Humanity has battled its darker impulses since the dawn of free will. Why haven’t we learned to drop our dark side? In this episode Johnny G covers the relative nature of good vs. bad, the impact of love and fear on our behaviors, the role of awareness and balance in correcting our path, finding self-compassion, and a powerful method for regaining balance of our energy after a negative experience.
Episode Resources:
The Poem “Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson can be found here.
The Impersonal Life by Joseph Benner is an extraordinary spiritual text. It’s for sale wherever you buy books- I really enjoy the audiobook version I got from Audible- but there is a free PDF version here.
To learn more about Refractive Coaching visit www.refractivecoaching.com
Caroline Myss’ books can be found wherever spiritual books are sold. I enjoyed Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts. She has an especially good episode on Oprah’s Supersoul Conversation podcast, which you can find on Apple Podcasts by clicking here.
If you enjoyed this type of topic, you might also enjoy these Refractive Podcast episodes: Surrender to Greatness and From Addiction to Self Acceptance.
An automatic transcript follows; please excuse inaccuracies from the transcription software.
Speaker 0 00:00:02 Ever since you can remember, you felt something in your chest telling you to move, to love, to speak, to try day after day. You pretend you don’t hear calling. Maybe you dismiss it as silliness or worse that it’s there ready for you, and we’ll wait for you. And as long as you, my name is Johnny G and I invite you to join me on a journey of awakening as we dare to embrace our light. This is refractive. Hello everybody.
Speaker 1 00:00:45 This is Johnny G with another episode of refractive today’s topic is one that was very important to my own spiritual journey. I want to talk about how to deal with our darkness. Um, the more base qualities in us and some people call it the shadow. Um, how is it that we can come to a place of harmony between the ideals of personal and spiritual growth and the tendency that is there to lie, to cover up our shame or, uh, to take things that don’t belong to us or violence. So that’s really what we’re going to talk about today. I hope it’s going to be a topic of some value for you as well. I want to say right off the bat that this is my philosophy and it may not apply for you. I want to encourage you to take what has value and discard everything else.
Speaker 1 00:01:40 What I will say is that I’ve thought a lot about this. I’ve meditated on it. I’ve read a lot about it. And they, these are some conclusions that I’ve come up with that have helped me to move forward in peace with my human nature and to stop rejecting myself rejecting these parts of myself that I used to believe were faulty. Um, but that I no longer feel that way today. And because that ability to stop rejecting parts of myself has been so valuable. I felt that it was a worthwhile episode to dig a little bit deeper into. So let’s go, we all have parts of us that we would consider to be dark. It is a part of human nature and, uh, we tend to seek to get rid of it to suppress it. We’ve all heard stories about people who were raised in a very strict household and the moment they were able to get out from...
