Shadow work #1
The Warrior Mom
In this recording you'll find a discussion lead by the owners of @TruthRascalHQ & @TheWarriorMomon the following topics:
Healing the inner child
Shadow work
Triggers
Meditation
Setting an intention to heal
Self-love
With special guest Shield Maiden from @ShieldMaiden17_Q and contributions from truly beautiful souls.
Key take-aways:
-Get still.
-Observe/meditate. Become conscious of what is happening so you can uncover why.
-Find something you love about yourself and give yourself permission to become the person you can love.
Set an intention to heal.
-pay attention when a trigger moment happens, instead of running away from it, explore what can be taken and learned.
Healing the inner child
Shadow work
Triggers
Meditation
Setting an intention to heal
Self-love
With special guest Shield Maiden from @ShieldMaiden17_Q and contributions from truly beautiful souls.
Key take-aways:
-Get still.
-Observe/meditate. Become conscious of what is happening so you can uncover why.
-Find something you love about yourself and give yourself permission to become the person you can love.
Set an intention to heal.
-pay attention when a trigger moment happens, instead of running away from it, explore what can be taken and learned.
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Forwarded from TR HQ (TruthRascal)
I used to be very turned off by the idea of Shadow Work, but that’s because I didn’t really understand it. And frankly, it made me nervous.
Then it smacked me right in the face. I did some things that I couldn’t get my head around WHY I had done them. As I worked through it with the help of my husband, I saw it all very clearly. I saw the traumatized little girl in me who had never been seen or understood and I saw how her neediness had influenced my adult self.
I was surprised by this because I had had years of traditional therapy. I thought that I had “already dealt with all of that.” Turns out that talking about that shit and saying all the right things in some shrink’s office really doesn’t do the trick. That’s not shadow work. That’s just whining. (My opinion, ok? Doesn’t apply to everyone.)
Shadow work is about digging in and feeling the feelings that were present at the time of the trauma. Not necessarily re-living the trauma but just having true empathy for the person that you were at the time and letting it go. This involves a fair amount of unconditional love and forgiveness…for others, yes, but mostly for yourself!
I only know my own experience, and I suspect it’s different for everyone but the general process is the same. And the thing is, it can’t really happen until you’re ready. Until the layers upon layers of buried emotions related to that same issue get peeled away and you’re left with the original wound.
See, that’s how it works, you keep re-living that issue over and over until you can see the pattern of behavior and then let go of it. Every time you do the same thing, you add a layer in top of it. Over the years, that can be a lot of layers!
You may need to revisit an issue more than once. That’s ok! Every time you revisit it, you are going deeper. But don’t fall into victim mode where you are hanging on to the trauma. The goal is to let it go. You are not defined by what has happened in your life. Nor are you defined by what you did or didn’t do in response! You can choose, at any moment, to let go.
I’m no expert at this, but I would venture a guess that as many are awakening, they are being faced with the OPPORTUNITY to work with their shadow and heal their wounds. This is a good thing.
Sending you all so much Love,
-TR ✨💕✨
Then it smacked me right in the face. I did some things that I couldn’t get my head around WHY I had done them. As I worked through it with the help of my husband, I saw it all very clearly. I saw the traumatized little girl in me who had never been seen or understood and I saw how her neediness had influenced my adult self.
I was surprised by this because I had had years of traditional therapy. I thought that I had “already dealt with all of that.” Turns out that talking about that shit and saying all the right things in some shrink’s office really doesn’t do the trick. That’s not shadow work. That’s just whining. (My opinion, ok? Doesn’t apply to everyone.)
Shadow work is about digging in and feeling the feelings that were present at the time of the trauma. Not necessarily re-living the trauma but just having true empathy for the person that you were at the time and letting it go. This involves a fair amount of unconditional love and forgiveness…for others, yes, but mostly for yourself!
I only know my own experience, and I suspect it’s different for everyone but the general process is the same. And the thing is, it can’t really happen until you’re ready. Until the layers upon layers of buried emotions related to that same issue get peeled away and you’re left with the original wound.
See, that’s how it works, you keep re-living that issue over and over until you can see the pattern of behavior and then let go of it. Every time you do the same thing, you add a layer in top of it. Over the years, that can be a lot of layers!
You may need to revisit an issue more than once. That’s ok! Every time you revisit it, you are going deeper. But don’t fall into victim mode where you are hanging on to the trauma. The goal is to let it go. You are not defined by what has happened in your life. Nor are you defined by what you did or didn’t do in response! You can choose, at any moment, to let go.
I’m no expert at this, but I would venture a guess that as many are awakening, they are being faced with the OPPORTUNITY to work with their shadow and heal their wounds. This is a good thing.
