He went into the dark with a clear goal. He wanted to sort out something he had been putting off for a long time. He believed that a dark retreat would help him “speed up the process” and close inner issues that had been ripening in him for a long time. But as he admits looking back, everything turned out completely differently from what he expected. And that is exactly where the power of darkness therapy lies.
🌓 In the very first days he began to notice that no speeding up was coming. On the contrary – time seemed to slow down. Everything that was happening inside him was happening “terribly gradually”. He realised that the darkness does not work as an accelerator but as a space that calms you down. Instead of the change he expected within a few days, there was room for deep realisation.
🕯 During the dark retreat, things stopped going the way he imagined. The answers he wanted to hear straight away didn’t come. Instead, he learned to accept that some questions would stay unanswered – and that this is fine. He eased the pressure on himself and on his inner growth. The darkness held up a mirror in which he saw that change cannot be forced.
🌱 During the dark retreat he became more aware that life does not have to be tied to pressure or performance. He understood that inner processes need neither force nor effort to “achieve something”. This insight came gradually – in moments of silence, slowing down and solitude. It was in those moments that a new way opened up to him of being with himself without expectations.
✨ For him, darkness therapy was not the solution to a problem but a return to himself. It allowed him to be with what is – without judging and without running away. And that is where its power lies.
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