What is 'Shadow Work' and 'Emotional Alchemy'? And more about the work that I offer...
I am writing this article in order to clarify some common misunderstandings I have come across relating to my work and the work of other healers/shamans/teachers in relation to Shadow Work.
What is Shadow Work? Some people think Shadow Work was invented by more recent Self-Help industry teachers, such as Teal Swan. Although she as well as Deepak Chopra and many other contemporaries have had much to creatively contribute to our conceptualization of The Shadow and means through which to work with it, they definitely did not coin the word, nor were they the first to offer processes that involve traveling frequency of emotions as a means of addressing The Shadow.
The first person to truly coin the word 'Shadow' in the context of a quickly modernizing post-Victorian society was Charles Jung.If you would like to learn more about his work related to this topic, you can find an excellent article here.
Jung was a protege of Sigmund Freud, his student, in fact, but Jung had significant disagreement with Freud view to the extent that it fueled his work into a divergent direction.
Even before the modern development of psychology, many ancient and tribal societies had means through which to acknowledge and address the Shadow side of our experience. One that is still popularly recognized is Shamanism. I really like the way that this website states the art of Shamanism ....
"The difference between a healer and a shaman is that a healer is a person who is able to use the forces of light to effect a cure in the body, mind, or spirit of another, without using the forces of the Shadow, because of the nature of some illnesses, this method is not always effective, and a shaman must be sought for a cure.
A shaman is a healer who has walked up to the Underworld gates of his/her own personal hell and then walked in. He/she has confronted and conquered his/her self-created demons, such as fear, insanity, loneliness, self-importance, and addictions, has unflinchingly confronted his/her own Shadow self as well as the evil of others, and can successfully deal with forces of darkness equally with those of light."
source: http://www.eaglespiritministry.com/teaching/sc/sc7.htm
The ancient native practice of Shamanism was the first practice on record to address the concept of the inner child reclamation. It acknowledges that the Soul can become fractured through traumatic experiences that cause the Soul to diverge into fragmented parts upon entry to the Human experience. Therefore, these fragments, totem animals, or inner children must be retrieved and reconstituted with the Unity of the Soul.
Am I a Shaman? I can confidently say that I am a Shaman/Healer in training. The training being that I am still receiving many tests from the Shadow to challenge my endurance and power in greeting them. There are many Shadow-lust Beings who have cowered in my presence. I do not need to fight them, for I can easily disperse them. Is there always a Shadow Being that is corded to a Shadow within the Human? This gets a little complicated because they aren't exactly malevolently attacking you. Rather, they literally 'hold space' for your process in just the opposing way that angels do, because they are angels too, only in reverse. They are the contraction wave to our evolutionary process. They work with the parasitic ones, but they are distinct from them. You could also simply choose to perceive this as the sub-conscious if the idea of inter-dimensional Beings scares you or simply sounds too incredible to you. If you are treating it solely as the sub-conscious, this can also effectively work in most scenarios where even an actual possession has occurred.
Calling myself a Healer of any sort means that I have dedicated myself to also my own wholeness of Being. I am in the final phases of this integration within my Soul and my body alike. It also means that I have dissolved the false ego veils of identification and that I do not seek to do this work from a desire for power over others, fame or riches. That I simply am surrendering to my calling of what I came here to do in this time of Planetary Healing and to allow it to Light up my Heart with the Joy that it is meant to bring me. It also means I am surrendering to the flow of receiving the increase of collective energy with a responsible hand toward the statements I invoke and the practices I employ.
Our Auric field is like a magnetic recorder strip for our traumas. Many of you might think, 'Trauma? I had a pretty good childhood so I am exempt from this one.' But if you have any type of insecurity or doubt about yourself, than this applies to you too. Trauma is sort of a broad-sweeping word for all forms of emotional information that does not get fully processed, and so it just hangs out in the auric field, seeded to our chakra system and it challenges us from aligning to our Core Zero from which all creative flow and choice proceeds. A Shadow or I also call an Emotional (Quantum) Entanglement holds us frozen in an energetic snapshot that affects our perspective or beliefs, it affects your emotions, all of your patterns and all around constricts you from making choices that feel more empowering to you.
