| Integrating my dark side was a fairly torturous | | | | unnatural for us to always be one or the other. |
| process for me, partly because I made it harder | | | | Music, dance, theatre, movies, martial arts and |
| than it had to be. Apparently I do that a lot. | | | | sexuality are some of the ways that you can find |
| One of the problems at the time was my inability | | | | positive examples of both the dark and the light. |
| to get out of my own way and I continually tried | | | | In reality you can find positive examples |
| to micro-manage the process rather than giving in | | | | anywhere, these are some that I personally |
| to it and going where it wanted to take me. Part | | | | enjoy. |
| of that was from my own misconceptions about | | | | This is where the self awareness part of kundalini |
| the light and dark and my reactions to them. | | | | awakening comes in. You have to know yourself |
| Many of us spend a long time trying to suppress | | | | well enough to become comfortable with all the |
| the various elements of our light and dark sides | | | | aspects of your personality, and to find creative |
| partially because we're taught to believe that light | | | | ways to balance your proclivities. If you spend all |
| is good and dark is evil as if the 2 extremes didn't | | | | day giving reiki treatments and listening to |
| exist in all of us. | | | | soothing new age music then take some time in |
| For example, a lot of healers tend to shy away | | | | the evening and pop in a suitably dark movie or |
| from the dark side and when it does manifest it's | | | | some nice dark music on the stereo. If you |
| usually in some context that the healer may be | | | | choose the music then turn off the lights, close |
| shocked by or ashamed of. Thereafter the healer | | | | your eyes and do some moving meditation and |
| may have a negative connotation with the dark | | | | ecstatic dancing. You might be surprised at what |
| side of their being. Sometimes these connotations | | | | you're able to clean out of your system this way. |
| can come from events that happen when we're | | | | What's important here is to learn to be |
| small children or even possibly be hold-overs from | | | | comfortable with your dualities, and then get |
| past lives. | | | | beyond them. This can be a journey of self |
| It's important to find examples of the dark and | | | | discovery that can take you places that you didn't |
| light that can be manifested positively and | | | | know you could go. |
| enjoyably as everything has to balance and it's | | | | |