Here we go again, another intriguing topic to explore. When you see or hear these title words, what are your first thoughts? How do these words make you feel? Curious? Confused? Apprehensive? My goal today is to explain what the Shadow Self is.
Our shadow self can be thought of as a part of ourselves we want to keep in the background, a part we want to hide from the world and the reasons vary because we are individuals, no one person is exactly like another.
We may have traits like insecurity, feelings of unworthiness, lack of self-esteem, imagined fears or phobias and it’s very likely that some of these inner feelings were brought forward into this lifetime from a past life. Perhaps in the past we were an abused spouse, a cripple, imprisoned when innocent – our inner emotions could stem from a variety of reasons.
This lifetime is known as the time for our personal ascension to happen and that of our planet and one of the main “keys” to ascension is self-love. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot apply unconditional love to others and the ascension process is about love. So when we hold negative feeling about ourself, when we have parts of ourselves that we don’t like and or want to hide away from (our shadow parts), then self love cannot happen. Ascension means attaining a consciousness level of at least the fifth dimension which is necessary to exist in the higher dimensions.
There are various reasons why a soul assumes physicality, a few of these reasons can be, to balance and clear karma, help others and occasionally we are here just for the experience. Through experiences, through life situations, a learning occurs and when we learn, we grow in consciousness which causes a move forward in evolution. All of that can only be accomplished through love, love of self and love of others.
Our Soul – our authentic self – is pure love and light. We incarnate as a “satellite” or expansion of that Being, we are the Ego. I would like to quote a paragraph from my book “Crystal Corridor of Light – The Starseed Highway” regarding the ego and the explanation I received from Spirit.
Quote – the Higher Self, decided to create an ego, which would allow the physical body to maintain itself. Ego is the satellite, or an expansion of the soul. The soul uses the ego to take the physical body through the lifetime to gain experience and learn lessons that aid in soul growth. The ego must learn enough to lift its vibration to its higher spiritual nature. When it has gained enough experience and learned the lessons set forth, it can then merge with the Higher Self and ascend.
The Shadow Self is a part of ourselves, our task is to recognize those shadow parts of self and then bring each one out into the open and acknowledge it, in that way we are able to heal those parts of self through connecting with our Higher Self, perhaps asking for help. Holding the intention to become a better person is always a good thing, the Higher Self is available to assist, we just need to be willing and then reach out.
One of our important tasks here at this time is to remember who we are and where we came from, remember that we are Divine Beings having a human experience. When we reach out and connect with “the other side”, our Higher Self, magic happens. In order to ascend it it necessary to be in command of the Ego self, we cannot learn to love ourselves while ego is in control. Loving ourselves simply means accepting our chosen Path. Once the Ego is tamed and managed, then we are able to love ourselves and dispel the Shadow parts of Self.
Bethel
