Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations from the Center for Action and Contemplation have been focusing on our shadow--"what we refuse to recognize about ourselves and what we do not want others to perceive." We all have a shadow, and some deal with it better than others. Shadow work can, as it did for me, lead to addiction recovery--the 12-Step programs are excellent at processing one's shadow.
Ruth Haley Barton offers this regarding the discovery of our shadow:
There is some behavioral pattern, something unresolved, something out of control enough, something destructive enough, that we say, “I must go into solitude with this.” We thought we had kept it fairly well hidden. We thought we could manage it or at least keep its destructive nature fairly private, but now here it is—out there for all to see—and it is wreaking havoc on our attempts to accomplish something good.
This points to the huge amount of work I have done post-trip on my anger and resentment and those things I had hoped to leave in Bali. (See May 23 post.) I'm well aware that I have a very angry shadow, and that anger raging through my body as sciatica pain certainly demanded my attention.
Grateful for ongoing healing,
Leta
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| Shadow art by Fabrizio Corneli |
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