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The Shadow Side
When we were two or three years old, we felt all this range of emotions. We tended to express it as children often do. So you start to repress certain qualities in yourself in order to please your parents. As you repress that other part of your character, it goes into what we call the shadow. Everybody has their dark side. It comes from these qualities that they were repressed when they were younger. They will come out later in life in sudden bursts of anger like you on the basketball field. Or it'll come out in a relationship. For instance, you might have felt like your parents didn't really love you. And then you form a relationship later with a woman