Part 1 - What Is Shadow Work?

THIS IS NOT YOUR

EVIL SIDE

Shadow Work is the process of identifying, confronting, and integrating the unconscious parts of your psyche-

especially the traits, desires, and fears you’ve rejected, suppressed, or disowned.

Your Shadow isn’t “evil.” It’s neutral, primal, and honest-

and when ignored, it acts out through projection, emotional reactivity, self-sabotage, or unexplained suffering.

What does SHADOW WORK do?

Makes the unconscious conscious

You stop blaming the world for traits you haven’t owned.

Integrates rejected aspects into your identity

You reclaim personal power without shame.

Ends internal fragmentation

You stop being split between who you are and who you pretend to be.

Frees energy trapped in repression

You gain access to deeper clarity, will, and presence.

Should I do shadow work?

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are” - Carl Jung

Probably yes

how to do shadow work

WE'RE GONNA USE AI

Shadow Work is psychological alchemy—transforming hidden weakness into visible strength through radical honesty and self-leadership.

But first, we should get a true grasp of the concept of the shadow.

Watch until you think you do.

If you lack focus, after every 2 minutes, Pause and Meditate for 2 minutes.

To do this

YOU HAVE COMPLETED PART 1 - The concept of the Shadow

Part 2

Part 2 - Initiating your Shadow Work

Initiating Shadow Work is not something diabolical

Instead, you're about to initiate something truly holy

Shadow work is directly present in various religions

Here is a table, highlighting the various names that the practice of shadow work and the goal of shadow integration has in various known religions

Whether you're religious or not

Shadow Work is clearly not some new technique, it has been around for thousands of years, discovered and passed down by different cultures, and it keeps being rediscovered and applied to incredible effect by people seeking excellence.. if not enlightenment

Let us begin

meeting your shadow

Spin up a fresh ChatGPT 4o chat!

(Only works well with ChatGPT 4o thus far)

1. Open a fresh Chat

2. Attach the following transcript: ShadowIntegration.pdf

3. Copy & Paste the following ShadowWork.txt prompt into the chat and hit send

Your LLM has now assumed the role of playing your Guide in doing the Shadow Work.
It isn't the LLM that is the truly impressive part, though it is certainly very useful, it is what is inside you, and your capability to make it consious if only asking yourself the right questions and thinking deeply and honestly about them that brings out truly remarkable insights.

Feel free to share your full process, including thoughts, curiosities, failures, revelations with your LLM... and don't be lazy about it! In the end, progress will depend on you reaching within and connecting with the subconsious more and more.

If questions come up from your side, feel free to ask them, but don't sidetrack too much within the boundaries of this chat. You can start another one and do it there, to keep this chat focused all the way to shadow integration. (Restart if necessary.. LLM's can forget your process sometimes, but you certainly can't).

There's only going forward

ONCE YOU'RE CONCIOUS OF YOUR SHADOW

see this as a blessing, not a curse