Carl Jung said: “If a person wants to be cured it is necessary to find a way in which his conscious personality and his shadow can live together”. We hope that you enjoyed this video and for more videos to help you find success and happiness using ancient philosophical wisdom, don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.
PERHAPS the round ball of burning sun as planet giving us light energy doesn't have any shadow rest all of us have some SHADOW we DOSEN'T know is sufficient for us. These great minds have given us sometimes is very difficult to understand and in that regard such videos help us. Thanks.
@Cossack in my understanding and experience, only I suffer from my supressed shadow qualities. Directly (knowing about it) or indirectly (not knowing but still my life quality is being affected). So be it anger, hate, pride, greed, arrogance, ... must be acknowledged, integrated (cultivated) and used when necessary. Bcs , in my experience, there are moments in life when dragon needs to be let out slightly , especially when met with other dragons. But my dragon is trained, silently ridden in the darkness of my mind and valued. For I know that those "bad" qualities have their place in life.
Whoever is reading this, I pray that whatever you’re going through gets better and whatever you’re battling with makes your situation better as you’re continuing to be a better person each day. I have faith that you’ll turn out great as your circumstances will change. Have a fantastic day! You got this! 🤗💪🏼❤😍🥰
Yes, nor could I sum up the Monetary expense it cost me. When all is said and done, I've lived the best and only life desired (for me.) Learning to own my mind has been a tortuous gift of a lifetime. It is lonely, because not enough try. Those of us who understand the intrinsic value of owning our minds all begin from different places. And we will die peacefully content.
I used to beat myself up, wondering why I was such a horrible horrible person. i knew my issues and things that triggered me and I started making a conscious decision to change my mindset
.... " it only takes one psychiatrist to change a light bulb, but the light bulb has to really want to change . " Reading Jung way back in my early twenties saved my life and now in my mid seventies I'm still reading him and still find him the best guide . The dude was lightyears ahead of his time...me too.
Self reflection- facing and peeling away the fears, self doubt and insecurities that we attached to through external influencesin childhood. This process of looking beneath the surface there we discover our greatest strengths.
Don't allow negative people or critical people to destroy your personality and your soal listen to your inner voice all the ideas that means a lot to you are your missions we have got one life do what make sence to you.🎉
1] Find the reason why you are actually behaving like this eg why are you angry ? What is the actual reason behind your frustration? 2] see flaws in yourself and correct it 3] accept yourself
Self obsevation is a learned skill. It's about the best way to learn about ourselves and become Authentic. Maturity cannot be done without shadow work. No shadow work equates to no emotional understanding of true self. This leads to an empty, superficial life. Fear holds us all back, resulting in a life of emotional distress.
I owe a lot to Jung. I really started to think when I started to read him. His autobiography is called "Memories, Dreams, Reflections." After that, I would suggest "The Portable Jung," edited by Joseph Campbell.
@@officialtea-rv4gf I wouldn’t say so. As the saying goes, “money is a brilliant tool but a terrible master.” If you use it as such, it doesn’t rule you. However, you can’t really escape the necessity of it, but if you use it well you’d be at an advantage of it being a necessity.
So when he said accepting your shadow, it reminded me of a psudo-physiological i recently had with myself... I was alone and more lividly angry than i had ever been, like complete and absolute loathsome... I turned the lights off and was in my room with no light in the room, then it manifested into a presence completely overwhelming the room, it took a deep rumbling breath that echoed in my ear drum, it then sat down next to me... I froze but i wasn't scared, i felt an eerie yet close connection to it, without a second thought i slowly turned my head and looked into the darkness and the most precious memory I could remember came to mind, i was with my parents as a baby about or less than a year old we were in the river fully naked, my father jumping off the tallest rock in all his primordial glory, i asked my mom later about that and she was shocked i could remember that... Then i jumped memories to the harshest pain i had ever received as a child, i was in preschool, 4 years old, i had some homework where i had to draw some pine trees, my mom didn't know any better, she couldn't see the brilliance in my curiosity, the forethought in my effort to make the work easier for me, she punished me by whipping me with the cable from the iron, i had welts all over my legs, i fell to the ground into a fetal position from the agony and shock, i always remembered this but not like that day, it's as if was there in bed with fever for a week all over again... I then understood my anger, i saw myself walking away in tears from the angle of a mirror, i closed my eyes and stepped through the mirror and onto my shadow, embracing myself, i asked if I could trust the next actions that followed, the room went silent and my thoughts were clear...
