It helps us to stop feeling ashamed, guilty about our dark side.
Every time that, our "dark side" comes out day by day with negative aspects of our personality, it makes us understand ourselves better, to the point of understanding ourselves much more to that inner monster that we have repressed, and we let that knight who can defend us and finally rescue, the damsel locked in the castle tower, liquidate the evil dragon of the castle, because although it costs us to believe it, it turns out that the dragon of the castle, is ourselves... Ouch
And even if you don't like that dragon 🐲, I remind you that the one who should change: it's you.
We have to be aware of our dark or shady side so that it does not come out in an explosive way throwing fire through the mouth, but also, even if you do not believe it, that dark side has a positive and creative side from where the ideas and attitudes that can lead you to transformation arise.
Those ugly thoughts and images that enter your mind and scare and do until you shudder and tell yourself why am I thinking this? How do I get rid of such ugly thoughts? I want to stop thinking so ugly. Those intrusive thoughts typical of anxiety or in its worst defect are compulsive and they do us a lot of harm and the most unfortunate thing is that no one talks about them because they produce shame, fear and guilt.
Some thoughts will try to clip your wings, others will remind you that you were born to fly. Some will ask you to lower your dreams, others will encourage you to go even higher. The voice of what you think, that you choose to listen to can change the direction of your life.
Sometimes we forget that the light we value so much would not exist without the shadow that contrasts it. It is precisely in the dark moments that our joys, what we love and what sustains us are revealed most strongly.
Being in the shadows successful people look for solutions to problems, and if you look at people who you consider successful you will see that when some difficulty happens to them they look for ways to transform that into an opportunity for growth and if they can't, at least they take care of managing it.
People who fail in their lives tend to stay paralyzed blaming the universe for everything that happens to them. But, without pretending to say that only your will is enough for things to happen, or that there are no people to whom circumstances genuinely affected, if I mean that even if you had the ”bad luck" of living tragic experiences, ultimately it is your responsibility to see what you will do with that, how you will manage the consequences to get on your feet.
Surround yourself with those who drive you, not those who limit you. Because you deserve to go as far as you dare to dream. What lights have you been able to see thanks to your shadows or moments of shadow?
Nice day, Janitze.☀️
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