Sending you all so much Love,
-TR ✨💕✨
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Forwarded from TR HQ (TruthRascal)
So if you want to keep carrying hate and anger and the belief that others are bad and must be punished, you really need to think about what that does to your Frequency.
Take the emotion out of it and look at it as a math equation. Think in terms of frequency only. What vibration are you accessing when you hold on to anger, guilt, fear, shame and resentment?
Who is carrying that frequency? The other person? No, my love, it’s you that suffers when you Judge. It is not for you to do.
Let go. Feel all of it. Look at it. Examine it from all angles. And then let it go.
Take the emotion out of it and look at it as a math equation. Think in terms of frequency only. What vibration are you accessing when you hold on to anger, guilt, fear, shame and resentment?
Who is carrying that frequency? The other person? No, my love, it’s you that suffers when you Judge. It is not for you to do.
Let go. Feel all of it. Look at it. Examine it from all angles. And then let it go.
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Forwarded from TR HQ (TruthRascal)
Return to Now.
Are you whole Right Now?
And if your answer is “no” is that because you are breathing into Now, or are you accessing a memory? Something from the past?
Or perhaps worrying about the future?
None of those things exist in the Now. And if you can pull all of yourself into Now, you will see that you ARE whole, and safe, and Holy 😇
Are you whole Right Now?
And if your answer is “no” is that because you are breathing into Now, or are you accessing a memory? Something from the past?
Or perhaps worrying about the future?
None of those things exist in the Now. And if you can pull all of yourself into Now, you will see that you ARE whole, and safe, and Holy 😇
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This is a pretty old post, but it goes directly with the shadow work video posted this morning.
Shine the Light of your Awareness on the Shadow and it has no choice but to dissipate.
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Shine the Light of your Awareness on the Shadow and it has no choice but to dissipate.
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Forwarded from TR HQ (TruthRascal)
If you insert a nugget of fear, shame or guilt into the psyche / energy field in a person, that low vibration will act as an anchor to hold your frequency down. No matter how hard you try to rise, no matter how high you vibe, that nugget of shit will average into your frequency and hold you hostage. You’ll NEVER be able to pull your frequency up to the level it could and should be at because, well…physics.
And the thing is, YOU are the only one who can release yourself from the fear, shame and guilt. [They] told you that Forgiveness and Atonement needed to come from somewhere else; that it was external.
But it isn’t.
It’s you. YOU have the power to release yourself from “Hell”.
And ONLY YOU can do it.
Look inside. See where the threads of shame, guilt, fear and unworthiness are tied. And then loose the knots and let those things go. You’ll rise like a helium balloon that’s lost its tether, because you were always meant to FLY!
In Love,
TR ✨💕✨
@TruthRascalHQ
—10 Nov 2022—
And the thing is, YOU are the only one who can release yourself from the fear, shame and guilt. [They] told you that Forgiveness and Atonement needed to come from somewhere else; that it was external.
But it isn’t.
It’s you. YOU have the power to release yourself from “Hell”.
And ONLY YOU can do it.
Look inside. See where the threads of shame, guilt, fear and unworthiness are tied. And then loose the knots and let those things go. You’ll rise like a helium balloon that’s lost its tether, because you were always meant to FLY!
In Love,
TR ✨💕✨
@TruthRascalHQ
—10 Nov 2022—
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Forwarded from A New Day ✨
Grapes must be crushed to make wine. Diamonds form under pressure. Olives are pressed to release oil. Seeds grow in darkness.
Whenever you feel crushed, under pressure, pressed, or in darkness, you’re in a powerful place of transformation and transmutation.
Trust the process. ఌ
——————+++ Lalah Delia
Whenever you feel crushed, under pressure, pressed, or in darkness, you’re in a powerful place of transformation and transmutation.
Trust the process. ఌ
——————+++ Lalah Delia
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Forwarded from TR HQ (TruthRascal)
The Split Mind (part 1/2)
Most of us are living in a split-mind state. This has happened because we don’t understand what we ARE, and as a result, we are totally disconnected from Reality. Reality is the existence that is underneath the piles of egoic projection that creates the “world” we live in. And we don’t see it because we have been conditioned to believe that we are separate from God, separate from Source, separate from our essential nature.
In Reality, we are not separate. In Reality we ARE Source and can never actually be separated from it because it is what we ARE. However, the belief that we are something else is what keeps us in a state of constant fear and self-delusion. And this is where the ego comes into play. The ego is the part of the mind that identifies with this separation and does everything it can to keep us from realizing the Truth. It keeps us in a constant chatter-state of not being able to hear God, not being able to connect to Source, not being able to listen because we are worried about all the external bullshit of this thing we THINK is life. In Reality, it is nothing of the sort. In Reality, we are at One with the Creator and all life is easy because we control it.
