![]() ![]() After all, your shadow is usually born in childhood out of fear of judgment, unworthiness, or withholding of love from someone. Practice Mindfulness Meditation As your shadow begins to be released, it is necessary to love yourself unconditionally. It takes patience and compassion to illuminate and integrate your shadow for greater awareness and wholeness. Your shadow has been hidden away for a very long time. Be kind, patient, and go easy on yourself. 5 How to Get the Most Out of this Journal Practice Unconditional Love As your shadow begins to be released, it is necessary to love yourself unconditionally. If you are unaware that this incident created pain that you simply shoved down, but never looked at and healed, you may have issues of being too clingy in your relationships as an adult, and ultimately pushing potential mates away. Now, as an adult, you have an “unconscious program” of “abandonment” running in your shadow self subconscious. For example, perhaps you were accidentally left somewhere as a small child by your parents. We tend to react quickly to situations based on previous fears, loss, or doubt, rather than slowly and carefully responding. This triggers knee-jerk “unconscious programming” reactions to challenges that arise in everyday life. ![]() When you choose to ignore your shadow side, and remain largely unaware of it, or unwilling to admit that it exists – The shadow gets darker, denser, and thicker. Why Should I Do Shadow Work To do shadow work is to uncover what your repressed qualities are and to heal from childhood experiences or traumas that formed your shadow. As you use this deep shadow work journal to illuminate your shadow self, your conscious self is made aware of vulnerabilities, fears, and unconscious habits that have been directed by the negative aspects of your shadow. In other words, you become conscious of what you’ve previously shoved into your subconscious by doing shadow work. When you do shadow work exercises, the shadow is illuminated, and can then be integrated to give you more awareness, strength, and stability. When you ignore your shadow self, it holds power over you. Often, our shadow selves are born in early childhood as the result of trauma or repressing emotions. These are the negative aspects and vulnerabilities of ourselves that we’d rather pretend don’t exist. ![]() ![]() 2 “By illuminating and integrating our shadows, we make ourselves whole.” 3 Table of Contents What is your Shadow Side? 5 Why Should I Do Shadow Work? 5 How to Get the Most out of this Journal? 6 How to Integrate your Shadow? (Forgiveness, Unconditional Love) 9 How to Illuminate Your Shadow? (The Mirror, Identifying & Working Through Triggers) 11 Working Through Triggers Journal Pages 13 Little-Known Shadow Work Hacks for Illuminating your Shadow (from the Teacher’s of Light) 28 Deep Shadow Work Prompts & Writing Space 30 Inner Child Healing Exercises 56 Self-Care Exercises 68 Pros/Cons Lists 69 Final Shadow Work Thoughts 80 4 What is your Shadow Side We all carry a shadow side. The information contained in this book is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute for the advice of a mental health professional. This book, or any portion of it, may not be shared, reused, resold, or republished in any format without express written consent from the author. If you struggle with anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, trust issues, want to raise your vibration, or find it hard to maintain healthy, authentic relationships – Then shadow work is perfect for you! 1 Copyright 2021 © All Rights Reserved. Not your average shadow work journal, this workbook takes a deeper dive than most into your shadow self to illuminate and integrate it fully. DEEP Shadow Work Journal and Workbook People often cringe at doing shadow work, but - What if shadow work were viewed as the beautiful, freeing process it is? And - What if you gave yourself permission to feel and cry while doing shadow work? And then chose to forgive and love yourself unconditionally? This shadow work journal will help you to discover and heal your shadow side with deep journal prompts, little-known shadow illumination techniques (from the Teachers of Light), inner child healing, and self-care. ![]()
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