Healing your shadow self

Shadow healing is the reprogramming of the subconscious mind.

Our life experiences, namely the earlier ones, molded our internal beliefs about the world and ourselves.

An example of this would be, you saw your parents fighting and arguing a lot, but they always stayed together. This might establish the internal belief that “love is hard.” This could manifest as you staying in difficult, stressful, and unhealthy relationships.

But this isn’t your fault.

The brain is very malleable and impressionable—a highly adaptable brain makes for a highly adaptable species, one that’s more likely to survive sudden changes. Your brain is only doing its best to keep you alive.

Evolution did not prepare us for the world we live in today.

All of us operate under subconscious programming. It saves the brain energy. You don’t have time to consciously reflect on each of your experiences before making every decision, so your body stores your experiences energetically within your shadows.

The shadows include everything sent to the back of storage—so yes, your traumas and repressed memories habit this area. However, this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Although your memories are repressed, you still experienced them, and the part of you that does remember lives in your shadows as well. This is called your shadow self.

Your shadow self needs to feel loved and accepted and appreciated. It is hard to convince a part of yourself that you hide away from everyone that it is loved and accepted and appreciated, so this requires some consistency and some reflection upon the way you treat yourself. This is called shadow healing. If you speak to yourself negatively in your head or are constantly participating in cyclic self-destructive behaviors, you are suffering from unhealed shadow wounds.

Your shadow self is a valid part of you and deserves love. It will be difficult to convince parts of yourself that you repress that you love them. This is the beginning of your shadow healing journey. The rewards are immeasurable.

restoring your energy

Pause. Stop reading. Take 6 deep, slow breaths into your belly. Don’t rush this.

Did you feel your energy shift?

Energy healing is one of the five domains of alternative medicine and includes tools such as magnets, electrical devices, crystals, needles, aromas, and herbs. It is compatible with distant healing, something ever-increasing in demand with hospitals at full capacity. Everything is energy; scientists are beginning to suspect that protons and electrons are made up not of particles but of vibrating strings of energy. Ancient spiritual practices, such as Chinese acupuncture, or Japanese reiki, indicated that this energy can be manipulated throughout the body. It is through this energy manipulation that healers can help keep the energy field healthy which in turn keeps the body healthy.

According to Hindu spiritual philosophy, energy is bathed in the chakras, 7 portals of immense cosmic energy placed along the spine. Each chakra has its own associated functions as well as foods, colors, and sounds to facilitate healing. The goal is for each chakra to be balanced—not underactive and not overactive. Meridians are the passageways for energy to travel through the body. They transport your life force through your body and regulate the rate of cell reproduction. The goal is for your meridian to be free of blockages so that energy can flow freely from each chakra throughout the body.

Your biofield, or aura, is a protective energy shield surrounding your body. In 1729, Sir Isaac Newton described the aura as “electromagnetic light, a subtle, vibrating electric and elastic medium that was excitable and exhibited phenomena such as repulsion, attraction, and motion.” The biofield acts as a filter, attracting certain energies and repelling others. Sometimes your biofield works against you: operating on its own shadowed programming, your biofield may begin working against your conscious wishes.

Therefore, shadow healing and good energetic hygiene are imperative, especially if you are manifesting.