Those were the awful days of over whipping to a non human point. I thought you were going to say you drew a naked picture of your dad jumping off tree limb to the water. Millions of us have been brutalized for years. I really do believe it also helped us to question intent and are better people for it, regardless of others evil. ❤❤❤
Wasn't till I was older that my mom told me she was hit as well, and my grandparents were all hit, and it was this chain that they carried to the present and I had to break it.
I am trying to recover from infective endocarditis, a deadly heart infection. I was in the ICU with a pickline straight into my heart. It was very hard. I had what people call a near death experience. It was extremely spiritual. Since ive been out I noticed many synchronizitues. Then i read Jung's take on this phenomenon and it lined up perfectly. Now im no longer afraid to delft deep into believing this life has much more to it than we notice.
The more and more you face it, the more and more it slips out naturally, and the more more it slips out naturally the more confident you can feel as you’ve faced it, so you’re unafraid to face it again
Thanks. Jung wrote about "the unconscious," not "the unconsciousness." Also, he would have disagreed that owning the shadow is part of his philosophy. He always insisted that he was an empirical psychologist. We might not be convinced of that (I'm not), but that was how he held it.
Thank you for explaining this complex subject in a simple, easy to under way. Also, most appreciated, for providing actionable ideas for how to change ourselves.
The shadow self is a personality that you prefer to avoid! Hide it because it’s not the best…accepting it doesn’t make you a bad person …looking in the mirror helps to find yourself consciously! Analyze a trait that you’re not happy about …being greedy is one! Good behaviors can come out of those behaviors work on liking yourself first!
meeting the shadow holds so much importance; this point is so powerful. we often like ease and dislike the sensation of feeling we're anything less than the self image we believe we are, yet acknowledging fully all parts of ourselves, beyond ideas of 'good' & 'bad', is key!!
A massive thank you for this great video. I watched some videos where they said, that you have to accept your shadow without saying that you have to/ and can change it in the next step. God bless you🙏🏻
I am amazed by this knowledge. My process started last year under some circumstances, and I only learned about Jung a few weeks ago. My first shadow was exactly the one in the example: greed. Since I became aware of this, I have much more freedom when handling my money.
Had these tools for years. Then quit walking the walk. I am now back to not looking at just the holes in my heart. I now just look at the whole heart, loving it enough to make it stronger.
We all want to believe that we have no faults! Becoming aware of characteristics in others that annoy us in their behavior or words is the best way to look inside of our "perfect" selves...then ask if we have similar characteristics. Uncovering all that we deny in ourselves is a good beginning to understanding who we are, inside.
This is exceptionally well considered, conceived, and presented. I have been both an unofficial and official student of psychology for most of my adult life. I am a retired teacher of English Literature and Academic Writing, and my "subject position" during my graduate work was "psychoanalytic literary criticism." As a result, I have read all or most of the major works of Freud, Jung, Adler, Kristeva, Klein, Winnicot, and others. As often happens, I read these works as part of my "professional training," but I was also reading these works for my own, very personal reasons. My response to my simultaneously and intermittently traumatic and neglectful childhood was to "escape" into my mind. Logic and reason are obviously infinitely more "stable" than the very "unstable" emotional roller coaster that was my primary home. As a kid, I just read a lot of books, mostly comic books and then novels that were narratives of various and sundry "heroes" on their own "heroes journeys." Obviously, I am also a huge fan of Joseph Campbell. : ) As an adult, I read a lot of psychology, philosophy, mythology and other "non-fiction" that was an intellectual attempt to understand the "fiction" that I so enjoyed. The problem with this approach is that intellectual endeavors are aspects of cognitive functioning, which is only one aspect of a "whole person." If you are wondering why I put fiction and non-fiction in quotes, my committee and dissertation chair often argued that Freud cannot be read as hard science. Every ostensibly scientific account ever written by Freud was in actuality a "narrative" conceived and written by him. All of his accounts of "hysterical women," like Dora, for example, are both "science" and "fiction." Don't get me wrong, though, I respect and appreciate Freud immensely. I believe that he quite literally "shifted a paradigm" with his conception of "ego" and the whole "personality structure." Like the rest of us, Freud could not escape his own "historicity," i.e , the time and place when and where he was born and "conditioned." Dude was just too much of a thoroughgoing Victorian. I mean, is "everything" about sex? Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. Hah! : ) Queen Victoria was pregnant 14 times, which means that she could not be seen in public for the majority of those 14 years. An upper-class Victorian woman would want to hide her pregnancy because it would call attention to the "sex act," as though everyone arrives here by stork or something. : ) Anyway, to return to the matter at hand, Jung had to part ways with Freud at some point because he realized that other aspects of our humanity must also include the "collective unconscious," those things that are written into our bodies in the evolutionary process. Darwin was also a Victorian. Go figure. : ) Finally, while Freudian "talk therapy" can be incredibly valuable and has been a very important part of my own "healing process," it can also be a dead end. You can spend years walking in small, purposeful circles and not make much "progress," which is what Doctors Besel Van der Kolk and Gabor Mate discovered. The former's book The Body Keeps the Score has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for years with good reason. "Trauma" is a new field of exploration and understanding that rightly puts "cognitive functioning" in its place. Imagination and creativity and reason and love and friendship and beauty are all potentially wonderful aspects of the human experience, but if the "body" in which the "brain" is housed does not feel safe and secure in the "here and now" because of things that happened "back in the day," all that "fancy" cognition is utterly useless. In a battle between "body" and "mind," body will win every, single time. The body is primarily interested in its own survival and will destroy all of the "best laid plans" of your mind in a flash if it feels unsafe or threatened in any way. This is what makes Jung's work and "shadow work" in particular so important. The "unconscious" stuff we carry can and often does "make or break" us as much if not more than the "conscious" stuff we create, ideate, imagine, etc. This is why, as you say here, "deciding" to "be good" or whatever is futile. To grow, you must acknowledge the dark, unconscious things lurking below the surface of what "you" think of as "you" and "make friends" with it, so it does not destroy "your life." You laid this out here in very specific, practical, pragmatic terms. Kudos for that, and thank you. I am going to share this with my therapist when I meet with her next week. : )
I just wanted to thank you for your reflection on the video, I literally just discovered that we have a side that's called a "Shadow", I spent writing every piece of info in my notebook, the whole idea is actually really scary, the fact that for us to move forward we have to tackle such traits instead of jumping to a solution is quite terrifying, because quite frankly I've been doing this my whole life, just jumping to solutions without trying to understand the origin of such reaction or such trait, I appreciate the fact that you took your time to write your comment because it helped me a lot as well, hope you have a great year, so happy new year!
@@yehiaraouf4404 Thank you for your kind words, and good luck on your "Hero's Journey." All heroes discover at the end of their journeys that the destination was always inside and that "the point" was the journey itself. The metaphorical dragons that we seem to slay on the outside are actually "monsters" inside of us that are brought up and out as we "progress," which is why Jung's "shadow work" is of such vital importance. It is impossible to outrun things that are inside of you, which I would know because I tried and failed. Assuming you actually want to learn and and grow, failure can be one of your most valuable tools. But to learn the important lessons failure has to teach, you must be willing to learn from your mistakes, which means being willing to acknowledge that you have made a mistake, taking responsibility for it, and letting it change you for the better. All heroes are different people when and if they arrive at their destinations. I have no idea who said this, but it is very true that "wherever you go, there you are." Denial and resistance are extremely effective coping mechanisms to survive the "original scene" in which we are conditioned, but it is ineffective and even "dangerous" to apply them to "demons" that are inside of "you." I agree with Dr. Mate that merely surviving is not really living. I consider mere survival just "sucking air" that would be better served sustaining something that is actually alive. Our unconscious impulses are mechanistic, and I for one have read enough science fiction books to know that I would rather be a human than settle for being a machine, even if many humans are little more than robots themselves. To become the hero of your own life, you have to question the narrative that was handed to you by your parents or caretakers and become the author of your own story. While I agree that the prospect of facing one's own demons that turn out to be nothing more or less than the truth of one's heart about the "original scene" can be quite daunting, formidable, and otherwise "scary," the alternative is unacceptable to me. Heroes journeys usually begin with the hero being literally or figuratively "orphaned" because seeing the "truth" of the narrative that was handed to you will usually mean FIGURATIVELY "killing your parents." Your original caretakers quite literally "interpret the world" for you when you are young. Growing up means looking around and figuring out for yourself whether everything they said about the world was true or not. Finally, I have the great fortune of living in Hawaii. Have you ever seen a palm tree blowing in the wind? They do not break because they bend, and each "storm" that they "weather" actually makes them stronger. Good luck, and take care. Aloha. : )
@@kimberknutson831 I owe a lot really, I was really having a bad day, I for one believe in destiny, it's funny because I was destined to come here and watch the video I was destined to read your comment and feel inspired, i'm forever grateful because you helped me even more now and helped broaden my horizions, good luck to you too, thanks. Much respect and love from the other side of the world. (Egypt)
@@yehiaraouf4404 I do not believe in accidents, but I do believe in miracles. Egypt, huh? Cool. I would love to visit there at some point for a variety of reasons. Good luck and take care. : )
I've always been an admirer of Jung and this video, of course, does not fully encompass his teaching. I've had Jungian therapy with an analyst and this was very beneficial to me. I can also understand why Jung is generally derided in Academia, in its hubris and flight from the unconscious. I think that Jung needs to be complemented more by teachers such as Krishnamurti and especially Eckhart Tolle -who really gets to the heart of the matter in his book, The Power of Now and his youtubes on the Net.
