Welcome back to daily breath. This is Deepak Chopra. Today I want to discuss learning how to feel your way into the shadow.

Shadow Shadow energies make themselves known in the following situations.

I've already actually mentioned a few circumstances in situations where shadow energies emerge.

But for you personally, here are a few common examples

of how shadow energies may emerge.

You can't talk about your feelings,

or you feel you can't talk about your feelings,

or you feel out of control,

or you feel a flash of panic or dread.

Or you want to feel strongly but your mind goes blank.

Or you find yourself breaking down in tears for no reason.

Or you have an irrational dislike for someone.

Sometimes you participate in a reasonable argument which turns out into warfare.

You attack someone without provocation. All these are examples of shadow energies

making themselves known.

So think of negative feelings like anger, grief, anxiety, hostility, resentment, self-pity, hopelessness. When you think of these feelings, feel your body at the same time.

If you remember any examples of these situations, then feel your body and bring your awareness to the sensations.

Obviously the sensations that accompany these feelings are not pleasant.

So feel these sensations and then ask to release them. As you ask to release them experience the feeling and follow the feeling where it wants to go.

Notice that the feeling will leave through breath or maybe a sound that emanates from you or even the release of bodily sensations.

And when you have a sense of release afterward coupled with an understanding of what that feeling meant, then you will have

cured the tendency of the shadow to break into impulsive, uncontrollable, what we call bad behavior.

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