Most people are focused on how they want things to be. However, how you want things to be is much different from what things are. Shadow Work helps you see how things are, not how you want things to be.
Emotions are illusions
An illusion is something that seems to be accurate but is not.
As a soul, you possess a body that feels pain; if you identify with the body, you will identify with the pain.
Emotional pain is a product of the mind; without you focusing on thoughts that center on emotional pain, you could not experience it.
Emotions are strong feelings we believe, and since we hold such a firm conviction towards our feelings, they are natural to us. Unless we decide to change our minds or something more important happens.
Since we can change our minds, we can turn away from “pain,” if we feel that we cannot turn away, that feeling is an illusion. An illusion is something that seems to be accurate but is not.
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Illusions are external
Illusion cares about appearances and lower vibratory things. The nature of illusion and fantasy will have you waiting for something that never comes.
Illusion invades your thoughts and creates false beliefs, negative emotional reactions, and harmful habits. Whenever you attempt to correct the misconception, your mind will fight you. However, there is no fight when you are aligned with the soul’s guidance, which comes from within.
To escape illusion, you must get acclimated with your inner world. To grasp the inner world, you must remove negative emotions, which make the inner world inhabitable. You want to release negative emotions because they are not real and serve no purpose along your spiritual journey.
Everything is energy
The soul is energy, and everything from the soul exists as energy. Our ideas, physical bodies, emotions, and feelings are all energetic. Every human being is an active vibration at different levels and speeds.
When things vibrate high, they are light and unseen. When things vibrate low, they are dense and hard to move. Just think of how it feels to have a “light” heart instead of a “heavy” heart.
Negative Emotions
Pain and negative emotions exist at the lower denser levels of the emotional, energetic spectrum. Conversely, bliss exists in a non-existent far-reaching frequency where no pain is in sight.
When we are in a low frequency, everything is a challenge and another reason to suffer. Since your emotions represent the quality of your inner life which creates your outer life, you must choose the emotions you want to experience.
Negative emotions cause a person to suffer repeatedly in their mind. However, we love positive emotions, and we do not realize that without positive emotions are negative emotions, so the goal is to remove negative feelings altogether.
When you are free from emotions, you are more present and free of shadow projection.
Desire is the origin of Negative Emotions.
When you desire or want something you do not have for an extended period, this creates illusionary emotional pain. You choose what you like and want. Furthermore, if you did not wish to do what you desired, there would be no pain. Instead of desiring, you could be grateful for what you have.
Acceptance
Acceptance allows you to be present and clear on the soul’s intuition, guidance, and unconditional love. When you refuse to accept, you block the soul while making your life harder than it already is. Learn to allow and get guidance from the soul.
Consciousness
Consciousness is being present and asking yourself a question while formulating an answer. Ask yourself: What am I thinking, what am I feeling, what am I doing, and why? The more you do this, the more present and in control you will become. If you do not do this, you will be reactionary and living life on autopilot.
Reflection
Learn to reflect and journal throughout your day because it allows you to think more calmly. When you obsess about the future, you lose control, making you feel worse.
Reflection is essential along the spiritual journey because it allows us to be accurate and spiritual. When projecting the future, we can be wrong and deep into the illusion. When we reflect on our previous experiences, we can ask questions and get clear answers that will better prepare us for the present.
Illusion and Inner Peace
When you bring awareness to illusion, you will have inner conflict. When you remove illusion, you will have inner peace and be able to perceive the soul’s intuitions. However, illusion prevents you from being receptive to your soul’s guidance.
Illusion and inner peace cannot coexist because an illusion’s job is to destroy your peace. Also, when you have moments of inner peace, you will spend the other moments suffering. Suffering is why we pick up our phones, still emotionally react to negative things, and feel oppressed. Being good at hiding your suffering does not create inner peace. It just means allowing the illusion to destroy you.
The goal is not to have moments of inner peace but to cast illusion out of your mind entirely. When we have goals and desires, we are saying that when we get these things, we will have inner peace, which is inaccurate. When you do not get what you want, you will react emotionally because your goal is something you must wait for that never existed.
Desires are 50/50
But achieving eternal inner peace, love, and intuition from the soul has a 100% success rate. So it would be best if you first dwelled in the soul’s palace long enough for all illusions to disappear from your mind.
The emotional reaction to life and lives circumstance can allow you to forget your soul is even there. Furthermore, focusing on your desires means you are not focusing on your soul, which is where most people find themselves.
Removing the illusion
Stable mind, balanced emotions, and a strong will to act on behalf of your soul’s wisdom and guidance. Stay in the higher vibration while acknowledging the times you are in lower consciousness so you can tell the difference.
Many people do one thing to keep their lower vibratory habit alive. Seek to remove items that bring your spirits low constantly.
Spend time in meditation without reacting negatively to the process. Let your mind go from the external world and recognize the power of the spiritual world.
Keep an open mind; spirit will speak to you uniquely; if you are following someone else’s script, you will miss out on what your guides are directly speaking to you.
Stay consistent with your spiritual work. Do not be lazy. And
Once you understand that emotions are illusions, you begin to study your emotional reactions and patterns. In this context, you must realize that negative emotions are a reaction to life’s circumstances and the problem with this is that it blocks you from your Soul.
Common Sense
When you are always triggered by what happened, what could happen, and what is happening, you do not have time to connect to your chakras. Remember that all that takes place in the external world results from glamour, and its purpose is to block your chakras and intuition from your Soul.
