LMTV: Release the Prisoner! (Sara Jane)

Psychic Shadow can be described as any aspect of yourself that you hide or repress because you believe it is inappropriate, unacceptable, bad or wrong. Every individual instance of Shadow can be traced back to some disempowering belief which arose out of psychological or spiritual wounding—most commonly in connection with unpleasant events that happened during childhood. Everyone is afflicted with Shadow in one way or another, but because this phenomenon is largely unconscious, most people are not fully aware of it and don’t know how to deal with it.

Many who know something about Shadow have the mistaken belief that it represents only the worst or most undesirable parts of ourselves. And this leads people to believe that they should leave well enough alone! “Why dig into the past?” they worry. “it’ll just bring trouble and more pain.”

But that perspective is actually wrong! It’s more correct to think of Shadow as any disowned or disavowed part of ourselves, which means that some really amazing and positive aspects may have been pushed into the background and forgotten about. For this reason, Shadow is actually a treasure trove of untapped creativity, potential and self-understanding.

For this episode, I’ve invited back my good friend Sara Jane to discuss the concept of Shadow in detail. Our goal for this episode is to demystify the concept and offer suggestions about how you can unlock your own mental cage and do some introspection to retrieve the gifts that you may have inadvertently hidden away when you were much younger. Here are some of the topics we’ll cover in this episode:

* Shadow Perception
* Good-Bad; Dark-Light
* Learned Behaviors
* The Mental Prison
* Natural Divinity

This is going to be a very eye-opening conversation! Please mark your calendar and make sure to join us!