But, because we don’t understand our true nature as a result of it being purposefully hidden from us, we dissociate. The definition of dissociation in the psychological sense is that a person detaches from reality and identity, memory, consciousness and perception are no longer integrated. Quite an interesting definition, no? If we are separated from our true selves, then we have, by definition, dissociated.
Additionally, dissociation can result in Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously called Multiple Personality Disorder. This “disorder” is when a person’s identity has been split into more than one distinct state. It is generally caused by trauma and the person does not remember that trauma and is often unable to recall defining information about themselves.
This is what has happened to us. We come into the world whole and complete as a divine spark illuminating a tiny body. As we start to experience the world, we learn that we are not supposed to follow our instincts, not supposed to look to ourselves for guidance, but rather to look externally for validation in everything. (This is interesting because when we raise children we actually watch them proceed by instinct to learn to crawl, walk, etc, but yet we take that over by teaching them to look to us for what they should and shouldn’t do with every moment of their days.) We’re not supposed to have imaginary friends, not supposed to let our feelings guide us, etc, etc. We are taught to follow “the rules” and we begin to place labels, judgments and values on everything around us that we perceive. We do not really learn. We unlearn Divine Reality and are conditioned to perceive only what is considered to be acceptable. In doing this we “learn” that we are not special, we are not Divine and we certainly are not to be trusted with our own intuition.
We are ALL abused children. Not necessarily by our parents in the traditional sense, although there’s a lot of that, too. We are abused by society. By the system. By the Matrix.
When we are told that there is only an external God or, worse, that there is no God at all, and this lesson is reinforced by school, government, the medical system, and religion (whether you take part in it or not, you are generally still aware of the teachings) we detach from our true selves and become, quite literally, mentally ill. And the struggle we then face is one of searching for healing of the mind in a world that provides little to nothing in the way of helping us do that. In fact, it seeks to keep us ill and ignorant.
This is why we MUST turn inward. We have been given the internal spark to guide us. We have the Holy Spirit/Spirit/Intuition/Still Small Voice - whatever you choose to call it, it is the same thing. The Comforter lies within and we live in a world that seeks to drown it out at all costs.
Most of us are living in a split-mind state. This has happened because we don’t understand what we ARE, and as a result, we are totally disconnected from Reality. Reality is the existence that is underneath the piles of egoic projection that creates the “world” we live in. And we don’t see it because we have been conditioned to believe that we are separate from God, separate from Source, separate from our essential nature.
In Reality, we are not separate. In Reality we ARE Source and can never actually be separated from it because it is what we ARE. However, the belief that we are something else is what keeps us in a state of constant fear and self-delusion. And this is where the ego comes into play. The ego is the part of the mind that identifies with this separation and does everything it can to keep us from realizing the Truth. It keeps us in a constant chatter-state of not being able to hear God, not being able to connect to Source, not being able to listen because we are worried about all the external bullshit of this thing we THINK is life. In Reality, it is nothing of the sort. In Reality, we are at One with the Creator and all life is easy because we control it.
But, because we don’t understand our true nature as a result of it being purposefully hidden from us, we dissociate. The definition of dissociation in the psychological sense is that a person detaches from reality and identity, memory, consciousness and perception are no longer integrated. Quite an interesting definition, no? If we are separated from our true selves, then we have, by definition, dissociated.
Additionally, dissociation can result in Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously called Multiple Personality Disorder. This “disorder” is when a person’s identity has been split into more than one distinct state. It is generally caused by trauma and the person does not remember that trauma and is often unable to recall defining information about themselves.
This is what has happened to us. We come into the world whole and complete as a divine spark illuminating a tiny body. As we start to experience the world, we learn that we are not supposed to follow our instincts, not supposed to look to ourselves for guidance, but rather to look externally for validation in everything. (This is interesting because when we raise children we actually watch them proceed by instinct to learn to crawl, walk, etc, but yet we take that over by teaching them to look to us for what they should and shouldn’t do with every moment of their days.) We’re not supposed to have imaginary friends, not supposed to let our feelings guide us, etc, etc. We are taught to follow “the rules” and we begin to place labels, judgments and values on everything around us that we perceive. We do not really learn. We unlearn Divine Reality and are conditioned to perceive only what is considered to be acceptable. In doing this we “learn” that we are not special, we are not Divine and we certainly are not to be trusted with our own intuition.
We are ALL abused children. Not necessarily by our parents in the traditional sense, although there’s a lot of that, too. We are abused by society. By the system. By the Matrix.
When we are told that there is only an external God or, worse, that there is no God at all, and this lesson is reinforced by school, government, the medical system, and religion (whether you take part in it or not, you are generally still aware of the teachings) we detach from our true selves and become, quite literally, mentally ill. And the struggle we then face is one of searching for healing of the mind in a world that provides little to nothing in the way of helping us do that. In fact, it seeks to keep us ill and ignorant.
