Debbie Ford The Shadow Effect Download

BornOctober 1, 1955
DiedFebruary 17, 2013 (age 57)
San Diego County, California, U.S.
Occupationself-help author
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998)
Websitewww.debbieford.com

Debbie Ford, Producer: The Shadow Effect. Debbie Ford was born on October 1, 1955 in California, USA. She was a producer, known for The Shadow Effect (2009), Spiritual Revolution (2008) and 3 Magic Words (2010). She died on February 17, 2013 in San Diego, California. Dec 09, 2017  The Shadow Effect is a good book which helps you think about your own actions in life, and also make you think about other situations which have happened. It is almost a piece which helps you reflect on how you have judged, reacted, and pushed through in certain situations, and how you could have improved upon them.

The shadow and you’ll begin to see how your deepest pain, when digested and understood, is designed to lead you to your greatest destiny. Shadow work is the work of the heart warrior. If you're ready for more love, more peace, more satisfaction, and more success, turn the page and continue your shadow journey. Author Bio: Debbie Ford. Debbie Ford (1955–2013) wrote The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, The Secret of the Shadow, Spiritual Divorce, The Right Questions, The Best Year of Your Life, Why Good People Do Bad Things, and The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, among other works. Her books sold over one million copies and have been translated into thirty-two languages.

Debbie Ford (October 1, 1955 – February 17, 2013) was an American self-help author, coach, lecturer and teacher, most known for New York Times best-selling book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998), which aimed to help readers overcome their shadow side with the help of modern psychology and spiritual practices. In following years, she went on to write eight more books including Spiritual Divorce, Why Good People Do Bad Things, and The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, which have sold over 1 million copies and been translated into 32 languages.[1] She led workshops on 'Shadow Process' and hosted TV and radio shows,[2] and also established the 'Ford Institute for Transformational Training'.[1][3][4]

Career[edit]

After Oprah Winfrey discussed Ford's first book, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers (1998), on her show in late 2000,[5] it spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in late 2000 and early 2001.[6] Her other books that made the list were Why Good People Do Bad Things (2008)[7] and The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self (2010), written in collaboration with Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson.[8]

Over the years, in a career spanning 20 years, she gave workshops and lectures across the US and trained coaches on the 'Shadow Process'.[9] She appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, and Fox & Friends, and was a regular contributor to Oprah.com[10] and Huffington Post.[1] She hosted a weekly talk radio show on Hay House Radio, titled 'Shadow Talk'.[11] She produced and appeared in the documentary The Shadow Effect (2009), and also in 3 Magic Words (2010).[12]

She appeared as a life coach helping people with divorce on ABC's short-lived reality series The Ex-Wives Club (2007).[5] In 2012, she appeared on Super Soul Sunday (Season 2), a talk show hosted by Oprah Winfrey, airing on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in an episode titled Debbie Ford: Out of the Shadows, in which she talked about her eleven-year-old struggle with cancer.[13][14]

Ford lived in the seaside community of La Jolla, San Diego County. She died at her home on February 17, 2013, after a prolonged battle with cancer, aged 57.[2][15]

Works[edit]

  • Embracing Your Shadow. Hay House, 2002. ISBN1561709433.
  • Spiritual Divorce. Hodder Hb, 2002. ISBN0340820950.
  • Dark Side of the Light Chasers. Hodder & Stoughton, (Reprint) 2011. ISBN1444717456.
  • The Best Year Of Your Life Kit. Hay House, 2005. ISBN1401904793.
  • A Letter from Heaven: God's Gifts to a Mother, Through the Death of Her Daughter, with Allen Guyer. Morris Pub., 2003. ISBN0974088706.
  • Why Good People Do Bad Things. HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN0061756148.
  • The Secret of the Shadow. HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN0061847372.
  • The Right Questions. HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN0061870072.
  • The Best Year of Your Life. HarperCollins, 2009. ISBN0061738980.
  • The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self, with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson. HarperOne, 2010. ISBN0-06-196265-1.
  • The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose. (reprint) HarperCollins, 2010. ISBN0061783692.
  • Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence. Wayne Dyer (Foreword). HarperCollins, 2012. ISBN0062068997.

