How you can form your own shadow
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Start by accepting your own humanness. Remember that we all have a shadow—everyone is in the soup together, as Jung used to say. I find it helpful to connect to my heart: place your attention on your heart. Breathe in and acknowledge your heart.
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The shadow is a concept that Carl Jung (a genius dude, way ahead of his time) coined.
Simply put, our shadow is the so-called dark side of our personality.
We all feel fine presenting the bright, shiny, nice parts of ourselves to the world (kindness, benevolence, generosity, thoughtfulness, etc.)… but the parts of ourselves that we fear society would deem unsavoury often get relegated to the shadow
How Does Your Shadow Come Into Existence?
No matter how healthy and positive some people’s childhoods are, everyone experiences invalidation at some point in time.
Say you displayed a specific character trait (like rage, envy, or greed) when you were a toddler and one of your parents shamed you for it. You would then infer, “When I show these parts of myself to the world, I am less lovable. I am less safe. Therefore, it is not safe to show these parts of myself to the world. These parts are less lovable than the rest of me.”
When this occurs, we cast these seemingly less lovable things into the discard pile of our own personal shadow.
Compound this trend over time, and we learn to make certain parts of ourselves so ‘wrong’ or unlovable that we never give them any time to come out and play. And the longer we suffocate these parts of ourselves, the more power those traits gain over us (while lurking in the shadows of our subconscious mind).
In short, the things that we are in rejection of are the things that come to form the building blocks of our shadow self.