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Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 4:09

Shadow Work: Digging Deep Into Your Emotions

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And moving towards a balanced and authentic engage in 'shadow work' allows us to integrate the hidden aspects of the cells with the open aspects, the aspects that everyone can see and what you can see. So this is done in various ways, but ultimately the goal is to break the cycles that you have formed to release unhealthy and repressed emotions and to create patterns of peace and love and happiness. So ways to engage in shadow work are to be mindful of emotional reactions

Part 1- What is the shadow? What is 'shadow work'? How to engage in 'shadow work'?

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Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 0:57

Shadow Work Prompts by @libramoonstone (check out the attached picture)

This is the part two of my shadow works well, so a few shadow work prompts can be. How can I be Kinder to myself? How do I consciously and unconsciously punish myself? Or what grudges do I hold against myself, myself? Write a letter of forgiveness? Or how do I handle criticism from others? What do I feel is the difference between a personal attack and constructive criticism? Or do I place too much of my personal value on my level of productivity?
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Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 2:10

Part 3: Personal Thoughts on Shadow work

Shout out to Libra Moonstone for inspiring this well and for introducing engage in 'shadow work'. I actually did a little shadow work a while back and it really helped me understand the emotions I was suppressing for so long, and when I got to the root of it, when I knew what my problem was, I felt so much more relieved and I really think it is helping me create a more stable lifestyle because now I know what makes me unhappy
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:35

Looming shadows.

So it definitely requires an open mind, especially for your ego to consider that perhaps these undercurrents of emotion are clouding your awareness of yourself. And if you don't check it now, it will corrode your ego in being for times to engage in 'shadow work' is very interesting. I tend to do shadow work in my way through MBTI, but there are many different methods in which how one can start about the process of being introduced to their shadow self, but that's half the battle
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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 0:41

@theertha @FryedOreo Really informative🙏🏾😁

Hey Dawan. Great response. I definitely love the underlying sarcasm about the optimistic person pursuing shadow work. Thank you for this Theatre. This is very good. I don't really know much about shadow work or any of this. A lot of this stuff is very new to me since meeting you. Good folks on Swell. Definitely. Lee did a screenshot of that image and I'm going to try those. Thank you as always, for being deep and going deep and taking us with you
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@aShamaninJourny

a Shamans Shadow

I'm currently in relationship with all internal light, regardless of how dim it appears to love myself and whole is to find a way to love things I hate or fear in myself. I'm glad that Shadow Work has provided happiness for you. Third, however, in my experience I have not experienced really happiness, but instead calmness. I'm constantly in between because I'm considering the multitude of privileges and traumas inside me
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Enfinit Evolushun
@Enfinit · 4:19
Great. Swell. Very thorough. Thank you so much for this resource. It became a resource. Definitely. If I was to share information on shadow for people that are interested in becoming familiar with shadow work, I would definitely share this. I've been experiencing shadow work since I was a kid and I've always been a very aware kid when it comes to energy, spirit, mind, things like that imagination, darkness, light
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Yesenia Fernandez
@Her_Revolucion · 4:48

Shadow Work-WORKS 👍🏽

We have to almost rediscover ourselves, get to really know ourselves because it's almost as if we're discrediting ourselves throughout this journey with trauma and not understanding it. So it's almost being in relationship with traumas. And that is a very hard pill to swallow, because many of us feel uncomfortable sitting with these feelings
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Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 1:07

@FryedOreo

But I never heard about MBTI shadow work, but I'm not going to get into it because I am so confused about my personality type because see, every single time I take it, they tell me that I'm an extrovert, but I think I'm an introvert more than an extrovert, but I can be an extrovert and thinking and feeling that part
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Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 1:06

@The3rdOWL

So thank you so much for your inputs. It means a lot. And also shadow work didn't exactly make me happy. I did shed a lot of tears while doing it, but I became more accepting of myself. And I felt very peaceful after a very long time, and I felt a huge weight getting lifted off me. So that made me happy. The amount of peace I got from doing it made me happy
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Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 0:50

@Enfinit

Hi, thank you so much for hopping in and being vulnerable and sharing your experience. I am so glad that you are able to embrace your shadow self and you live in harmony with it now because you know it can be hard sometimes times, and people tend to demonize that shadow selves, as you said. But when you embrace it, that's when you attain peace and the dark parts and the light parts combined makes you you and you can't neglect it and say that's not me
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Theertha Panachoor
@theertha · 1:10

@Her_Revolucion

Hi. Thank you so much. I am just captivated by the amount of wisdom you speak with every single time you post as well, or you reply to as well. But moving on, as you said, sometimes when you are in a sense of denial that you don't have that part of yourself, it layers of emotions. And that just isn't good for you, because there's this build up. And as you said, Ian, and we need both of them
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