Weekly Healing Project #9 | October 5 - 11 | Embrace Your Dark Side: Healing The Shadow

[Shallah Kali]

First I need to apologize for not getting this up in proper time. I hope this shortened period will still be useful and assist healing.

This is one a toughie. So many emotions and behaviors are demonized in our culture. Some are unhealthy and unethical no matter how you look at them but many are normal human reactions where what really matters is what is done with them. Take anger for example. Spiritual people don't get angry dammit! Actually they do and then go beat themselves up mentally over it. Anger can be useful and even a life saving emotion when properly used so I don't see any reason to get rid of my ability to get angry. The issue is what I do with my anger. Do I use it to stand up when someone is unjust to me or do I take my frusterations out on innocent bystanders? Then there is fear. Fear again can be very useful giving one a nice burst of adrenaline to run away from danger but at times it gets stuck in the ON position creating excessive fear and even fear of harmless things. Other times it gets stuck OFF allowing people to get into dangerous situations and befriend dangerous people without a twinge of fear until harm is already been done.

There are so many things that are thrown into The Shadow that books have been written about it. To simplify things I suggest directing general healing to the Shadow to bring distorted and damaged things that otherwise are healthy for the individual back into balance. Or more simply just send healing to the Shadow and trust the healing energy to heal in the manner that serves the recipient best.


Guidelines:
Please send energy to those who sign up along with this thread. This is to charge it to allow anyone who visits it may choose to receive healing healing now and in the future. The suggested times for those who want guidelines are 6:30-7 AM & 6:30-7 PM. You are NOT expected to send the entire half hour or twice a day or even daily :) Those times are just rough guidelines for those who prefer working in a framework. It is up to you to send when and how long *you* feel is appropriate.

All energy healing techniques are welcome whether prayer, Reiki, visualizing colored light, chanting, singing, dancing, crystals or something totally different. The only requirement is it to be sent with the intention that it be for the highest good of all involved in what ever manner serves the recipients best.

You may take part as a sender, receiver or both. Choose which serves you best at this time. For those who prefer to send to a list of recipients please post below that you wish to receive.

Sharing experiences and results are optional but totally welcome if there is anything you feel comfortable sharing :)

Previous Week:
Weekly Healing Project #9 | September 28 - October 4: Personal Power, Will & The Throat Chakra
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[Sanity Claws]

1. I will participate

in both giving and receiving.
Something happened yesterday that made me realize that I had a dark side about something that I didn't fully realize.
This is very timely for me.

[Shallah Kali]

2. I am sending and receiving and hoping I didn't scare anyone off with the title

Shadow work deals with deep wounds and bits of self that scare the dickens out of the rest of the self so I try to use lame humor to try to diffuse it a wee bit.