The earliest Shapers in this process had a lot of difficulty, especially with the gut level work, the emotional things, the happy playful attitudes. It is likely many Shapers will have similar problems - when you have a bright shiny piece somewhere, but there is something dense that doesn't allow the light, it casts shadows, and you end up having trouble.
It's reasonable that you have dark places inside you, as well as light places. If you didn't, you'd be dead. People's shadows aren't weird mysterious things, they are simply what happens when there is a thing with a bright light. The brighter the light, the darker the shadow appears.
What is the brightest light, the shiniest thing, for Shapers? The most exciting thing for Shapers is doing. For any Shaper child, there will be a bright shiny light saying "DOING!!" So of course, the shadow will be the exact opposite of doing, it will be sitting around not doing. Anger about doing, fighting and fussing and frustration about not doing. Shapers become graceful through much doing, so the shadow is being clumsy. Shapers know things, because they do lots of things, so the shadow is being really stupid. Young Shapers tend to get fat, clumsy, lazy, stupid, they tend to be bad communicators. They're full of insecurity and self-loathing, and this is reasonable given the shape of their light, and so the shape of their shadow. The light side of the Shaper, is active and doing, and because of it, it's graceful and competent and smart and knowledgeable and just really really impressive.
Because shadow Shapers are all lazy and stupid, they're not going to creatively come up with new types of problems: they'll all have the same kind of trouble: not enough doing. The solution, then, is also easy: MORE DOING. It doesn't matter who you are or what snag you are hitting, the problem is always that you are not doing enough, and the solution is always to do more.
Angel, 2015-04-05
If every problem the Shapers are having is not enough doing, and the solution is more doing, you might ask, doing what? A young Shaper might say, doing anything! But there are stupid doings and smart doings.
A young Shaper might not know what the smart doing is. They probably should go find an older Shaper and ask them to help them find a smart doing, and then help them to stick to doing this doing. Lacking that, find a Senser who understands Shapers.
Angel, 2015-04-05
