You and Your Shadow Side
-->The brilliant Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung advised his patients to become acquainted with what he called the “ Shadow Side ” of themselves, or the “ Inferior part of the personality ”. Indeed, there is a hidden portion of our minds that is compromised of memories from the past which terrify us and of which we ashamed, plus the mean, selfish and base nature which erupts occasionally and which we try to excuse and explain away in a thousand different ways. We will be very reluctant to reveal this side of ourselves to another so long as it scares us. The natural assumption is that if we let others see this dark side they too will hate us. But generally, they are able to be more lenient with us than we are with ourselves. And a curious kind of chemistry begins to work. Because we have told another our deepest secrets, we begin to understand ourselves better. I think I can even go as far as to say that you can never genuinely know yourself exce...
