1. Take a good look at your Can Do's and Can't Do's at the physical, emotional and mental levels.
2. For many of us, serious thinking is itself a shadow area, and we avoid it with the argument that we are not capable of doing it.
3. It is important to check how we got this attitude:- a) Did someone try to discourage us?
b) Ar we incapable of doing it?
c) Is it simply that we don't want to?
d) Are we using our Can't Do's as alibis for avoiding the mental effort required to solve problems?
4. Whatever the source, once we examine our shadow areas, we can decide to work on the trait or potential we are seeking to deny.
5. We can then consciously cultivate these skills and thus retrieve our disowned self, although not everything we have disowned can or need be owned up again, and that's where our sense of discretion and balance come in.
6. Our goal of self-realisation will provide a perspective and our need for an integrated and balanced perspective will show us the way.
7. It is also very important to learn to be comfortable with the choices you have rejected - including what you condemn as evil and bad - which is also a part of your disowned self.
8. When we come to terms with the fact that darkness and light are part of our internal and external worlds, then we can find the courage to learn from our choices.
2. For many of us, serious thinking is itself a shadow area, and we avoid it with the argument that we are not capable of doing it.
3. It is important to check how we got this attitude:- a) Did someone try to discourage us?
b) Ar we incapable of doing it?
c) Is it simply that we don't want to?
d) Are we using our Can't Do's as alibis for avoiding the mental effort required to solve problems?
4. Whatever the source, once we examine our shadow areas, we can decide to work on the trait or potential we are seeking to deny.
5. We can then consciously cultivate these skills and thus retrieve our disowned self, although not everything we have disowned can or need be owned up again, and that's where our sense of discretion and balance come in.
6. Our goal of self-realisation will provide a perspective and our need for an integrated and balanced perspective will show us the way.
7. It is also very important to learn to be comfortable with the choices you have rejected - including what you condemn as evil and bad - which is also a part of your disowned self.
8. When we come to terms with the fact that darkness and light are part of our internal and external worlds, then we can find the courage to learn from our choices.