Accepting all parts of yourself/ Shadow work

Hello and welcome back! I am so grateful to those of you on this journey with me, it truly means the world to me and is so inspiring to share with like-minded people who are ready to embrace a better life for themselves and future generations.

I struggled this past week with a recurring feeling of irritation and anger. I regularly did my grounding and spent time in the sun when it was out. I thanked the negative energy for showing up and forgave it and myself and released it. I did multiple visualisations to help wash away the feelings and while these methods did help at the time I soon found the same feelings arise.

As the week went by, I started to wonder what I was missing. I am aware there are some very intense energies on the planet right now helping to bring up what we need to address and clear out in our lives. I knew how to clear the energies, but this time it was only temporary. A thought came to me to delve deeper and that is exactly what I did.

The question then became what happened just prior to my mood changing. I realised it was simple things that really don’t matter but the perfectionist side of me got frustrated and allowed the negative energy in. It could be something as simple as someone in the house not leaving an area the way they found it. Every time I focused on clearing the energy I was not addressing the issue creating it which was me. I was the issue! I like things a certain way as many of us do and if it did not go my way, I got cranky.

I did not like this part of myself and after this recurring feeling hanging around for too many days for my liking I was reminded of something called shadow work. This is working with the darkest parts of ourselves. Rather than trying to ignore this side of myself I realised I needed to embrace and welcome the parts of myself that I have previously chosen to deny or ignore. So I did a visualisation, and I welcomed in with love my angry self, my clumsy self, the unattractive self I sometimes see and just let each part of them know that I acknowledge and love them and that we are one. The feeling was very healing and uplifting.

We play many roles in our lives, a parent, a child, a brother or sister, a wife or husband, a co-worker, an artist, a musician and the list goes on. What we often forget though is the many parts of our more intimate selves that have been created overtime. The angry us, the victim, the clumsy, the sad and the list goes on.

Over the next few weeks if you are struggling with some heavy energies that you find difficult to release or keep coming up try shining the light on the darker parts of yourself that you may not have previously wanted to look at. These parts make you whole and by welcoming them in with open arms the shadow parts of yourself that you have ignored become one with you. This part of you is now acknowledged, welcomed and loved. It is an incredible release to admit to yourself the parts you may not like and instead of berating yourself to be better or try and hide them, welcome them in with open arms.

I wish you much love and light and look forward to the next post.

Michelle