(12-17-2021, 08:49 PM)Cannon Wrote: Thank you for your input again, Zedro. Do you have any specific techniques concerning shadow work that you would recommend? I'm searching for some myself at the moment and am curious as it appears that you're speaking from personal experience. My thanks, regardless.
One of the meditation exercises I did (daily for almost a year) was to go thru each negative center (fear, guilt, shame, grief, lies (we tell ourselves), illusion, attachment) and just explore one by one what came to mind that day. Go one by one, perhaps linking what you explored in the former category. As you go thru them you start to explore the threads of your fears, for instance, what is your fear, how does it relate to the other archetypes (what makes you feel guilty about it, what shame did it create, how did that betray you, what do you do to cope with it/deny, what illusion of yourself did it help create, and what attachments did it create, and why are you attached to that fear). You can start backwards with attachments first and go top down, to find the roots of your attachments, but the main point is to expand the truth you are seeking across all the centers. It becomes an organic process of self discovery, to how we have been programmed, what is holding us back from loving ourselves and others. So you start peeling away the onion layer by layer until all is exposed to light. Then love can come rushing in.
Meditating using crystal bowls matched to the Chakra frequencies (see youtube) is something I like to do when I go thru the energy center list, although it doesn't have to match, but it may help at first to create some structure in the process because it can be overwhelming if you bite off more than you can chew. We have a thousand fears but we can't solve them all at once, and some only get unlocked when other matters are dealt with. Go where your mind and heart want to go, but create some boundaries if you have trouble focusing.
The above technique is very male energy healing and can be exhausting, but not all of us are capable of the more female energy healing (see Aaron Abke youtube channel for the explanation of the difference), but some plant medicines helped me get there, these are more revelatory experiences rather than the male expository experiences of the shadow work.