How to integrate your shadow - Jordan Peterson

6:21 "The practical approach for developing your shadow" <-- key to the video for anyone who missed it. 1. Notice and Contemplate your resentment or bitterness 2. Decide what you need to do to remove that bitterness 3. Do it

Step by step to shadow work 1, Detach yourself from your persona 2, Admit any evil and dark intention in your mind 3, Merge with it 4, Use it in a good way

For the branches of a tree to reach to the Heavens, It's roots must go all the way to Hell

“It’s really useful to be dangerous” - Jordan Peterson

I’ve always thought to myself: “What would it be like to be around when Socrates, Nietzsche or Jung were alive and developing and mapping human thought and spirit.” Jordan Peterson is a living breathing example. God bless him and his.

"If you can be dangerous, you often don't have to be" ~ wise words

One of Jordan's best - and true. It reminds me of the 1994 film comedy The Mask, where ironically the beta male protagonist discovers that when he wears an ancient mask it frees his deeper instincts, and he eventually integrates his Persona and Shadow to a degree.

Persona is not to be rejected either. It’s a natural phenomena. Knowledge of it, and then opening to the deeper dimensions of the psyche, is fundamental to our integration. Nobody goes out into the world without their mask. This too is also as it should be.

8:06 ".....radical honesty....." is the cure for anything. Thanking You

Pray for Jordan Peterson's swift recovery.

Just notice that the people around you that are brutally honest are a lot more stronger

Shadow parts of the self that the persona rejects. Observe one s own fantasies of resentment or revenge. Notice if you are oppressed and your moral obligation is to speak up about it. Honesty with yourself is like good therapy. The journey to enlightenment begins with recognition of one’s capacity for evil. If those aggressive parts are integrated into one’s character one can be dangerous and that actually is good. You can develop grace. Speaking truth assertively is necessary.

What I have found interesting about the shadow is that it is not the act of standing up for yourself that empowers you. It's the ability to stand with others in a way that fulfils you which matters. Like Jordan says, if you narrow down the resentment, that is when the shadow provides positive solutions. It is when you don't know what bothers you which the shadow creates selfish power hungry fantasies. Integration is the key to navigate through the darkness of your mind.

Montenegrins have a word 'čojstvo' [choystvo], which no one i knew in former Yugoslavia long time ago could quite explain to me. I finally heard the explanation which goes (more or less) like this: heroism is protecting yourself from your enemies - čojstvo is protecting others [your enemies] from yourself. As a society we really need to work on 'čojstvo'.

See my shadow changing Stretching up and over me Soften this old armor Hoping I can clear the way by Stepping through my shadow Coming out the other side Step into the shadow Forty six and two are just ahead of me

1:15 The meek shall inherit the earth = Peace through strength.

Integration of your shadow side is one of the most important things you can do, but also the most difficult and time consuming. "The meek shall inherit the earth" is super powerful - in that meek meaning that the man is dangerous but collected. A perfect example of perfect shadow integration.

Key points I took from this video: Keep your weapons sheathed, but know what they are. “That revelation of the evil of the self is part of the journey to enlightenment and an early part” The shadow would be all the parts of the personality that the persona rejects Jung said a genuine moral effort was a good substitute for psychotherapy. Radical honesty is a fundamental, practical approach for developing your shadow.

This is a good video. I often find this man too hard to listen to. Here he is sitting down and speaking for a shorter time. Much better, his voice is better for starters. Content helpful. Thanks for sharing.

I am currently in psychodynamic therapy (through a specialist service for people with personality disorders - myself having borderline PD). I’m in the process of shedding my persona and accepting/incorporating my shadow into my character. All my life I have been refusing to accept that I am capable of the negative - to the point that I completely separated any negative thought/feeling/action to that of a separate entity which had a name and a voice (a delusion and auditory hallucination). I believed I was incapable of being ‘bad’, now I see that it was juvenile and naive. I am getting to know myself for the first time. I’m unlocking my potential. It feels like I’m waking up for the first time. I feel more powerful as the weeks go by. This video has helped me clarify my therapy experience and given me a greater understanding of my transformation. Thank you Jordan Peterson.