aLoNe In tHe daRk....

Have you sensed you are alone with your feelings, and that seemingly no one can understand how you feel? This is one of life's greatest paradoxes that you are the only one who feels as you do. Your feelings might compel you to want to run away from it all. These seemingly alien feelings are buried treasure full of opportunity and inspiration if you are willing to look, listen and trust that what is buried is what you need to look at in order to know yourself better and to become more of who you truly are.

These feelings come to the surface in several forms; strange or surreal images, snippets of information, recurring dreams and feelings that perk to the conscious mind seemingly without rhyme or reason. Whatever form they come in, and no matter how uncomfortable they are, these messengers bring the information you need in order to become more whole in who, you truly are.

When you have depleted your energy by pushing your feelings down, or have exhausted your creative ideas looking for ways to run away from it, a good first step is to write what you think you are avoiding. This exercise will assist you in bringing the issue to the surface or a symbol of something else. Expressing yourself fully on paper is a safe way to begin exploring the shadowy edges of your unconscious mind.

The dispassionate intellectual side of your brain can give you the distance you need to read what you have written, thus, you can feel less afraid of it. It helps if you remember that no matter how dark or negative your thoughts or feelings are, these thoughts and feelings are shared by all humanity.

You are not alone in the dark

All the gurus and teachers you admire went through their own unprocessed emotional terrain in order to come out the other side wiser and more whole. You had the strength and courage to come this far and to open the treasure chest of what you are avoiding, therefore, you can access the same strength and courage to discover the source of your negative thoughts and painful feelings.

Within the parts of yourself that you do not want to look at, there are emotions that need to be felt and processed. Unfelt and unprocessed emotions are stuck energy, and when you leave emotions unprocessed, you deprive yourself access to the full spectrum of who you truly are. Once you have discovered the source of your negative or painful feelings, you can summon your strength and courage to then process it, on your own or with guidance from a practitioner schooled in emotional and spiritual healing. It is through this work that the buried treasure of energy and inspiration will pour forth from your heart, giving you the courage to look at all the parts of yourself with compassion and love.