Are you wondering what shadow beliefs are?
Before we get into that, it’s important that we briefly go over inner child work.
What is Inner Child Work?
Inner child work, or inner child healing, is becoming aware of what aspects of yourself you’ve denied and redeeming them via conscious integration.
It’s doing the griefwork to digest and process emotions that you carry from the past.
While becoming conscious of the underlying beliefs that have been driving your existence.
By doing this, you become more emotionally mature and experience universal Love.
Inner Child Wounds & Shadow Beliefs
A child who experiences emotional trauma and isn’t given adequate love and time to process it will develop an inner child wound.
An inner child wound is a moment in time where a person’s psyche is stuck due to an undigested emotion.
These emotional traumas from the formative years are commonly feelings of:
- Betrayal
- Abandonment
- Disappointment
- Humiliation
- Isolation
Over time, these unprocessed inner wounds evolve into an existential belief of the child’s own existence. Otherwise referred to as a “shadow belief.”
Shadow beliefs are typically dysfunctional and initially unconscious. Nevertheless, they are why many people find themselves in unsavory positions in life and involved in unhealthy relationships.
This is because you will unconsciously seek to fulfill the existential position that gives you the validation you’re used to:
List of shadow beliefs examples:
- Nobody can be trusted
- I’m blameless & you’ll always forgive me
- I’m always wrong
- I am pure
- I am helpless
- The world wants to dominate me
- I’ve always been a loser
- Everyone is ungrateful
You will unconsciously live out these positions in your relationships—even when it’s against your self-interest.
Until you become aware of this, your psyche is in arrested development.
By going to therapy or performing “self-therapy,” such as shadow work and inner child work, you will be able to mend your psyche’s wounds and live a healthier life.
Check out Shadow Work Journal Prompts for Healing the Inner Child, Self-Love & Relationships.
Here are some resources I recommend:
A Light Among Shadows is a guide to self-love and being that helps you overcome negative self-talk, instill genuine self-acceptance, and overcome self-hate and resentment by making sense of people’s level of consciousness and your spirituality.
Shadow Work for Beginners Series helps you beat negative patterns and beliefs, integrate your shadow, heal your inner child, reclaim your projections, build emotional maturity, and take back your life by becoming whole.
Shadow Work for Relationship Series helps you heal your attachment style, navigate relationship issues, and build a healthy, mature relationship.
Advanced Shadow Work is an ongoing publication with continued in-depth insight and practical advice you won’t find anywhere else on the internet for practicing shadow work, self-awareness, inner healing, spiritual development, and more!
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