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Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
We’ve taken charge in many aspects of our lives. We know we can improve our physical health by paying attention to what we eat, exercising, and resting our bodies and minds. Many of us no longer treat physicians as gods but as partners in our health, along with alternative health practitioners.
We know we can improve our personal lives by reducing stress, staying involved in positive relationships, pursuing our hobbies and interests. Many of us no longer stuff ourselves into the one-size-fits all lifestyle promoted by the media.
We know we can improve our spiritual connection by practices of meditation, silence, and by investigating to spiritual wisdom of the ages. Many of us no longer rely on individual gurus, priests, or preachers to show us our own true spiritual path.
And whether our focus is on more emotional, physical, or spiritual health and well-being, the key to our ability to effect any lasting change is within our unconscious minds.
An old myth used to claim that we only use 10% of our brains. We use all of our brains – but not consciously. A vast portion of the brain’s activity is not conscious at all. It is in the realm of the unconscious mind, which is fully occupied by regulating our heartbeat and breathing, staying aware of danger in our environment, storing and organizing our memories, and filtering enormous amounts of input to determine what to bring to conscious awareness.
It’s doing all of this and much more, without our conscious participation. Most of us know a little bit about it, but how many of us really understand how it works and how to work with it? We’re all apparently equipped with this powerful apparatus called the unconscious, but we don’t know how to consciously tap its power. In fact, sometimes it actually seems to be working at cross-purposes to what we really want.
Doesn’t it feel like sometimes, even with our best intentions and strong conscious desire, we end up shooting ourselves in the foot? We eat what we swore we’d never eat again. We blow an exam even though we have studied and were confident about the material. We find ourselves attracted to the same destructive relationship even though we know better. We totally blank out on a deadline that is important to our business success. We fall asleep when we sit to meditate.
Psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychiatrists may spend years, even decades, studying the unconscious and how this powerful apparatus works for (and sometimes, against) us. But in INTEGRATE THE SHADOW, MASTER YOUR PATH, Dr. James breaks it down simply. He uses language that’s easy to understand and gives illustrations that bring complex concepts down to earth.
We know we can improve our personal lives by reducing stress, staying involved in positive relationships, pursuing our hobbies and interests. Many of us no longer stuff ourselves into the one-size-fits all lifestyle promoted by the media.
We know we can improve our spiritual connection by practices of meditation, silence, and by investigating to spiritual wisdom of the ages. Many of us no longer rely on individual gurus, priests, or preachers to show us our own true spiritual path.
And whether our focus is on more emotional, physical, or spiritual health and well-being, the key to our ability to effect any lasting change is within our unconscious minds.
An old myth used to claim that we only use 10% of our brains. We use all of our brains – but not consciously. A vast portion of the brain’s activity is not conscious at all. It is in the realm of the unconscious mind, which is fully occupied by regulating our heartbeat and breathing, staying aware of danger in our environment, storing and organizing our memories, and filtering enormous amounts of input to determine what to bring to conscious awareness.
It’s doing all of this and much more, without our conscious participation. Most of us know a little bit about it, but how many of us really understand how it works and how to work with it? We’re all apparently equipped with this powerful apparatus called the unconscious, but we don’t know how to consciously tap its power. In fact, sometimes it actually seems to be working at cross-purposes to what we really want.
Doesn’t it feel like sometimes, even with our best intentions and strong conscious desire, we end up shooting ourselves in the foot? We eat what we swore we’d never eat again. We blow an exam even though we have studied and were confident about the material. We find ourselves attracted to the same destructive relationship even though we know better. We totally blank out on a deadline that is important to our business success. We fall asleep when we sit to meditate.
Psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychiatrists may spend years, even decades, studying the unconscious and how this powerful apparatus works for (and sometimes, against) us. But in INTEGRATE THE SHADOW, MASTER YOUR PATH, Dr. James breaks it down simply. He uses language that’s easy to understand and gives illustrations that bring complex concepts down to earth.
133 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 24, 2015
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