The dark places in us are the places which we successfully avoid to look at. We might feel ashamed, they might bear very painful stories, we had to ban. The dark places in us hold feelings and facts we ignore with the need to forget; we want to delete them out of our memory. And indeed, we are quite successful in doing so.
But are they really gone, by not remembering them? They have gone to the underground, or the dark chamber, which we call unconsciousness. They are out of sight and out of our memory, but they are not gone. They work from the underground. That means they work without our conscious will.
If we push something, which has the energy of dynamite into a small corner of the dark, the energy gets hundred times stronger. This energy will become toxic, if it is not allowed to be released. It creates havoc in our body and psyche. It alarms us with pain, agony, numbness, anxiety and deep fears. Often our sleep is disturbed, our digestion is in turmoil and we find any excuse not to be at home in our bodies, not to feel our emotions, not to think about what might be wrong.
Yes, I’m speaking about the darkness within us. I’m speaking about the multitude of illnesses which we are suffering from, unable to trace them back to its origin, where it all had started.
If we want to heal ourselves and not just interchange symptoms, we need to bring light into those dark places. We need to have a lot of courage by taking the fear at its hand and stepping down into our shadow, the dark of our unconsciousness. Without light we won’t be able to see or recognize anything in the dark. So we need a lamp to take along on this journey. The most important tool, which can radiate light, is self acceptance, being non judgmental, having a guide on the side and hopefully at least a tiny bit of self love or respect. Encountering the damaging material of the dark within, we have to be very careful; it could injure us. Therefore having a guide might be most important. We need to know how we can discharge and handle this potentially explosive material, which had been under pressure for so long. When courage and acceptance brought us here, now the understanding and compassion for whatever has happened will help us to transform this damaging energy into healing energy.
True healing is always a process or a journey and not a fast solution of a medical intervention. With true healing we have to be in charge of the process and be able to assimilate and transform dark energies into energies of light.
