When I’m mesmerized by the shadow side of life, this practice turns me around instantly. Follow my logic. In order for you to be able to see shadow, there has to be a source of light. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Turn around, Beloved! Face the light, and the shadows will disappear. Interestingly, there is a Greek word, metanoia, which is usually translated by biblical editors as repentance. It means, literally, turn around.
Ninety percent of the cause of any problem is resistance to the problem. Once we turn to face the difficulty, more often than not, it isn’t as big or as problematic as it appeared when we were resisting it.
Here is how I use the turnaround as a prayer practice:
First, stand up and visualize or
describe the problem to yourself aloud.
Picture it or describe it as clearly as you can.
Let the shadow be whatever it wants to be.
Know that it is the shadow side of whatever you are dealing with.
Witness the shadow. Say to yourself,
Yes, I see the shadow.
Then, quite literally, turn around, and witness light on the problem in your imagination.
What usually happens is an epiphany—you’ll know what to do or how to do it in an instant.
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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood.
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen.
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.
Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz.
Her mission in life is peace.
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