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@Privacityuser

3 ай бұрын

your multitudes of thoughts need a slow approach your frequencies of path are unmatchable...When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. I was very worried, but you comforted me and made me happy. In the multitude Psalms 94:19

@TM.M.d.M.-xv5su

3 ай бұрын

Somebody said you're married somebody said you had kids is there any of that true teal swan

@TopperPenquin

3 ай бұрын

I have come to understand this. UFO Never an Indian.

@TopperPenquin

3 ай бұрын

Slowly I am figuring this out for myself.

@TopperPenquin

3 ай бұрын

Never the Twain Shall Meet.

For as long as I can remember, I have suffered from social anxiety and a general incapability to feel at ease around other people. I've never really understood why I am like this and have always loathed that part myself. Every couple of years or so, I have a period of a few weeks or months where I feel very motivated to change, and I start working diligently on "getting rid of my shyness". It never works. I realize that, in these periods, I am most certainly doing "shadow work against myself". I try to get rid of the part of me that is unwell around others, rather than trying to understand it from a place of compassion, accepting that this shadow is part of me, and finding a way to integrate it.

Shadow work ALWAYS starts with a form of radical self acceptance. Otherwise you're just doing work that's not going to work.

@FkcrGuf6j

3 ай бұрын

Radikal self acceptance in a safe place alone at your home

@gypsyfiresign1064

3 ай бұрын

I think it starts very similarly, but mine personally began with radical self awareness & accountability. I’ve only been doing Shadow Work for about 6 years but I’ve read every one of Jung’s books & articles, also his lectures by virtue of being an M.Psych & he is who I chose to “paradigm” since college 25 years ago. Omg I’m rambling! Late night rabbit holes always make for an interesting day, later.

@CoralBalmoral

3 ай бұрын

​​@@gypsyfiresign1064'only' six years, good on you! I keep trying to get into it, but hopefully now is the time...?!

As a shopaholic and foodie, I realized that with shadow work it is just that part of me that wants the best out of life. My shadow has a serious King complex. I try to live simple, but he wants the best of everything. I do my best to compromise with that guy.

@kasijune88

3 ай бұрын

Is it the king complex or is it the addictive dopamine rush? ;) The latter could be taken care of by dopamine fasting. At least the issue regarding food.

@Madgardian

3 ай бұрын

@@kasijune88 Hmmm... You may be on to something there. Food fasting and spending more time away from tech. definitely clears the mind for me. I need to dedicate a weekly regimen more like what I did in the past. Thank you.

@claudiacano4207

3 ай бұрын

To live good all the time is natural. To live great all the time is not natural. Do I really deserve this?

@giamirella

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like you need to take shoes off and ground to mother earth instead of shopping and attaching your pleasure to food/eating. Fasting from these activities will help you ascend to a higher level of consciousness. Don't lose your head in the consumerism hamster wheel as you will never be satisfied you will always just keep wanting the next new thing, more more more etc. Remember less is more...being overly attached to material things stagnates our spiritual growth

@Madgardian

3 ай бұрын

@@giamirella I fast. I ground. My ability to grow financially (physically) is deeply ingrained in my identity as a man. Coasting feels like failure. The more money in the bank. The better I feel. I suppose it is about power over my life. This too can be balanced. I don't really need more than I can use. Same with food and "shiny stuff".

I was just thinking today how I’ve spent the past few years trying to “fix” everything I perceived as wrong rather than recognize these aspects that are harmful and integrate them into my life in a conscious and positive way rather than “fix” it and this video is perfect timing to really dive into this concept thank you thank you Teal

This is really great advice. I used to cling to people severely and shame myself for it. I was constantly trying to "change" the part of myself that craved human connection by shaming myself over and over again. Little did i know, that "clingy" side of myself existed because my mother neglected me as a toddler. Little child me just wanted the love she never got, and here i was shaming her - that little child who was myself - for wanting love. Love yourself. Your relationship to yourself is the most important relationship you will ever have, and it will shape how you interact with other loved ones.

@petyavelikova5066

3 ай бұрын

You just described myself, I needed 56 years to realise that and my life turned 180 degrees.

