condemning another person for behavior that we consider unacceptable or thoughts that we find offensive or ideas that we think are extreme we subsequently condemn ourselves as we're all humans and we all contain the seeds of immorality we see for example people that fight against oppression of all sorts and claim to fight for justice but this is often done in ways that are based on strong condemnations which actually makes them oppressive and unjust take the character hank schrader for example who justifies the dehumanization of criminals comparing them to cockroaches and whatnot by taking such a stance hank doesn't do humanity justice either as criminals are still humans and his brother-in-law walter white proves that even within a saint heights a monster as jung stated condemnation does not liberate it oppresses i'm the oppressor of the person i condemn not his friend and fellow sufferer if we condemn ourselves for having a dark side we don't just oppress ourselves we also deny our humanity and thus the inner civil war proceeds as we refuse to acknowledge what's part of us the contents of the shadow will not disappear through repression on the contrary it will revolt from a union perspective in order to help a patient a doctor must approach this person with unprejudiced objectivity a doctor cannot help a patient if he cannot accept him regardless of his own morals and values and we can only accept another person if we can accept ourselves first because only through acceptance we can acknowledge the totality of our being and know that the evil within us is also within everyone else we ourselves are the enemy we despise hence love thy enemy also means love thyself as we shouldn't condemn an animal for being hostile we shouldn't condemn a human being for doing the same thing even when it's irrational denying one's humanity will get us nowhere according to young the idea of self-acceptance is easy to comprehend but difficult to execute i quote no doubt this also sounds very simple in reality however the acceptance of the shadow side of human nature verges on the impossible consider for a moment what it means to grant the right of existence to what is unreasonable senseless and evil end quote in order to accept ourselves we must know who we are but even though we cannot consciously access our dark side and the vast majority of our psyche is beyond our reach there are ways to integrate repressed parts of ourselves into our conscious personalities according to young in cases like walter white and the narrator in fight club it means that extreme opposites need to be acknowledged and reconciled because what's considered good has kept evil evil so in order for that to stop evil must be turned into good we could compare this to removing the dam between two areas of water so the water will naturally and effortlessly find its level in union psychology this process is called shadow work in which practitioners learn to remove barriers that keep parts of themselves from flowing naturally into the light of consciousness when we make the unconscious conscious and give what we've condemned into the shadow permission to exist only then what jung calls the conversion into the opposite can take place it is this he states that makes possible the reunion of the warring halves of the personality and thereby brings the civil war to an end end quote if you want to gain more insight into your shadow self my friend emerald from the diamond net has created a free shadow integration master class called the six simple
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