The reason that darkness has power over us is that we stand there and listen to it. We have entities in us whose presence in our life is a constant thorn. What we see is never the source of our feeling. We trust the explanation, but there is an unseen deception. What torments me comes along with a reason for the torment.
Inside us it's "you and me against the world." We get into a dialogue with ourselves. That is what is running us. We can be helped to remember the parts of us that recognize what is true. That will produce the end of the submission. We must remember the sovereignty of the spirit. There is nothing true about a negative, limited state.
Story 1: A young woman noticed that strange things were going on in her house. Painful mementos from the past kept turning up. Behind doors things appeared that brought up fear and resentment. Then her "twin sister" walked in and said, "Get out. I want this."
The good sister said, "This house was given to me by my father. Nothing can remain in here that diminishes that gift. Go back to your own house."
Story 2: The reporter and the old ranger. The reporter goes to a town where he sees people confronting and fighting with an apparition. They end up becoming one thing with the apparition. Then the apparition comes to the old ranger. He says something to it, and the apparition disappears. "Yours is not the last word." The ranger said, "the apparition answered me back, but I didn't respond to it." The Light has the last word.
There are creations of construction (elementals) that act on us and we say "I" to them. We say in effect, "come into my house, worry, greed, fear, etc." These are energetic qualities that only come in when we allow it. We make peace with what tears us apart.
My twin is not my enemy, but it has its own lower house. I can be conscious of it without being consumed by it. My life was given to me to have dominion over it.
"Yours is not the last word. The strength is not mine. It is God's."
We have Higher Friends we can call upon. I just need to remember that God gave me this house.