Once you claim discernment, sound mind and ultimately the ability to be honest with yourself because what you desire most is personal growth, then shadow work just becomes a natural way of living. Each time you catch yourself drifting from virtue, you have the tools and resolve to cringe at yourself, forgive yourself, quickly learn what is the correct behavior, and move on. Like any skill one gets better at it with practice. Its a path worth walking.
The irony is that this is the primary diagnosis humans have gotten even in ancient civilizations when magnetic excursions are on going. He is now becoming the person he has been describing in his whole life