Has the dark side of your personality ever tried to assert it's self over your thoughts and what do you do to stop this?
I’m usually a happy go lucky easy going guy, but for some reason my mind wants to go into dark places recently. Nothing major has changed in life that I can think of and no medical reasons for it. Spring is in the air, I should be upbeat, but I just have these dark thoughts. I’ve even got a few comments from jellies about this. Any thoughts why or how to deal with this? I realize this is a lousy topic for Easter Sunday, so feel free to tell me to suck it up (I’d say “man up” but I see Simone is in so I have to behave).
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What’s the problem with embracing dark thoughts? Move towards the Darkness if you wish. Learn to navigate it. Indulge every swarthy desire. Great knowledge and awareness awaits you.
But if it consumes you, then the Who in you becomes a slave. The Who in you will die, and the outer you becomes nothing more than an empty vessel for the expression of Darkness.
As long as the Who in you is master of the Darkness, and it does not control you, then all roads lead to Rome. Knowing Darkness makes the Light more brilliant. How may we truly appreciate the Light if the Darkness is left unknown, undiscovered, and unexplored?
We cannot truly have one without the other.
Do you want to know what I found in the Darkness? I found Myself.
Do you want to know what I found in the Light? I found Myself, and I found Myself more brilliant in the Light because I also found Myself in the Darkness.
Go find Yourself.
It is from the Who in Me.
From time to time but it’s more easily recognizable now as unwanted and unproductive behavior that I have mechanisms for. It is rough to go against irrational thoughts once they start snowballing but I try to hold still, maybe talk to myself, ask myself why I want what I want and if I speak out or strike out then who will be impacted and how will I deal with it. By that time I usually want to do something or I purposely distract myself by cleaning, grooming, watching a movie or having a talk with a friend who is receptive for those moments.
It’s a part of you. Why deny it or be scared of it? Just don’t fall into the abyss ^_^ sometimes, that little antisocial monster in us knows truths we’d rather not hear and absolutely need to heed.
Well I am not sure what you mean by dark thoughts? However, I do believe we all have dark thoughts, or shadows and it is always better to explore them when they come up. But not to twist the darkness into hurting others. As in misguided anger. Dark thoughts and feelings are valid and real and deserve to be heard, by ourselves. Balance is a good thing in life, and very hard to achieve. I try it day by day only. So some laughter and introspection is good. It’s all about balance. :)
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