Make it Conscious - Inner Work Exercises
by Max Chegwyn
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The Make it Conscious sister podcast, Inner Work Exercises, is your space for guided practice in active imagination, which Marie-Louise von Franz called the most powerful tool in Jungian psychology. You will also find shadow work, meditation, and emotional integration exercises. Hope and strength to you in the work. Max
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- The Quality You Can't Stand: Projection into Detection | Active Imagination | Core Practice Series · 14 minEmpathy involves looking at what you're pushing away, not least in other people. 🌿 Go deeper into your inner work. Access the Make it Conscious app, a guide to becoming who you…
- What You Reach For: The Need Behind Misplaced Desire | Active Imagination | Core Practice Series · 12 minWherever there's a really strong desire for something, it points to a need in the unconscious. 🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the…
- Empathy: A Willingness to Feel | Active Imagination | Core Practice Series · 11 minEmpathy is one of the most fundamental and vital qualities to cultivate in inner work. 🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free…
- Meeting the Persona: The Face We Show the World | Active Imagination | Core Practice Series · 10 minThe persona reveals a very limited aspect of ourselves, whilst concealing a great deal more. 🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the…
- Beyond Words: How the Unconscious Communicates | Active Imagination | Core Practice Series · 11 minThe unconscious can communicate with us in all kinds of ways: not only in words, but in its movements, in its demeanour, or maybe just a feeling. 🌿 This work begins with…
- Skilful Communication: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Series · 11 minSkilful communication is a vital part of adult development. It's the first place where understanding and intention meet the world - how we share our ideas. That applies not only…
- What You Loved Doing as a Child: Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method · 11 minIn this episode we bring you back to something you enjoyed doing as a child. There are often many things we were naturally drawn to as children but have since forgotten, or never…
- Resistance at Work: Core Practice Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method · 11 minIn this episode we turn attention to the world of work and what it is you do day to day, and specifically to the resistance you have to it. This might come up when you find…
- Inner Work as Contribution: Core Practice Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method · 10 minAs much as we do active imagination for ourselves, it is not only us that benefits, if we are not being driven as much by our complexes, shadow and our unchecked needs and…
- Am I Doing it Right?: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Series · 10 minOne of the most common questions asked by active imagination practitioners is: "am I doing it right?" And "how do I know?" It's not uncommon to hear of people having profound…
- Working with Archetypes: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Series · 11 minOne of the applications of active imagination is to engage proactively with the archetypes of the collective unconscious. While it's not possible to integrate any particular…
- Working with Emotion: Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method · 11 minWelcome back to this core active imagination series. Today we're going to be working with emotion, in a proactive way — meaning you get to decide from the outset which emotion…
- Working with Dreams: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series · 10 minWorking with dreams is one of the primary methods Jung practised and recommended to his patients. A dream is unconscious content coming alive at night, when the ego is quiet, so…
- Bare Attention | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series · 11 minThis exercise introduces a technique I call simply bare attention: directing your attention to the direct and raw experience of what you are actually feeling or sensing. Bare…
- Turning the Mind Back on Itself: Core Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method · 10 minOne of the main features of this work is the ability to turn the mind back on itself. At each step of this technique there's an element of doing exactly this — becoming aware of…
- Producing Insight | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series · 10 minOne of the key purposes of active imagination is producing insight — into ourselves, into why we do what we do, into what caused our situation, and how what we're doing now might…
- Connect with the Unconscious: Active Imagination Exercise | Three-Step Method | Core Practice Series · 10 minToday I'm going to be sharing more with you about the basic framework of this technique — this three-step approach to active imagination practice that you can use on a daily or…
- Thought, Feeling, or Image? Noting What Appears | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series · 10 minContinuing through the three-step basic technique for active imagination that you can do on a regular, even daily basis — watch your mind, note what appears, and connect with it…
- Watch Your Mind: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung | Core Active Imagination Series · 10 minIn this exercise we focus on the first of three steps in this active imagination technique — watching the mind. Using the breath as a canvas, we turn the mind back on itself…
- An Introduction to Active Imagination: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung's Method | Core Series · 11 minActive imagination is a technique developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who described the conscious mind — the ego — as like a cork in an ocean, to illustrate the vastness…
