They think the negative experiences they continue to have are due to bad luck, but in reality it's the tape inside their subconscious that's been looping their whole life.ĭo you always seem to attract the same type of people, financial experiences or health issues? You have a subconscious, looping tape that's causing it. Most people would be amazed at how much their inner child is actually running the show of their life, for example. When something keeps uncomfortably popping up in your experience, it's a belief or pattern in your vibration that needs a further look by doing shadow work around it. The purpose of shadow work is to transmute and transcend negative beliefs and patterns that are affecting your current experience. “When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.” Allan Lokos patterns of toxic relationships (lovers, friends, employers, etc).Here are some examples of negative themes in your life that can be transcended through shadow work:

These themes can be very subtle or glaringly obvious. Shadow work is needed when you notice a negative recurring theme in your life that is hindering you in some way. Shadow work is not trying to relive painful memories just to further victimize yourself. So your shadow comprises both the experiences you've had personally as well as beliefs and/or perspectives that have been passed to you from generation to generation.

He said that the 'shadow is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors.' Shadow work means uncovering, observing and transmuting painful, suppressed parts of yourself for the purpose of living a more fulfilling life.Ĭarl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, coined the term shadow work.

I am a shadow the true self