Spiritual Life Coaching: Shadow Work

Do you blame others for your own own problems? When something "bad" happens to you, do you blame someone else for it? Or do you blame society at large? Perhaps it's the universe's fault, you know, life's to blame. In truth, when you blame others or life itself for your own problems, no matter how little or how large, this blame will always stem from repressed fears and hurts that have nothing to do with "him" or "her" or "them" or "it," but everything to do with your hidden shadow.
Shadow Work Life Coaching is designed to help you become aware of your repressed shadow which is crucial to healing your past traumas. Until you do, the negative behavioral patterns will continue to repeat themselves in your life, perpetuating the anger, anxiety, and conflicts. Just beneath your threshold of consciousness lies hidden a negative self, an opposite that the ego represses, keeping the soul in a state of slumber and the mind in a state of darkness. The eminent psychologist, Carl Jung, called this "unknown face" the shadow. Shadow Work Life Coaching focuses on revealing your hidden shadow to yourself so that you can become self-aware and heal your dark side.
When you don't want to face something in yourself, your shadow will automatically project it onto others. For example, if you ask someone for their honest opinion about you, and you don't like their answer, you are projecting your shadow. Anytime you have an emotional opinion about someone you do not know, you are projecting your hidden shadow.
If you feel misunderstood all the time, you'll be projecting your shadow. If you finish sentences for others, you'll be projecting your shadow. In fact, whenever you stereotype, condemn, blame, judge, or hate others for whatever reason, you will also be projecting your shadow.
The Book of Luke in the Bible says, "Do not judge others or you will be judged." But contrary to Christian dogma, Judgment Day is not a day where a judgmental, punishing God will look over your records of a previously life and determine an appropriate punishment for you because of your mistakes or "sins." Properly inferred, this scripture from Luke defines the natural law of judgment that is inherent to our hidden shadow.
By following the guidance of your Shadow Work Life Coach, you will learn to identify your shadow. When you do, you will know that it is impossible to judge another without first judging yourself. The judgement does not come after the fact, and especially not after your life. Judging yourself is, in truth, a prerequisite for judging another.
During the ego development in adolescence, we were all at some point deemed worthless, inferior, unacceptable, or inadequate. Consequently, the shadow manifests as a cover up process, to prove to others that we are, in truth, not these terrifying things. And so the shadow acts as a mask, a false persona that is created by the wounded ego to hide whatever it deems too painful to accept. That's all it is. And like the ego, everyone's got one.
The shadow is, in fact, a necessary aspect of your ego that must be accepted before you can know your true Self. When an inner conflict is not made conscious, it is destined to manifest as your reality. The egoic mind keeps the past alive with its shadow projections, and thus the cycle of pain is perpetuated, over and over again--until it's made fully conscious. Only then can the shadow be faced and transcended.
None of us likes to admit that we are flawed in some way. When we are made to feel inferior, we tend to do everything in our power to keep these weaknesses out of sight. Accentuating the opposite of what we secretly despise in ourselves is what the shadow is all about. A new persona is then created so that we can receive love, attention, and the acceptance that we crave. But that persona is a false representation of our true Self.
By hiring a Shadow Work Life Coach, you will begin to become aware of your own unconscious projections and suppressed anger toward others. You will be given all the tools, techniques, and psychology you'll need to begin your journey toward healing and revealing your shadow.

In 2007, Life Coach, Jason Lincoln Jeffers founded The Art of Transformation, a company dedicated to teaching Spiritual Enlightenment to the world. His Life Coaching practice uniquely combines spiritual wisdom with ego transcendence, holistic wellness, life path astrology, shadow & pain-body work, heart-brain intention, the power of presence, and the law of attraction.