Keila Shaheen

And then light work comes in to mobilize you, to help you build again, once you've deconstructed and picked things apart.

And it also helps you energize yourself where shadow work can drain, light work can energize.

And that's really important for us to continue moving

To continue inspiring those around us to continue becoming a beacon of light, especially when maybe you're in your light embodiment and someone next to you is going through the shadow work.

Witnessing you in that state is inspiring.

It's motivating and it helps others see the light at the end of their own tunnels.

There's a visual.

So right now I'm getting my master's at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

And this reminded me during one of the residentials, one of the first classes in person that we took together, the professor drew a circle and she drew a straw going through the circle and then

she drew little tiny holes in the straw everything that was in the circle represents the unconscious the straw represents the ego and what happens when the straw is raptured or ripped or broken

it becomes overwhelming for the psyche to contain all that resides in the ego.

So that's why I emphasize that the ego has a purpose and the goal of inner work is not to eliminate the ego that can be self-destructive, but to allow the ego to contain

in a healthy way, all that resides in the unconscious.

If you don't, then it'll just completely corrupt this, the stability there and the purpose of the ego.

persona is like the ego's helper the persona helps shape the mask the roles that we show up in society as so the persona and the ego go very hand in hand and the shadow is everything that we're not aware of so part of light work is understanding these aspects of the psyche and realigning them so that they represent your whole truth and they're not

representing external things or influences, things that are not aligned with who you are and what you value.

love metaphors and especially now that it's spring it's very much alive in me and it has been studying shadow and light seeing our inner selves as like this landscape that we're gardening shadow work is picking the weeds out pruning what is complete and finished

then digging through all that dirt and then light work is that bloom it's tending to the garden and also planting new seeds of belief as well it's like inner spiritual hygiene so it's honoring what's to come and what's to bloom i've also just gardening a lot here with my husband so it's

Well, like the physical intentional practices can mean so much and reflect so much inside.

I think that's also something I'd love to share with people is find something simple to nurture outside of you and let that represent something bigger in your own internal life.