References[edit]

  1. ^ abc'Debbie Ford'. Huffington Post. Retrieved Feb 20, 2013.
  2. ^ ab'Bestselling writer Debbie Ford dies at 57'. Daily Mail. 19 February 2013. Retrieved Feb 20, 2013.
  3. ^'Debbie Ford, author of 'The Dark Side of the Light Chasers,' dies'. Christian Science Monitor. February 19, 2013. Retrieved Feb 20, 2013.
  4. ^'Bestselling Self-help Author Debbie Ford Has Died'. TIME. Feb 19, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved Feb 20, 2013.
  5. ^ abWillian Yardley (February 20, 2013). 'Debbie Ford, Author of Self-Help Books, Is Dead at 57'. New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  6. ^'PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: February 11, 2001'. New York Times. February 11, 2001. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  7. ^'Hardcover Advice (2008)'. New York Times. March 30, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  8. ^'Best Sellers: Advice, How To And Miscellaneous'. New York Times. May 30, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  9. ^'Teachers: Debbie Ford'. Omega Institute. Retrieved Feb 20, 2013.
  10. ^'Contributor:Debbie Ford'. Oprah.com. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  11. ^Debbie Ford: Shadow TalkArchived 2013-03-02 at the Wayback Machine HayhouseRadio.com.
  12. ^Debbie Ford on IMDb
  13. ^'Highlights from Oprah and Debbie Ford's 'Super Soul Sunday' Conversation'. OWN. July 10, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
  14. ^Debbie Ford On 'Super Soul Sunday': God Is 'A Spiritual Energy' (VIDEO)Huffington Post|accessdate=February 20, 2013.
  15. ^'Debbie Ford, bestselling self-help author of 'Dark Side of the Light Chasers' dead at 57'. Washington Post. February 19, 2013. Retrieved February 20, 2013.

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I attended a lecture with Debbie Ford on The Shadow Effect in London in January 2009. It been over 10 years since first being introduced to Shadow work.

Shadow work was originally developed by Carl Jung and it is a process of inner exploration to enable total acceptance of self.

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The work uncovers the parts of ourselves that have not been accepted and creates a space to allow and accept.

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This work is ideal if you:

  • Have someone in your life whose behaviours irritate or trigger you
  • Are on a spiritual path and seek the formula to self acceptance and inner peace
  • Have a dislike or hatred for someone or some thing, including yourself

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Shadow work is about accepting our light and our darkness.

It's about recognising these seemingly opposing sides deserve our whole hearted acceptance and unconditional love.

This is what I learnt during that lecture in a seminar hall in the middle of Regent's Park.

Background about Shadow work

  • Do you Desire something that you do not have? There is no heart's desire that is not yours. Heart Desire already exists. There is no need to create is – just allow it. Let go of whatever is covering up that part of you.
  • How do you shift from your human being to your DIVINE being? Being a human being is to serve the evolution of your soul. Embracing and loving who we are makes us Divine. As human beings we take things personally, have beliefs and have a limited state of reality. All you have to do it open your heart to your human self. The self that is angry, battered, bruised, hurt, lonely, frustrated, sad, abused, the abuser, over achiever, embarrassed, ashamed and gulity...and so on. The GUILTY seek punishment. When this part of you is healed you are whole again. As Rumi said “By God when you see your beauty you will be the IDOL of yourself.”
  • The Shadow decides who we are to be or not be. It limits how great we can be or how small we can be. You cannnot easily see your shadow and it is always there if there is light. You have to look for it from a different angle to find it. At times you can see it to the side of you, or behind you or in front of you depending where the light is shining from. The brighter the light...the brighter the shadow. The only time you cannot see the shadow is in the darkness.
  • Shadow work is work about what people did not want to find out about themselves.Your shadow contains your worst secret, what you are most ashamed about and what you prefer to hide. When you discover your shadow there can be resistance – that is not me or there can be recognition in the form of the shadow laugh.
  • “You are the microcosm of the macrocosm” Deepak Chopra. Nothing we can see in the outer world that does not exit in the inner world – everything that you judge is a piece of you that you reject.
  • Hiding your Shadow is exhausting. We are so scared that our Shadow will be discovered we work out many ways to hide it. The analogy of being in a pool and keeping beach balls contained under your weight. When you can no longer contain the weight (i.e the presuure is too much) the balls just pop through.
  • Embrace your shadow, learn from your shadow – it has a gift for you. Invite a reality to be seen that you have not yet seen. The Shadow blinds you from seeing you.

Simon and Garfunkel said “Hello darkness my old friend I have come to talk to you again.”

