Resolving Shadow Material and Psychological Projections Using Deep Meditation
by on Aug.31, 2011, under Uncategorized
In my family I received a lot of conditioning which brought about my judgement and then disownment of certain normal, healthy tendencies and emotions. I guess it’s the same in pretty much everyone’s family. These injunctions, counter-injunctions and attributions that are passed down and strengthened through generations of our family trees are so influential on young children’s minds, which absorb everything from the actions and behaviour of all-powerful mothers and fathers that they might be compared with the magic spells cast by magicians or sorcerers in a children’s story or film.
These “magic spells” are commonly so influential that the majority of us continue under their power till the day we die, without ever having the chance to break free from the spell or even to see our behavior and enquire as why we hold such perspectives and why we act the way that we do.
It is for this reason that I meditate by using daily a magnificent program called LifeFlow from Project Meditation. It helps me to integrate parts of the self which were disowned because I was told that they were unbecoming when I was young. I was told to “not be sad”, “don’t cry, boys don’t do that”,” do not be ambitious or too big for your boots”, “dont ‘ be angry”, “don’t be sad”, “don’t be fearful” for example.
We then disown such completely normal, healthy features and feelings so as to be safe in our blood family. But they don’t thus vanish. They then appear as “out there” in the environment or other people, or “Shadows” as Dr Karl Jung called them. Then we become our own worst enemy as our own projected energy comes back to clobber us like a boomerang. If we disown our own anger, angry folk are everywhere. Disown our judgement or critical-ness and critical folk are everywhere. Hence a variety of emotional issues ensue. But it’s difficult to see that we do this as it shatters some of our dearest illusions about others and the world.
Meditation is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to an integrated, healthy personality. I’ve found from years of meditation and another 3 years of really deep meditation using LifeFlow (I acquired this great program after reading an inspirational LifeFlow review), that we can integrate our disowned disowned material through this elevated awareness, and through using great material in books on this subject such as Ken Wilber’s seminal No Boundary and Integral Life Practice.
Gertrude Weiss is a healer and practices Meditation and Yoga. She was once impressed by a Lifeflow v Holosync review that persuaded her to experience deep meditation and accelerated development using LifeFlow. She’s living in Cologne, Germany.