Ready for a Walk on the Shadow Side?

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Have you heard the term “shadow work”?  It’s one that’s volleyed about in discussions of personal growth and transformation. I explain in this week’s blog, how “shadow work” is a very appropriate term in healing and feeling better about yourself.

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Shadow work… you may be familiar with the term. The “shadow” is a psychological term for everything we can’t see in ourselves. It’s hidden in our subconscious. And the things that we can’t see in ourself are the things that we don’t want to see in ourselves… yet it’s the other 50% of us.

We got the light. We got the shadow. Our flaws, our weaknesses, our selfishness, our hate, our nastiness… yeah, that probably pretty much sums it up. It’s everything that we can’t allow to surface because facing it would feel like a nuclear bomb going off in our Soul. Energetic annihilation.

This is what taking the dive into trauma feels like. We all carry trauma – to some lesser or greater degree. Some have an emotional dust-up now and then and others of us wrestle with unrelenting emotional pain. And this makes us a slave to our emotions – we never know when something out of left field will occur – somebody says something, something does something and we’re TRIGGERED and off to the races. All because we continue to keep our shadow side hidden.

So what’s the answer? Ha! Expose your shadow side, right? Bring it up, expose it to the light and let it go. Of course that’s easier said than done.

There are countless portals that promise to help you explore and expose your shadow side. Many are pursuing psychedelic substances to do this with varying success. My work, in part, employs cannabis to support this deep Inner exploration. When we pair it with expressive meditation techniques, it is one of the most efficient and effective ways I and countless others have found to release difficult emotions.

I’m also really excited to be introducing Cannabis Exploration and Meditation deep dives that will include the approach of psychedelic cannabis, a term coined by the edgy and pioneering psychedelic therapist Daniel McQueen. Daniel is author of Psychedelic Cannabis and has reframed the perspective on using strong cannabis for taking you into deep meditative states.

That’s where we want to go. When you give your subconscious permission to open up to emotions that are tormenting you – meet and greet them as I like to say – they simply respond, “More please!” This dark side of you wants to be listened to and is starved for attention because we work SO hard to suppress and ignore it at all other times.

So when you begin paying attention to your shadow side and listen to it you create the opportunity to finally release it. The triggers and the drama that make your life prickly begin to diminish. When this happens, you move that much closer to the REAL YOU. The REAL YOU that is reorganizing itself on both a physical and energetic level. Life becomes easier because the psychic burden begins releasing.

What are your thoughts on this? How do you feel about engaging cannabis for deep meditative exploration to release the difficult emotions that might be hounding you? Drop down to the comments section and let me know.

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