Make it Conscious - Inner Work Exercises

In this exercise, there's no need to decide ahead of time what you'd like to work with. It's appropriate for when you aren't sure quite how you're feeling, or you know there's something that is bothering you but you can't quite get a handle on it. Instead, we ask the question 'what is coming alive in me that is calling for my attention,' and let the unconscious present the seed for the active imagination exercise itself.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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In this active imagination exercise, there's a particular focus on how to engage with the unconscious effectively. In active imagination practice, one of two things can happen. Either there's a tendency to try and control the experience a bit too much — the ego gets too involved and the unconscious takes a back seat, producing what it already wants to create, and you come away having not really learned much about what the unconscious has to say. On the other hand, if you're not involved enough, the experience can seem fragmented, busy, chaotic — showing up more as noise than something coherent and useful. The sweet spot is in the middle, and this exercise guides you in finding it.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

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In almost every tradition, the gods are placed on the mountains - Olympus, Sinai, Fuji. The mountain is where heaven meets earth. In alchemy, the mountain is considered the source of prima materia, containing the raw materials needed for transformation. The ascent of a mountain gives you perspective, expansion, maybe a fleeting peak experience - it literally involves rising up above the earth, but it also means becoming more exposed and losing all of your usual supports and lifelines.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

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In today's exercise, we're going to be investigating the symbol of the cave. Caves form a profound part of our collective psyche. Long before we had temples or structures of our own, humans were entering caves. The oldest known art on Earth was made deep inside caves. To enter a cave is literally to go inwards, to go beneath the surface — making it a very useful symbol to work with as a way to facilitate a deeper inquiry during this practice.

As Joseph Campbell reportedly said: "The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for."

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

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In this active imagination exercise, we investigate the symbol of the ocean. Oceans are possibly the most potent natural symbol of the unconscious mind available to us. Water, when it shows up in visions and dreams, very often represents the unconscious. Some liken the ocean and the psyche to visible and invisible forms of the same reality. We came from the ocean biologically and ancestrally, and both the psyche and the ocean contain impenetrable depths, have their own rhythms, and are affected by the tides of natural cycles. Carl Jung likened the ego to a cork floating on the surface of the ocean that is the psyche, which gives some sense of the magnitude of the unconscious mind.

Jung himself once wrote: "Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of living creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming."

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

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In this active imagination exercise, we investigate the symbol of the forest. Forests continue to play a vital role in our lives. Much of Europe was once dominated by forest. Today, the Amazon Rainforest is believed to contain around 10% of all the world's species. Forests are often associated with the unconscious itself - they contain many unknown elements, and you never quite know what you're going to discover. They are places of loneliness, healing, and continuous growth and decay.

Jung himself once wrote: "The forest has a mysterious impenetrability. Things suddenly appear and disappear, and there are no paths. Anything is possible."

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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In this exercise, you'll engage with the four main functions of the ISTJ personality type through active imagination. You'll meet the Stalwart (introverted sensing), the Commander (extraverted thinking), the Lover (introverted feeling), and the Explorer (extraverted intuition) in symbolic form, allowing for direct dialogue with different aspects of your mind.

You can do this exercise whether you are an ISTJ, or not but wish to understand and work with the ISTJ mind.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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In this exercise, you'll engage with the four main functions of the ISFP personality type through active imagination. You'll meet the Lover (introverted feeling), the Tactician (extraverted sensing), the Seer (introverted intuition), and the Commander (extraverted thinking) in symbolic form, allowing for direct dialogue with different aspects of your mind.

You can do this exercise whether you are an ISFP, or not but wish to understand and work with the ISFP mind.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

Free Resources:

Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook - https://makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits/

The Cult Recovery Guide - https://makeitconscious.com/freeguide/

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In this exercise, you'll engage with the four main functions of the ENTP personality type through active imagination. You'll meet the Explorer (extraverted intuition), the Sage (introverted thinking), the Caregiver (extraverted feeling), and the Stalwart (introverted sensing) in symbolic form, allowing for direct dialogue with different aspects of your mind.

You can do this exercise whether you are an ENTP, or not but wish to understand and work with the ENTP mind.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

Free Resources:

Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook - https://makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits/

The Cult Recovery Guide - https://makeitconscious.com/freeguide/

More from Make it Conscious:

MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3

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In this exercise, you'll engage with the four main functions of the ENFP personality type through active imagination. You'll meet the Explorer (extraverted intuition), the Lover (introverted feeling), the Commander (extraverted thinking), and the Stalwart (introverted sensing) in symbolic form, allowing for direct dialogue with different aspects of your mind.

You can do this exercise whether you are an ENFP, or not but wish to understand and work with the ENFP mind.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

🔥 Personality Alchemy - Seven-day programme to understand, develop and integrate your personality type: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/course/personality-alchemy

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Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb

Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

Free Resources:

Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook - https://makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits/

The Cult Recovery Guide - https://makeitconscious.com/freeguide/

More from Make it Conscious:

MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3

Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536

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