If you struggle with low self-esteem, I encourage you to focus on the self-love aspects of this workbook instead. Shadow work is an extremely deep form of inner work and should not be taken lightly. In this workbook, 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.Īs shadow work should always be preceded by and/or incorporated with self-love, you will find some self-love activities within this workbook as well. This Shadow Self Workbook 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. C anger, OM learning to meet, acknowledge, and befriend our shadows, they become our mortal enemies. U NLike A puppets & S Oon L strings, we become vulnerable to the control of our shadows stress, temptation or tiredness. The longer we put off facing our shadows, the more they stealthily control and manipulate our Llives. 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. 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. SHADOW SELF WORKBOOK Illuminate Your Dark SideĪs spiritual beings having a human experience we have developed two faces.
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