![]() Witt offers a wealth of research, ideas, and practices to help us grow our Shadow selves and accelerate personal evolution. As we learn more about our unconscious selves, we learn to align with its more wholesome aspects, paving the way for growth and transformation. While our unconscious holds within it many destructive impulses, thoughts, and feelings, it is also home to our deepest senses of self, our creative intuitions, morality, intimacy, vulnerability, and spirituality. ![]() In fact, from his view, personal development is largely growth of our Shadow selves. Witt provides a surprisingly positive view of our unconscious. ![]() Expanding Our Shadows, Transforming Our SelvesĬontrary to many views on shadow, which tend to focus on its negative aspects, Dr. This Shadow material is generated in less than a tenth of a second, and our conscious selves become more or less aware of it after one or two seconds, leaving our conscious awareness always one step behind the non-conscious flood of Shadow material. Our Shadow self monitors hundreds of thousands of inputs from the world and our body/mind systems process the information and constantly send constructive and destructive messages into our conscious awareness in the forms of sensations, feelings, impulses, stories, and thoughts. Shadow, by definition, is everything in us we can't see-everything we are not conscious of. Keith Witt shines a powerful light on the unconscious forces that drive us, for better or for worse, and shows us how our Shadows are key to real growth and transformation. Why do I feel like a worthwhile person some of the time and a worthless person occasionally? The answer is Shadow. Why do some of us have superior judgment in critical situations and others of us make horrible choices? Why is it that despite our best intentions, most of us find it so difficult to change?
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