Welcome It! 12.11.15

Welcome, It!  12.11.15

I've used this technique for the last year or so.

I adopted it after reading The Untethered Soul by Micahel Singer.

It revolves around the old maxim of "what you resist persists!"

What is it you say?

Simple when I feel a headache coming on

I just think I want to experience the pain of it, all of it.

I want to bring it in.

Feel it and let it be.

Does it work?

Well, it's not 100% but it sure does work an awful lot of the time.

Most of the time what I experience later is "didn't I feel a headache coming on?"

A couple of new reads bring this back to mind.
I'm reading Birthing a Greater Reality by Robert Brumet.

He discusses the great Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung's
shadow concept and how to resolve them.

Then I read a piece from the NY Times about
the Impostor Syndrome by Carl Richards.

www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/your-money/learning-to-deal-with-the-impostor-syndrome.html?WT.mc_id=2015-KWP-AUD_DEV&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK&kwp_0=57791&kwp_4=323406&kwp_1=211278&_r=0

Robert Brumet and Carl Richards

both are saying very similar things.

Brumet lists these steps:

"Healing of the shadow occurs when we:

- Recognize the symptoms.

- Consciously experience these symptoms and fully accept them.

- Dialogue with the symptoms.

- Work with deeper feelings that emerge;

this may be the shadow characteristic itself.

- Dialogue with the shadow characteristic.

- Consciously experience and embrace this quality within yourself;

allow the full experience of the feelings that arise.

- Cultivate understanding and compassion for why this quality was

initially repressed into the shadow;

be patient and gentle with yourself.

Something to think about and try.

As a male, I have had a lot of times where when I felt uncomfortable

it seemed the acceptable thing to do was just stuff those feelings away.

Little did I know I was becoming a shadow creator at that moment.

Now I want to embrace my shadows and bring them to the light.

So I can release these old issues and become a better me.

So I can release these things that trigger old experiences

that I no longer want to respond from.
Or as Carl Richards says in his Impostor Syndrome article:
 “Welcome back old friend. I’m glad you’re here. Now, let’s get to work.”

All My Love Always, Keith