HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO DO SHADOW WORK?

Certainly the whole world is experiencing shadow & light more and more amplified. From shocking politics to fake news to digital mass control to loss of touch, loss of security and loss of trust in a better future, the world is changing, and some of those changes feel downright frightening.

The good news however is:

the denser the shadows the brighter the light, inevitably.

What we see playing out “out there” reflects 1:1 what everyone of us is experiencing “in here”. The more you allow yourself focusing on the shadows – within or without – the more energy you give them and the bigger they grow. It’s simply energy dynamics.

In order to stop or at least reduce your focus – consciously or unconsciously – on shadows you need to acknowledge their existence and stop being in denial, pretending they are not there while “smoking hopium”.

If you don’t deal with your shadows, they will deal with you.

You can’t eliminate the exhale and try to only live by inhaling.

Shadows don’t care how much you deny them – they grow the faster the less they are disturbed by your awareness. Shadow work is essentially throwing light (awareness) on shadows in a conscious and safe environment where the shadows cannot escape – then they have no other way but to integrate, discontinuing to be a shadow and becoming an ally for new and next level possibilities in one’s everyday reality.

Shadow work is not accepting your shadows but to transcend them.

Shadow work is potent – it can turn your life around. It will however require courage and the right measures to succeed in pulling your shadows out of the dark, facing them fully and pouring so much awareness over them that they have to integrate (nb: that’s exactly what we do in the Shadow & Light Retreat).

How do you know that the time has come for you to do shadow work?

Here are some indicators:

1. Your biggest dreams never seem to manifest – because the way is blocked by your shadows (I remember a woman in her best years sharing with me in tears that she already had 3 miscarriages; she had already done therapy, alternative medical treatments, etc. I recommend her to do the Shadow & Light Retreat. She did and 10 months later gave birth to a healthy child).
2. Although you desperately try to attract different people into your life, some odd “magic” seems to bring you ever more amplified versions of the same kind of familiar people – bosses, neighbors, colleagues, friends, most significant others, etc.
3. You have returning or chronic aches and health issues that traditional medicine can’t heal (the shadow is trying to get your attention for you to learn an important life lesson that is needed for your life purpose fulfillment).
4. You sabotage yourself and deflect gifts of life because you feel unworthy and unlovable – old stories and shadows have you in their grip.
5. You are prone to sudden outbursts of intense emotions, e.g. aggressiveness, and have uncontrollable mood swings (because your emotional body cannot cope with the pressure of the shadow denial that you unconsciously cause).

The one thing you can be absolutely sure of is that you can’t run away from your shadows. That’s why the name “shadow”! You can’t shake it off.

You only can stop running, facing it and doing this in absolute awareness until the shadow is forced to integrate itself; that’s how real shadow work works.

And when you resolve/transcend your shadows you may see miracles of shadow integration happening “out there” in others and in your everyday life reality, even maybe in the world.

I remember a graduate of the Shadow & Light Retreat saying: “The Light is just one decision away.”

With love ❤ Marc