Sometimes there is resistance to become better because the price to pay is too high for us, so we prefer to stay the way we are.
Issues keep coming up in our life, and we keep on having the same patterns of thoughts. They are triggered by a low self esteem, the feeling of being rejected, seeing people as a threat. We have issues of abundance (affection or material things) and issue of self identity.
- Some people are craving for attention and affection and will always be on the alert, they need the other to recognize their presence and will do anything to get the attention, even if it makes everybody miserable
- If somebody has a low self esteem, he would try to mirror his self esteem through money for example, the more he has, the better he thinks he is.
We have to identify with our inner power. We don't need extension of ourselves (like a car for example) to be ok. We don't need to have the perfect body to be ok. When we're in touch with our inner power, we don't need to excuse ourself, to explain why we think the way we do because we're ok with ourselves. We are crushed when we are not in contact with who we are really.
But how do we relate to our shadow ? The society has been telling us to fight our shadow
side, it is a sin, it is black and bad. We have to hide it and discipline it, because Religion has interpreted it with shame.Do not fight, do not try to destroy your shadow, you will hurt yourself big time. This is not the way to relate to our our shadow. What we need to do is become aware and become friends with it. Be curisous : what is my shadow part telling me ? Be interested, why is it here ?
The black and white are complementary. So whatever does not function is complementrary to my wholeness and whatever functions is complementary to my wholeness.
The Mandorla can help us to integrate our shadow.
The Mandorla is an ancient symbol of two circles coming together, overlapping one another to form an almond shape in the middle. Mandorla is the Italian word for almond. The almond is an ancient symbol for the closing up of valuable contents in a hard, almost impenetrable shell. It is a mysterious image of concentration upon the light that shines from within. Christ's true nature is supposed to lie beneath the surface of the corporal (bodily) being.
During medieval times,
the almond was interpreted as a symbol of the embryo enclosed in the uterus. The form of the almond which suggests a stylized vulva may have contributed to such an interpretation. It is also a variant of a halo which surrounds the whole body of the holy person.
The Mandorla is also known as the "Vesica Piscis", symbolizing the interactions and interdependence of opposing worlds and forces. Although the symbol has its origins before the Christian era, the early Christians used the symbol as a method to describe the coming together of heaven and earth, between the divine and human.
The circles symbolise interacting but complementary opposites. The space within the overlap is the place in which we are called to "remain". This is the place where you arrive after you leave one room and have not yet entered another. In this place, you are living on the threshold and this requires faith. All transformation takes place in this space.
If we deny one of the opposites (our shadow), the circles may only touch; they do not intersect. In this situation, we are polarised, out of balance.
Our temptation is to keep them separate, the challenge is to allow them to meet. When opposite meets, it is a generation of living, it creates energy and passion. It is like the 4th stage of Alchemy, the creation of Gold :
1- Darkness
2- Lightness
3 - Mixte
4 - Gold
This creation of Force and Energy will help you to move forward ans we know that it is a life struggle to work on ourselves ...
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