Knowing Your Shadow

Becoming Intimate with All That You Are

By: Robert Augustus Masters PhD

Narrated by: Robert Augustus Masters PhD

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

"Why are the people around me so difficult?" "Why do I keep getting in situations like this?" Our shadow side, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, contains the emotions and desires we've disowned, neglected, or hidden from ourselves. If not skillfully worked with, it can easily direct our lives on every level.

With Knowing Your Shadow, this acclaimed psychotherapist and author shows us how to illuminate and wisely engage with the endarkened aspects of who we are. Join him to explore in depth the areas where shadow work can most benefit us, including:

• Discovering and cultivating intimacy with the endarkened aspects of yourself.
• Identifying and healing your core wounds.
• Working effectively with anger, fear, shame, guilt, and other difficult emotions.
• Understanding how your shadow influences those around you, often beyond conscious awareness.
• Guided practices, meditations, and exercises for developing more authenticity and wholeness in your personal and workplace relationships, your sexuality, and your spiritual path.

Our moods and relationships often seem to have a life of their own. Knowing Your Shadow offers exceptional support for taking charge of your life at a deep level, providing expert guidance and instruction to discover and make wise use of what lies hidden or otherwise neglected within us. Learn More About:

• Becoming intimate with your shadow.
• Relating wisely to shame and guilt.
• Ending your suffering by entering your pain.
• Exploring the presence of your past.
• Freeing yourself from your inner critic.
• Working with fear, anger, and other darker emotions.
• Bringing sex out of the shadows - how we eroticize our unmet needs.
• The signs of spiritual bypassing.
• Healthy spirituality.
• Becoming intimate with all that you are.

©2013 Robert Augustus Masters (P)2013 Sounds True

Best Investment I made on myself

I highly recommend this audiobook. Investing on knowing your shadows is the best you can do. I have been able to enhance my understanding of my shadow and how to be in peace with it. Thank you!

A Powerful Tool For Those Ready to Do the Work

This book will challenge you. For those who are sick enough of living inauthentically, this book is a powerful course correcter - but it is NOT light reading or food for thought.

This is an interactive tool for healing that requires your deepcparticipation. You'll be asked to engage in exercises that may freak you out. But if you're ready to finally know yourself, here are the materials. Nobody said it would be easy! If it was, we'd all be fully integrated, right?

Be ready to surrender everything you think about who you are, how you are, and why you are the way you are. If you're truly ready to do the very uncomfortable work of self discovery and integration, this is required reading.

Insightful & Healing

This was a beautiful, challenging, and healing journey. I appreciate the authors insight and compassion as he guides us to a more full understanding & integration of our shadow selves.

Deep work on the shadow

This is not a book to listen to while commuting or for leisure. It is a deep book working on the darkest sides of our being.
Listen to it slowly, in small segments
Do the meditations and work prescribed
Keep a pen and paper for taking notes

By doing so you will cultivate the wisdom and enlightened guidance in the book. Otherwise you will get bored and drift off track, and you will have no idea of what is going on.

Thank you Robert
This was enlightening

Fantastic - highly recommended

Just what I was looking for! A wonderfully organized series of guided shadow meditations and exercises, interspersed with genuinely useful theory and concepts - all from a man who is really walking the talk himself, and has been doing so for decades. Thanks very much Robert, this has helped me very deeply.

THIS IS AN ACTUAL WALKTHROUGH BOOK.DONT RUSH IT!

What made the experience of listening to Knowing Your Shadow the most enjoyable?

im seeing people complaining about the pauses that this audio comes with and i still bought it as soon as i realized this is a work book then it all made sense, as you're listening the author talks about exercises that you can do in the moment, he guides you to get inside your subconscious which is where all shadow work needs to be done. so make sure you take this book slow and follow the author as he guides you.

Glad I listened to this book.

I am glad I listened to this book as I was able to take away some tools to help me be better equipped with my healing.

Powerful, profound, like being with an actual

If you could sum up Knowing Your Shadow in three words, what would they be?

therapist but better than most. If you're like me you've been through 4 or 5 who just ask you what you did last week and nothing else. This is not like that, this is actual shadow work. The meditations for meeting your shadow in section 2 are great. And the song that closes section 2 out is so awful that after recovering from the initial shock of being immediately and spontaneously thrust back into your childhood with images of your overbearing [insert religion here] mom and all the shame and guilt and crap that entails, you won't be discouraged from doing shadow work on that too. Haven't listened to the rest, but I'm sure it's good.

What other book might you compare Knowing Your Shadow to and why?

Possibly Ken Wilber's early stuff, the stuff he wrote in the 80's before boarding the turquoise spaceship.

Which scene was your favorite?

Section 2 Meditation where you stand outside the cave.

What insight do you think you’ll apply from Knowing Your Shadow?

Knowing my shadow, duh.

Any additional comments?

Nope.

Life Changing

This was the mother of all self help books. It concisely spoke to the core of my problems and did what no other book could. It is a coherent, studied world view that makes so much sense. I feel like a lightbulb was switched on. I extremely recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the roots of shame, guilt, fear, and anger. This will also teach emotional intelligence. I have grown much since I listened to this audiobook and I look forward to listening to it again after I have had more time digesting its teachings. I also want to play chapters for my friends.

Not for the faint of heart

Filled with alternating segments of the author’s deep understanding of living an integrated life and guided meditations that help you find, hold, and gradually heal the things you’ve been afraid to confront.