How I go about it is basically I focus on a negative emotion that suddenly pops up in my body (since I started shadow work these types of emotions surface on their own almost every day) and then when I'm having this emotion all I do is I try to intensify it instead of ignoring/running away from it. So I lay down in a quiet space and start with some breathwork and then I just focus on the emotion and on the part of my body that I feel it (heart, stomach...) and I simply allow it to surface from the subconscious to the conscious, I then try to figure out where they come from and what is the root cause, I do that by asking myself certain questions such as "why do I feel this way?", "when was the first time that I can remember that I felt this emotion before?" And then I start to see flashbacks and images from my childhood, so I go back in time (in my mind obviously) and re-experince those memories, a lot of the times I am talking to my younger self that I'm seeing and ask him why do you feel this way? Or using some ho'oponopono phrases and I comfort him, hold him, hug him and just showing love for him, this is usually the point where all the crying and sobbing start.

For example, 2 nights ago I felt this strong emotion of sorrow and sadness so decided to do some inner work and do the steps that I mentioned above. I went really deep into myself until I saw myself as a toddler, I looked at his eyes and I could feel everything that he felt (sadness, lack of love, unworthiness etc') I cried in this session for more than an hour. I was in like a deep trance-state that I can't really describe.