Old paradigms tend to die hard. It is why the Self-Help industry is booming!!! We tend to cling to what we think we know. I would be a hypocrite to say that I don't do it sometimes too! But I am thankful to have been awakened to the gift of seeing through the distortion with the aid of my Third Eye, to take the stick out of the wheel for others and am blessed with an amazing partner who also very gifted in helping me also remove the plank from my own eye. This is something that requires a great deal of trust between friends or clients and practitioners. It is a trust that I do not take lightly and keep all information highly discrete.
The type of sessions that I offer are pretty much customized to each person. Whether I am playing the role of:
-Higher Self Channeling-- This is where I stand as a medium between you and your All Knowing Self that is within Source and fully aware that so are You.
-Shadow Work/Inner Child reclamation--When we are triggered by something, anything, we have the option of diving into the frequency offered by that emotional trigger and chasing it back to its Source of original impact. This is called Shadow Work in my practice as well as other practitioners as well. Because these triggers are typically first formed in our childhoods, we often find ourselves returning to our Inner Children who were frozen in feelings of abandonment, destruction or neglect. (You might find that my process has similarities and differences to other teachers' and healers' approach. I am merely following the resonance of the work I am here to contribute as it indeed creates itself.)
-Emotional Alchemy-- In any given trigger, we have the option to do Shadow Work, or we have the opportunity to simply catch the limiting belief or negative program playing out in our mind. Emotional Alchemy includes Shadow Work, but also extends a fuller set of tools which are conducive to understanding how Law of Attraction works in your process of creating your reality.
-Awakenment Guidance--Many people who are 'new awakeners' often feel overwhelmed or dis-oriented by the things they are experiencing. Increased energy traffic within the body that can be quite difficult to balance, sudden losing of many friends, partners and family who think they have gone nuts, they suddenly don't know what to eat or how to build a practice that works for them, they suddenly might feel the need to form a new career and new life altogether. If this sounds like you, I can help counsel you to options that would work best for re-building. No question is a wrong question here. I am a highly non-judgmental person and many people say to me 'Wow, I have always been afraid to share that. I thought people would think I was nuts.' Well, I am here to say you are not nuts. We do indeed live in a wild reality where many 'unexplainable' things happen!
-Energy Clearing--Is your body feeling an energy stagnance or blockage? Are you trying to address a Shadow or Limiting Belief that won't budge and you keep getting the same disempowering result? Energy Clearing can be very helpful hand-in-hand with your Shadow Work or if you are working to clear or alter any kind of program or pattern you are experiencing in your behavior, emotions, beliefs and overall health.
-Parasite Removal & Home Clearing--I can tell when people have parasites. There are a great many kinds of inter-dimensional parasites, and they are not entirely 'bad' or 'evil'. You might not 'like' the way that they are overtly impacting your experience in way that you feel is unwanted and uncomfortable, but they serve a role in challenging our growth and learning. You have the right, however, to say 'Thank you for your service, but I no longer need you as I assert my Sovereign preference to free up this energy.' And this is where I specialize. I can teach you how to clear your home and re-attune its energies to your own ideal state.
-Chakra Alignment / Reiki / Astral Energy Work--There are many ways that balancing the chakra system can assist our health. It also can go hand-in-hand with Shadow Work. I use a Reiki-type method (my hands) to focus Yang Light energy into your chakra centers while using Mother Earth as a Ground. This restores balance in polarity in the systems, and is known to be used as a powerful healing tool. I have had drastic results with some of my clients that have shocked even me.
-Soul Incarnation Readings--If there is something that you need to know about your Akashic (record of all your Soul's Lives) that you feel is directly connected and relevant to your path in this life, sometimes this work can be necessary. I realize that some teachers out there disagree with this (Shadow Work that connects with our other/past/future lives). However, I have had such marked and obvious results with this in my own life, that I find an openness to this subject inevitable. I realize that it is intrinsically related to the power of the sub-conscious and thus often people confuse their identification with other lives and identities out of a 'need to feel worthy or special or unique'. I wish to distinguish my perspective on this that I will only bring up this topic in a session with you if A) I can sense that you are ready for it and B) If it seems relevant to your healing work or C) You have reason to believe it is integrally relevant to your journey and are seeking remembrance.
