Embrace the darkness within you
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i am a house in me is darkness
my consciousness is a lonely light
a candle in the wind
it’s flickering here and there
everything else is in the shadows
everything else is in the unconscious
but they are there the other rooms
hallways staircases and doors
at any time and anything that lives
within you
and wanders within you it is there
it works and it lives within the house
that is me
many of us cringe at the thought of
embracing our inner darkness
i haven’t met anyone who said that i
enjoy being afraid
i enjoy being angry or i
fully and wholly embrace the fact that
i’m insecure
at this point in my life however
these emotions thoughts that we’re
taught are bad
and some that we personally dislike
these feelings of shame feelings of
anger
sadness despair feelings of loneliness
feelings of incompetence feelings of
inadequacy feeling like we aren’t enough
all these feelings we push
out of the light and into the dark
some of us mask these feelings
others let them define us
control us and even determine our lives
and for the rest of us we’re oblivious
to him
the uncomfortable thoughts the
unacceptable desires
and memories that we don’t want in our
conscious minds
life is about duality yin and yang
sun and moon day and night
emotions moods and our thoughts
also exist in duality and
each serve a specific purpose
one out of ten teens will go through
depression
self-esteem issues anxiety
as well as self-image issues
in their lifetime suicide at this point
in time is the leading cause of death
for youth globally
and so when we talk about depression
it isn’t being sad when everything in
your life isn’t going right
depression is when everything in your
life is going
sorry take that back um
yeah sorry miss stepping
okay depression is actually being sad
when everything in your life
is going right rather than when
everything is going wrong
and often than not what causes us this
discomfort
what causes us distress and suffering
resides in our unconscious minds
the part of our mind we don’t want
to see or we don’t have immediate access
to
this is what drives our defenses and
drives most of our behaviors
your senses help you to sense the world
and most importantly make sense of the
world
so when you ignore or shut out your
intuitive sense
you block the communication from within
yourself
you block that inner wisdom
therefore you’re more or less losing out
on a lot of information
about yourself and about your world
so how do you make the unconscious
conscious
um how do you bring light into what is
dark
how do you bring awareness to what
drives most of your
automatic actions automatic thoughts and
behaviors
the answer is simple
however it’s a little difficult
when it comes to actually putting it
into practice you basically have to
start by noticing
with conscious awareness these automatic
thoughts
these automatic actions these automatic
emotions
the ones that we immediately go to
things are going wrong or when things
are going right
in our lives start by questioning
these automatic thoughts these automatic
reactions these automatic emotions
instead of pushing them away and shying
away because they’re uncomfortable
or they’re they’re not sitting right
with you
start by being quite mindful of what it
is that triggered
those emotions because there
is where the answers lie there is where
you can
help yourself heal from those
uncomfortable feelings emotions and
thoughts
so today what i urge you
is to start building that bridge
not between yourself in an external
entity
but start building this bridge within
yourself building that bridge between
your conscious mind
and your unconscious mind start by
bringing the light
into what is dark start by being
consciously aware
of what drives your actions what drives
your behaviors
and what drives your emotions because
that is where your healing lines
in all my years of offering therapy
the most healing agent that i’ve seen is
not getting rid
of an uncomfortable situation or
unpleasant
context rather it is in awareness
it is in openness to learn from our pain
and i’m not telling you to start poking
at your pain for sadistic pleasure
because
that would be i would like to come see
me if that happens
but start poking at these pain points so
that you can learn more
learn about your pain because it is
there for a purpose
and there is something that your pain is
trying to teach you
and so if you’re uncomfortable you’re in
pain
you’re suffering there’s something in
that pain there’s something
in that suffering and perhaps there is
where your purpose
lies as well for a lot of people
that i’ve worked with that is what has
been their most
common healing agent that openness to
learn
and that awareness and mindfulness to
their emotions
their thoughts as well as their actions
namaste the light in me honors
the light in you for those who don’t
know what namaste means
thank you