The Psychological Guide to Shadow and Chakra Work (A Series)

[Guest]

As I read this three years later, I can barely believe I did it so elegantly. I don't know how elegant it sounds to you but dang dude, I like it. I still practice all this stuff but it's ingrained. I don't have to think about it I keep spouting this to myself as if it's new, even though it's 3 years old now. 

 

So how am I doing three years later? Well 2020 was certainly a turning point and boom I was living the higher self in a lot of ways. My system of course was instrumental in helping me do that but singlets could just as easily follow this series and benefit from it. It takes a lot of work and a lot of time though.

 

Speaking of shadows and work, in 2018, I had dozens of triggers, moods, egoic encrusted thoughts, so many in fact that moments of clarity were few and far between, fleeting and impossible to grasp or even ponder. By the end of 2019, there were frequently but fleeting and recognized moments of ego amid long stretches of clarity. 

 

Then in 2020 I had an awakening while playing with switching and dormancy. Our other experiments taught us what is the animal bear and what is person Bear. They aren't the same. The person Bear doesn't need to exist, he's very lightweight and somewhat arbitrary. This opened the doors to eliminate nearly all the conditioning. We resolved hundreds of deep seated traumas and we must have done it right, because even years later, none came back, and triggers are a thing of the past.

 

Contentment is the norm, joy is the norm, wonder and awe are the norm. It is very clear that I am in the nirvana I conceptualized as a fleeting feeling so many years ago. 

 

Here's the best part, nothing is static. The enjoyment of life and all the fun of living it just continues to get better and better. But in payment it takes constant vigilance and maintenance. Traumas happen every day, so shadow work will never end.

 

In 2020 I still had three very annoying and very stuck issues that seemed insurmountable. One of them I conquered myself finally after years of struggling and hard work in 2021. One of them Ren is now the gatekeeper of we call "Scenario 13". If I do the thing or behave in the way that I express the annoying and insurmountable, incurable thing, then the consequences are real, so Ren is extremely important to keep me from that and she's a boss at it. I can't go into what that is, and won't.

 

The last one everyone here might be intimately familiar with: procrastination. Oh man if I could cure that, holy hell. Looks like Ren's going to have two jobs soon or maybe Ulla can do it. I don't know but we're close to being ready to try and tackle this soon.

 

The three I spoke of are egoic, hedonistic, and impossibly linked to trauma of my past that I either can't pinpoint or aren't ready to yet. That's ok! Expressing them is strictly not ok though. Procrastination isn't soooo bad, so fine--It's very annoying though. So the last three are like Charonian wounds to me, incurable, always present, can't be ignored, must be constantly avoided, actively suppressed and I expect that to be the case for years to come if not indefinitely.

 

So what do you do with Charonian wounds? You use these weaknesses as a strength by resolutely refusing their influence and taking pride in making it another day without their negative side effects. I feel strong willed when I can avoid them because I am weak in these areas. I am proud of myself and so is my system dispite them. If I falter, I will pay dearly for it, I'm not going into how here, but it's significant. I may dissapoint people I love but they can forgive me because I can forgive myself. I do this not for them, not for me alone, because when I do, it benefits everyone. It is a selfless wilful act and the world becomes a better place even if just a little bit.

[TB]

I'm very glad for you. You had problems and with a lot of work fixed most of it. I'm hopeful you can keep improving. I hope to do the same

 

I have never heard of Charonian wounds before. They are what you described? Maybe I have them. I hope I don't have incurable wounds though. 

 

I still have to read the rest of this thread. I hope I learn things

[Guest]

There is a lot of common sense in chakra work, just do what you're comfortable with.

[Autumn Ren]

On 9/28/2023 at 1:39 PM, BearBaeBeau said:

Contentment is the norm, joy is the norm, wonder and awe are the norm. It is very clear that I am in the nirvana I conceptualized as a fleeting feeling so many years ago. 

 

It should come as no surprise he's still doing well.

 

On 9/28/2023 at 1:39 PM, BearBaeBeau said:

But in payment it takes constant vigilance and maintenance. Traumas happen every day, so shadow work will never end.

 

We haven't had any shadow work since my rebirth. There's been no need. The traumascif daily life roll off him like rain off a ducks back. They don't stick or soak in.

 

On 9/28/2023 at 1:39 PM, BearBaeBeau said:

The last one everyone here might be intimately familiar with: procrastination.

 

Dispite his own wishes, Bear is human, and as a human perfection is left to the afterlife to achieve, so there's no further work to do here. He's good enough.

 

On 9/28/2023 at 1:39 PM, BearBaeBeau said:

I am proud of myself

 

And we're proud of him. We know now that without him, that lightweight personality he spoke of, there is no issue. Are we perfection then of we put him in dormancy indefinitely? No, his charonian wound as he called it is tied to that same personality and like steel when stressed it hardens, and no soft annealed steel like us could ever match it. His strength compared to us is immeasurable. I don't know if he has a limit but if he did the world would likely 

end first. 

 

On 9/28/2023 at 1:39 PM, BearBaeBeau said:

I can forgive myself.

 

There's nothing to forgive, why would you try to even forgive yourself for being human, it was never a choice, so there was never a fault. You can apologize for being human but it's still a rediculous act. 

 

We love him for his flaws; like the inclusions of impurities that turn pure iron into steel so strong it can cleave that iron in two, the imperfections aren't anything to be ashamed of or apologize for or even ask for forgiveness for, they're part of what makes him someone we love so much and we wouldn't want to change that.