'Embracing the Shadow' - Mind,Body,Spirit Synergy
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Unit 9 Explain how "embracing the shadow" can be effective in helping to understand one's current mind-body-spirit connection. How might this understanding be helpful in deepening this connection?
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'Embracing the Shadow' Psychology
Mark Atkinson, a mind-body-health expert (2011), "The shadow refers to all aspects of yourself - including traits, needs, drives, abilities, feelings and potentials, capacities, both 'positive' and 'negative' - that you have rejected, denied, disowned and pushed out of awareness and into your unconscious...The shadow is developed in early childhood. Essentially, any quality or trait that was consistently suppressed by your caregivers, or suppressed by you in response to your caregivers will have been rejected by you in order to maintain a sense of connection to them. Furthermore, as you mould yourself to survive and manage your life situation during childhood, you will also reject aspects that are incompatible with the image that you have for yourself." Carl Jung has also discussed the concept of the 'shadow' as the persona that you do not want to have or to be. Embracing the shadow simply means acknowledging this shadow, accepting that you have all those traits that you ...
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