Self Shadow: I had done the shadow work to integrate the shadow. I wake up. My back is out. Why? Have self and shadow switched sides? Carl Jung Shadow Work.
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Self Shadow: I had done the shadow work
to integrate the shadow. I woke up. My back was out.
Why? Had self and shadow switched sides?
Carl Jung Shadow Work.
June 17, 2010
SELF? SHADOW?
BUT WHO IS THE SHADOW?
I thought I had dealt with that shadow - the shadow who took care of herself, who put herself first. I called her the vampire archetype. I thought she was part of me now, not some lurking shadow, some disowned part of the self.
I thought I was fine - no more taking on responsibility that wasn't mine.
And then I woke up with a back worse than I'd had for years. And I knew what had happened. I'd been told of a situation where, for years, I would have given of myself, given and given and given. This time I hadn't.
But my body felt as if it had done way too much - though it hadn't.
Why the dull ache in my back, the weakness? (I'm in some ways lucky with my back - it isn't really pain, more it's weakness, so I can hardly bend or get up without using my hands to support me. Not fun, but I'd rather have that than pain.)
Anyway, why was this happening? Was it that another shadow loomed? The shadow beneath the shadow? - the shadow who feared that, unless she did things, everything would fall apart?
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I don't think it was a shadow at work - but a strong part of myself, not a disowned part. Anything but a shadow. Except that I hadn't let her take over this year.
My aching back - that's how i would have felt, had I taken on all the work I hadn't taken on.
But then why was my back aching?
Was she afraid she would have to work herself to the bone? Was she warning me?
She was definitely there, somehow.
Is she now a shadow of her former self?
Have self and shadow switched sides?
Good questions. One thing I know for sure. She isn't gone - that over-caretaker, and also that self afraid she will have to work forever, until her body gives out, or there will be disaster.
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Actually I am sure self and shadow have not switched sides. The over-caretaker isn't now a shadow. She just hasn't been dominant for a while. Her fear: that she was essential. So she was driven by fear.
Several things are for sure. Change isn't easy. On the other hand, it's possible. And things easily get muddled.
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Self Shadow: I had done the shadow work to integrate the shadow.
I wake up. My back is out. Why?
Have self and shadow switched sides?
Carl Jung Shadow Work.
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