Thank you! This is very well done for such a short video. Some of your viewers might be very enlightened by the series of short books of Robert A. Johnson, the Jungian psychologist who wrote "Owning Your Own Shadow," "He," "She," "We," "Contentment," "Transformation," among many other easy-yet-informative reads. And yet others who don't find the Jungian Shadow concepts so easy to work with might very well benefit from the extensive personality types called Enneagrams. A search of the word will reveal many great websites to get going on it. It would be terrific if this channel could make a video introducing the subject.
“Everyone has in him something of the criminal, the genius, and the saint. We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it. For the sake of mental stability and even physiological health, the unconscious and the conscious must be integrally connected and thus move on parallel lines. If they are split apart or “dissociated,” psychological disturbance follows. For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point of breaking out openly but whose views and behavior, for all their appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors. The present day shows with appalling clarity how little able people are to let the other man’s argument count, although this capacity is a fundamental and indispensable condition for any human community. Everyone who proposes to come to terms with himself must reckon with this basic problem. For, to the degree that he does not admit the validity of the other person, he denies the “other” within himself the right to exist-and vice versa. The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity. By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter. Moderns consider themselves wholly rational, unemotional, scientific, and atheistic. Where earlier humanity had realized its unconscious through religion, moderns dismiss both religion and the unconscious as prescientific delusions. Instead, moderns proudly identify themselves with their ego and thereby boast of their omnipotence. . . . there is, after all, no harsher bitterness than that of a person who is his own worst enemy. Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate It is, unfortunately, only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption. I can therefore see it only as a delusion when the Churches try - as they apparently do - to rope the individual into some social organization and reduce him to a condition of diminished responsibility, instead of raising him out of the torpid, mindless mass and making clear to him that he is the one important factor and that the salvation of the world consists in the salvation of the individual soul. The critical philosophy of science became as it were negatively metaphysical--in other words, materialistic--on the basis of an error of judgement; matter was assumed to be a tangible and recognizable reality. Yet this is a thoroughly metaphysical concept hypostatized by uncritical minds. Matter is an hypothesis. When you say "matter," you are really creating a symbol for something unknown, which may just as well be "spirit" or anything else; it may even be God. There are no longer any gods whom we can invoke to help us. The great religions of the world suffer from increasing anemia, because the helpful numina have fled from the woods, rivers, and mountains, and from animals, and the god-men have disappeared underground into the unconscious. There we fool ourselves that they lead an ignominious existence among the relics of our past. Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People call faith the true religious experience, but they do not stop to consider that actually it is a secondary phenomenon arising form the fact that something happened to us in the first place which instilled pistis into us - that is, trust and loyalty. Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbor, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas. The worst of it is that he is quite right. All one’s neighbors are in the grip of some uncontrolled and uncontrollable fear, just like oneself. Naturally, society has an indisputable right to protect itself against arrant subjectivisms, but, in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes - it is just this banding together and the resultant extinction of the individual personality that makes it succumb so readily to a dictator. A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hand of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous. People go on blithely organizing and believing in the remedy of mass action, without the least consciousness of the fact that the most powerful organizations can be maintained only by the greatest ruthlessness of their leaders and the cheapest of slogans. Our age has shifted all emphasis to the here and now, and thus brought about a demonization of man and his world. The phenomenon of dictators and all the misery they have wrought springs from the fact that man has been robbed of transcendence by the shortsightedness of the super-intellectuals. Like them, he has fallen a victim to unconsciousness. But man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness, nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious. The thread by which our fate hangs is wearing thin. Not nature, but the "genius of mankind,” has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. This is simply another façon de parler for what John called the “wrath of God". Therefore the individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil, as it is posed today, has need, first and foremost, of self-knowledge, that is, the utmost possible knowledge of his own wholeness. He must know relentlessly how much good he can do, and what crimes he is capable of, and must beware of regarding the one as real and the other as illusion. Both are elements within his nature, and both are bound to come to light in him, should he wish-as he ought-to live without self-deception or self-delusion. There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you. The future of mankind depends very much upon the recognition of the shadow. Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior." C.G. Jung
My ex husband was a narcistic psychopath. His therapist was pushing him that this is OK, he can bully and lie and hurt and beat anyone and hide his income from the family, put it in secret bank account, leave anybody in illness and instead of helping go and have fun.
