#Shadow work journal free pdf how to#

You can progress as slowly or as fast as you want through this journal.

And we don't want that! So always strive to incorporate self-care and nurturing self-compassion into any shadow work activity that you do. Without self-love, shadow work can easily make you feel a million times worse about yourself. If at any time you feel intensely uncomfortable or disturbed by any shadow work activities within this journal, please stop immediately and practice self-love. If you struggle with low self-esteem, I encourage you to focus on the self-love aspects of this journal instead. Shadow work is an extremely deep form of inner work and should not be taken lightly. As shadow work should always be preceded by and/or incorporated with self-love, you will find some self-love activities within this journal as well.

#Shadow work journal free pdf how to#

HOW TO ATTRACT YOUR In this journal, you will find a series of simple but powerful questions and exercises which will help to shine a light on the shadowy areas of your life that you might be unaware of. FLAME Shadow work is the practice of exploring everything that is locked away in the vault of your unconscious. We all have repressed anger and unacknowledged greatness buried deep inside. We all have nasty tendencies and childhood wounds that haven't been faced and acknowledged. We all have skeletons hiding in the closet and monsters lurking in the abyss of our psyches. This Shadow Work Journal has been created for the purposes of helping you to bring an illuminating torch into the mysterious and dark regions of your unconscious mind. If you have ever felt at war with yourself or like you are your own worst enemy, it is because your shadows are controlling you, not the other way around. Instead of learning to meet, acknowledge, and befriend our shadows, they become our mortal enemies. strings, C O M we become vulnerable to the control of our shadows in moments of anger, stress, temptation or tiredness.

The longer we put off Lfacing U N our A shadows, & S O Lthe more they stealthily control and manipulate our lives. Like hungry monsters clawing to get out of a dark basement, our shadows want to be brought into the light of consciousness. But there is one very significant downside to repressing parts of ourselves: they begin to fester and amplify, sabotaging our lives. Cutting off and burying certain parts of ourselves was a necessary part of our survival. In order to be loved and accepted, we learned as children to hide away those parts of ourselves that were not met with praise and approval, and adopt only those traits and behaviors that were met with open arms. Our shadows contain the parts of us that have been shunned, denied, rejected or otherwise negatively condemned by our parents, family members, and societies growing up. Our shadows contain everything that is considered ugly, 'bad,' shameful, weird, taboo or socially unacceptable.

HOW TO ATTRACT YOUR There is a good reason why our shadows remain anonymous and locked away within the dark depths of our minds. We only glimpse them during fits of rage, nightmares, pettiness, revenge, paranoid thoughts, drug and sex binges, and anything that verges on the edge of 'insane' behavior. In fact, our shadow selves are so private that usually we are not even aware of their existence. The second face we keep private – it is called the shadow. The first face we show to the world – this facade is called the ego. As spiritual beings having a human experience we have developed two faces. This is a fact of life that we must face and embrace. Introduction FLAME We are all part angel and part devil inside. SHADOW WORK JOURNAL 15 Ways to Illuminate the Dark Side of Your Psyche LUNA & SOL Shadow Work Journal Table of Contents Page Introduction 1 Exercise 1 - Playing Small 4 Exercise 2 - Self-Judgment 5 Exercise 3 - Negatives and Positives 6 Exercise 4 - Emotional Suppression 8 Exercise 5 - Self-Love Letter 9 Exercise 6 - Hot Buttons 10 Exercise 7 - Family Members 11 Exercise 8 - Tolerance of Beliefs 13 Exercise 9 - Self-Criticism 14 Exercise 10 - Self-Love and Gratitude 15 Exercise 11 - Secrecy 17 Exercise 12 - The Victim 18 Exercise 13 - Biggest Fear 19 Exercise 14 - Shadow Desires 21 Exercise 15 - Egocentricity 22 Exercise 16 - Sexuality 23 Exercise 17 - Shadow Letter 24 Other Thoughts & Reflections 26 LUNA & SOL © Luna & Sol Shadow Work Journal 1.