Time To Face Our Mirror?

 

Let's start off our day with a bonus question.  WHAT is the most difficult question we can ask ourselves?  YES you got it, examining our very own FLAWS is actually NOT the easiest thing to do.  You can challenge me on this but it's no mean feat as we innately resist looking at our truly negative qualities and traits, more as a matter of psychological self-preservation.  Accepting this explanation pushes us to a corner though📗📙📘

SO HOW?  HOW can we identify our own flaws [a.k.a. truly negative qualities] without seemingly punching ourselves then?  Frankly, for us to uncover our own faults and flows would need a big dose of courage and maturity, all rolled into one.  I came across a passage from Practical Psychology WHICH says:  THE SHADOW IS A MORAL PROBLEM THAT CHALLENGES THE WHOLE EGO-PERSONALITY FOR NO ONE CAN BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE SHADOW WITHOUT CONSIDERABLE MORAL EFFORT.  Indeed, this is a tough call we need to face as there is no way to look the other direction💚💛💜

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung opined that each of us has that hidden layer of NEGATIVITY and denial known as the 'SHADOW'.  And that SHADOW is anathema to the face we show the world every day WHICH Jung coined as our PERSONA.  And that we wear that PERSONA as a mask to hide our ugly tendencies from public sight, ouchhhh.  And here comes the expert psychotherapists WHOSE main goal is to ingrate that SHADOW into our conscious personality, for us to acknowledge and accept it, thus becoming more authentic in the process.  Psychologists claim that we humans love to divide, classify and categorize things in our lives and about one another💥💥💥

Researches also showed that everyone of us do harbor our own respective 'demons'.  And the darkest part of our minds make up some of the most important parts of our identities.  BUT for the majority of our lives, social and private, we tend to repress those 'darkest things' that deeply define us.  And those studies did draw ourselves to that concept of the PERSONA!!!

Our takeaway:  From a philosophical standpoint, I'll opine that we need to reconcile with our respective SHADOWS because the harder we fight against it, the deeper those UNSEEN ones get more obscured. And I think the key here is for us to embrace that reality and figure out how to come up with a balanced way to express it in our daily life.  And WHILE that inevitably is a long, confusing, tiring and repetitive process, the result of its success is that 'harmony' with things we are sometimes denied.  True, accepting one's SHADOWS is crucial to complete acceptance of ourselves.  Truth is, our own DARKNESS makes us WHO we are, just as much as our goodness does.  TIME TO FACE OUR MIRROR, dude😡😡😡