The coworker could really, really be annoying. Suppressing your anger at him could be bad for your health. Projection is overdone, some things are just facts .
Don't you also have to remember that the shadow is also collective? If you can accept you own dark thoughts or instincts doesn't that also lead to recognition of the social darkness? I have a lot of Jung's books in my library and actually read them. The great psychologists are people one ponders for the rest of one's life. The scariest part of accepting my own shadow is I start to realize I learned a lot of value judgments about social life. I start to question them. Should I start to accept the shadow of the greater world? Civilizations talk to themselves all the time and everybody listens in on all sorts of conversation whether they realize it or not. There is a lot of media in our lives. We listen to and experience it's shadow too. Isn't some of my own shadow part of the world I live in as well? Defining "a good person" isn't that easy. . What do riots and civil disturbances, mass murders and crime sprees say about the society's shadow? Can society say to itself we'll just have to learn to live with them but it's "all good"?? We have a lot of people who have deep questions about have a good society is. I'm one of them. "It's all good" never seems quite accurate. Jung said, Children like "nice", but adults look for "good". Not his exact words. I keep bumping into Emily Dickenson's "empress". and realize i am working on my own inner government. But when it comes to making practical judgment calls, what civilization does more intrusively and regularly than any less complex and less dense form of society, I know I don't have the knowledge to do that very for long. Certainly not alone. Has anyone ever heard the story or quote that Saint Simon, the utopian writer, is supposed to have said: a man is made up of over 1500 specialists? I can't find this in books or online. I love to see his list. Could you ever call them archetypes? He seems to describe a situation like a nobleman at his levee being put together in the morning by his specialists and working him all day. Why kings and the god of the bible call themselves "we"? I don't think I have more than a handful and i don't know any of their names?
Paul Rosa: thanks very much for sharing your thoughts. It is clear you do actually read the books on your shelves 😁🤗 I have not heard of this list of 1500 specialists, but it should be easy enough to make one, no?
If there is no shadow, that won't be any bright spots -everything will be dull and gray. Recognize your shadows and integrate them into every day living, is an ongoing task. Thanks to Carl Jung and Philosophies for Life, you make us constantly improve.
Amazing video and thanks for sharing. I would like to advise on one thing though which you have said towards the end when you started to line up some of the benefits of shadow work. In my opinion, it has to be completely self-motivated act which comes from the realization of how accepting and working with your so-called negative traits can give you a more balanced, more wholesome life experience. So then, suggesting that a person should be avoiding the judgement of others isn't healthy or focused on becoming a more integrated person. Meaning that the intent of doing shadow work will come from a place of fear. Fear of rejection, unacceptance and judgement. Truth is that people judge you whether you are 'good' or 'bad' so I personally believe it's not an incentive a person should focus on when doing shadow work. Many do not know the energetical part of shadow work which is that by acceptance and integration you gain your personal power (which you call confidence) back, and that is LIFECHANGING. The real motivation is: if you want to shift your life at large on each and every area of your life then have a real curiosity in getting to know your wonderful self. It will pay off, greatly. Thanks!
