Shadow Work Through Journalling

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Shadow Work Through Journalling

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In this video, you will explore shadow work through six simple journalling questions. These questions will help you recognize emotional triggers, understand the mask you may have built to feel safe, and gently uncover the parts of yourself you have learned to hide or reject. Rather than judging the shadow, this practice invites you to meet it with honesty and compassion. Through reflection and integration, you can begin reclaiming the lost energy, truth, and aliveness hidden within you.

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Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Carl Jung said. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light. But by making the darkness conscious. This darkness is the shadow. The shadow is the disowned part of our personality, Of our being. And this darkness that we are unaware of is the shadow. I will not explain to you in this video what the shadow is. In this video, You will discover what your shadow is. And one of the ways of discovering, One of the powerful ways of discovering the shadow is through journaling. In this video, I will give you six questions to journal. Through which you will not only discover what your shadow is, You will understand it. And you will integrate it So, There are two ways to approach this video. One of the ways is that you can pause after every question. You can write down the question. You can pause after every question. And you can do the journaling and then you can move on to the other question. But the other way is that you can write down all the questions and maybe complete this video and then after the video you do the journaling. So let's begin. I will read out the first question to you. The first question is. . . What is something in another person that strongly bothers me? Triggers me. Or makes me feel judgmental. You could pause the video here. And you can journal, But I will also repeat this question. What is something in another person that strongly bothers me, Triggers me, Or makes me feel judgmental? One way to understand our shadow is by understanding our projections. Our projections are the judgments that we have about others. What we judge in others, We judge in ourselves. And whatever we judge in ourselves is our shadow. So through this question we understand what our projections are. Now comes the second question. What feeling comes up in me when I see this quality? What feeling comes up in me when I see this quality? What comes up? What feeling comes up? When I see some other person. Doing something which I judge. It's important to understand this feeling because once we understand this feeling, This feeling transforms. As they say that you have to feel it to heal it. We really have to allow this feeling to come up to the surface and observe it. So that it heals, So that it transforms. The third question. What did I learn I had to be in order to be loved, Accepted? Or to be safe. What did I learn I had to be in order to be loved, Accepted? Or to be safe. When we are a child. The society around us, Including our parents, Including our teachers and relatives and friends. They have certain judgments towards us. They accept a certain part of us but they reject other parts of us. For example, Some children are not allowed to cry. You know, Their parents would say that, Don't cry and bring a smile to your face. And so, They repress that crime. That becomes the shadow. So, What we do is that for us to be accepted as a child, We form a certain persona, A certain personality. And we live with that personality but What we hide is the shadow. And this brings me to the next question. What part of me? Am I not allowing myself to be? What part of me am I not allowing myself to be? What is that part of me that I am hiding? What is that part of me that got judged in my childhood and got hidden? Or maybe as I grew up, What part of me got hidden? And what part of me I am not allowing myself to be. The fifth question. What has it cost me to keep this part of myself hidden? What has it cost me to keep this part of myself hidden? What has it cost me? I could have been so much, I could have had so many qualities which are in this shadow. What has it really cost me to keep this part of myself hidden? Let's take an example. If I am too organized and I hide my messy part and if I don't embrace my messy part, If I repress it. Then sometimes we lose creativity because creativity requires some messiness. So if I can embrace this part of me, Maybe I can be more creative. So that is one example. But there are many other such examples. And now we come to the next question and which is the last question. What is one small way I can give this rejected part of me a healthy place in my life. What is one small way I can give this rejected part of me a healthy place in my life? Now, This rejected part of us, It has some healthy things you know our shadow has some strengths and we have to embrace those strengths and we can let go of the weaknesses. Let's take an example. Let's say anger is my shadow that was repressed since my childhood. The healthy part of anger is itself called healthy anger. We have to have healthy anger. Because if you want to draw boundaries right if you want to say no that is important so can I embrace a little bit of this healthy angle If I haven't embraced my anger at all, Can I now do that so that I can draw healthy boundaries, Defend myself when required and say no to things when required? So this is how we do some small action, Right? Maybe say no to something that you don't want to do. In this case. So that is a small action that you can do. So this way you integrate the shadow. So I hope you found value in these questions and I hope that this helps you understand your shadow better. I wish you all the best for the journaling and take care. Namaste.