Imagine holding a ball of fire in your hand. If you have a gentle personality, what scares you about anger? If you have a rough personality, what scares you about softening up and letting go?ġ1. What makes you feel ashamed of yourself? Why?ġ0. (See our Grounding & Cleansing Chakra Bundle if you want to explore this chakra more.) Solar Plexus Chakra Shadow Work Promptsĩ. Do you veer towards hedonism or asceticism? Why? What scares you about the opposite quality? Notice how the following statement makes you feel: “ I deserve pleasure in my life.” How do these words sit with you?Ĩ. Why do they stir this emotion within you? What toxic core belief or judgment is going on behind the scenes?ħ. Reflect on any personal habits that make you feel guilty. What is your relationship like with your sexuality?Ħ. (By the way, if you’d like to learn how to ground and cleanse the root chakra, see our Grounding & Cleansing Chakra Bundle.) Sacral Chakra Shadow Work Promptsĥ. Do you trust yourself? Do you trust others? Do you trust life? Why or why not? When you think about the word “family,” what feelings, emotions, memories, and thoughts arise (both good and bad)? How might that understanding of family impact who you are today?Ĥ. What traumas have you inherited from your ancestors?ģ. How do you unintentionally allow others to invade your personal boundaries?Ģ. But, of course, you’re free to approach these shadow work prompts in whatever way you see fit: Root Chakra Shadow Work Promptsġ. I recommend choosing one or twoquestions per day to journal about. So be sure to take it easy, go at your own pace, and answer the questions you feel most drawn to or repelled by (a good sign that your shadow has been stirred from its slumber!). Solar Plexus Chakra ( Manipura) – located in the upper abdomen just below the ribs / connected to our sense of personal power.īy the way, a little bit of journaling can go a long way (trust me, I’ve been doing this for over 20 years!). Sacral Chakra ( Swadhisthana) – located in the lower abdomen just below the belly button / connected to our sense of pleasure.ģ. Root Chakra ( Muladhara) – located at the base of the spine / connected to our sense of survival.Ģ. We possess seven main chakras that include the following:ġ. What Are the Chakras?Ĭhakra is a Sanskrit word that literally translates to “wheel” or “disk.” Our chakras, therefore, are seen as wheels of spinning energy in our bodies, and they govern different areas of our human experience. See our Self-Love Journal and Inner Child Work Journal for more in-depth guidance. Therefore, I highly recommend practicing self-love and inner child work in conjunction with shadow work, and preferably beforehand. Without knowing how to show self-compassion toward ourselves, shadow work can be harmful and even retraumatizing (e.g., we can beat ourselves up over what we discover and use it to torment ourselves). Shadow work is quite simply the practice of actively choosing to explore our shadow selves.Īs one facet of inner work, shadow work is most effective when we have a strong foundation of self-love and inner child work supporting us. I talk more about this “golden shadow” in my article entitled Shadow Work: 13 Dark Archetypes. There are also positive elements stuffed within the shadow such as hidden gifts (e.g., intuitive, artistic, humanitarian) and qualities like sensitivity and even compassion that we may have needed to hide away as children for fear of being punished, bullied, or rejected. Is the shadow self only full of dark and negative stuff? No, not necessarily. The Shadow is comprised largely of elements of our nature - our repressed sexuality, fears, frailties, secret desires, and so on - that we have rejected for various reasons, and as such have been effectively split off, forming a type of secondary personality that emerges under certain conditions, like stress, anxiety, strong emotions, and anything involving sudden changes. In the words of psychotherapist Robert A. Our shadow self is our dark side, our inner ‘basement’ that contains all the parts of ourselves that we have a hard time accepting.
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