The lights and shadows inhabit our interior, they are part of who we are, what we do not want to be and what we can be, are the struggle between what we recognize, what we avoid, what we admit and what we do not do. I don’t know or I don’t want to see. And in this small but expensive balance, we try to spend our days without e-parties dominating our lives.
The truth tells us that the balance between what we know and what we do not admit is difficult to achieve, to live well we have to accept much of reality: we are made of lights and shadows, that is why there will always be parts of ourselves. we don’t want to accept.
- Acceptance of our shadows can involve pain.
- But it also involves evolution.
- Change and self-acceptance: knowing oneself and developing a healthy self-esteem for life.
- Not everything is lights.
- Lights do not always illuminate our lives.
- The lights prevent us from seeing the way and the shadows can give us the answers.
“It is not possible to awaken consciousness without pain. People can do anything, however absurd it may seem, to avoid confronting their own souls. No one illuminates ghostly light figures, but realizes its darkness. Carl Jung?
Carl Jung defined our shadows as the set of frustrations, shameful experiences, painful experiences, fears or insecurities that lodge in our unconscious. Does the shadow contain all the negative aspects of personality that he does?Am I not able to assume and can therefore impede the manifestation of our true way of being and feeling.
Evil, selfishness, envy, cowardice, jealousy, greed and many of our emotions and fears are our shadows, often we realize this when they lead us to conflicts with others, at other times they are expressed in the form of feelings of guilt or even inexplicable depressions, reflecting an image in which we do not recognize ourselves.
We are able to cast those shadows on others so as not to assume that those feelings, judgments or ideas belong to us, we are programmed from an early age to hide the failures, despair and all the negatives of our lives. we are human, we keep light and shadows in us.
“A man who has not gone through the hell of his passions has never surpassed them. As far as we can discern it, the sole purpose of human existence is to light a light in the darkness of the simple Being. Carl Jung?
The lights that make up us, that surround us and that illuminate us from within are all those qualities, virtues, emotions, behaviors or desires that we like to show, are the masks with which we dress each time as if they were our only ones. true identity.
We can choose to be playful, intelligent, understanding, sociable, shy, or courageous; we can choose what we want to show in front of the big social scene. Today, the lights of our personality are brighter with the use of appearances on social media. We live a second life hiding the shadows, acting as if they didn’t exist. , which may initially seem like an advantage, a way of protecting us from the sadness of our lives, becomes a reality at the heart of the expression of modern narcissism.
We let ourselves be blinded by our lights. They become our true center of expression to the outside, we cease to be human to be smiling machines in photos that keep large voids inside.
That is why it is so important to know our shadows, they help us maintain our internal balance. We are fallible, we feel jealousy, envy or guilt, but we also recover. We are human and accepting to live reality as it is, and not a fairy tale, will help us develop healthy self-esteem and live a better and fuller life. Don’t deny your shadows, accept them; do not blind yourself with your lights, seek your inner balance.