What Is The Shadow?

Many people have a dark side or a bad habit they'd rather ignore than face. Maybe you overindulge in food, gossip or criticize others instead of looking at what's really going on. Debbie Ford explains how the shadow can affect your life.

She explains about part of every human being that has the power to be our teacher, our trainer and our guide. There leading us to strength, creativity and happiness. Imagine this part of us is just waiting to be seen, to be heard and to be embraced. But it is not patient, when you left unexamined and ignored. This part of us has the power to sabotage our life, destroying our relationships, killing our spirit and keeping us from fulfilling our dreams. So what is this mysterious part of us, buried deep inside our consciousness? It is our human shadow.

I think the shadow is everything that someone has shamed us for doing or having or being. It’s like all the parts of us we hate, we keep pushing away. All the fear, anger, pain and regret. This is just the Result of not the shadow, but the disease that we all have as humans, from the knowledge of good and evil. As the author says, being able to identify the bad is us, is not a bad thing. Well, you are what you eat and you are what you do.