Many get lost or stuck on the path to healing, because healing becomes a mental abstraction rather than a genuine physical process.
They think their way into an imagined concept of what it's like to be healed, without implementing the work to integrate true healing. It's akin to studying the health of the human body, yet not moving the body or eating healthy foods to replenish it into a state of alignment.
When healing becomes an egoic identity rather than a genuine process, people often lose hope, believing they have done healing work for years only to get nowhere with it.
Authentic healing carries a wake of realistic shifts behind it.
Because healing consists of cleansing the energy field, the changes within the field ripple forth causing the structure of your reality to shift. If you are not experiencing tangible shifts within your reality you may want to audit your healing process.
The most powerful healing processes I've come across consist of bringing about (this is just an estimate) 60% of your light body into integration with 40% of your shadow. The shadow acts like a dense emotional sludge that needs a sturdy container to hold it.
The light within you, otherwise known as your higher self, or your connection with source, is the container that is meant to hold these shadow aspects of you.
Without a container to hold the darker aspects of the psyche, the shadow runs wild, eroding common sense into paranoia and running the mind into a state of confusion.
This is why shadow work is just as important as light work, the two operate as parallel supporters of one another, bringing each other the contrast they've both been craving for years.
When the shadow feels enough love to enter into a space of vulnerability, is when sparks of authentic healing emerge. When the shadow parts of the psyche refuse to be vulnerable, this is a sign that they don't feel safe, or held by the lighter parts of the psyche, thus resulting in the untamed shadow running the reality you play a role in creating.
Shadow work is only powerful when you integrate it with source. Oftentimes, when people put years of work into healing without getting any results, there is a lack of focus on either light work or shadow work, resulting in an imbalance of energy where two polarized parts of the psyche cannot successfully intertwine.
An overdose of shadow work can cause a lull effect, where the darkness within sort of erodes the innate joy and bliss the soul carries, creating a cyclical pattern of negative interactions with reality. As these patterns set, they turn into belief systems and convince whoever is experiencing them that reality truly is a bleak and dismal place to be.
When light work is overused (you see this A LOT in the new age community) the shadow, which is an accumulation of woundings, feels unseen and no longer valued.
This creates a false light persona where the positive traits one carries become defence mechanisms that protect the user from their pain, creating a hollow identity of false positivity that strives for the fulfilment of dreams and change, yet doesn't have the ambition nor ability to deliver such.
When both light and darkness feel unseen, the healing process falls short, as the entire aim of healing is to shed awareness on your deepest elements of darkness and your richest internal treasures of light. Those who don't want to feel the vulnerability of these two polarities will often pretend to do the healing work, but without fully recognizing the polarities within them this healing work will just be the creation of a false "healed" persona.
As an artist takes time to blend two colors into perfection, we must give ourselves time to balance out the dark and light shades within us. Healing is an art, and the more we learn to balance between shades, to understand the colors of the spirit, the easier and almost relaxing the process of healing becomes.
Mary Allison
Artist Unknown to me.
