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Why You Need to Forget Positivity, Keep Your Ego and Embrace Your Darkness
by Mateo Sol
Loner Wolf
There is one great pitfall that we are all at risk of experiencing on our journey's of self-transformation through life.
This pitfall is essentially our tendency to ignore the entirety of what it means to be a human being. In other words, it can be very easy for us to ignore the darker elements of who we are, and instead focus on emphasizing our lighter, more comfortable elements.
As I wrote about in my previous article regarding discovering your core wound, when we ignore many of the deep-seated and uncomfortable aspects about ourselves, we do ourselves a disservice.
While it is noble for us to want to search for the good within everything, and while it is virtuous for us to want to use “love” to solve all of humanity's problems, we often fail to acknowledge that we must first overcome the series of erroneous beliefs, psychological traumas, and parts of ourselves that we've neglected before “love” and “light” can serve as our guiding forces.
6 Ways You Get Stranded on Your Path of Transformation
A very big obstacle on our journey's of personal growth and self-understanding is our tendency to become enamored by the promise of “peace” and “love,” and in the process, shy away from experiencing the more difficult and darker elements of self-exploration. It's not that love and light don't have their places in our journey's—they most certainly do. But if these brighter, more appealing qualities are emphasized to a degree that involves the repression of darkness, and a resistance to the harder aspects of inner exploration, then we are creating an imbalance within ourselves.
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Every Day is Earth Day
Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/09/why-you-need-to-forget-positivity-keep.html
