It’s Not Our Job To Assess The

Jung First Gave Us The Term ‘shadow’ To Refer To Those Parts Of Our Personality That Have Been Rejected Out Of Fear, Ignorance, Shame, Or Lack Of Love. His Basic Notion Of The Shadow Was Simple: ‘the Shadow Is The Person You Would Rather Not Be.’ He Believed That Integrating The Shadow Would Have A Profound Impact, Enabling Us To Rediscover A Deeper Source Of Our Own Spiritual Life. ‘to Do This,’ Jung Said, ‘we Are Obliged To Struggle With Evil, Confront The Shadow, To Integrate The Devil. There Is No Other Choice.’

By Choosing Not To Allow Parts Of Ourselves To Exist, We Are Forced To Expend Huge Amounts Of Psychic Energy To Keep Them Beneath The Surface.

Many Of Us Have Read About And Talked About Forgiveness, And We Understand Intellectually Why It Might Benefit Us To Let Go Of Anger Toward Others. But We Hold On Anyway.

Loving Yourself Means Making Choices That Allow You To Care For The Important Person That You Are.

If You Constantly Beat Yourself Up With Negative Thoughts, You Will Either Beat Up On The People Around You- Verbally, Emotionally, Or Physically- Or You Will Beat Up On Yourself By Destroying Some Area Of Your Own Life.