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When your Chakras are blocked, focusing on fulfilling desires and passing judgment on others is natural. However, you do not know you are ignoring your Soul, and you imagine everything will be okay once you accomplish your goal. This is not true; actualizing and realizing your Soul is the true goal and attainable, but it is hard for you to prioritize because there are so many illusions.
Maya
The Human Brain constructs personal experiences and emotions, leading to many misunderstandings when you interpret reality. The misconceptions exist because your brain cannot comprehend the spiritual world.
The world and its people are not what they appear to be. There are spiritual laws, principles, and souls at work in every moment of your existence. The human brain cannot perceive the spiritual world directly. However, the spiritual world is the invisible nature of the world and all people.
Maya is that which manifests and perpetuates this false reality. Even though the manifestation is tangible, it blocks the true invisible nature of reality. When you look at the physical world as the only world, this will confuse you.
Realization comes from removing the external illusion and learning the invisible practices and laws of the spiritual world. You cannot interpret spiritual laws while focusing on the external world.
You have to decide: Do I study the nature of the universe within myself, or do I focus on the deception of the physical world?
Illusion and Glamour
The illusion gives glamour power to deceive through your powerful emotions. But, unfortunately, these powerful emotions control your personality when your Soul should.
Everything you decide to do is motivated by glamour because the past bothered you deeply, and now you live to make the past right. This expectation is an illusion in your mind powered by glamour or strong emotional feelings that block you from the Soul’s intuition.
Your strong emotional reactions follow glamour, not the Soul. The guidance from the Soul is internal and present; the advice from glamour is external, and you must work for it. Additionally, after all that hard work, you will not be satisfied and will want more.
Desires
Glamour seeks favorable external circumstances, not inner peace. Desires tell us that our problems will go away once they get accomplished. The glamour of desires is why you constantly chase something and never be fulfilled. Until you learn that what you are pursuing is within, you will never find it.
All of your desires say that glamour is an honest guide.
Glamour or strong emotions make you seek things that make you feel good until you transition out of the body. When you transition out of the body into the spiritual world, you will realize everyone at the spiritual level is the same.
The problem with desires fueled by glamour is that they attack you and your Soul. We are all created equal, so whether or not you accomplish your goals will not make you better or worse in the grand scheme of things.
Appearances
Glamour looks at a pile of dirt and says this is worth more than that other pile of dirt.
Glamour is spiritual and destructive. The nature of glamour is everything you can imagine without spiritual laws.
The identification with the physical body is glamour because it ignores the spiritual laws and order that brought your physical body into being. Glamour will not guide you with no barriers. However, the Soul will.
Glamour also causes you to ignore the spiritual world when focusing on appearances with strong emotions.
Suffering
When you are angry at other people, you are suffering. You are taking your powerful emotions and inflicting damage upon yourself.
You must understand that emotions are illusions while seeking to study your emotions, not follow blindly behind them.
Following your emotions leads to suffering.
Studying your emotions leads to liberation.
Manifestation
Maya is a psychic power that can lie, deceive, and destroy. Thoughts from circumstance and ego are not from the Soul but from glamour and illusion.
You must withdraw from what you know to learn from your Soul; this process is called meditation. Most do not meditate because they are busy with manifestation.
Maya reinforces the feelings of the physical body centered in glamour because the only thing real is the Soul, but Maya/glamour makes you forget the Soul.
Maya gives emotions to strongly felt fantasies and learns to hate anything that stands in the way of your goals. Maya teaches people to value the external world and act out their minds’ fantasies. Over time focusing on your goals, you forget your inner world, so when in thought and action, you disconnect from source, which leads to your mind being confused.
Connect with the Soul through consciousness, allowing your mind to be a place of salvation and peace.
Study Emotional Reactions
The point of studying your emotions is that all negative emotions are illusions powered by glamour, and all of this blocks you from the true wisdom of the Soul. Your feelings will send you down the wrong path.
If not for the Soul, everything would be a pointless illusion. Identifying who you are is an illusion, so all the emotional reactions to what you have or don’t have is a waste of time. You could alternatively meditate and learn who you are at a spiritual level.
Fantasy
Fantasies that are predominantly in our minds center around entertainment. People watch tv more than they write books, work on their business, and work out because perpetuating a fantasy is more important to them.
The real fight is not allowing negative emotions to run your life. Additionally, you must distrust the fantasies your mind keeps, deal with life in the present, and don’t get bogged down by circumstances.
Whatever troubles you emotionally, remember the truth is that you are a spiritual being that connects to the spiritual world with plenty of solutions.
Purge
Purge by journal and water.
Water represents our emotions; we must learn to hydrate to keep our feelings fresh and present.
Air represents the mental mind. Until we purge our mind, our mind is confused and overwhelmed with various thoughts. Whenever this happens, grab a pen and notebook and write whatever you see in your mind.
Journaling will purge your mind and prepare you for receiving from the Soul. Journaling and hydrating will keep you balanced emotionally and assist in acting per the Soul.
Shadow Work Prompt
- Write a list of the things that you are grateful for.
- Write a list of things you are suffering from, and surrender to it, let it go, or change your mind.
- Please write down your present circumstance, and accept it.
- In this present moment, I am not suffering…… My suffering is an illusion in my mind.
- Ask yourself: What am I thinking, what am I feeling, what am I doing, and why?
- To escape the illusionary world, go within.
- To escape illusion, establish true inner peace. Fantasy and inner peace cannot coexist.
- Am I being receptive to my soul’s guidance at this moment?