I second that. First ofall, nobody has to "be" anything for anyone else. Everybody is going through their own thing and their life will show them personally what they can CHOOSE (!) to do, what would be better for them (and if it makes them feel better authentically, it will benefit those around them). Therefor I found it helpful to accept that thee is a paradox - in a way nobody is allowed to truly judge and force-change anyone, yet - judgement is hella important to get through life. Yet being aware that we are complete the way we are, that we are not fundamentally wrong or lacking (a belief which starts the whole mess in the first place), that we are all going through life, shaped by experiences and here for our very own unique purpose. We do not live for anyone else, yet the universe has this in built mechanism of making most things alright as soon as we are able to feel SAFE. (Loved, accepted, nourished, home).
I've always been an admirer of Jung and this video, of course, does not fully encompass his teaching. I have had therapy with a Jungian analyst which was very beneficial to me. I can also understand why Jung is generally derided in Academia, with its hubris and flight from the unconscious. I think Jung needs to be complemented by teachers, such as Krishnamurti -and especially Eckhart Tolle, in his book The Power of Now and his youtubes on the Net.
The scariest thing you can do is fully accept yourself.(-CJ) Looking at your own humanity, your less desirable traits, can free you from isolation. You are not alone in having such (socially constructed) flaws. They were interjected on us all. And once you own these, you can understand how you belong in a world that clearly fails childhood idealism. You can re-integrate socially. You can laugh at what you used to avoid...the truth. And perhaps, spare your children from such indoctrination. Citibank and Goldman Sachs are the sources you site? More like the Shadows of the financial world, parasites on 99% of us.
@Aaron Wolfenbarger Religion is valid when it inspires you (and/or others) to feel supported, uplifted, and hopeful. An angry and illogical rant indicates that (perceived) needs have gone unfulfilled. When this goes on for long enough humans become frustrated and desperate. People distort/deflect/project their circumstance onto others as a coping mechanism (to dissociate from their internal conflict/pain). Focusing aggression on obtaining relief/fulfilling needs is healthy. Focusing aggression on projection (the self recognized in others), deflection ("I don't need help, you do!"), or distortion ("God wants it this way") results in disease. If you are hungry, chew your food carefully for better absorption of its nutrients. Don't shout insults at the restaurant window and then start licking the glass.
@wackocheese could you elaborate on that. I read that good & bad or good & evil if you want to use that word are human concepts that don't exist in the animal world. But in the conventional sense they do exist. I guess other animals behave out of instinct, they behave according to their nature. And doing what is natural being in harmony with nature, being in tune with the laws of nature is in some sense good and beyond good & evil in the conventional human sense of good and evil. But we humans appear in some sense on the whole to have become alienated from nature. A Japanese man said don't go against nature or you will basically become unstuck. But most of us appear to be living lives, doing things which aren't natural and this is having negative consequences on our health and the environment. But also we as human beings can't just vent our anger and frustrations, we can't just go around attacking other people or killing people because we are angry or frustrated or whatever. We can't force our urges upon other people or just take what we want. And even the Buddha aledgedly said that in Buddhism they have precepts, not commandments. Apparently these are translated as training precepts which are tools to help cultivate the mind cultivate mindfulness and other qualities. But again aledgedly the Buddha also said if you break any of these precepts you can just renew your determination to keep them and continue with the practice. But he also said if you break any of the precepts you will have to face the consequences of your actions. So if you murder someone or rape someone etc etc you will most likely end up facing whatever punishment is the law in your country or the country in which you committed the crime and the mental effects of your actions. Of course if you break a minor precept the consequences will be minimal and you can just continue with the practice
Hey guys, just a suggestion - use an (audio) de-esser, some sound are a bit sharp when listened to at a loud volume (e.g. outside). Other than that great videos.
*Neither the human body, nor the human entity, can Own anything, as they are just part of a STORY, "LIFE The Real Self" is observing !* *It is ONLY the 'Adversary' dwelling in the human entity, that desires Ownership, because it can't own anything !*
You’re insecure about your voice? Interesting. Your voice is distinct and memorable, that’s how I identify your videos. You could be a documentary narrator.
Such analysis can be indeed very helpful but strong reaction can also come from fear of being hurt or from the accumulated , repetitive negative situation, etc. And it may come as an instinctual response of the interplay between our senses and our neurological wiring. Our actions and reactions are at times a result of our own shadow side and at times an effect of the impact of our environment. Knowing ourself would require to distinguish one from the other and than to work with it . We can only change ourselves ,we can not change the others. However ,we usually have few options to resolve these problems too.
