"Our shadow," teaches Robert Augustus Masters, "is our internal storehouse for the parts of us that we’ve disowned or rejected, or are otherwise keeping in the dark."

Everyone has a shadow, but all too many of us are unaware of it. It holds the feelings and beliefs that we are most ashamed of or cannot accept about ourselves. For some, it may contain unacknowledged anger or grief. For others, pain or fear.

Our shadow contains our unfaced conditioning.

And the more unaware we are of our shadow, the more it influences and controls us.

Based upon Masters's four decades as a psychospiritual therapist and guide, Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark invites readers to understand and skillfully work with this rich yet neglected dimension of ourselves.

With depth and clarity, he illuminates the process of meeting our shadow in beneficial ways, and how we can embody a more complete and life-giving experience of who we are.

In this book you’ll discover:

• The nature of our shadow and how to optimally work with it―exploring our conditioning and core shadow elements, including in the domains of shame, fear, aggression, resistance, addiction, death, and spirituality

• How to work with the child within, self-sabotage, narcissism, sexuality, dreams, and other matters deeply influenced by our shadow

• Why turning toward our pain is an essential part of shadow work―making wise use of our pain

• Collective shadow domains we share with family, social groups, political party, or nation―bringing them and their associated traumas into the light

When we uncover and work in-depth with our shadow, we free ourselves from its control and gain the opportunity to put its contents to work for us instead of allowing them to work against us.

Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark shows us how to navigate the full terrain of our emotions, drives, needs, and depths of who we are.

Foreword by Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and The Anatomy of a Calling.

 

你現在的所有辛苦、焦慮、抗拒、不快樂，

其實都來自你可能從不知道的心理陰影。

挖掘內心最深的恐懼，才能讓陽光照射進來

40年專業心理師引領你探索內在陰影！

◎總是無法自在表達感受，所以一再被提分手？

◎常常習慣討好別人，卻讓自己活得很痛苦？

◎明明每次戀情都失敗，還是會選擇同樣類型的另一半？

◎別人只要提到我的某件事，我就會沒來由地暴怒？

你是否想過，你現在面臨的難題，

是與你過去從未與之和解的陰影相關？

這種陰影會如影隨形，附著在你每一段關係之中，

影響我們的想法與行為，並且不斷重蹈覆轍。

這些陰影不去探索，就永遠不會消滅！

「與我們的深層陰影共舞，是一場必要的冒險，

這樣才能激起實質的覺醒，引領我們邁向真正重要的行動。」

每個人都有陰影，但不是每個人都認得自己的陰影。

我們對陰影認識的深淺，決定它對我們的影響、控制和掌控。

如果你想要告別不斷內耗的人生，

如果你想要擁有一段健康的關係，

只有直面陰影，才能把光找回來，不再被它控制、驅使和束縛！

本書會告訴你：

• 如何調適你特別恐懼的某些情境？

• 如何正確地傳達不悅，而不是會毀滅關係地「暴怒」？

• 如何面對自己總是下意識抗拒的事物？

• 如何和人建立健康和親密的關係？

• 如何真正化解自己內心的陰影，嶄露明亮的那一面自我？

——中文簡介摘自商周出版出版《你現在的辛苦，來自還沒告別陰影的自己》