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  • Why Keeping Your Manifestations Private Helps Them Work

    Why Keeping Your Manifestations Private Helps Them Work

    Why Keeping Your Manifestations Private Helps Them Work

    Privacy is protection, what people don’t know about they cannot interfere with.

    If you’re reading this then I’m sure you’ve heard some variation of this recently, or you are aware of the ‘evil eye’.

    This is a concept in varying forms throughout many different cultures and religions/spiritual communities, that talks to the importance of keeping our successes private to prevent negative outside influence.

    In this post I want to go over some reasons you might want to keep your manifestations private, and reasons you might want to share them!

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  • Can Manifesting Backfire?

    Can Manifesting Backfire?

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    Working with energy is no joke! Often when reciting affirmations and setting intentions we aren’t sure what will actually happen as a result, and so it’s easy to think that what we’re doing isn’t going to have a real impact.

    Perhaps you’ve been wanting to manifest and want to know what you’re getting yourself into, or have had a negative manifestation experience in the past and are wondering why it happened.

    In this post I want to explore if manifesting can backfire and what to do in that case.

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  • What Is Spiritual Bypassing? (3 Common Examples)

    What Is Spiritual Bypassing? (3 Common Examples)

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    Spiritual bypassing or the spiritual bypass is defined as: the “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks”. The term was first introduced in the 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist.

    Spiritual bypassing is something which we can observe clearly in both religious, New Age/spiritual groups, where there is a distinct seperation between physicality and spirituality.

    In this post I want to explore what spiritual bypassing is, provide some common examples and how we can avoid bypassing to the best of our abilities.

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  • Manifestation & Shadow Work

    Manifestation & Shadow Work

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    Manifestation is the art of bringing something from a thought or vision that exists in our minds into physical reality.

    This concept has been popularized in the 2000s through self-help books like The Secret by Rhonda Byrne (the Law of Attraction), in the 1970’s with the development of the New Age movement, and even further back with Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill in the 1930’s.

    These idea is ‘what you think you attract’, if you maintain a positive attitute you will attract positive things in your life, the same for the negative.

    Alongside this has been an often conflicting discussion around shadow work. This is the practice of acknowleding our dark or unconscious side. Through facing negative structures, our negative thought patterns and tendencies, we can integrate the shadow, and it has less power to influence our lives.

    In today’s post I want to discuss how these two concepts can be brought together, and why it’s so important to acknowledge the positive but also the negative.

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  • 21 Powerful Shadow Work Journal Prompts

    21 Powerful Shadow Work Journal Prompts

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    We all have a shadow side; the part of ourselves we hide away from others out of fear of shame. We might refer to this as our dark or hidden side – at its core it is unconscious in nature.

    This aspect of our being contains all of the negative traits, habits and tendencies that we suppress in order to seem like ‘good people’. It also contain positive attributes that we are hesitant to show or express due to how others might respond.

    This dark hidden side doesn’t simply cease to exist if we ignore it, it will simply manifest in more subtle and insidious ways. Through projection, deception, passive aggression, unhealthy habits…a general lack of authenticity.

    In this post I want to explore what shadow work is, provide journal prompts you can get started with today and share guidance on how you can go deeper with your practice.

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  • 7 Life-Changing Benefits Of Shadow Work

    7 Life-Changing Benefits Of Shadow Work

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    We all have a shadow side: the parts of ourselves that we’d rather pretend didn’t exist. The negative habits, tendencies, desires. We also all have positive traits which we push down, out of shame or the need to fit.

    The shadow represents the side of us that is covered in darkness (unconsciousness) which appears to be hidden but inevitably influences our life in subtle ways.

    Shadow work is the process of getting to know this ‘dark side’ of our being, and bringing it into consciousness. Through acknowledging our negative traits and embracing our repressed gifts, able to live a life with more clarity.

    In this post I want to explore 7 key benefits of shadow work, as well as guidance on how to get started.

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