This is why we MUST turn inward. We have been given the internal spark to guide us. We have the Holy Spirit/Spirit/Intuition/Still Small Voice - whatever you choose to call it, it is the same thing. The Comforter lies within and we live in a world that seeks to drown it out at all costs.
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Forwarded from TR HQ (TruthRascal)
(Part 2/2)
1 John 2:20 KJVS
[20] But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
Our ego-based world demands our focus and attention onto everything OTHER than Now. Now is where Reality lies, but the ego forces us into the past and the future at every turn. The ego knows that as soon as we realize that living in the present moment means that we no longer need it and that it will be destroyed. It ONLY exists as a manifestation of a split mind. The ego IS the other personality that has been formed by a damaged mind. And because we are creative beings, that runaway “alter-ego” is busy creating all manner of things that are not only not good for us, they are downright destructive. Hence, the world you see around you.
Do you get it yet? Our creative power has been completely hijacked. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it till I’m blue in the face, we must take back our creative power and repurpose it for the highest good. In order to do this, we must understand what we are. We have to stop believing the lie that God is only external to us and that we have to grovel for the chance at Heaven. Heaven is right in front of us if we can snatch our minds back from the lies that have ensnared it.
Heaven is the Reality that has been covered over with fear, guilt, shame and lies.
1 John 2:27 KJVS
[27] But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Love,
-TR ✨💕✨
—01 Dec 2021—
1 John 2:20 KJVS
[20] But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
Our ego-based world demands our focus and attention onto everything OTHER than Now. Now is where Reality lies, but the ego forces us into the past and the future at every turn. The ego knows that as soon as we realize that living in the present moment means that we no longer need it and that it will be destroyed. It ONLY exists as a manifestation of a split mind. The ego IS the other personality that has been formed by a damaged mind. And because we are creative beings, that runaway “alter-ego” is busy creating all manner of things that are not only not good for us, they are downright destructive. Hence, the world you see around you.
Do you get it yet? Our creative power has been completely hijacked. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it till I’m blue in the face, we must take back our creative power and repurpose it for the highest good. In order to do this, we must understand what we are. We have to stop believing the lie that God is only external to us and that we have to grovel for the chance at Heaven. Heaven is right in front of us if we can snatch our minds back from the lies that have ensnared it.
Heaven is the Reality that has been covered over with fear, guilt, shame and lies.
1 John 2:27 KJVS
[27] But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Love,
-TR ✨💕✨
—01 Dec 2021—
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True.
And it will keep you in the state of perceived separation by giving you constant reminders of how much you need to pay attention to all the externalities. It will flash shiny objects at you 24-7 until you realize what is happening and learn to close your eyes.
Look within.
Listen to the Still Small Voice and not the chattering of the ego telling you to worry and to “be afraid”.
Once you learn to Trust the Order of the Universe and to Surrender to What IS, the ego’s chatter becomes less and less powerful. When you see it for what it is, you can tell it to take a rest.
Separation is Hell
Unity with All That Is is Heaven.
It’s up to you to decide which place to exist in.
@TruthRascalHQ✨💕✨
—10 Dec 2023—
And it will keep you in the state of perceived separation by giving you constant reminders of how much you need to pay attention to all the externalities. It will flash shiny objects at you 24-7 until you realize what is happening and learn to close your eyes.
Look within.
Listen to the Still Small Voice and not the chattering of the ego telling you to worry and to “be afraid”.
Once you learn to Trust the Order of the Universe and to Surrender to What IS, the ego’s chatter becomes less and less powerful. When you see it for what it is, you can tell it to take a rest.
Separation is Hell
Unity with All That Is is Heaven.
It’s up to you to decide which place to exist in.
@TruthRascalHQ✨💕✨
—10 Dec 2023—
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And you won’t be able to do👆that until you understand and fully accept that God is, in fact, within you and you learn to turn inward for guidance.
@TruthRascalHQ✨💕✨
@TruthRascalHQ✨💕✨
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Sit down.
Shut up.
And LISTEN.
Every time a thought comes into your mind, let it go. Do not judge it. Just let it float away.
Those thoughts are like clouds wandering across a blue sky. Let them float past.
You are the blue sky, not the clouds.
@TruthRascalHQ✨💕✨
—10 Dec 2023—
Shut up.
And LISTEN.
Every time a thought comes into your mind, let it go. Do not judge it. Just let it float away.
Those thoughts are like clouds wandering across a blue sky. Let them float past.
You are the blue sky, not the clouds.
@TruthRascalHQ✨💕✨
—10 Dec 2023—
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