Beginning Shadow Work for Life

Have you ever heard of the practice of shadow work and the fact that you can use this kind of work to be in charge of your emotions?  People often have strong emotions that they need to let out because each person has been rejected and has hidden their emotions at one point or another. You have to be able to let your emotions come out and learn to express them for shadow work to happen, but that is not all what shadow work is.

If shadow work was all about your emotions, you would not have to do the hard work that shadow work means and once you learn to express your emotions, there are other things that you have to do to make your shadow work process. There has to be real change and there has to be real learning in order for shadow work to ever benefit you. You never want to end up in a place where you are stuck in an emotional pattern but where you never know what to do to solve it.

Why Do Shadow Work?

The goal of shadow work is to take all of the things that are inside of you such as your emotions, the pain that you have had, your thoughts, your bad behaviors and anything you can think of and turn it into something better. Once you understand how you can express yourself in things such as stress, sadness, anger, and all of your emotions, you will see that you can get out of an emotional cycle that many people are in.

The point of being a witch is to take action and witches will need to learn to take action so that they can be different in their life, and this even has to deal with shadow work that they do.

Once you learn to understand your emotions and you embrace and express them, you are doing something other than repeating a pattern. You have to let your shadow work help you to take your emotions and to understand them and to use them for something that will help to make your life better.

The idea behind shadow work is that you take the things inside of you that you don’t want others to see, the hidden and dark parts of yourself and you find a way to turn all of that into peace and happiness. You are taking things that no one wants to know about themselves and turning them into something to shine.

Emotions and Alchemy

Alchemy is when you turn one thing into another thing such as taking lead and turning it into something priceless like gold or silver. But instead of talking about a metal, we are going to talk about emotions and using alchemy for your emotions. This means you are taking something that you don’t want in your life, and you are going to change it to be something that you learn to love.

If you want to change your emotions, you have to learn to get deep into your feelings. This is the parts of your feelings and emotions that you do not tell other people. But, instead of hiding your emotions, when you go deep into your feelings, you can face them instead of hiding them. You will never be able to change the way that you feel if you don’t go deep and learn to understand what you are feeling and where those feelings came from. You have to understand your emotions to change them into something you love and accept.

Once you alchemize your emotions, you will see that the emotions that you are dealing with are changing. If you are always mad about something, you are experiencing anger in your life. You have to let the anger come out of you and you have to learn how to talk about it and express it but even more, you have to know why you are always having those feelings. If you do not understand where the anger came from, you cannot change it. Anger often comes when someone crosses your boundaries or puts you down.

In order to change your anger into something good, you have to find out who has crossed you and what they have done. You have chosen to take the anger and turn it to something to protect you because of something that hurt you in your emotions at first.

Maybe you never set the boundaries that you needed, or you let people cross them even though you knew you shouldn’t. Maybe there are people in your life that have no respect for you or your boundaries and even when you have them set, they tear them down.

Maybe you never knew how to even go about setting boundaries and you chose to solve this by being angry and using your anger in everything you do. This is what you have to find out so that you can change it.

Chances are that you have had your heartbroken a time or two and you might be hiding that emotion. You have to learn to let the sadness come into you and really let it out so that you can fix this. You can use the sadness of this emotion to feel better, but you have to find out what is causing you to really feel heartbroken. This is not about your heart being broken as much as it is about who hurt you. You have to find out what was so deep that someone did to you that it actually caused your heart to feel broken by them.

Look at your past relationship and find the things in your life that have hurt you. Let the feelings come and then let them make you whole again.

The idea behind shadow work is that every emotion that you have in your life can be something that holds you back. The sad and angry parts of you are things that you want to hide from others, and you don’t want people to see. Once you learn to understand yourself and you learn where these come from, you can learn your own signals and learn what way to go when these emotions creep up on you.

You need to learn to trust yourself and your emotions in order to be happy and in order to move forward in your life.

Regrets

Another thing in your life that you might face is the feeling of regret. You have to learn to deal with this just like any other emotion.  There are some spells that you can do to get rid of things in your life that are holding you back such as sadness, anger, regret, and other things that you wish that other people have caused you to feel. Here are some things that you can do to get rid of this and complete your shadow work:

What You Need

• Paper
• Pen
• Something to burn with.

Find a place that is calm and quiet and do this ritual. Make sure you are grounded and centered. You don’t have to get rid of your thoughts but just be there with what you are feeling. Come into the room and when you are ready to think about all of the negative emotions and feelings in your life that you wish weren’t there, imagine them. Let them become very real to you. Let the regret and the anger and sadness come into you and feel them even down to your toes.

Think of the ways that you wish that things in the past had been different and how you wish that people would have taught you and treated you in your life.

Think about the things that you wish were different such as how you went to school, what you learned, how you applied yourself and more. Think of the things that you wish you did and wish you didn’t do.

Do you have a regret of people that you were in relationships with? Do you wish that you had treated people differently? Think of these things.

Think about things that you wanted to do in your life such as travel and such as hobbies that you didn’t embrace. Think about what you wish you had done and what you did that you wish you hadn’t.

Think of the health in your life and how you take care of yourself. Did you do things to stay healthy or did you neglect your health?

What about skills that you started, and you never finished learning or books that you never finished reading?  Think about the way that you raised your children and if you were with them enough or if you did enough to keep them happy.

Once you think of all of these things open your eyes and write down anything and everything that you can think of.

The list that you wrote down are your stories and these are things that have happened in your past that you wish had never happened, but they did. These things are not going to go away, and you cannot turn them into something fake. You have to face these things and you have to let go of the anger and the sadness of the things that you did and the things that you didn’t do. You cannot let this emotion hold you back.

You have allowed these things in your life to change the way that you feel and to build up in your mind and your emotions to the point where you are no longer living your best life. You cannot have a better life if you don’t change these feelings and learn to let go of the things that are taking away the power that you have. It is time to let these things go.

Take the paper that you wrote on and burn them somewhere. You need to think of the things that you had written on the paper, and you have to make sure that you are making the decision to let these things go. As you burn each page, feel the emotions leaving you. Let them come out of your mind, body and soul and go into the universe. As they leave you, start to feel better and let our life move towards something greater.