When we humans talk about our shadow side, we are referring to the part of ourselves that, for whatever reason, is hiding away.  The trouble is that without those hidden fragments, we don’t get to be our whole self.  When we dance through the process of shining the light on our shadows and reclaiming them, the reward is the gift of empowerment.  It sounds like tedious work, but it doesn’t have to be. 

1. Release all fear in the moment.
2. Face yourself in the mirror.
3. Peel back the layers covering the real you and just be straight with yourself.
4. Say, “I am _____________. Isn’t that great!”
5. Now you’re owning it.
6. This reclaimed aspect of yourself now empowers you.
7. Now when someone points fingers at you, they’ve got nothing, because it is part of who you are and you no longer have any shame attached to it.

When we declare full acceptance of who we are, we can stop judging and criticizing ourselves.  Even if it has been a habit we learned in childhood, we have the power to change it in this now moment.  We have permission from God and the Universe to lighten up and quit beating ourselves up.  No matter what, we have the basic right to love and nurture and trust ourselves.  We can release any disease or ailment from our bodies by declaring it.  We can come home to the divine within ourselves.

Once we heal ourselves, then it flows outward to others, but, we have to heal ourselves first.  The truth of it is that nobody has control over our feelings but us.  We have chosen to have an experience on the Earth.  We are here by our own choice.  If we are crying, we have just handed our power over to whomever it was that put us in that frame of mind.  We can choose another perspective, perhaps one from a higher viewpoint.  One that does not involve fear.  We can choose to be in the divine neutrality of love.

If we choose to approach our life from the viewpoint of the divine love that is our true essence, we can see our life with neutrality.  When we are in the neutrality of love, we cannot be in fear.  We cannot criticize and beat ourselves up.  We can cut the cords of past patterns and begin new healthy healing and self-nurturing practices.  Our buttons that used to be pushed can now be re-wired to a new response that comes from the divine neutrality of love.  This way, we can still feel emotions, and gain information from them, but we don’t have to react to them.  We can let the past, be the past.  When we come home to the divine with ourselves, and reclaim our shadows, we can wield a new empowerment in the now moment coming from the divine neutrality of love.