Can embracing both darkness and light be the key to perfection, growth, empathy, and self-awareness? Let’s explore the insights from expert Paul J Dunion.
Personal Perspective: Both darkness and light drive the whole.
Highlights
- Enough darkness leads to empathy and realism at a time when life is unpredictable.
- Enough light helps to create biofilm, inspiration and worldview together.
- Embracing darkness and light nurtures personal growth and maturity.
I admire the idea that the mind has two purposes: survival and fullness. The former needs no explanation, but completeness can easily fall into the unnamed abstract. One consideration when looking for completeness is to look at life from the perspective of Darkness And Light. Mythologist Michael Meade asks, “Are you enough?” Dark? ” I ask the question, “Are you enough?” Lightweight? ” Our investigation examines the meaning of “dark enough” and “bright enough.”
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Dark enough
An individual can be dark or dark enough. If you are normally dark, it probably means you do not have enough light to carry the darkness without shame. InsultMistakes, aggression or contempt. Some manifestations of darkness include loss, injury, failure, insecurity, betrayal, loneliness, and sadness.
Enough darkness also includes the work necessary to maintain darkness, which is not only unfortunate, but also an important manifestation of real life. Then we let darkness bring attention to what really matters in life. Here are some of the benefits of darkening enough.
- Realistic. Life is viewed as a matter of fact. No stupidity or unnecessary ideals.
- Understand. When I am dark enough, I sympathize with those who are experiencing darkness.
- Living the conditions of life. Conditions of life include mystery, unpredictability, and insecurity. Making it dark enough provides an honest insight into a life that is neither exciting nor boring.
- Valuable ego correction. When we see and accept darkness as a part of life and a part that most of us cannot control, we live in greater peace, not trying to have power that we do not have. The ego is ready to surrender to the greatness of life.
- Personal maturity is strengthened. When we live in the conditions of life, we can know and accept ourselves in such a journey. The need to overcome life or feel its victims disappear. We have more access to the courage needed to change what we can control and to surrender what we can not.
Adequate light
As mentioned above, darkness and light are in a relationship that supports each other. However, we can reject the darkness or be overwhelmed by it. When we refuse, we are still stupid, innocent, and ignorant of the true nature of life. It means remaining like a child with a measure of development that is captured.
People who still have insufficient light often maintain a family commitment to see life as wonderful. Someone is more likely to reject and fear the dark and to have inherited fear.
Or we are overwhelmed by darkness, which leads us to live in remorse, contempt, loss of faith, bitterness, and aggression or inaction. When there is enough light, the darkness is resolved and the light is held. Some examples of light include success, being loved, a sense of belonging, a spiritual experience fulfilling the birth of a child, receiving an award or some form of positive recognition, and some healing experience. Here are some of the benefits of adequate lighting.
- Biofilm. We continue to love life. Life is not considered an enemy; Regardless of the challenges and difficulties we face, we continue to believe in them. We maintain our connection to life, still curious: Life, what are you asking me?
- Internship. Above all, life experiences as an intern to the human condition. We see that life offers endless opportunities for learning and discovering who we are.
- Beauty. When there is enough light, we see beauty in nature, art, and in our people, and on good days we see beauty in ourselves.
- Inspiration. We have more opportunities to feel inspired to see life from different perspectives and to be guided by wonder and wonder. We believe that we can create ourselves and live well.
- Unified vision. With a real light source, we begin to see the connective tissue that binds us. Race, religion, ideology, and gender divide us less.
- Gratitude. We are not ignorant of what they give and we are not blind to what they give. Complaining begins to feel crazy, realizing that excessive mourning is not the way home. It is good to start with gratitude for a breath.
- Pleasure. I find that my life is short because of happiness. Then it shone on me: I did not pause and open to the possibility of joy. The more I stopped and opened, the happier I became. It also happens with more gratitude.
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The more we do our work with darkness, the more we can trust our light as real light. There is remarkable maturity in those who are on the path to perfection. They are easily touched and moved, a small celebration of life.
For more on Paul Dunion’s understanding of emotional healing and personal transformation, find his work at pauldunion.com.
Written by Paul J Dunion Ed.D.
Originally appeared on Psychology Today
