Can you do shadow work on your phone?
You can use your phone as a tool for shadow work. You can put on meditative music, write shadow work journal prompts, and view content that gives you a cathartic experience – ALL through your phone. But if you aren’t making sensational realizations about yourself that shift your worldview, behavior, and self-view, then you should try focusing on performing shadow work without a phone.
I can tell you ways that you can use your phone for effective inner work. But first, you need to understand a few important things.
What is the shadow and what is shadow work?
The shadow is the side of yourself that’s disconnected and unfelt. It’s the part of yourself that’s been rejected since childhood and you have no awareness of.
Shadow Work is integrating the entire spectrum of your being. It’s the intentional process of admitting the parts of yourself you’ve ignored and repressed.
Can you do shadow work on your phone?
Let’s get one thing straight: If you aren’t changing your behavior, you aren’t learning.
You can use your phone as a tool to get shadow work materials, such as my free shadow work prompts.
But if you’re making realizations about yourself, without making the necessary changes to integrate your shadow, you aren’t doing shadow work.
Real shadow work results in you gaining emotional maturity, healthier relationships, and higher consciousness.
Your phone is too distracting to let you do that.
Chances are, you’re just getting a dopamine fix if you feel the need to ask whether to involve your phone.
Are you assimilating your disowned qualities?
Are the things that trigger you losing their power over you?
Have you identified your negative unconscious beliefs, and adopted behaviors to shift them?
Have you found activities to help you healthily express your sadomasochistic desires?
If the answer is no, you need to get away from your phone to give your mind space to contemplate.
I recommend you check out this article Shadow Work Techniques & Exercises for Beginners.
AFTER you get the knowledge you need to perform inner work, take a break from your phone and go do it.
It will be life-changing.
If you’re serious about learning everything about Shadow Work, check out the Shadow Work Course here.
Check out A Light Among Shadows: A Guide to Self-Love & Being here.
