Healing The Shadow

From The Publisher

There is something in all of us that keeps us from being who and what we could be. Called 'the Shadow' by Carl Jung, this part of us feeds our fears, inhibits our spontaneity and shuts down our natural selves. In Healing the Shadow, Santa Fe Shaman, Ross Bishop, offers a unique perspective on the shadow and how to deal with it. This truly remarkable book provides readers with the tools and resources to manifest positive change in their lives.

Healing The Shadow renders the ancient concepts of Shamanic healing into a form that can both be understood and used in the modern Western world. This book explains why your life is the way it is and provides meaningful help in managing it. That's a bold promise, but read the book. It delivers.

Shadow explains the origins of our stifled passion and how the fears and anxieties held in the shadow affects everything we do. In addition to explaining these limiting forces, the book offers practical tools to help you move through your self-limiting beliefs and fears. Most notable of these is a presentation, for the first time in print, of the ancient Shamanic practice of "soul retrieval" adapted from tribal society to fit the needs of our culture.

Healing The Shadow is a transforming and life enhancing book. It is one of the best guides to understanding and transforming life you will ever read. Once you understand what has been really going on you will be in a vastly better position to make the changes you desire. This book brings answers at a time when we desperately need new insights and new understandings. Ross's book, created over years of Shamanic healing practice, brings the tools and understanding that will allow the repressed and hidden inner you to emerge into the sunlight feeling safe, confident and aware.

From the Author

Ross Bishop explains: The Shadow is the domain of our pain that prevents us from being the persons we want to be. Called "The Shadow"; by Carl Jung, this realm is the domain of our pain, of our fear. It is that dark place where the "other" impulses originate that hold us back, make us fearful and keep us feeling inadequate. They stifle our passion and limit our ability to be creative. We know these forces as fear and anxiety. We chalk them up to insecurity or personal inadequacy and try to live with them as best we can. When we search for answers or try to deal with them we can hit a brick wall of fear and resistance. We struggle, we hobble, we hurt. It does not have to be that way.

Years ago a colleague and I traveled the country conducting workshops for ad writers and art directors on how to be more creative. Our workshops were a big hit. They were entertaining, we had a lot of fun and we found that we could teach people who were already creative how to be even more so. We gave them all sorts of techniques and taught them powerful approaches, but when it came right down to it, each person had to come face to face with their own fear (their shadow) and it hobbled their ability to fly freely. I decided then and there to search for the answer.

The work with my own teachers and helping others to heal for 25 years has given me a lot of insight into how to present this material so that it can be heard and accepted. I think that there are some unique and powerful insights in Shadow, and I am proud of those, but what gives the book its real power I think, is that it is understandable. There is a great deal of material in this book, so itâs not the kind of book you start and finish in a short time. Itâs a book to linger over and savor. Since the book's release the feedback we have received has confirmed that we did a good job, and as an author, that is most gratifying.