@talithahope4779

2 ай бұрын

@@petyavelikova5066 See, I had so much guilt as I was healing saying "how did it take me till I was well in my 20s to realize this?" And my therapist told me that TONS of people with the same struggles NEVER find healing. Im glad you could connect with what I explained about my own experience. And another important thing my therapist told me was that I didn't have the information and tools needed to heal sooner. Likewise, the same can be applied to your healing process, so don't be ashamed. We all have new things to learn throughout life. Take care stranger ♡

@GoddessCreme33

2 ай бұрын

Same here❤️❤️❤️ Mothering, uplifting & loving myself was the KEY to healing my broken heart🙌🏾 blessings to you

Huh. In 15 seconds of inquiring the right way about it, I now understand procrastination as a passive / aggressive assertion of control, AND, that *for me* it’s rooted in being bullied at school as a child. Awesome, thanks Teal!

@lunkerjunkie

3 ай бұрын

control has us

Oh, wow. This must definitely be my favourite video of yours. You just put into words what I haven't been able to articulate for the longest time. My internalised shame (derived from C-PTSD, being emotionally neglected, no sense of self/identity, people-pleaser) has been using shadow work to blame myself for feeling/being/doing the way I feel/am/do. THANK YOU! This was so eye-opening ❤❤❤

Thank you. This has definitely helped me reframe shadow work again in a better light. Someone used shadow work against me and on me and it warped my view of it. I wasn't able to do shadow work on myself because my inner self was angry and scared of what I had let the other person do to me.

@frickfran

3 ай бұрын

Not trying to be rude so excuse my bluntness but your wording is all wrong. If you were doing shadow work on yourself then radical self acceptance would be the first lesson but you say "I was angry and scared of what I had let the other person do to me" so did they make you FEEL a certain way by doing shadow work on you? If so then you're still not doing shadow work FOR yourself and placing negative emotions in the wrong place bc you haven't accepted undesirable aspects about yourself.. anyway I hope this helps too bc you should talk to other ppl so you can do the work you say you're doing.

@grungeasmr8352

3 ай бұрын

Shadow work is a process. It doesn't happen overnight. Some people have a lot more survival coping mechanisms to others. There shouldn't be any judgement of where someone is on their healing or spiritual journey. Things show up to work on and we don't always expect them and some are more hidden or have a lot of shame and guilt put on us from others in our lives. You continue on your journey, no matter what and show yourself some compassion, it's harder to love yourself radically for some people. Keep going and working with your shadow sides and whatever comes up, you're doing great by recognising where these pop up in your life ❤❤️

@user-qv3ux1wn5o

3 ай бұрын

I understand what you’re saying. I have always naturally done productive shadow work with myself. Then I got into an abusive relationship with someone who saw me as a problem to fix. He was unrelenting with picking me apart constantly when I already do that to myself! His motivation was to control me and weaken me. Since I escaped I have used shadow work to understand how I ended up in that situation in the first place. It helped me to understand that I have been experiencing mistreatment and abuse my entire life from my family and this is why I accepted abuse in a partner. I had to get in touch with the part of me that was a victim and process through all of that trauma. I am still recovering ❤

@andrew5222

3 ай бұрын

everyone's a victim. no one is ever willing to admit that maybe they aren't.

@claraeunoia

3 ай бұрын

this comment section is the wrong place to get validation for playing the victim card. I hope you don't let your resistance to the answers stand in the way of realizing- you're the author of all of it, and what part of you is gaining something from being the victim? Good luck 🫶

Sometimes the arrangement between parts of yourself is simply listening to them & meeting their needs. I discovered this as I was doing parts work and I was finally able to relax & feel more at ease . Usually the part who thinks you need to make other parts come to this sort of arrangement is the one who is doing shadow work from trying to eradicate theses parts. The biggest arrangement you can ever make is no longer trying to change them & actually embrace them ❤️‍🔥

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@kurtvanluven9351

3 ай бұрын

Thank you. healing is like giving a gift to yourself.

@TopperPenquin

3 ай бұрын

That's what I just said. Thank Jerry Lee Lewis.

@2GunRock

3 ай бұрын

Teal, I have good news and bad news.The bad news is, I suspect you've been demonically possessed. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it. The good news is you can seek out an exorcist and be cleansed.

Amazing video! Making friends with the parts of myself I used to dislike has been so incredibly healing and it really does result in inner peace. No matter where I go and what I do, my core of inner peace is always there, making everything more pleasant.

