Building Spiritual Resilience…Honouring the process of liberation attained from your shadow!

I wanted to briefly write about this, as this is a topic that has many facets and is well discussed in many forms of traditions, perceptions and/or beliefs.

Generally, the Shadow is a part of you that you suppress and/or harshly judge about yourself as a negative. Carl Jung who was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who spoke of the shadow aspect within our being. One of his famous quotes were “The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no-one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real”.

Within the shadow aspect of ourselves, there are enormous gifts to discover once we have the courage to journey through the mists of the shadow. Over my time, I’ve observed numerous people who, when dealing with their challenges like to automatically send 'love and light' to whatever their perceived challenge is, but in hindsight i have found they are not actually giving themselves the space or the ability to feel whatever is necessary for them to feel; thereby not allowing themselves to build their own Spiritual Resilience.

It is great when we send love and light to something, or a situation or even a person, although we need to be mindful in how we use the term and not to misuse it because we want to abscond any uncomfortable feelings that just might enable us to grow and learn.

When there are times of suffering, try to gently assign yourself into listening to your issue. Become its ally, not it’s enemy. Focus on where you are holding onto this type of pain within your physical body, journal it down and allow it to have a voice, allow it to tell you what it needs from you. After you feel whatever is necessary in order for your resilience to grow, entirely let it go.

Every time you contract and release the certain issue, you enable for the suffering to become less because you have simply allowed yourself to feel and listen. Not pushing anything away or locking that particular emotion into the vastness of your subconscious waiting to be triggered again.

When a Butterfly is in its chrysalis, it struggles for a moment to gently emerge out of its divine encasement, in order for it to properly take flight and embody its highest potential, it feels everything during that time of emergence. If we were to interrupt its emerging process, it won’t build the resilience it needs to be upon the earth and ultimately, not become the beautiful butterfly.

Give yourself permission to see the struggle or pain as a liberation process - not as mere suffering. Essentially, it is about dealing with the real facets and aspects of life and by not continuously wanting to “wish” a feeling away, just because in that moment we feel uncomfortable or our sabotage program is activating within us and creating a safety net, not allowing our spirit to grow or assimilate.

During this process of building our spiritual resilience, we can make the furtherance easier by descending into our heart centre, connecting to the seat of our soul and unveiling its true source of wisdom whilst at the same time, understanding the knowledge that it contains, providing us with the rich notion that we have such intense sovereignty to move through whatever life presents us.

Learning to be spiritually resilient is very powerful. With practice, this enables you to embody all of your wholeness and ultimately love all the micro and macro that make you, you. Having faith, being compassionate to yourself and trusting the unfolding process is yet another profound principle to attain.

It’s time to honour you, completely and wholly. Your an amazing being. Honour where you are at this stage of your life and most of all, honour your soul's feelings, they tell you enchanting stories. We are all on such an enriching soul journey, and your soul is awaiting its call to reach its highest and most captivating potential, so reach out and claim it!
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Always written in love..