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https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/50894057Speaker 0 (0s): Whew without a shadow of a doubt. You know my love you guys got going on. You're going to work right now, talking on the phone. Hey, calling your mom. Hey mom, don't worry. Everything's going to be okay. Don't worry about a mom. We're going to be just fine. Why about you? Turn off, turn off the news, man. All you're doing is making yourself crazy.
Just making yourself crazy. Listening to the news. Why don't you turn on the true life podcast? It's way more interesting. Got a lot more stuff going on. You know what I was thinking about today? Shadow. Why is your shadow following you? How come my shadow has to be black. If you could choose a color for your shadow, what would it be?
Would you go with a blue shadow? How about like a red shadow? I think I'd go with like a Chrome shadow so I could see my reflection in my shadow could learn a lot from your shadow. In fact, your shadow is the one person that's always going to be by your side. Even when you can't see him, he's still there. Do you think that your shadow represents, represents your dark side?
You know, those thoughts that you have sometimes when you're trying to be nice with your life, man, you know what I really think. I really think this is that your shadow talking. A lot of people think that your shadow represents your dark side and it might be a way to integrate your dark side into your personality. It might be a way to better understand the dual nature of man.
Remember when you were little and you would see the cartoon or you would see the pictures of like a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other shoulder, the duality of man, the shadow realm. What about shadow people you ever heard of these people that wake up in the middle of the night and they see like a shadow person and it runs under the bed or it sits on the side of the bed and just kind of stares at them. Something out of the Twilight zone.
The shadow can be used for quite a bit. I heard a quote one time that said that's impossible. That's like trying to move shadow without moving. The stack brings up some pretty interesting points, right? It brings up the point that if you want to change your dark side, you gotta change the way you move through life because your shadow can be okay, gargantuan, right?
If you stand the right way, you can cast it really big shadow. If you stand another way you can cast almost no shadow. Everybody knows what it's like to be in the shadow of somebody greater than them. Do you ever think about the shadow you cast? What about you got kids? Does one of your kids live in the shadow of the other kid? You know what I mean by that? Did you live in the shadow of your sister or your brother or your mother or your father? I think it was Carl Young.
Who said the biggest obstacle, a child faces is the unrealized dreams of the parent. You could argue that those unrealized dreams are the shadow of the parents. It's an interesting thing to think about. If you could have a conversation with your shadow, what would you say? What was your shadow? Tell you when you look down at your shadow in your cast, a big shadow. Does that mean that at that point in time, dark thoughts have crept into your mind.
Is that a reminder when you look down and you see your shadow is extending further, then you are sure. Yeah. It'd be a reminder that may you're thinking some pretty dark thoughts. It could be. You could use your shadow, light shot. You could integrate your shadow into your daily life. How many of you do that? How many of you every single day, make a conscious note to look at your shadows. Can you shadow? Be like, Hey man, you been putting on some weight, your shadow tell you, man, you gotta start eating some can you shadow make you laugh probably right.
You can make all kinds of shadow animals. You ever seen those guys. Then they it's like the dog and the rabbit on the, on the wall. They're an expert in shadows. How about the allegory of the cave? Remember that? Where your whole life you think, you know what's going on, but in reality, all you see are shadows on the wall of the cave. Is that what's going on in life.
It's interesting to think about that. Usually dark colors absorb the heat yet all us try to stand under the shadow of the shade tree to Coolah. What about people who throw shade? They throw in a shadow. That's usually used in a negative connotation, right? Just throwing shade, someone throw shade. You should be cool, right? It should be a cool thing. Oh, that guy's throwing shade. Cool.
I'm hot. Why is throwing shade? A bad thing. Hey, get in my shadow. Alright. Why don't you protect me from the sun? That's what an umbrella does. It's an umbrella throw shade. I happen to like umbrellas. Although I think we could come up with a better umbrella, right? Every time you close an umbrella, would you get a little bit wet? Like at a shake it out? I don't think the umbrella has changed in a hundred years.
No, one's come up with a better umbrella. Someone should probably get on that. How about like a little drone you throw up and it just follows you around, you know what, if you got a drone and it was, you could throw it in the air and it would turn into umbrella. You would literally be throwing shade and changing the meaning of throwing shade. How about that? How about that for turning a negative into a positive and by negative. I mean like, you know what, I, I guess a negatives all black, right?
Never take a picture and a bloom in a dark room, turn a negative into a positive by throwing a drone umbrella and throwing shade and cooling you up or protecting you from the sun or the water. How can I be substantive? If I do not cast the shadow, I must have a dark side. Also, if I am whole, maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.