-Tarot Readings / Intuitive Guidance--I often use Tarot Cards integrally with my work since they have been a fantastic tool for fine-tuning my intuitive awareness during my awakening. They can be helpful in guiding me at times just as Runes often served great Diviners in the past. I DO NOT TELL YOU YOUR FUTURE. This is not serving you, and I am not here to manifest your future for you, but to assist you in your own process of creation, clarity and growth. My aim is to assist you in gaining Third Eye Clarity concerning your causal relationships of Karma (Contrasted or Fractal Energy Patterns) and Choice. My readings only employ the 22 cards of the Major Arcana and is typically a 7 card spread.
-Altering Limiting Beliefs--sometimes we need structural tools to help us shift our patterns. It is sort of a top-down reinforcement toward our Shadow Work. It cannot erase what needs to be faced within the Sub-conscious, but the art of living comes through a dedicated practice to making consistent upgrades to our energetic patterns. I can coach you on making a structure that works for you when you get stuck in that space of thinking those same thoughts, doing or not doing those same things.
-Abundance and Manifestation--I can assist you with customizing your focus of awareness and dissolving blockages in order to create the life you want. This is by no means a magick spell or pill. It is you actively learning how to 'hold the ropes of Law of Attraction' in a way that will gradually increase your awareness and empowerment to create what you set your intentions toward.
-Career and Relationships--Not happy with your current career or having issues navigating a dilemma in your relationship? I can help coach you through this as well.
To see more about the Services I offer or to book a session, please click on these aforesaid links.
Artwork, 'Embracing The Shadow Self' above by Rita Loyd, referenced at www.nurturingart.com
"I embrace all aspects of Self, shadowed and illuminated. I embrace the illuminated Self for she is my spirit realized. I embrace the shadowed Self for she reveals to me the pain and fear still needing resolution." Rita Loyd
What is Shadow Work? Some people think Shadow Work was invented by more recent Self-Help industry teachers, such as Teal Swan. Although she as well as Deepak Chopra and many other contemporaries have had much to creatively contribute to our conceptualization of The Shadow and means through which to work with it, they definitely did not coin the word, nor were they the first to offer processes that involve traveling frequency of emotions as a means of addressing The Shadow.
The first person to truly coin the word 'Shadow' in the context of a quickly modernizing post-Victorian society was Charles Jung.If you would like to learn more about his work related to this topic, you can find an excellent article here.
Jung was a protege of Sigmund Freud, his student, in fact, but Jung had significant disagreement with Freud view to the extent that it fueled his work into a divergent direction.
Even before the modern development of psychology, many ancient and tribal societies had means through which to acknowledge and address the Shadow side of our experience. One that is still popularly recognized is Shamanism. I really like the way that this website states the art of Shamanism ....
"The difference between a healer and a shaman is that a healer is a person who is able to use the forces of light to effect a cure in the body, mind, or spirit of another, without using the forces of the Shadow, because of the nature of some illnesses, this method is not always effective, and a shaman must be sought for a cure.
A shaman is a healer who has walked up to the Underworld gates of his/her own personal hell and then walked in. He/she has confronted and conquered his/her self-created demons, such as fear, insanity, loneliness, self-importance, and addictions, has unflinchingly confronted his/her own Shadow self as well as the evil of others, and can successfully deal with forces of darkness equally with those of light."
source: http://www.eaglespiritministry.com/teaching/sc/sc7.htm
The ancient native practice of Shamanism was the first practice on record to address the concept of the inner child reclamation. It acknowledges that the Soul can become fractured through traumatic experiences that cause the Soul to diverge into fragmented parts upon entry to the Human experience. Therefore, these fragments, totem animals, or inner children must be retrieved and reconstituted with the Unity of the Soul.