“One does not become enlightened by the light but by making the darkness light” Karl Jung

“You are going to use your shadow or it is going to use you” Debbie Ford

  • Jung describes the shadow as the person who we would not be. When you react to a projection you become the projection. The Psyche cannot distinguish between the other and self. Embrace what other tell you.

“All of your judgement is you – seeing something in you that you are rejecting” Debbie Ford

“Resistance is the defense mechanism of the ego.” Debbie Ford

  • The Shadow gets it power by feeling ashamed. This way the Shadow stays hidden and a secret. If you embrace your shadow till there is no shame then it is no longer secret and it can no longer carry on doing its work in the underworld. Instead the Shadow can come out into the light and the two can work each other and make the bridge from your human being to your divine being.

Examples of Shadow:

  • A person who does not want to be told what to do is also a person who cannot tell themselves what to do. So start listening to others and do what they tell you and then start listening to yourself. See what will show up differently.
  • A nice person wants to be nice and cannot always speak the truth. Their shadow side lies. A person like this will also dislike others who lie. One of the gifts of liing is that they have the ability not to hurt people and tell them the whole truth.

Shadow Tricks

  • What do you want people to think of you? What is it you want them to remember about you? If you want them to think something of you what would it be?
  • If you died tomorrow and could come back as someone who would it be? What qualities in them do you admire? What qualities do you love in them? What kind of a person does...(whatever it is you admire in them – Karl Jung example was to someone who is not afraid to speak up and challenge)...what qualities does that person have?
  • Who do you like the least in the world? Who would you not want to come back as if you died tomorrow? What qualities do you judge in them? What qualities do you not like in them? What kind of a person......? What qualities do they have....?
  • What are you deepest secrets? What have you done that you are ashamed of? Have you cheated on your taxes? Have you had an affair? Have you lied to a friend? What is it that you have done that you never want to talk about or reveal? What causes you most shame?
  • What do you judge in other people? What do you dislike in other people? What are those qualities?
  • Every shadow has a gift. For example if your shadow is being an IDIOT. Then the gift of the idiot is that you may be really smart, are a top achiever in your field. The gift of the shadow is usually the opposite of the shadow. For example if you have been a transformation queen (i.e helping others) then the shadow could be not feeling accepted. Once you have found your shadow find the gift that it brings. It has made you who you are today.

This brief introduction to the shadow got me hooked and since I have taught it during my EFT Advanced Practitioner Training alongside teaching Archetypes.

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Sometimes my students wonder what is the difference between Shadow Work an Archetypes and one of our EFT Practitioners & Life Coaches, Dr Navolina summarised it well, 'In a broader sense 'Shadow Work' helps in complete acceptance of self and others without being judgemental. Whereas 'Archetype' helps in understanding in depth the behavioural patterns of yourself and others.'

So you might be wondering, how can you explore Shadow work for your own self growth.

Here is a visualisation process that you can use to get you started.

The Shadow Visualisation Process by Debbie Ford

  1. Close your eyes and take a deep breath in..and another breath and another. Use your breath to quieten your mind and surrender to the process.
  2. Go down 7 steps into a magical garden and sit comfortably onto your meditation chair and take another slow deep breath.
  3. As you sit on the meditation chair think of something you desire in your life and then think about what has been holding you back from manifesting this desire?
  4. What Shadows have been holding you back? What story have you created about who you really are that explains the reason you have not manifested the desire into your life?
  5. Then go back in time to before you were 9 and what happened, what was the incident or memory that happened that made you want to hide your shadow?
  6. What happened then that made you ashamed? That made you decide to cover your light with your shadow? And then cover your shadow with a mask? What was the mask hiding the shadow?
  7. How old were you? What did you decide? Who did you choose to become? Who did you choose not to become? What did you believe?
  8. What was the gift of the Shadow? What did you learn from it?
  9. What would you have to do to see compassion? Forgive yourself and your shadow. Keep breathing.
  10. Who else, other than you, needs to be forgiven at the time?
  11. Invite them here now. Let the 5 year old them sit on the meditation chair and forgive them? What would you have to do to see compassion?
  12. What made them do what they did? (This is where I made my Uncle become older as I could not connect to him and his motivations)
  13. Forgive the other person. Keep breathing.
  14. Now make a list of what else you need to forgive about yourself and other
  15. Keep breathing and know that the world needs you and needs the gifts that you bring. The gift of your Shadow. The world needs you.

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