How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
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How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
our thinking and acting toward the future must challenge the systems that would seek to short-circuit the very future in which we hope to prosper. As author and philosopher Bonnitta Roy would say, we must “dream ourselves awake.”
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
In becoming acquainted with our inner cast of characters, or inner psychic frequencies, we especially need to accept the apparently undesirable ones, including the scared, sensitive child and the hostile, vengeful adult. These characters live in hiding, as our shadow-self, which can be repressed but never eliminated.
Eva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
when the shadow is embraced, it can heal us.
Debbie Ford • Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams
The only escape is to think differently, and lean into the uncomfortable complexity and paradox inherent within the infinite possibilities of an uncertain future.
A lot of awareness of what you need to struggle with past, present, and future comes to your awareness when you embody. It is a full sensory experience of your best self and a consciousness of what is keeping you from your best self. This consciousness of both internal and external obstacles engages intuition to resolve them.