Working With Shadow In System Layouts

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

It is believed that the main thing is to find your goal, to determine what you want, and then everything will work out almost by itself. But it also happens: I know perfectly well what I want, but I have no idea how to achieve it. And, in all honesty, it happens much more often!

Tell me, what do you want? As a rule, answers come quickly: relationships, a car, a bigger salary …

Question two: how to achieve this? Well, what a question, as they say, would I know the buy-in - I would live in Sochi, that is, if we knew how to achieve what we wanted, we would have achieved it a long time ago … And if I told you that we ALREADY know all the answers?

In systemic and organizational constellations, there is such a method as working with the Shadow, and one of its possibilities is to find answers to any difficult questions.

Where? In your own subconscious!

Shadow - this is the side of our life that we push into the area of the unconscious. You've probably heard the expression: "Our subconscious mind knows the answers to all questions." So, we are talking about the Shadow, because this is where our internal resources are stored, which will help find the right solution in any situation - even when "well, I don't know what to do at all."

The very concept of the Shadow was described by the famous psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, designating with this word all those qualities of a person that he displaces in himself for their inconsistency with our image in society. Do you think there are such “enlightened ones” who do not have a Shadow, they are all at a glance and shine directly without a single spot? But Jung believed that there is no individual without a Shadow. It's just that those who live more consciously recognize all these repressed qualities, and what we recognize no longer has such power over us.

The request for working with the Shadow is somewhat different from the requests for other methods. The client comes with a request not "This is where it hurts" or "This is the problem", but "What should I do to get this and that?"

Working with the Shadow as a technique was created in the USA more than 20 years ago, and today seminars on working with the Shadow are held in Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Australia and other countries. This method has established itself as a very effective tool in the work of a psychologist and psychotherapist!

Benefits of working with Shadow:

• the ability to take control of your own life in your own hands;

• activation of our internal resources, • be aware of their desires and needs;

• see not problems, but opportunities;

• realize what prevents us from realizing our dreams;

• to understand that from what we already have (and will not appear sometime soon) already now can contribute to the achievement of your goals.

As practice shows, the results usually surprise the clients themselves - they do not even suspect how many resources are hidden in their subconscious! The most interesting thing is when the client at the end of the session says: “And how did I not see this before? It's so simple!"

Yes, everything is really simple. The main thing is the desire to work on yourself! Then it's easier to get acquainted with the Shadow and accept it, because it is also a part of your personality …