Inedible wrote:When something surfaces that you have been avoiding, the natural tendency is to avoid it some more. This is what happens if you aren't prepared to respond differently. If you can avoid pushing it back, you have an opportunity for growth and healing. Mindfulness training is a good approach to being ready to respond to old thoughts, emotions, habits, and patterns in new ways. The actual technique is secondary to this. And you can be sure that things which have been repressed tend to be distorted and ugly at first, but they don't have to stay that way.

Regholdain wrote:This is a fascinating subject. I was just exposed to the term "Shadow Work" while watching a YouTube video about the Ajna (third eye) chakra. The practitioner mentioned shadow work as an important step to helping align all of the power centers, as doing so, according to her, expands our self-view which in turn helps with the chakras and the third eye.

Is there any material or books on good shadow work methods, ways to start, what to pursue, etc?