30+ Shadow Work Prompts (For Each Chakra)

October 19th, 2022

By Aletheia Luna

Guest writer for Wake Up World

No matter how sweet, kind, nice, or good we may appear to be on the surface, we all have a dark side.

And exploring that dark side – truly learning to understand, befriend, and integrate it – is an essential task for every human being.

Perhaps one of the most powerful and bone-deep practices out there for examining the shadow is journaling.
As the co-author of the Shadow Work Journal – and a lifelong avid journaler – I’m going to share with you over thirty unique prompts that are based around the seven different chakras (energy centers) in the body.
What is the Shadow Self?
Image of a silhouette hand
Our shadow self is our dark side, our inner ‘basement’ that contains all the parts of ourselves that we have a hard time accepting.

In the words of psychotherapist Robert A. Johnson:

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.

Is the shadow self only full of dark and negative stuff? No, not necessarily.

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.

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