Am I a Shaman? I can confidently say that I am a Shaman/Healer in training. The training being that I am still receiving many tests from the Shadow to challenge my endurance and power in greeting them. There are many Shadow-lust Beings who have cowered in my presence. I do not need to fight them, for I can easily disperse them. Is there always a Shadow Being that is corded to a Shadow within the Human? This gets a little complicated because they aren't exactly malevolently attacking you. Rather, they literally 'hold space' for your process in just the opposing way that angels do, because they are angels too, only in reverse. They are the contraction wave to our evolutionary process. They work with the parasitic ones, but they are distinct from them. You could also simply choose to perceive this as the sub-conscious if the idea of inter-dimensional Beings scares you or simply sounds too incredible to you. If you are treating it solely as the sub-conscious, this can also effectively work in most scenarios where even an actual possession has occurred.
Calling myself a Healer of any sort means that I have dedicated myself to also my own wholeness of Being. I am in the final phases of this integration within my Soul and my body alike. It also means that I have dissolved the false ego veils of identification and that I do not seek to do this work from a desire for power over others, fame or riches. That I simply am surrendering to my calling of what I came here to do in this time of Planetary Healing and to allow it to Light up my Heart with the Joy that it is meant to bring me. It also means I am surrendering to the flow of receiving the increase of collective energy with a responsible hand toward the statements I invoke and the practices I employ.
Our Auric field is like a magnetic recorder strip for our traumas. Many of you might think, 'Trauma? I had a pretty good childhood so I am exempt from this one.' But if you have any type of insecurity or doubt about yourself, than this applies to you too. Trauma is sort of a broad-sweeping word for all forms of emotional information that does not get fully processed, and so it just hangs out in the auric field, seeded to our chakra system and it challenges us from aligning to our Core Zero from which all creative flow and choice proceeds. A Shadow or I also call an Emotional (Quantum) Entanglement holds us frozen in an energetic snapshot that affects our perspective or beliefs, it affects your emotions, all of your patterns and all around constricts you from making choices that feel more empowering to you.
Old paradigms tend to die hard. It is why the Self-Help industry is booming!!! We tend to cling to what we think we know. I would be a hypocrite to say that I don't do it sometimes too! But I am thankful to have been awakened to the gift of seeing through the distortion with the aid of my Third Eye, to take the stick out of the wheel for others and am blessed with an amazing partner who also very gifted in helping me also remove the plank from my own eye. This is something that requires a great deal of trust between friends or clients and practitioners. It is a trust that I do not take lightly and keep all information highly discrete.
The type of sessions that I offer are pretty much customized to each person. Whether I am playing the role of:
-Higher Self Channeling-- This is where I stand as a medium between you and your All Knowing Self that is within Source and fully aware that so are You.
-Shadow Work/Inner Child reclamation--When we are triggered by something, anything, we have the option of diving into the frequency offered by that emotional trigger and chasing it back to its Source of original impact. This is called Shadow Work in my practice as well as other practitioners as well. Because these triggers are typically first formed in our childhoods, we often find ourselves returning to our Inner Children who were frozen in feelings of abandonment, destruction or neglect. (You might find that my process has similarities and differences to other teachers' and healers' approach. I am merely following the resonance of the work I am here to contribute as it indeed creates itself.)
-Emotional Alchemy-- In any given trigger, we have the option to do Shadow Work, or we have the opportunity to simply catch the limiting belief or negative program playing out in our mind. Emotional Alchemy includes Shadow Work, but also extends a fuller set of tools which are conducive to understanding how Law of Attraction works in your process of creating your reality.
-Awakenment Guidance--Many people who are 'new awakeners' often feel overwhelmed or dis-oriented by the things they are experiencing. Increased energy traffic within the body that can be quite difficult to balance, sudden losing of many friends, partners and family who think they have gone nuts, they suddenly don't know what to eat or how to build a practice that works for them, they suddenly might feel the need to form a new career and new life altogether. If this sounds like you, I can help counsel you to options that would work best for re-building. No question is a wrong question here. I am a highly non-judgmental person and many people say to me 'Wow, I have always been afraid to share that. I thought people would think I was nuts.' Well, I am here to say you are not nuts. We do indeed live in a wild reality where many 'unexplainable' things happen!
