Healing the Shadow Self
Phil Mollon PhD
www.philmollon.co.uk
Self-sabotage
• Healing the shadow
may be the key to
overcoming selfsabotage
• A profound source
of psychological
reversal
With
Psychoanalytic Energy
Psychotherapy
• Exploring the
dynamics of the
psyche as
expressed in the
energy fields of the
body
Psychoanalytic Energy
Psychotherapy
Inspired by Thought Field Therapy, EFT,
TAT, and Seemorg Matrix
[Karnac. London. 2008]
Psychoanalytic Energy
Psychotherapy [PEP]
• The traumas and
conflicts within the
psyche are also
expressed as
information within
the energy fields of
the body
The synergy of psyche and
energy field
• By addressing the psyche and the
body's energy fields at the same time,
we create a powerful therapeutic
synergy that allows easy and speedy
movement
The core of Thought Field Therapy
• Perturbations – the cause
of psychological
disturbance – are precise
constellations of
information expressed as
sequences of meridian
and chakra coding,
(approximately) analogous
to software code.
• A core discovery of Dr
Roger Callahan.
Moving between levels and parts of
the mind-body-energy system
• The chakras are a deeper part of
the energy system than the
meridians
• When we have cleared
perturbations from the meridians
we may need to go back to the
chakras to clear the residues that
have lodged there
• There are many other potential
parts of the mind-body-energy
system where perturbations may be
located – all can be muscle tested.
All distress is energetically
encoded
• The principle of energetic encoding
of perturbations applies to all states
of psychological and physical
distress
• Including traumas and pain that are
not consciously accessible
• Such as birth and intrauterine
trauma, ‘other lifetimes’ etc
• As well as the traumas of
dissociative parts and the shadow
self
The info-energetic system
• Traffic lights analogy
• Traffic lights control the
flow of traffic – not by their
direct energetic power, but
by their signals.
• Dysfunctional traffic lights,
out of phase, or reversed,
will cause traffic blockages
and accidents – and
overflow of traffic down
other routes
• Traffic may also be blocked
by physical obstacles in the
road
Reversals are the key to the
deeper issues
Goal or problem
SHADOW SELF
Repudiated aspects
Intense pain
Rage
Chaos
Reversals
Safety
Deservedness
Identity
Core issues and traumas
Childhood experiences
Core beliefs
What is the shadow?
• Archetype
• Disowned parts of
Self
• An energetic
structure
Content of the shadow
• a vessel for all that is
repudiated from the
main personality including all the 'dark'
aspects of the
psyche, but also all
that is overwhelming,
terrifying, and chaotic.
• ‘Black hole’
phenomena
Religions may intensify shadow
• Some religions
may intensify
shadow
phenomena by
repressing
natural aspects of
human life and
desire.
Appearance
• May take the form of
something ugly,
demonic, angry, and
destructive.
• When healed, it can
appear very beautiful
Shadow self as container of
dangerous psychic contents
• The shadow is a
necessary vessel
to contain
potentially
dangerous
aspects of the
psyche that
cannot yet be
integrated.
The ‘other’ as mirror
 The Shadow may
contain what is most
repellent to the
conscious
personality/Self. It may
be located, through
projective identification,
in an other person in
the subject's life.
 Muscle test: "there is a
part of me that is like
that person".
Shadow as energetic structure
• Distinguish from dissociative
parts that have left the body
during trauma (located
through testing ‘all parts of
me are in my body’)
• The shadow self is a distinct
energetic structure with its
own chakra system – but not
linked to the higher
dimensions and frequencies
Parasitic aspects of the shadow
•
The shadow is
parasitic on the
main personality
– but pursues its
own destructive
agenda (when
unhealed),
•
Reversed energy
The shadow self
exists in a
reversed parallel
dimension – it is
a major source of
energetic
reversals –
exerts a pull
towards death.
Energetic blockages
• In addition to its
accumulation of
repudiated
psychological
content, the shadow
may also be fed by
energetic blockages
and inherited
miasms etc.
Hidden in the shadows
• Not available
through
introspection – it is
not the repressed
unconscious
• In essence, the
shadow is
inherently
unconscious
Muscle test for shadow self
• Can be revealed
through muscle
testing
• Test: ‘There is a part
of me that wants to
sabotage my life’
Intrusion of the unhealed shadow
• If the unhealed shadow
self intrudes before it
can be integrated,
various destructive
consequences may
ensue:
• obsessive thoughts
• hallucinations
• malign personality
changes.
The shadow is left out of the
therapy
• The shadow self
will not
participate in the
energy healing of
the main
personality,
unless it is
specifically
targeted.
Healing the shadow self
• Identify the shadow
• Ascertain whether it is
willing to be healed
• Apologise (for using it
as a dump) and
appreciate (what it has
carried)
• Work with meridians
and chakras to heal the
traumas, pains, and
injuries of the shadow
self.
Alternative ways of healing the
shadow self
• Tap to “all the traumas and
pains of my shadow self”,
working with both
meridians and chakras.
• Activate higher chakras,
using intention and
visualisation – command, or
intend, or visualise healing
of the shadow self
Work from higher energetic
frequencies
• As we activate and
engage with higher
energetic
frequencies, it
becomes easy to
reset the patterning
at lower levels
The shadow becomes a resource
• When healed, the
shadow can be
integrated –
becoming a friend
and ally – the
disowned parts of
the self become
new strengths and
resources
15 dimensional repatterning
• Activate all 15
chakras
• (and optionally those
of the shadow)
• Create spontaneous
image for healing or
achieving goal
• Insert image into each
chakra
Dreams and muscle testing
• For the psychoanalyst
“Dreams are the Royal
Road to the
unconscious” [Freud]
• For the energy
psychologist, muscle
testing provides
another rather precise
window to the
unconscious [John
Diamond] – allowing the
body to talk.
Body as mind
• The brain descends down
the brainstem and into the
body
• The deeper parts of the mind
are the body
• Body and brain form one
mind.
• Muscle testing allows us to
access these deeper parts of
the body-mind
The deep energetic structure of
psychological disturbance
• Using these methods
allows us to access and
work with the deep
energetic structure
underlying the
psychodynamic,
emotional and cognitive
content.
• Addressing both
content and energetic
structure in a potent
synergistic
combination.
Listening and reflecting
energetically
• At the emotional level – we
listen/receive, process – and
give back, as reflective
comment or interpretation.
• At the energetic level – we
sense/receive, process – and
give back, as an informational
energy sequence.
• Combining the emotional and
the energetic – words and
tapping.
The unconscious as transmitting
and receiving organ
• “[the analyst] must turn his
own unconscious like a
receptive organ towards the
transmitting unconscious of
the patient. He must adjust
himself to the patient as a
telephone receiver is
adjusted to the transmitting
microphone.” Freud 1912
The various sources of
information
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Verbal-emotional
Body language
Conventional countertransference
Muscle testing – often quite precise
data
Meridian sequence (or chakras)
Therapist’s own energy system –
resonance and entrainment with the
client’s system. [energy
countertransference]
Moving fluidly between these
• Listening – to words, emotions, to
conscious and unconscious levels –
and listening energetically.
• As we begin to intervene
energetically we listen/look/observe
the response.
• What comes to mind?