Projection Detection

It’s imperative you understand what projection is.

Why? Because everyone does it. It is a survival mechanism and for some people, it’s a way of life.

Projection often begins when we feel uncomfortable or experience difficult emotions that we don’t know how to process.

It also occurs when we repress or are ashamed of our shadow aspects. Everyone has a shadow.

We don’t have to fear or run from our shadow, but most of us do.

Am example of projection is when someone is angry about something in an argument + the other person is calm, yet the angry person continues to tell the calm person they are angry.

Projection can also tie into our judgements. For example if we had a bad experience with someone with red hair that cheated us, we may then assume that every redhead we meet will do the same. This could be conscious or unconscious.

This is a VERY tricky area to navigate and takes a lot of awareness to manage.

We must be able to see ourselves clearly and with humility in all our aspects - both the parts of ourselves we like as well as the ones we don’t like.

Extreme projection can be a form of abuse.

So many of us don’t want to look at or face our shadow, so projection is more convenient. When difficult feelings arise, we want to dump them on someone else because it feels easier.

If this all sounds like gibberish to you, read it again and ask to understand more. This can be one of the most challenging concepts to grasp. Have compassion with yourself.

The simplest thing I could share in closing is to feel your feelings. Even when it hurts. Own the feelings and find healthy ways to process your emotions.

Emotions are simply energy in motion. Not really as scary as they feel sometimes.

We are all wounded and in need of healing in different areas. When we cultivate awareness about our own shadows and commit to healing them we do all of life a great service.

Also: many of our shadows aren’t even fully ours, we inherited them from our ancestors and that is a whole other story. ⚔️