Forbidden Pattern - The Shadow and The Rising Sun.rtf

One of the forbidden patterns.. Theme builds on the darker side of a person and a sneaky "swish" to get you in there(shadow)  Essentially it seems this pattern is best suited to encouraging one to get in touch with their hidden desires (thus connecting emotionally with them) and then eliciting their appearance in an extroverted way.

The Shadow and the Rising Sun


You know, I was thinking about something the other day...about
polarities...
about the whole concept of the Yin and Yang...about hot and
cold...black and
white...light and darkness. And how opposites are really the same
thing...just varying degrees on the same spectrum...of
possibilities...and
how one is defined in relation to the other...and how there are no
absolutes.

And then I remembered something that a Psychologist friend of mine said
once...She said, "I have to go feed my shadow"...and I wasn't quite
sure
what she meant at the time until I read something by Jung.

We are born completely whole and it isn't until we learn what our
current
culture tells us what is good and what is bad that we start to both
repress
and express these parts of ourselves.

He said that everyone has a Shadow...a hidden side...a place of
forbidden
desire. This is that part of you that you hide from the rest of the
world...
maybe even from yourself... where you can experience and imagine these
thoughts... these thoughts that you don't tell anyone about ...where
you
really want to experience all the excitement of this moment... to let
go of
all the things that had been holding you back before... to just let
go...experience all that life offers you now. The Shadow is a good
thing he
believed, because it brings a sense of balance.

Now, this sense of balance is very important because the concept that
whatever you repress grows and begins to spill over into other parts of
your
life. If your shadow is repressed it grows and grows...until it just
takes
you over completely. Jung said it was like the Rising Sun... because in
the
morning, as the Sun rises in the sky...... it gets higher and higher...
closer and closer to the highest point in its path (midlife) ...until
at
mid-day it changes polarity completely... and everything that was once
true
has now changed...and now the opposite is true... and the sun goes
down.
This was the concept behind mid-life crisis.

So balance then is a good thing, and Jung believed that the first part
of
our lives is about separation from the shadow, while the latter part of
our
lives is about integration with the shadow and about being whole.

Now what if you were to see your shadow right in front of you, and talk
to
it, what would it say?

Now what if you were to step into your shadow right now, and see the
world
through the eyes of your shadow.. What would that say about the person
that
you were before and what does this say about who you are now?