Our shadow selves have huge gifts to offer us all. Then we can learn from them, we can create more choice in our lives, we can access more creativity and we can be fully ourselves. And instead of pretending they don’t exist, we need to embrace these parts of ourselves. We all have a ‘dark’ side to our personality. All of the sides of ourselves that we- or society- consider to be abnormal, unacceptable or wrong end up hiding in the ‘shadows.’ This binary approach to life- good/bad, hot/cold right/wrong – is the foundation upon which the shadow self-forms. Emotions like rage, jealousy, bitterness and lust may be repressed because they are typically dismissed as ‘bad’ emotions.

Due to our upbringing and conditioning we have learnt that certain parts of us are not ‘acceptable’ and as a result we start to deny or hide these parts. Our shadow selves are the parts of ourselves that we believe to be unacceptable (or what we believe society considers to be unacceptable). Join us as we step into our shadow selves and unlock repressed feelings in order to connect to a much more complete and centred sense of self. And you may just discover that the darkness isn’t so dark after all, but rather the key to a much more balanced, full and connected way of living. Shining a light on your inner ‘darkness’ helps to heighten self-awareness, free you from fear and enable you to see yourself as a multi-faceted, 4-dimensional human being. It will offer ways to help you to connect to your shadow self to help you rapidly transcend to your greatest, most whole self. This article will explain what a shadow self is. In this article we’re exploring the sides of ourselves that we’re often unaware of the parts of self that get shunned to the edges of our consciousness by ourselves and often by society too.

I am a shadow the true self