INNER CHILD / SHADOW INTEGRATION
Alignment with higher consciousness
Identify and resolve triggers to break unhealthy patterns including conscious integration of fragmented aspects of the emotional body to achieve alignment and equanimity.
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The shadow is that which is not exposed to the light of consciousness. The human shadow therefore, is any aspect of a person that is not exposed to the light of their own consciousness. It is what you don’t know that you don’t know.
Shadow work is the process of making the unconscious conscious and the unacceptable acceptable. It includes any process or practice that enables awareness of the unconscious and which brings about the integration of unconsciousness. As such, it leads to complete and total awareness.
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We are born whole, but that wholeness is short lived because we are relationally dependent. Being born relationally dependent into families that socialize us into a society that is not fully evolved yet is a recipe for disaster because it causes us to adopt the belief that some aspects of ourselves are acceptable, and some are not.
What is acceptable vs. unacceptable depends on the perspective of the family you are born into. The aspects of us that are seen as unacceptable (both positive and negative) are rejected by our family and the aspects that are seen as acceptable are not. So, being relationally dependent, in the name of survival driven by the desire to be accepted by the family and society we are born into, we do anything we can to disown, deny and suppress those aspects in ourselves that are disapproved of whilst exaggerating those that are approved of. We dissociate from what we disapprove of. This creates a split within the person that we call the conscious and the subconscious and where fragmentation begins. This self-preservation instinct of dividing ourselves into conscious and subconscious is in fact our first act of self-rejection and very often finds its roots in childhood.
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Self-awareness does not come naturally to those who make a practice of avoiding pain because to become aware of those aspects, you must stop trying to escape the pain and emptiness within you where those missing parts should be. No one ever reached enlightenment without confronting their shadow and exposing it to the light of consciousness.
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In this therapy option, we work with you to walk-through these shadows with the aim to integrate them into the light of consciousness with full acceptance. Not for the faint of heart but it is also the key to a consciously aware, free and happy life.