Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path

unconscious applies to itself.

The unconscious also takes everything very personally so anything you say about another, your

The ego casts the Shadow.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead to a deeper understanding of ourselves.” –Carl Jung

Unconscious beliefs are not intrinsically good or bad. The point is that you want to uncover them and maybe balance them so you can be consciously empowered.

Another aspect of the unconscious is that it will always seek out the path of least resistance.

When you have an imbalance in the anima-animus, the person can never be who they truly are to you because you see them through such an amazingly wonderful filter of unrealistic expectation.

The undiscriminating man will project his anima (those particular, distinctive, feminine potentialities that are significant components of his unconscious mind) onto women around him. And, because the characteristics of his anima are significant to him, they carry a significant emotional charge.

The extreme of the Shadow response is related to the level of denial not the extreme nature of what is being denied.