Can You Do Too Much Shadow Work?
Channel: Simply Always Awake
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[0:00] Can you do too much shadow work?
[0:03] I get this question on occasion
[0:05] and occasionally I see situations where
[0:07] I might call this out in one way or
[0:09] another.
[0:10] I want to be careful with this because
[0:12] the tendency is quite the opposite. The
[0:15] tendency is to just overlook it
[0:17] uh and not
[0:19] be fully conscious of the fact that
[0:21] you're suppressing some emotions or not
[0:25] fully dealing with some trauma or
[0:27] something like that. And the thing is as
[0:29] we clarify our our initial as we clarify
[0:32] the awakening inside
[0:34] um things get calmer. Things get more
[0:37] comfortable, more relaxed generally.
[0:40] More comfortable, yeah I'd say overall
[0:41] more comfortable but we are more
[0:44] comfortable with the uncomfortable.
[0:46] We recognize a larger bandwidth of
[0:48] experience is possible.
[0:50] So things get more peaceful, more calm
[0:52] but we can
[0:54] kind of get to a plateau and not realize
[0:56] that yeah things are reasonably calm.
[0:59] Uh I do feel much better than I used to.
[1:01] Things feel much more stable
[1:03] but there's still something there and I
[1:05] haven't fully addressed it.
[1:07] And and that can be overlooked. So this
[1:09] is why I
[1:10] I don't try to overemphasize shadow work
[1:13] but I
[1:14] talk about it a good amount because I
[1:16] just see it coming up.
[1:17] Now to take one step b