Integrating Your Shadow Self

This meditation helps you to relate to your inner child and integrate your shadow into your conscious awareness. Set in a midnight garden to activate your intuition, and under the watchful guidance of your Higher Self.

The shadow is the part of us that we reject - the part of us we refuse to acknowledge or accept. We put into it all the qualities we believe are undesirable including our animalistic drives, sexuality, and “negative” traits like anger or passive-aggressive sulks. In my experience the shadow often also includes positive qualities like curiosity, creativity, courage, compassion and desire for learning.

Dealing with our shadow head-on is not easy, but it’s going to surface every so often anyway, like when we feel rejected or betrayed, or if we feel we made a mess of a project or relationship. And when it does the pain can drive us to seek comfort, often in addictions. Food, alcohol, sex, work, drugs give us temporary comfort until the next confrontation where we’re made to face what we perceive is our undesirability.

I hope you find this meditation helpful!