The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self Through Comprehensive and Practical Shadow Work

I loved this book. It was very interesting to read between the three authors, who all are saying the same thing, yet you can choose which speaks to you personally. It's a great jumping off point to realizing that we are all flawed but there is hope. Carl Jung first gave the Shadow a name, and as Deepak Chopra points out, the Shadow is something we all share not only individually, but with each other as if there is a giant pool we're all swimming, and sometimes drowning in together.Certainly this book doesn't give a lot of in-depth solutions. Our Shadow is too complicated to fix in just the short space each author is given in this book, but it's easy to see what speaks to us and to research further where we want to go from here.The point of this book is to show us that our fears, and insecurities are shared and that there is a concrete reason for those fears. Pointing out the Shadow starts us to looking into why we mess up our lives with such regularity, and can be the beginning of our search for freedom. Not that it's not our fault that we make bad choices, but that there is a way to change things, that there's a way towards the light if we can just look at ourselves without illusion.This book can mean the difference between living the life you want, and continuing to play the old-worn out tapes of the past that sabotage our happiness and from living the life we chose for ourselves. I believe that Shadow-work is so important and this is the kind of book that can set us on the way towards the life we really want to live.When I Dream

Absolutely loved this beautiful book. Highly recommend!!! Well-written and so interesting. Wonderful!!!

The Shadow Effect is a work that promotes and encourages a person to acknowledge and then embrace those areas within themselves that for various reasons they have attempted to keep hidden about themselves. The principle that to become whole, one should not deny those parts of themselves they may not be proud of or feel in some way uneasy about. Social pressures often are factors in this.Our egos are behind our need to keep hidden what can be thought of as our darker side. Image to the ego is very important. It is understood by many that a failure or purposeful denial to acknowledge any part of ourselves gives it additional power. It is also understood to change anything you must be aware of its existence, so denial will not aid a person if they seek personal growth. Denial of any part of ourselves serves to keep a person to some degree personally static.When we label and define anything, if we do so seriously, we are allowing for a life of limitations. Many label things good or bad. Our shadow side we usually label as being bad. Here again our egos are showing up for it is the ego which relies on and uses duality almost exclusively. A dualistic understanding of anything, including ourselves, never permits wholeness.This is what the authors are considering. If one wishes to return to their natural state of wholeness take a closer look at what you may be hiding or denying about yourself. Embrace it instead of denying it. It is only then a person can release it consciously if it no longer serves the person.

I've heard the phrase "shadow work" thrown around here and there for the last few years. I always assumed it was working with this deep, angry, kind of goth version of you until I read this book. Now I not only understand what my shadow is, but also got the first glimpses of what it takes to not kill it, but rather incorporate it in order to be happy.There is a lot of time spent on explaining shadow, which for a newbie like me was great. There was less time spent on how to start conquering the divorced out parts of yourself that you think are unlovable that ultimately create your triggers. If you're like me and wondering how you can be more engaged, more present, more creative, less reactive, and looking to change, shadow work is where I would start and this book is a great jumping off point.

Unfortunately, I already had the DVD and was trying to buy the hard copy book - at least Amazon said it was the hard copy book - the I got an emailing saying there was a problem with my credit card (expiration date had changed..I re-ordered the book with another credit card and did not change the date on the original card) Amazon charged both cards (don't know how the charged on the original one before I changed the date) but in any event I ended up with 3 DVD and no book. However, it is an excellent DVD, have given to friends - it is a very thought provoking program and enabled me to realized where some of the problems in my life originated. I would certainly recommend - if not else it is a very real eye-opener about why react to some of the things we do and quite frankly why we continue to do some things over and over again even know how they will end up.