Recognizing Shadow Forms Along the Hero’s Journey with Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz

E9 Recognizing Shadow Forms Along the Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz ​ “Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations that come too late.”― Joseph Campbell. All of the 12 Archetypes are present in every one of us but sometimes we push them down and do not allow them to express themselves in our lives. This activates the negative forms of the Archetypes. When we feel the negative forms of the Archetypes show up in our lives, we tend to want to push them down further because we are afraid they might be opening the door to monsters. Often, the negative forms are activated by all of the “shoulds” and “should nots” of our lives. Every “should” and “should not” that we experience becomes a scale on our dragon. Some people who have not allowed many, if any, of the Archetypes into their lives see both their inner and outer world filled with dragons - and the world seems to be a very frightening place. The way to overcome this is to educate the Ego and in time allow some of the more positive sides of the Archetypes into your daily living. When we feel awful, we are stuck expressing an Archetype in its negative form. To feel empowered again, we need to simply take a closer look at this Archetype and refuse to let it control us. But we can only do this when we honor the Archetype by expressing it in some way. What most people don’t realize is that each dragon is hiding a treasure. When we make peace with the dragon, the treasure is given to us.

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