Comments on: Embracing your Shadow http://thefastingpath.com/blog/fasting/embracing-your-shadow/ Spiritual Cleansing Retreats - Fasting, Yoga & Medicine Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:17:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Juanita http://thefastingpath.com/blog/fasting/embracing-your-shadow/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Juanita Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:29:11 +0000 http://thevibrationcoach.wordpress.com/?p=437#comment-101 Everything that you are saying I know it is true because I am it (resistance, judgment, having to, guilt, denial, pleaser, low self-esteem, victim, hiding, masquerading, escaping, outraging, etc.etc.) It is like if I have been pregnant forever and finally I gave birth in Bali. I feel that it has been harder on me because I have opened my eyes and it has brought more tears to my feelings. When your heart or your ignorance is like a wall, you have a shield, but when it comes down, you are vulnerable. The awakening brings a lot of suffering. It is when I started asking myself more and more about my own self. I am still in that fight God/Devil, Good/Bad -if we can put some names to a state of being- and I feel like if I am in deep waters and I don't want to come out to the surface. Is the surface full of joy or is the depth or darkness full of joy..... I remember that in Bali I draw in the picture that we had to do of "how we were seeing ourselves" I draw an onion peel. I am afraid to find out "what" "is" "power" after peeling the last onion peel. Is this life for real or are we just living in a fantasy world? Can people be truly honest or are they always with an agenda when they get closer to you? I do get a lot of disappointments from people because I am either too stupid, take things to heart, too personal, I believe in the magic dragon. Thank you for telling me that it is "ok" to be not to "have to". I do feel guilty when I don't work one day (out in the field) and I stay home watching tv or just being. I feel that I am supposed to be doing something, saving the world, praying, constructing, creating.... Sorry for outpouring my deepest thoughts, but you are making this possible. I don't usually talk about me with anybody else but with bolu. As you can read, I am a basket full of......... You are great! Juanita Everything that you are saying I know it is true because I am it (resistance, judgment, having to, guilt, denial, pleaser, low self-esteem, victim, hiding, masquerading, escaping, outraging, etc.etc.) It is like if I have been pregnant forever and finally I gave birth in Bali. I feel that it has been harder on me because I have opened my eyes and it has brought more tears to my feelings.

When your heart or your ignorance is like a wall, you have a shield, but when it comes down, you are vulnerable. The awakening brings a lot of suffering. It is when I started asking myself more and more about my own self.

I am still in that fight God/Devil, Good/Bad -if we can put some names to a state of being- and I feel like if I am in deep waters and I don’t want to come out to the surface. Is the surface full of joy or is the depth or darkness full of joy….. I remember that in Bali I draw in the picture that we had to do of “how we were seeing ourselves” I draw an onion peel. I am afraid to find out “what” “is” “power” after peeling the last onion peel.

Is this life for real or are we just living in a fantasy world?
Can people be truly honest or are they always with an agenda when they get closer to you? I do get a lot of disappointments from people because I am either too stupid, take things to heart, too personal, I believe in the magic dragon.

Thank you for telling me that it is “ok” to be not to “have to”. I do feel guilty when I don’t work one day (out in the field) and I stay home watching tv or just being. I feel that I am supposed to be doing something, saving the world, praying, constructing, creating….

Sorry for outpouring my deepest thoughts, but you are making this possible. I don’t usually talk about me with anybody else but with bolu. As you can read, I am a basket full of………

You are great!

Juanita

]]> By: Jaime http://thefastingpath.com/blog/fasting/embracing-your-shadow/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Jaime Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:27:38 +0000 http://thevibrationcoach.wordpress.com/?p=437#comment-100 Patrick. I appreciate this post so much. Some of us, like me, run from the things we don't like about ourselves and in my case I denied they were there. I wore many masks because I was afraid to show who I was, to be vulnerable and known, and to admit that I wasn't this perfect, enlightened being. I became heavy and difficult to be around, even for myself. I got sick of me!! Anyway, the work now is to acknowledge what's there, as-is it if you will, and then allow God to heal through His/Her merciful energy. For me, with every "character defect" that I become aware of, I feel it easier to live and be available to others. Jaime Patrick. I appreciate this post so much. Some of us, like me, run from the things we don’t like about ourselves and in my case I denied they were there. I wore many masks because I was afraid to show who I was, to be vulnerable and known, and to admit that I wasn’t this perfect, enlightened being. I became heavy and difficult to be around, even for myself. I got sick of me!! Anyway, the work now is to acknowledge what’s there, as-is it if you will, and then allow God to heal through His/Her merciful energy. For me, with every “character defect” that I become aware of, I feel it easier to live and be available to others.

Jaime

]]> By: Patrick http://thefastingpath.com/blog/fasting/embracing-your-shadow/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Patrick Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:58:40 +0000 http://thevibrationcoach.wordpress.com/?p=437#comment-91 Great question. Thanks for your comment. Great question. Thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Christine Meyer http://thefastingpath.com/blog/fasting/embracing-your-shadow/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Christine Meyer Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:45:05 +0000 http://thevibrationcoach.wordpress.com/?p=437#comment-90 I read the book 12 years ago, got certified through Debbie Ford's coaching program, and all of it has been valuable knowledge. There is balance in everything. There is some of what is wanted and some of what is not wanted in anything that you put your attention to, but what you resist (the shadow) can be "running" you, your whole life. So, are you "running away" from this perceived "shadow" (or thing you don't want), or "moving toward" who you really are? I read the book 12 years ago, got certified through Debbie Ford’s coaching program, and all of it has been valuable knowledge. There is balance in everything. There is some of what is wanted and some of what is not wanted in anything that you put your attention to, but what you resist (the shadow) can be “running” you, your whole life. So, are you “running away” from this perceived “shadow” (or thing you don’t want), or “moving toward” who you really are?

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