@Ciskuss

7 күн бұрын

can you explain how you made it? I'm very scared

I am doing shadow work to learn to accept my personal quirks & seek to understand what I really want & why. WishI had learnedthis a half a lifetime ago. But better now than never. I now accept that I trained to be a warrior monk in order to become who I am as well as why. -Matt’s dad Dan

finally the video I have been waiting for...not to mention ppl shaming u for not having done enough shadow work, or not integrating what you "have to", or "being in denial" and them seeing better stuff abt you etc.

Hi, Teal, I have been a Subscriber for over 4years now. when I first searched.. I was in a Drug addiction, needed to end it. I did not seek any outside help as I know Most of Physics shrinks Counceller's, has not done or solve their own inner work. I needed help to get started sorting those lingering sickness within. All answers people need are on KZread and do not need to spend to go for a face to face. It is matter of taking that first step in help yourself for whatever reason. This inner self work has taken 4years, the year 2023 was the absolute hardest compared to my 40years of being human in experience, which led to conquered self, freed self and fused the inner-self and the outer-self. Am at true peace and confidence. Thanks again Teal Swan, your work and effort into your videos is very appreciated, Take Care. Thank You Peace, Love, Joy and Forgiveness.

@Ane127

3 ай бұрын

You’re right that everything is on KZread and that many therapists have not done their own inner work. You’re very intelligent, and I’m glad that you were able to help yourself. That being said, some people can’t do it themselves and do need help. I hope that they are able to find the right help.

@andrew5222

3 ай бұрын

she will never respond to you

I want to love myself more by knowing all parts of me ♥️

@user-xl5dp9ev8m

3 ай бұрын

So you also love the parts you dont know ❤😊

@S.G.W.Verbeek

3 ай бұрын

And also the part that is the most scary to know 🥰

@user-xl5dp9ev8m

3 ай бұрын

@@S.G.W.Verbeek oh wow! So true!

There are many reasons why I do my shadow work. One of which is - as I work to free my inner child, I understand that this helps physical children to be freed from their captors. As within, so without. ❤❤❤❤❤ FREE THE CHILDREN!!!

Teal, you said something about an unaccepted ego? Where would I learn more about this? I wonder if all the dissolution of ego “ego is the enemy” has caused a negative impact on my life

Needed this reminder 🫶🏼

You are such a wise woman Teal Swan

Thank you, Teal! As always, your perspective is so refreshing and needed! I appreciate your work so much 🌸✨

Well defined...the topic of shadow. Yes...always about the understanding of who we really are what we really want and why we do what we do...without shame. Loving self requires looking within through the eyes of love. Thanks Teal for helping to guide me home☀💃

I absolutely agree with this as I have done both. I am currently doing shadow work for myself although some days it leans the other way. Those days I put my journal down and refocus on what I want and need to realign. 🙏 Thank you Teal….. you are an inspiration ❤

Wow that is incredibly insightful! I've been doing shadow work for a while, but now I get how I should approach it better and with better intentions. Thank you!

The experience of real separation - which is the arising of the “I am” experience - is simultaneously a discontent of the need to know and the feeling that something needs to happen. It is exactly the need to know, which makes the unknowable freedom of “what is” seem out of reach. This message of non-separation does not in any way meet the expectations or needs of the seeker, it undermines them. Therefore - when this message is listened to, the seeking energy may react in many different ways. One is to reject it offhand, as it does not reflect its experience of itself nor meet any of its’ expectations of logic or need to find something else; something better or more. It may misunderstand what is being suggested and attack its misunderstanding. The concepts can be quite foreign to the expectations of the seeker. Or it may believe the concepts making it about itself and thereby inevitably (although falsely) believe that non dualism points to a reality separate from "what is“ already, and therefore a philosophy to apply or a desirable reality to become. These reactions are all functions of the personal experience, there is no free will or choice involved.

Such depth and clarity!! Deeply grateful for all this. ❤❤❤

thank you for this video. Very helpful, i realised ive been using against myself and forcing myself to get over the trauma and abuse

Wow Teal you just put my life into words ❤ I have been working on my shadow for over 20 years and I smoked weed for the last 10 years but now I'm doing my shadow work to understand myself better and I quitted smoking a month ago and I'm not missing anything and I'm sleeping well. 🎉🎉🎉 I just set a lot of boundaries in my new life and I'm actually studying a new career and building my new life 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Beautiful message. Very well spoken with incredible insight... Thank you for all you share with the world, you are so very needed.

