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Thanks for joining us here again for Facing the Shadow session two.

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We trust you've had an interesting few weeks observing the shadow.

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Many of you have shared your observations with us and sent feedback

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about how helpful looking at the shadow has been for you.

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Some of you have turned observing the shadow into a practice.

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You've carefully observed how the shadow operates in various areas of your life.

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For some, you've seen the part that you play in what previously seemed to be external problems

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or problems where you blamed others.

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Some of you are examining your integrity

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and ethics around relationships,

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work and other areas of life.

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For others, observing emotions has been a big revelation.

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Examining the emotions you dislike and reject and those that you like and accept

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in both yourself and in others, brought great self insight for many of you.

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And a few of you told us about your growing awareness

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of how you project your shadow onto others

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and how healing it is to simply witness it happening.

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This demonstrates the main teaching of the first session

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that self awareness is the key to working with the shadow,

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and that rather than needing to do anything to get rid of your shadow, you are already healing it by simply being aware of it,

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and by making good choices

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as to how you engage with it.

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We'll discuss more about this in this session.

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So thanks for your generous and honest feedback.

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It's been helpful and really encouraging for us.

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Now please get comfortable,

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stay relaxed, aware and focused,

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and remember that the more relaxed you are, the more knowledge you can absorb.

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Before we go on, just wanted to remind you of the sankalpa that we suggested you adopt for this course.

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It's here on the screen. So take a moment to read it and reacquaint yourself with it.

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And we also wanted to show you Carl Jung's statement

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that to confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light.

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And so that's what you're doing to yourself.

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You're confronting yourself with your own shadow in order to find your own inner light.