02/06/2022
Your demons, shadow, darkness are all creations that you have made at some point in your life to protect yourself and to help your survival at a time you may have been most vulnerable.
What you see in others or even yourself as monsters is actually someone's best attempt to love and protect themselves under conditions that have matched those of suffering and fear.
Love and fear (hate may come under this category) can be seen as two sides of the same coin and act interchangeably, for if it wasn't for your fear of fear itself, you wouldn't be compelled to act in accordance with love and vice versa.
The two complement each other to know one from the other and experience the polarities and variations this world has to offer.
So in saying this, a demon or dark side, something that is so far removed from the "love and light" and created out of fear is paradoxically actually created out of love as well.
It is our own projections of what traits of ourselves is good vs bad (human constructs) that actually creates the internal struggle for acceptance of these created parts of ourselves.
All ego/archetypal creations, which may include our darker as well as lighter traits are birthed from the original self. The self that is whole. We are born into this world whole but with potential to express all possibilities of the identity or ego. It's our interaction with the environment that allows the process of creation or even fragmentation to begin, where we split off our unified consciousness into created identities to mould and reflect the other identities that existed in the external environment.
For example, a child born into a house with an angry and abusive Dad, would potentially learn and create an understanding that in order to survive in any social situation as demonstrated from the father, he would need to create an identity similar to his father to assert dominance and stay on top, otherwise he could potentially fall on the receiving end, like he does with his father.
One of the first things people think to do when someone is acting destructively, is to respond with punishment and to push it away from ourselves. Valid these choices may be as a form of protection and protocols used to prevent further destructive behaviour, the act of preventing the behaviour may only encourage it to perpetuate further.
The further an individual tries to remove and seperate themselves from a specific behaviour or trait, the greater the charge is created for that behaviour to be magnetised to that individual and for the traits to surface again and again, either in the individual or their external reality through other people until the individual comes to a point of recognition, acceptance and integration of that trait as their own.
Our destructive traits need the most love out of all the traits, as they have gone through countless cycles of unacceptance by others and their own selves. For these cycles of destructive behaviour to finally break the wounded parts of self that still uses these behaviours as protection, needs acceptance and re-integration to the rest of the parts of self involved.
Integration means unifying separate pieces of the puzzle to make the whole. To pull these traits closer to you, to see them as yourself rather than pushing them into the illusion of separation.
This by no means calls for boundaries to be crossed by another in the process of accepting and finding love in destructive traits as your individual need for peace and harmony should be priority as a service of love to self.
However when finding wholeness and unity in oneself, we must also practice it with our external environment and vice versa. To see how we interact and relate with the world around us as a reflection of how we interact with the different traits and parts of our own inner world.
Our own internal triggers, projections, resistances are mirrored towards those around us. As soon as we see the
unity and universality of all people, traits, demons, the sooner the world works in its paradoxical harmony.
