Notes related to the audio: Acknowledging & Opening to Your Shadow Side
• Whatever inner energy or emotion you have not acknowledged within yourself, whatever shadow, becomes a kind of demon—not a demon as an entity, but it starts to feel like a dark force.
• If your insight goes deep enough, eventually your shadow side will reveal itself. If you’ve repressed it all your life, it can be quite shocking and overwhelming. If you don’t acknowledge it, it starts to own you.
• Emotional health is never found by casting out parts of yourself that you don’t want to acknowledge are there.
• When you start to acknowledge difficult energies within you and let them open, eventually they start to give rise to their opposite.
• Anger turns into love or clarity. They’re actually bound together. When you let the energy reintegrate within you, you’ll find a deep kind of caring or kindness.
• It’s humbling to admit the fullness of your humanity—the angels, the demons, and all of it—to be able to remain conscious without going into commentary, judgment, or story, when difficult emotions arise.
• There’s no such thing as successful repression. Its energy is going to leak out.
• Many people try to use the clear space of awareness as a place to hide from their difficult emotions instead of allowing them to arise.
• There’s a detachment and intimacy together in opening to your shadow side. It’s a paradoxical experience. You’ll feel close to what is arising because you’re not trying to run away from it, and
you’ll feel detached from it in the ground of your being.

excerpted from "The Way of Liberating Insight" Study Course by Adyashanti
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A list of the weekly exercises in this course:

The exercises/meditations of Part I:
1. Being Only Aware
2. The Identity of Being Only Aware
3. The Experience of Being Only Aware
4. Choosing to Return (to Being Only Aware)
The exercises/meditations of Part II:
5. Working with Unworthiness
6. Working with Addictive Demands
7. Working with Fear
8. Acting with Emotional Skill
9. Letting Go of Arguments
10. Letting Go of Projections
11. Acknowledging What Is Unspoken
12. Abiding in the Heart of Serenity
The exercises/meditations of Part III:
13. Guided Meditation on Embodied Awareness
14. Choice, Truth, and Love
15. The Groundless Terrain of Spiritual Autonomy
16. Being a Benevolent Presence in the World

Delve deeper into your spiritual journey than ever before with the guidance of Adyashanti’s teachings on the embodiment of spiritual insight. Based on the original live online course, The Way of Liberating Insight (2015), this audio course emphasizes removing blockages of the mind and emotional body that impede living from the enlightened mind and heart in everyday life.

Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an Americanborn spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.

Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an Americanborn spiritual teacher. Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all."

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