In this exercise, we're going to be working with the shadow. The shadow is everything we don't like about ourselves that we also hide from conscious awareness, and it exists for good reason. We have to take a stance in life, and any time we do that, something else must be left out. But if there's anywhere that our shadow gets revealed, it's often in our relationships with other people. Some of the best opportunities to understand our shadow are in conflict with others, in falling outs, in the feedback that was actually given to us explicitly by other people. In this exercise we're going to be relaxing some of those defences that may have served a purpose at times and using conflict as a mirror for shadow material.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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