Psychological Shadow What is a psychological shadow? My best definition of this gray subject is the undesirable values, beliefs, and personality traits that are held in our subconscious and acted through our conscious. Because these traits are undesirable and not operant to us they produce a sort of self-hate double standard we impose upon friends, family, and the world. Because we don't like the traits in our shadow when we see them in the other …showed first 75 words of 695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 695 total…Surely I would feel some sort of alarm and fear for my safety when confronted with a close call, but nothing to this degree of spite and hatred. This realization has caused a revolution in my course of thinking. I now look for things I spite others excessively for. If I see this malice in my thought I notice it as a red flag indicating the presence of a faulty trait hiding in my shadow.