-Energy Clearing--Is your body feeling an energy stagnance or blockage? Are you trying to address a Shadow or Limiting Belief that won't budge and you keep getting the same disempowering result? Energy Clearing can be very helpful hand-in-hand with your Shadow Work or if you are working to clear or alter any kind of program or pattern you are experiencing in your behavior, emotions, beliefs and overall health.
-Parasite Removal & Home Clearing--I can tell when people have parasites. There are a great many kinds of inter-dimensional parasites, and they are not entirely 'bad' or 'evil'. You might not 'like' the way that they are overtly impacting your experience in way that you feel is unwanted and uncomfortable, but they serve a role in challenging our growth and learning. You have the right, however, to say 'Thank you for your service, but I no longer need you as I assert my Sovereign preference to free up this energy.' And this is where I specialize. I can teach you how to clear your home and re-attune its energies to your own ideal state.
-Chakra Alignment / Reiki / Astral Energy Work--There are many ways that balancing the chakra system can assist our health. It also can go hand-in-hand with Shadow Work. I use a Reiki-type method (my hands) to focus Yang Light energy into your chakra centers while using Mother Earth as a Ground. This restores balance in polarity in the systems, and is known to be used as a powerful healing tool. I have had drastic results with some of my clients that have shocked even me.
-Soul Incarnation Readings--If there is something that you need to know about your Akashic (record of all your Soul's Lives) that you feel is directly connected and relevant to your path in this life, sometimes this work can be necessary. I realize that some teachers out there disagree with this (Shadow Work that connects with our other/past/future lives). However, I have had such marked and obvious results with this in my own life, that I find an openness to this subject inevitable. I realize that it is intrinsically related to the power of the sub-conscious and thus often people confuse their identification with other lives and identities out of a 'need to feel worthy or special or unique'. I wish to distinguish my perspective on this that I will only bring up this topic in a session with you if A) I can sense that you are ready for it and B) If it seems relevant to your healing work or C) You have reason to believe it is integrally relevant to your journey and are seeking remembrance.
-Tarot Readings / Intuitive Guidance--I often use Tarot Cards integrally with my work since they have been a fantastic tool for fine-tuning my intuitive awareness during my awakening. They can be helpful in guiding me at times just as Runes often served great Diviners in the past. I DO NOT TELL YOU YOUR FUTURE. This is not serving you, and I am not here to manifest your future for you, but to assist you in your own process of creation, clarity and growth. My aim is to assist you in gaining Third Eye Clarity concerning your causal relationships of Karma (Contrasted or Fractal Energy Patterns) and Choice. My readings only employ the 22 cards of the Major Arcana and is typically a 7 card spread.
-Altering Limiting Beliefs--sometimes we need structural tools to help us shift our patterns. It is sort of a top-down reinforcement toward our Shadow Work. It cannot erase what needs to be faced within the Sub-conscious, but the art of living comes through a dedicated practice to making consistent upgrades to our energetic patterns. I can coach you on making a structure that works for you when you get stuck in that space of thinking those same thoughts, doing or not doing those same things.
-Abundance and Manifestation--I can assist you with customizing your focus of awareness and dissolving blockages in order to create the life you want. This is by no means a magick spell or pill. It is you actively learning how to 'hold the ropes of Law of Attraction' in a way that will gradually increase your awareness and empowerment to create what you set your intentions toward.
-Career and Relationships--Not happy with your current career or having issues navigating a dilemma in your relationship? I can help coach you through this as well.
To see more about the Services I offer or to book a session, please click on these aforesaid links.
Artwork, 'Embracing The Shadow Self' above by Rita Loyd, referenced at www.nurturingart.com
"I embrace all aspects of Self, shadowed and illuminated. I embrace the illuminated Self for she is my spirit realized. I embrace the shadowed Self for she reveals to me the pain and fear still needing resolution." Rita Loyd