WOW this is EYE OPENING for me!! THANK YOU TEAL!!! Gratitude and BLESSINGS!!!♥💙💙💚💚💛💛💜💜🧡🧡

Thank you Teal for this very useful video ! It was time for me (and I'm sure for many of us) to receive it, you just answered many questions of mine , thank you 🙏

Thank you Teal, this was so needed

Super appreciate you explaining this to be aware of why we do things 🙏🏽 much love ❤️

Thanks, good timing for this.

Thank you Teal

Thank you so much Teal! In the last year or two, I'm so much happier than I ever was before. I feel older and happier somehow after using some of your advice.

Nathan was a perfect example in this. I fall into similar patterns and habits

I love this content from you soooo much!!! It’s SOOO NEEDED. For me for sure 😅🙏

THIS. Is such an important video. Thank you!

A vid like this is as validating and refreshing as it gets ;)

Teal, you make me crazy! Like Elvis Costello singing about his Alison: "How I wished I could stop you from talkning when I hear the silly things that you say..."

Thank you Teal 🎉 I needed this!

Another precious gift to humanity

Wonderful lesson. I love the way you contrast and explain. Your interview with Robert Edward Grant was very enlightening as well.

Thank you for this video. I now realize that I was Tony One, but I am now tony 2. Although I’m still unclear on what shadow work is. Or who I even really am. But that is OK because after re-awakening I am able to understand and accept that it’s OK that there’s so much that I don’t know and there’s so much that I’ll probably never know. But the beauty is that is there are some things that I actually do know. I am a baby in this light healing World. I just know deep down, that I’m on the right path. Where I once had fear and misunderstanding, I now have love and interest. WherevI once had jealousy, I now have inspiration and genuine happiness for those of which I used to be envious of. It makes sense to me when I’m saying, but does it make sense to anybody out there? Whether it does, or it doesn’t isn’t even completely relevant. All I know is that from this day forward, I’m going to let my resonance guide me, regardless of right wrong, Good bad, accepted or unaccepted by others. I definitely understood the difference, though between the shadow work, and how we can use it to Work for us or against us. I was completely unaware of this before. Even though I used to try to heal myself in the mindset of Tony One, I am blessed to have evolved into the tony 2 mind set. Now all I want to do is study more into this shadow work, and keep expanding and evolving, as much as I can, so I can continue finding my true authenticity. As opposed to continue living as a copy of everything else everyone else is/was. OK that’s enough for me but…….. lol I just wanted to say thank you again, Teal I will continue watching your videos and subscribing. I honestly used to fear you until I woke up. Bless

This is brilliant. Well done Teal

Love from Sweden to you, Teal! ❤

I can't do shadow work. It's hard to explain but three years ago something snapped inside of me and I suddenly felt and even really like seen and hear everything that happens in my subconscious all at once. After 11 months of isolation, madness and indescribable pain and suffering which I didn't ended only with blessing by holy spirit I see world different. I sense no time like before only movement. I don't perceive past or future I know I'm only being in whole universe. I'm my shadow. I'm alone and it's eternal.

"I AM" VERY POWERFUL.

This is very imporant and often overlooked. 💙💙💙

Thank you for this....I needed this course correct 🙏

One of your most important videos. Thank you❤

Thank you so much for these explanations. So helpful to understand ❤

Beautifully said!

Wow. This is what I needed to hear. Thank you Teal. Living Legends 🙏🏻❤️🧜‍♀️🌊☀️🔥 Living the Life of art 💫

Thanks Teal. I love your mindset shift videos that teach about the nuances :)

Perfect timing always

Thank you for this 🧘🙏🏼

Tony is the man follow him through and this info is well presented nice job teal your blessings will be tenfold as not many can see the whole picture your truly amazing keep up the work for all😊

Amazing video, just what we need rn.

I had to pause the video and laugh in amazement after hearing those examples. Couldn't be any more aligned to my current circumstances quitting weed... This has made me extra curious, wanting to ensure that I am gentle with myself on this journey, and not try and beat away a part that I've been told is bad, but to dive deeper into the 'why' and the 'how' I go about this I can see that I had been dancing on the line between the two, swaying between the two examples at different times Knowing this helps 🙏🏻 Time for some inquiry into the resistance, and perhaps a re-visit to parts work Still amazed at the timing of this 😅😂 Thank you Teal ♡

Thank you Teal!