That's what Carl Young called his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead. We only see aspects of ourself that fall over them. Shadows, objections, our associations. I think that's pretty deep. You know, that's why when you see qualities in other people, what you're really seeing are qualities you recognize in yourself.
It's a good way to master and understand your emotion. If you see someone you get really angry at them, probably it's something about you that you don't like the shadow self. The dark side eye shadow told me something yesterday. I got a, I got a new neighbor that moved in next to us. And clearly he's not from Hawaii. He's making, he's got like four kids and he's got all this stuff off stone over it.
I'm looking through my window. I look at this dummy, what's this guy doing, getting all judgmental, casting, a big shadow. And then I caught myself. I'm like, you know what? Maybe instead of sitting in here letting my shadow, do the talk or maybe sitting in here after talking to my shadow, sort of judging this guy. Maybe I should go out there and help him. Instead of sitting in here, making fun of him. But you go out there and help him.
The guy doesn't know it was a good conversation I had with my shadow, but I had to go to the dark side of myself. I had to start making fun of them. I had to be like this guy's a dummy. I had to go there. It's almost like I had to go to the dark side. I had to go talk to my shadow so that I could understand I had to talk to my shadow so I could be shown the light. And the light was, why don't you go help him?
How about this one? I am the champion standing over the shadow of my former self. If you can incorporate that one into your life, whenever you see your shadow, you can recognize, then you want the champion standing over the darker parts of yours. Maybe you could use that as I'm growing. Hey, I used to be this way, but now I'm standing over that dark part of me about growing it.
I am the champion standing over the part of me that I didn't like. Cause I beat it. I knocked it out. And now it's laying there on the ground. As a reminder that I can overcome adversity. I think it was Nathaniel Hawthorne who said some illusions are the shadows of great truths. When you hear something, is it a shadow of the truth?
Are there shadows of truths in every lie? Probably if you can recognize the shadow of truth in someone's speech, can you better understand that their emotions, if you could understand the shadow of truth in an argument, could you better solve that argument? Remember everybody, the purpose of an argument is to solve a problem. You can understand the shadow of the concept of which someone is trying to describe to you.
Will you be at, or will you be able to better form an idea of what that concept is? If you can understand a shadow of what somebody is trying tell you, you can help fill in that picture. You could build that relationship better. You could build your understanding better just by understanding a shadow of the truth. What if there was some sort of shadow language?
Could you say that that's what, that's what facial expressions are or body language. Maybe that's a shadow of our language. Maybe that's the language of the shadow. What is life? If not the fleeting shadow of a dream, that's a beautiful one. What is life?
If not the fleeting shadow of a dream character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it. The tree is the real thing. Every light has its shadow and every shadow Hathi succeeding mornings. Have you ever been afraid of your shadow?
You're probably thinking, what am I poked? And Tawny, Phil, George, what am I a Groundhog? You think I'm going to predict six more weeks of winter? Is that what it is pal? I'm not afraid of my shadow. Have you ever been so high that you were afraid of your shadow? That's pretty high. How about this? Have you ever been so high that you talk to your shadow?
What about this one? Have you ever been so stoned that your shadow talks back to you? That would probably be a very interesting conversation. You probably would not want to tell too many people about it, but if your shadow could talk, I bet you he'd have some interesting things to say about shadow boxing.
It's a pretty good metaphor, right? You're just fighting with yourself. Maybe that's the job of the shadow was to remind you that in life you were fighting with, with yourself, don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead. Sometimes your mind, the race is long, but in the end, it's with yourself.
Success is like your own shadow. If you try to catch, you will never succeed. Ignore it and then will follow you. How about this one by Robert Louis Stevenson, I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me and what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head.
And I see him jump before me. When I jumped into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow. Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow for. He sometimes shoots up taller like an India rubber ball, and he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. He, hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play and can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me. He's a coward. You can see, I think, shame to stick to nursing as that shadows sticks to me one morning. Very clearly before the sun was up, I Rose and found the shining do one every buttercup, but my lazy little shadow, like an Aaron sleepy head, he stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
This learned eye from the shadow of a tree that to and fro did sway upon a wall. Our shadow selves, our influence may fall where we can never be well there, you have it. My friends, the shadow, the shadow voice of Georgie coming at ya. I hope that my words are able to cast a shadow upon your day, but not a shadow of darkness, whatever color you chose your shadow to be.
I hope that these words will remind you of me. The shadow. My friend is there to remind you that you are a being of light, be aware of the shadow you cast and other people try and spread more smiles than tears and utilize lessons learned from your childhood years. I love you. I hope you have a great day Aloha.