It is not always true that you might feel like yourself. There may be situations when you feel that there is someone else deciding inside your head. That character may come with their thoughts and desires fighting against your own. According to psychotherapists, it is not merely an imagination. This is where your shadow self comes into existence. It is one of the exclusive ways to overcome and become your true self.
This article throws light on everything that you need to know about your shadow self and true self. Shadow work remains an essential step when it comes to turning out to be the best version of yourself. There is a lot we need to cover, so let us get started.
What do you mean by shadow: Debunking the truths behind shadow self
Before we start, we would like you to do a little exercise. Think about all those times when you feel like you do not recognise the person who you were. Maybe you exploded on your partner or a friend, maybe you had that overwhelming urge to fight with someone or steal something from the nearest store.
There might be a long period in your life where you simply did not act as the person you thought you always were. You simply do not have any explanation for that situation and you considered it to be just a phase. Why do those feelings exist in the first place? Let us learn more about it.
According to psychotherapists, coming across the part of yourself that you normally do not see but deeply exists within you is referred to as the shadow of your shadow self. The shadow refers to a culmination of your personality traits, your wants, your desires, your needs and your thoughts. You seem to reject that while you grow and turn out to be moulded by society. Your shadow is created from all the elements of you that you were told to ignore, repress or be ashamed of.
It points to the benefit of turning out to be an acceptable person that can work properly in a civilized and polite society. Each of us has a shadow self within us. We are supposed to be born with those feelings and traits that our community and family would not have us deal with.
All of these point to a collective shadow. In a collective shadow, society happens to train the people to live with opposing beliefs and blind spots. It leads to mental illnesses, depression and widespread anxiety. The biggest enemy of your shadow refers to the belief that happiness and positivity seem to fix everything. However, positivity, simply for the sake of it, points to ignorance of who you are. This fixed nothing.
Why should you embrace your shadow self?
Ignorance of your shadow self points to an idealised self. In this case, a person happens to convince themselves that they only have admirable and good qualities even though it may not be true. There is nothing called an ideal person. Each of us has our dark thoughts, qualities and traits.
Therefore, we develop a reality where we only can be our ideal and perfect selves, even though in our hearts we know that it is not true. Ignoring the shadow self and enabling it to fester in us creates a foundation of part of our being that exists despite the objection to its existence.
If you leave it undeveloped, it will point to feelings along with long-term disconnection feelings as well as unhappiness within the person and the world surrounding us. We all end up with addictions, greed, hypocrisy, self-sabotage, depression, anxiety, psychosomatic illnesses, phobias and self-loathing if we reject the shadow self.
What happens when you embrace your shadow self?
When you embrace your shadow self, you adopt the entirety of your psyche and soul, providing the bad parts of yourself and the opportunity to turn off to be a legitimate part of who you are without taking or lashing over.
Wrapping Up
Integration with one’s shadow self allows him or her to fully become authentic. It provides them with a realistic and complete assessment of their true self, with no perfection and all their flaws revealed. It is a kind of self-awareness that enhances your capability to understand and visualise the world around you. It equips you with all the things needed to assess and evaluate the environment and situations as deeply as possible.
Growing up in a modern society you can hear particular philosophies that are constantly reiterated by all the people around you. You need not avoid these philosophies as they will eventually shape who you are and how you perceive the perfect functional person within society. One of the things you need to keep in mind is removing the mental roadblocks that instantly put you on your defences. This leads to complete acceptance of your true self.
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