Want to manifest your best self? Answering these 105 shadow work questions could help

The Journal de l’Ombre is an invitation to turn to the interior – to retrace the contours of your past, find the long -standing beliefs and sit with the emotions that you have spent. It is not a question of engaging in nostalgia or of setting rigid self-improvement objectives, it is rather a practice of an honest self-exploration. What experiences have shaped your identity? What memories still persist in the background, subtly influencing your choices? What stories about yourself are you ready to rewrite? By engaging with your Shadow Self – the parties of yourself that you judge little kind – you create a space for a deeper connection with whom you are under the packaging of the world around you.

Below, we have compiled 105 reflected shadow prompts, separated into seven sections, designed to help you untangle the limiting beliefs, navigate emotions and understand you at a deeper level. You can complete them slowly over a week, by attacking fifteen questions per day over seven days. Whether you just start this trip or you are trying to deepen your practice, these questions encourage you to face, think and finally recover each part of yourself.

Day 1: Understand your shadow

1. What moments of my past bring me the most happiness?
2. How generally is conflicts and my approach constructive or harmful?
3. What previous error or experience do I need to release and stop holding me against me?
4. What does personal freedom mean for me, and what circumstances make me feel limited
5. What types of situations cause the strongest emotional reactions in me, and why?
6. How do others perceive me and their perception aligned with whom I am really?
7. What opinions have the greatest impact on my choices?
8. What is an important difficulty that I felt in childhood and how does she continue to shape me?
9. What qualities or behavior in others should I criticize the most, and what does it reveal about me?
10. What fundamental beliefs do I have from myself and where are they from?
11. If I could change something about me, what would it be and why?
12. What links in my life have contributed the most to my personal growth?
13. In what times have I seen the most and the most appreciated?
14. What memories fill me with regret or embarrassment?
15. What fears hold me the most and how do they shape my decisions?

Day 2: Exploration of childhood and family conditioning

1. What is my first memory of feeling less than?
2. How did my parents or my caregivers show love? How did it shape my idea of ​​love?
3. What messages have I received on success in growing?
4. What childhood experiences still influence my self -esteem today?
5. What emotions were considered acceptable in my household? Who were discouraged?
6. How did my family manage difficult conversations?
7. What was my role in my family? (For example, the manager, the troublemaker, the peaceful)
8. I felt emotionally safe when I was a child? Why or why not?
9. Were my needs satisfied as a child? If not, how does it affect me now?
10. What limiting beliefs have I inherited my family?
11. What behaviors do I have who remind me of my parents or my caregivers?
12. How did my family expressed or removed emotions?
13. In what ways I seek approval and to whom?
14. What childhood injury still needs healing?
15. If I could say something younger, what would it be?

Day 3: Unpack limiting beliefs

1. What is a belief I have about me that holds me back?
2. What is my greatest fear of failure?
3. What internalized messages make me feel little and where do they come from?
4. How to define success? Who influenced this definition?
5. Do I think I deserve happiness? Why or why not?
6. How to react to compliments? What does it reveal about me?
7. What do I judge mostly among others? Is it something I fear in me?
8. When do I have self-sabotage? What was I afraid of?
9. What do I believe in money and financial success? Where does this belief come from?
10. Do I think I’m as good as my achievements? For what?
11. What is one thing I always tell myself that I can’t do it?
12. Where should I play little in my life? For what?
13. How to talk to me when I make a mistake?
14. What would happen if I let go of my biggest limiting belief?
15. What do I win by holding negative beliefs?

Day 4: Navigation of emotional relationships and attachments

1. What kind of people am I attracted to my life? What models should I see?
2. Did I stay in a relationship that was not good for me? For what?
3. When did I sacrifice my needs to please someone else?
4. Do I have to have trouble setting limits? For what?
5. Who do I feel like I need to prove me?
6. How to answer when someone hurts me?
7. What relationships seem exhausting to me? Why do I keep them?
8. How to present myself in my friendships? What kind of friend am I?
9. Do I ask for the validation of others? In what ways?
10. What is my greatest fear when it comes to relationships?
11. Do I expect others to fill a void in me? How could I define my vacuum?
12. Have I ever been unworthy of love? Where did this belief started?
13. How to react to social rejection?
14. What part of me should I hide in relationships?
15. How to know when a relationship is really favorable and healthy?

Day 5: Confront the emotions of the shadows (guilt, shame, anger, jealousy, fear)

1. What emotion should I try to avoid feeling the most? For what?
2. What is my relationship with guilt? Do I have to wear unnecessary guilt?
3. What situations bring out my anger the most?
4. How to manage my anger? Is it constructive or destructive?
5. When was I jealous of someone? What did I really want at that time?
6. Have I already removed my real feelings to maintain peace? For what?
7. What fear controls me the most?
8. What is a regret that I have that I can’t give up?
9. What negative emotions seem to me the most familiar? Do I hook myself unconsciously to them?
10. When do I feel helpless? What belief is fueling this feeling?
11. How to react when someone fixes a border with me?
12. How to answer when I feel ignored or unimportant?
13. Have I already removed my emotions on someone else? What was happening in me at the time?
14. What makes me dangerous? When do I feel most at peace?
15. If my emotions could speak, what would they try to tell me?

Day 6: Rewrite your story

1. What is a story that I tell myself who I am on? Is it true?
2. If I had never said who I should be, who would I choose to become?
3. What models continue to repeat in my life? What lesson could they teach me?
4. What is an area where I can go from a victim state of mind to an autonomous perspective?
5. What words or labels have I internalized about me? Do they still serve me?
6. What was I afraid to admit myself?
7. What do I really want in life, without fear or external opinions?
8. How would my life change if I stopped to worry about what others think?
9. How can I be more compassionate about myself?
10. What parts of me am I impatient to kiss?
11. How to celebrate my achievements? Do I allow myself?
12. What little dream did I postpone? For what?
13. If I fully believed in myself, what is the first thing I would do?
14. How to define happiness?
15. What are the three claims I can say to support my growth?

Day 7: Future self and entering power

1. What does my most authentic and authentic self look like?
2. If I fully trusted myself, what daring decision would I take today?
3. What qualities should I admire in others that I can cultivate in me?
4. How does fear prevent me from moving on to my full potential?
5. What little habits can I start today to line up on the future I want?
6. What does success look like me beyond external validation?
7. If I could talk to my future, what advice would they give me?
8. What version of me am I ready to leave behind?
9. How can I recover my personal power in situations where I feel small?
10. What change of mind will help me get into the life I really want?
11. What fears would I need to release to fully embody my highest potential?
12. How can I become the person I needed when I was younger?
13. Where in my life I expect permission instead of taking measures?
14. If I already lived like my future me, what daily habits would I have?
15. What limiting beliefs do I need to rewrite to enter my power?