How To Listen To Your Gut Feelings - Carl Jung (Jungian Philosophy)

In this podcast we will be talking about how to listen to your gut feelings from the philosophy of Carl Jung. He found his own school of psychology, called analytical psychology and his philosophy is dubbed as “Jungian philosophy”. Jung’s most famous theory is ‘the individuation process.’ 

Your gut feelings or intuitions are entirely unique to you and can say a lot about who you are as an individual. Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, delved extensively into the workings of the unconscious, offering insights that can help us better understand our intuitions and ourselves. Here are 4 ways  to listen to your gut feelings from the teachings of Carl Jung.

01. Get To Know Your Shadow and Your Archetype

02. Remove What Blocks Your Gut Feelings

03. Cultivate the ability to have Your Gut Feelings

04. Don’t Get Lost In Your Gut Feelings 

I hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and hope that this wisdom on how to listen to your gut feelings  from the philosophy of Carl Jung will be helpful in your life. 

Carl Jung, together with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, is one of the 3 founders of psychoanalysis which is a set of psychological theories and methods aiming to release repressed emotions and experiences - in other words, to make the unconscious conscious. Jung was born in Switzerland in 1875 and died in 1961, leaving behind great works in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung had Freud as a mentor for a good part of his career but later he departed from him. This division was painful for Jung and it led him to found his own school of psychology, called analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis. If classical psychoanalysis focuses on the patient’s past, as early experiences are very important in personality development, analytical psychology primarily focuses on the present, on mythology, folklore, and cultural experiences, to try to understand human consciousness. One of the most important ideas of analytical psychology which Jung founded is the process of individuation, which is the process of finding the self - something Jung considered an important task in human development. While he did not formulate a systematic philosophy, he is nonetheless considered a sophisticated philosopher - his school of thought dubbed “Jungian philosophy”. Its concepts can apply to many topics covered in the humanities and the social sciences. A good part of his work was published after his death and indeed there are still some articles written by him that to this day have yet to be published. Some of his most important books are: “Psychology of the Unconscious”, “Man and His Symbols”, “The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious”, “Modern Man In Search of a Soul”, “The Psychology of the Transference”, “Memories, Dreams, Thoughts”, and “The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious”. Besides being a great writer and a researcher, he was also an artist, a craftsman and even a builder. His contribution is enormous and there is a great deal we can learn from his works.