Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power & Creativity of Your Dark Side

In a Bombay temple there is an image of a three-headed Shiva. The head on one side is gentle, the one on the other side terrible. The befriending head in the center looks benign and amused as it accepts both sides of itself. The challenge is to see both sides with those same eyes of welcome rather than with aggressive wishes to destroy the darker s

They then tell us how we can be more than we ever thought we could be.

tamed or befriended, but we can relate to it and horse-trade with it. When a little more each day is a good-enough bargain for us, we are liberated from both perfectionism and inadequacy, two tough features of the shadow.