Great infromation. Carl Jung dove deep into Shadowork. Everyone has the Shadow, but few are willing to deal with this topic. Thank you for bringing this to fhr forefront.

Brilliant, Teal!

Great explanation, thank you!

Such clear explanations with an empowering tone ❤❤❤❤🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

The other thing that I think we have to look out for is just doing work to raise our vibration. Almost like checking off boxes to “be a better person”. For example, I want to unblock my root chakra, so I am going to apologize to people, get friends, carry chakra stones, etc. But are you apologizing because you are truly sorry? Are you making friends because you want to develop true collaborative connections with people? Are you carrying chakra stones because you truly believe in their energy or because they’re pretty? Can you learn to be satisfied with your life and yourself if nothing externally changes?

GREAT reminder ❤ thank you

Thank you Teal 🙏

Thanks Teal...You're Brilliant! Soo clear... & Helpful....as Always! 💥🌈🙏❤🙏🌈💥

I love this ! Thank you❤ I believe we all need to stop shaming ourselves so much and that’s when the real magic happens

Omg 222 comments. I’m hugging myslef rn like this is the first video I’ve ever watched of teal that has actually 💯 called me out. I’m beside myself. Usually I’m like aha. Yes you’re right. And I apply and add upon it. ..this time I’m like shooketh. I’m just doing this to get goals tbh and I know the spirits told me what this is really for “full life feeling” is the vibe but tbh idk what that meannnnssss

Thank you Teal, namaste

Well said, thanks!

You don’t have to do shadow work, just pay attention what is happening in your life and respond, see how it makes you feel, see if it make sense,and pay attention to your motives and accept it. Don’t think of it as a part of your identity. It’s just you. Psychology has a limit, but is important to learn. The shadow is truly a spiritual aspect.

@lizka8792

3 ай бұрын

Makes more sense im so confused abt shadow work ty❤

@nagachoegyal9855

3 ай бұрын

From this point of view, bare attention is shadow work. Inasmuch as the shadow is truly a spiritual aspect, shadow work is a spiritual vocation. Soul calls to ego, the still small voice whispers, "You can do better and be better...if only you will pay attention to the creatures lurking in your shadow. Those creatures represent energies which need transformation and redirection" Cultivating a quiet mind enables and facilitates listening to that inner voice, the inner guide called the conscience which tells us right from wrong.

@Will2Wisdom

2 ай бұрын

@@nagachoegyal9855 who are you?

@Will2Wisdom

2 ай бұрын

@@nagachoegyal9855 I know naga

Thank you ❤️ I agree 💯 percent based on experience, especially in my profession the last few decades that I have been phasing out of and into possibility abundance.

Excellent ND much needed

I love you, Teal Swan.

Amazing explanation 👏

thanku thanku thankuuuuuu❤

Grazie Teal ❤

My shadow has a shadow that I see thru and through, thereby gaining the masterful power over it and transmuting it into dark Light so as to live authentically and successfully...

I'm here for you Teal if you need me I will always love you Be happy I'll never let you go

Parts Work is Richard Schwarz IFS model. It really works.

You are so wise and engaging 💐🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

❤ thank you! this helped :)

Shadow work is one of the most difficult tasks in the spiritual journey but it forms the very basis for progression

Thank you so much

8:50 The way she delivered that was funny as hell 😂

Thank you 🙏

Thank you ✨🙏🤍

🌷Thank You🌻

Been using Isochronic tones, as therapy to de-centralize my brain, but it sometimes backfires and actually activates parts of my brain that are what i now understand as "shadows" or parts of me which are now only manifesting themselves. The problem is the "Shadows" tend to wake me up in the middle of the night and seem to want to listen to music, at MY COST...meaning ...not enough sleep, this only makes the matter worse since music seems to concretely, establish a place were they can "live". Not a big deal most of the time but the "Shadows" seem to come out more when i drink or take pain meds. What should I do? -R

I do it to release the old destructive patterns that people have convinced me with beliefs. That ruined the fun and joy of playing with girls since childhood.

Thank you ❤

Your Light and Energy shine :) Thank you for being you and sharing all of that with us!! Love the Grey Eyes. I have Central Heterochromia and mine are dark grey with a gold ring in the center. But, I think yours are prettier ;)

As a Tony, I appreciate being the example of what do to correctly haha

@FkcrGuf6j

3 ай бұрын

Yikes

Enjoy Jason and your lives together

Genius💪🏼

Good overview :)