the prologue
Yesterday once again visited the Museum of modern art "Erarta" in St. Petersburg. Habitually went to one, and are passionate about proved to be different. Temporary exhibition of Fyodor Bastards (in the world Alexander Starostin) "White: catching wild beasts" tells the audience about what the negative folk characters unjustly deprived of attention, and a scary fairy tale stories deliberately "softened" by the editors and are not read aloud to parents. This immersion in the atmosphere of fairy tales, and archetypes of the human unconscious again gave me the reasoning on the shadow part of the personality that exists in any person.
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Each of us have read Russian fairy tales. Those Russian stories about dead and living water, hut on chicken legs, terrifying monsters and incredible challenge.
In the way of the narrative, we join the hero and his adventures, sympathize with him, want to be bold and brave as he is.
We respectfully afraid of Baba Yaga and her cunning audit tasks.
We hate the SCRAG and the Miracle Yudo, wanting the hero to defeat them.
We expect the end to exhale of relief - the evil monster is defeated, and the hero not only survived, but pomudrel.
Each of us hides a full set of fairy tale characters - when we behave like a brave knight or how omniscient Baba Yaga, we can destroy as the dragon and to be faithful and resourceful as Vasilisa the wise. Each of our "inner characters" has its own strength and its Achilles heel.
the Trouble is that we often tend to only be brave and wise. We transform way of life into the story, where ahead of us is an indisputable victory and recognition - everyone loves heroes, and fairy princesses. But our inner monsters remain hidden away in dark caves and high towers. We don't want to even remember, so transform this knowledge about yourself in a kind of legend - it was, but for a long time, and maybe never did.
our shadow parts are hidden from all his life.
But no monster can not live forever in prison, it sends weak signals to our right life heroes and princesses. Over time, the power accumulated in captivity, grows and these signals become stronger. It is harder to ignore the "legend of monsters".
And it so happens that the bones or Snakes, or someone else break free and take revenge for the years of his imprisonment. They have every right to hate the established mode in which they did not want to see.
- go Anywhere, watch out; only in the closet do not look!
He could not resist; as soon as Marya Morevna had left, he rushed to the closet, opened the door, looked, and there Koshchei the deathless, twelve chains chained.
he asked Koschey Ivan Tsarevich
- have Pity on me, give me to drink! Ten years I been here in torment, neither eating nor drinking - in a very dry throat! The Prince gave him a bucket of water, he drank it up and asked:
- I have one bucket to fill thirst, give me more!
the Prince gave another bucket; Koshchei drank it and asked for the third, and as I drank the third bucket - took their former strength, he shook the chains and immediately all twelve broke up.
- Thank you, Ivan! - said Koschey Immortal. - Now you will never see Marya Morevna as their ears! And terrible swirl flew out the window, caught on the road Moreno Marya, a beautiful Princess, caught her and took her to himself.
And the Prince started crying, was filled and went into the road:
- whatever will be, will find he Morevna!
the success of the hero of the tale is that he knew whom he had to overcome and it is not pretended that this is not a problem. Moreover, without monsters goodie would not be so positive. Taming them the most wisdom - the key to the transformation of the main character from immature to adult.
the Shadow side of the personality - those monsters. While you don't want them to know they are locked in towers and caves, hoarding their strength and waiting to pay for their own imprisonment. And your hero is on the stove 33 years.
There are many reasons for lock monsters - they do not really accept society, they are not comfortable with our parents while we are children, then we are ashamed of them. So we deprive ourselves of a large amount of energy spent on concealing their dark sides, do not give yourself to know yourself completely, and so do not live your values, live in anxiety, in the subconscious feeling like a monster deep inside of us moving, and not giving yourself even the chance to meet them.
do Not be afraid of their inner characters. They are there for a reason, without them you are you. Denying you are not giving yourself a chance to be immortal and powerful wizard, sly Baba-Yaga, a powerful Serpent, and the list goes on. Recognizing and respecting their existence, no point to hide and disguise, they can interact, negotiate and even to ally.
- What do we do now?-said girl. -No fire in a house, and our lessons are not finished. Need to escape for a fire to Baba Yaga!- I from the pins light! - said the one that wove the lace. - I will not go!
And I will not go,- said the girl, knitting a stocking, - I from spokes light!
- You are the fire go, ' cried both, go to Baba-Yaga! and pushed Vasilisa out of the room. the
Vasilisa went to his closet, set before the doll a cooked dinner and said,
- On, doll, eat my grief listen: I send for the fire to Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga will eat me!
Doll ate, and her eyes gleamed like two candles.
- don't worry, Wasilewska! she said.
- Go where sent, but I keep it close. With me nothing will happen to you from Baba-Yaga.
epilogue
what to do if you have guessed on own beasts, but to meet them scared?
Then comes to the aid of someone who knows a lot about shady characters — a psychologist or therapist. A specialist can become your faithful assistant on this difficult path of meeting with the you, which you are desperately avoiding. As practice shows, these contacts are often useful.
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