Who are you when no one sees you? know your shadow
In this podcast Enric Corbera delves into the concept of “shadow”, what we refuse to recognize about ourselves, and provides resources to recognize and integrate it, providing a mental and emotional balance that favors our health.
Jung’s archetypes: what is an archetype?
(1875-1961) Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, he devoted his entire career to the study of the human psyche. Throughout his numerous essays, he developed first his “Analytical Psychology” and, later, what he called “Complex Psychology”. Jung speaks of the psyche and not of , because, according to him, the psyche encompasses all processes of the mind, conscious and unconscious.
Among many of his contributions he developed the concept of Archetype. By definition, an archetype is . A symbol recognized by all. For Jung, the archetypes are the form that some experiences and memories of our first ancestors are given. Somehow, they are like that and they are stored in our unconscious.
Carl Jung and the shadow
“Until the unconscious becomes conscious, the subconscious will continue to direct your life and you will call it destiny.”
Carl Gustv Jung
According to psychologist Carl Jung, the shadow archetype is defined as the unconscious aspect of personality characterized by traits and attitudes that the Conscious Self does not recognize as its own.
The unconscious struggles to show itself, but it is continuously repressed by . The shadow is formed by repressed that is projected on the outside. There are many ways to feed the shade. The most common is what we know as “fighting to be good.”
“I would rather be a complete individual than a good person”
Carl Gustv Jung
In this video, Enric Corbera talks about the ego and the shadow and explains the importance of becoming aware of the dark side to respond differently to the same situation.
Shadow and Bioneuroemoción®
We all have one, the one we show and with which we identify and the one we hide and reject. At Bioneuroemoción®, what we reject we call ”. It is precisely this hidden story that makes us repeat situations, dramas, and patterns that do not benefit us over and over again.
Each person has their shadow. One way to start detecting it is to change our internal dialogue and learn to distinguish that when we complain about something or someone we are complaining about something of our own. For example, if we lament that no one listens to us, we can ask ourselves if we are listening to ourselves, and so on. He invites us to recognize our own shadow to find our fullness.
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