What is the Shadow-Self? It is the part or energetic part of you that is not in the light. It is that part or piece that is in between the darkness, meaning without light, nor is it in the light.

The shadow is the gray area of unconscious beliefs and unwanted patterns of behavior that no longer serve you, your Higher-Self. More simply stated, it is being in a state of unconsciousness, sleep-walking through this life or any other. It is a form of denial. It is a form of unwillingness to step beyond a known comfort zone regardless of the cost of remaining where you are.

Working with your Shadow-Self is about being willing to being willing to look at that part of you, your heart, your Spirit and your energy that is offering resistance to your moving forward with forgiveness and healing. It is also about releasing limiting beliefs that hold you where you are, immobile and stuck.

A shadow is an experience, a situation or a relationship that no longer resonates within your heart center, yet you keep going back or it keeps you stuck in the muck longing to be free.

A shadow relationship that no longer works keeps you in a state of being frozen in unhappiness, a complete state of lack. A job or career that you dread going to not only prevents you from enjoying what you do, it creates energy blockages in your Chakra energy centers.

A lack of self-worth, accepting the judgments of others as your own causes great harm within your Inner-Self. These things and more create and empower the Shadow-Self to become stronger, building more and more defenses to break through to your ultimate truth.

Each and every time you deny your truth, the truth of who you really are, you create another layer of resistance. Resistance manifests in the form of refusing to take action. It manifests as a lack of suitable job or career opportunities, attracting the wrong person into your life. It also creates disharmony, dis-ease, discomfort, and a lack of joy, a lack of prosperity and abundance, unloving experiences. Resistance creates energy blockages on all levels to include in your Aura, Ethereal energy body and within your Soul Essence.

So how do you work with your Shadow-Self? You begin by clearing and balancing your energy through meditation or an energy healing. You begin to look beyond surface appearances of what is and is not manifesting in your life.

Forgiveness begins to heal your heart center which in turn allows you to begin to peel back the outer wrapping, the energy layers you have built to defend yourself from being hurt, abused or maligned.

The process requires of you a commitment to go within, seeing and observing that which is calling out to you for attention, for healing, for forgiveness and that which nearly demands you release it.

Be willing to go within, do what you know needs to be done to free you from all that truly no longer resonates within you, within your Soul Essence of truth, beauty, love and light. If you do not free yourself, you may ultimately drown in the very place you are right now.