Find a quiet place and sit in a comfortable position. Book this moment for yourself, to know your dark side. Forget all the noise around, the tasks waiting and the ‘what if’. Let this voice that so complains and comes from the bottom of your mind, often quite daring, is gradually leaving.
Go into silence, this companion who has a bad reputation for those who still do not know how to appreciate it, but so expensive and rewarding for those who are able to understand its essence. Listen.
- You may think that it is impossible to capture something from an interlocutor marked by silence.
- But try again.
- Many times it is the path.
- The bridge that puts us in contact with ourselves.
- In this case even contact with ourselves.
- Don’t be afraid.
- And of course.
- Don’t run away.
There is nothing wrong with looking in the mirror, touching one’s skin and observing these wounds from which we often want to look away. Don’t turn around this time or close your eyes to pretend nothing happens when there’s actually something throbbing. in pain Kiss your monsters, embrace your dark side. Connect with the depths of yourself.
Look at the suffering. It’s not a very pleasant experience, of course, but it’s not, the ghosts that go through your memories can become huge and very intimidating, sometimes they can even become quite authoritarian.
They know perfectly well where their places are, but fragile, the most unstable, know which paths have taken root and gone deep into your skin.
These ghosts are the marks of your past, the anchors that enslave you by the pain of what has already lived and eaten, come from time to time to feed on memories, to remind you that they are still there, that this is not over.
Even if you don’t try to stop them, they’ll become huge monsters that will become increasingly terrifying. The fear of rejection, the fear of being alone, the fear of being a failure?They are different costumes, different masks, to carry this false belief that you can often not help believing: that you cannot be happy.
Wounds also have a dark side where we can only see sadness, where everything is gray, where pain is embedded in bones and we only see decay and despair, a dangerous area in which we can find ourselves trapped, and whose goal is to change your life around suffering. A subtle web that catches us little by little.
Injuries also have a dark side, which aims to change your life around suffering.
It is not easy to free ourselves from the clutches of the past, especially if they have already taken very deep roots in our skin, leaving us in the hands of disappointment. Pain has a thousand and one ways of expressing yourself, and even if you think you’re already free from your conviction, something can happen and you realize it’s not?She’s still here. Especially if you do everything you can to avoid it.
Even the body can also be a way of expressing sadness. David Alexander, professor and director of the Aberdeen Trauma Research Center, says that “people who have suffered emotional damage often translate this pain into physical symptoms.
For this reason, it is very important not to neglect our dark side, our wounds and its influence on our world, our dark side can be so cunning and insightful that it often changes our own vision of reality. in a spiral of suffering that seems infinite to us.
“There is no scar, however brutal, that does not have a certain beauty. There is a unique story, a certain pain. But there’s also its end. The scars are, therefore, the seams of our memory, an imperfect stain that makes us heal again. The way of time is never to forget the wounds?. – Marwan-
Just as your dark side can end your existence, it also contains the impetus needed to grow you. What a contradiction, isn’t it? But that’s how it works. Paradoxical, the ocean of suffering is immense, but remember that if you look for it there will always be land, the key is balance.
It’s about going beyond painful experience, once identified and understood. Even if your heart is full of pain, you can try to understand what’s going on around you. Reality is not just suffering, although it can often seem and we can. Just look at it that way. Now, if you hold on to your thorns, if you can’t look at more than your wounds, your mind will believe that’s all there is.
The suffering is there. The important thing is that you can decide to drown or you can decide to mature and grow through the waves that come and go from this ocean. Embrace your dark side, embrace all your monsters and demons.
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung called this dark side of our personality the archetype of shadows, the basement in which all our most repressed instincts hide, the selfishness we try most to ignore and the most uncontrolled desires.
If we want to see the light, we must first dive into our darkest depths.
We all suffer at some point in our lives. The important thing is to know how to recognize, accept and feel, with kindness and without violence, do not be yourself. And once this is done, notice how it can regenerate from its true essences and true nature.
What thoughts do you have?What feelings make you vibrate inside?
The next step on the path to liberation is to stop creating suffering, avoiding doing what you identify that causes you sadness, this stage requires patience, a lot of effort and of course, a little practice, because it is a constant and long one. -term learning. Inside, you have a thousand and one ways of doing harm, almost all related to automatic thoughts and behaviors that do you no good.
The key is to detect this and understand that nothing is permanent and that besides, you have the ability to transform your life, you are not the puppet of an uncontrollable mind.
It is quite clear that deepening knowledge per se is not a simple process, you have to go through very high walls, drill many resistant layers, but it is the path that has the light to illuminate our day to day, it is the path to well-being. The transformation obviously won’t be sudden, it will be gradual.
Transcending your dark side takes time, but only then can you put an end to your suffering and make peace with it. Aren’t monsters that govern us often more than our desperately asking for help?
“A person does not enlighten himself by imagining figures of light, but by bringing consciousness into his darkness. “Carl Jung-