Blog Post #4: Shadow

I think these qualities are a part of yourself by using the traits of the person you personally dislike or traits that you secretly admire to really describe you. Yes, I believe I have described my shadow. I see the connection between myself and the person I personally know. The notion of the shadow might explain a reason why people are allured to villains because some villains have around the same qualities as some people just described. “My Shadow qualities” for this exercise were obsession, comfort zone, rejection, and confidence. When completing this Shadow exercise, I also described the person I admire, but not love most in the world. I think this says that if you acknowledge this part of your shadow that it doesn’t necessarily say you condone the behavior/quality trait. It just opens your eyes to see yourself to stop resisting the truth because we have strongly denied this part of ourselves.  I think this “Shadow Exercise” is to look deep within our own person’s self to accurately describe the parts of our own self to which people deny about themselves. If people stop denying the shadow side of their personality, then likely it is a better way to find a state of mind in our ego to where repressing or giving those characteristics free range is no more. It perhaps leads the ego to stay undamaged and strong to where we can allow the shadow to gain a form of expression and ventilation.