it which is that we then you can use this as a motivation for service and being honorable then we are not making it about ourselves but just doing good things so that we can feel good but not because of the pride but it's just the positive aspect of pride which is of service of being honorable so these are some examples and then of course you can dive more into it if you have any question about certain trait but you see this journey goes like this step one which is to see those hidden unconscious suppressed rejected parts of you by noticing your triggers every time you become triggered there is an opportunity for you to bring something into light what are you triggered about what part of you is making you triggered in others or in yourself and then step two is to actually step back and understand accept and integrate that shadow like we talked about but this step two sometimes require a little bit of time a little bit of stepping away from your trigger maybe giving yourself more time so that you can come back to a natural more elevated state a higher perspective so that you can actually see all of this things because when you're down in a lower vibration and seeing your triggers you can't really grasp everything because you're actually seeing from below trying to grasp something but if you give yourself the time to come down come back to a very beautiful space when you can even do meditations for that but no matter what you do once you come back to a more joyful elevated state a more loving state then you can see wow okay this was my trigger and these are my shadows and then you can accept them you can understand them you can integrate them by seeing the upsides of something and using it as your power and this I'm going to talk more about when I will make videos on masculine and feminine archetypes then also I'm going to talk about these shadows there because there's so many masculine shadows and the feminine shadows that we can understand and integrate so that we can use these dark aspects of us into the light now the step three is the choice that you make in your day-to-day living not in just in your mind but when you're living your life you're choosing love you're choosing a positive expression the highest expression that you can but from a very accepting space where you're not triggered we are not choosing something out of a trigger out of non-acceptance but out of unconditional love and then you just choose the highest the best for you and for others but you can only make this free choice when you are free from the triggers otherwise it's not a free choice just a rebellious choice or you're trying to force yourself into something but if you don't try to control and force but see that you can accept all of this and then you can actually choose out of love out of freedom and then see you will want to choose the best for you and for others because you have integrated those shadows and now all that's left for you is to be of service in the highest and the best way possible so you see the hero which is you needs to be holistic it can't just be this innocent little person who is only seen the positive it has to see everything has to see all the darkness the shadows and then he chooses to transmute all of that into the light into the love and that's when you know you're doing the job this shadow work this light work and with that you're gonna bring so much power and so much gifts to the world and people may still be and people may still get triggered by you because you were gonna trigger their shadows but you see you just do your work and you don't get triggered by people getting triggered by you because then it's also another shadow work so it all comes back to you you do this shadow work and then you notice the benefits of that you notice the purification the integration the embodiment of your higher self and with that I'll see you next time and remember this third step which is the final step is a continuous process you're gonna have to make this choice continuously many many many times before it's actually healed so do the work and I'll see you next time