Levi-Civita connection preserves Hodge star eigenspace decomposition

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For an oriented Riemannian 4-manifold, we have the Levi-Civita connection associated natually to the metric. This connection also gives us a linear connection on all tensor fields over the manifold, especially for two forms.

We have w.r.t. this metric, the decomposition of space of two forms into +1 and -1 eignespaces of Hodge star operator.

My question is, how can we prove that the Levi-Civita connection preserves this decomposition? i.e. for any tangent field $X$, if $\omega$ is a self-dual 2-form, do we also have that the $\nabla_X\omega$ is also a self-dual 2-form?

Is there any easier way to see this?