Being loud…. And arrogant aren’t traits I wish to have. But then again I don’t do it. So maybe if I start being loud and arrogant I’ll see a difference
As a 12 year small time investor, i would suggest to never invest your wealth, left over money, in anything that has a value unrelated to basic necessities or something that you cannot hold... I have only invested in things that they can only pry away from the cold grip of my rigor mortised hand... Things that collect and store energy which you can use at your will...
my thing- if you tend to be lazy-- be busy all the time???? f- that. you can rest too....do what needs to be done instead of procrastinating and after stuff is done then you can relax all you want.
I'm sure it was a simple mistake but the book is actually titled "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections". I enjoyed the video as a whole though, keep up the good content! 😁
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Make a video on the lesson of swami vivekananda or any Yogi teaching ...
PERHAPS the round ball of burning sun as planet giving us light energy doesn't have any shadow rest all of us have some SHADOW we DOSEN'T know is sufficient for us. These great minds have given us sometimes is very difficult to understand and in that regard such videos help us. Thanks.
@Cossack in my understanding and experience, only I suffer from my supressed shadow qualities. Directly (knowing about it) or indirectly (not knowing but still my life quality is being affected). So be it anger, hate, pride, greed, arrogance, ... must be acknowledged, integrated (cultivated) and used when necessary. Bcs , in my experience, there are moments in life when dragon needs to be let out slightly , especially when met with other dragons. But my dragon is trained, silently ridden in the darkness of my mind and valued. For I know that those "bad" qualities have their place in life.
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Whoever is reading this, I pray that whatever you’re going through gets better and whatever you’re battling with makes your situation better as you’re continuing to be a better person each day. I have faith that you’ll turn out great as your circumstances will change. Have a fantastic day! You got this! 🤗💪🏼❤😍🥰
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“There is no price too high for the privilege of owning yourself.” - Friedrich Neitzsche
Yes, nor could I sum up the Monetary expense it cost me. When all is said and done, I've lived the best and only life
desired (for me.) Learning to own my mind has been a tortuous gift of a lifetime. It is lonely, because not enough try.
Those of us who understand the intrinsic value of owning our minds all begin from different places.
And we will die peacefully content.
Everything is cool , got distracted by an idiot for a while but it is good. Keep the good work... iron forever
This was the most complete and understandable explanation of Jung's concept of the shadow that I have been fortunate to come across. Most appreciated.
Yes I agree, it answered so many of the 'ifs and buts' I had
I used to beat myself up, wondering why I was such a horrible horrible person. i knew my issues and things that triggered me and I started making a conscious decision to change my mindset
.... " it only takes one psychiatrist to change a light bulb, but the light bulb has to really want to change . "
Reading Jung way back in my early twenties saved my life and now in my mid seventies I'm still reading him and still find him the best guide . The dude was lightyears ahead of his time...me too.
Yes, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Loved your joke.
Frank! Which one of his books would you recommend me start with?
I think you are projecting! Congrats?
Self reflection- facing and peeling away the fears, self doubt and insecurities that we attached to through external influencesin childhood. This process of looking beneath the surface there we discover our greatest strengths.
Don't allow negative people or critical people to destroy your personality and your soal listen to your inner voice all the ideas that means a lot to you are your missions we have got one life do what make sence to you.🎉
1] Find the reason why you are actually behaving like this eg why are you angry ? What is the actual reason behind your frustration?
2] see flaws in yourself and correct it
3] accept yourself
Self obsevation is a learned skill. It's about the best way to learn about ourselves and become Authentic. Maturity cannot be done without shadow work.
No shadow work equates to no emotional understanding of true self. This leads to an empty, superficial life.
Fear holds us all back, resulting in a life of emotional distress.
I owe a lot to Jung. I really started to think when I started to read him. His autobiography is called "Memories, Dreams, Reflections." After that, I would suggest "The Portable Jung," edited by Joseph Campbell.
To not let money rule you're life is an art
perhaps impossible?
@@officialtea-rv4gf I wouldn’t say so. As the saying goes, “money is a brilliant tool but a terrible master.” If you use it as such, it doesn’t rule you. However, you can’t really escape the necessity of it, but if you use it well you’d be at an advantage of it being a necessity.
So when he said accepting your shadow, it reminded me of a psudo-physiological i recently had with myself... I was alone and more lividly angry than i had ever been, like complete and absolute loathsome... I turned the lights off and was in my room with no light in the room, then it manifested into a presence completely overwhelming the room, it took a deep rumbling breath that echoed in my ear drum, it then sat down next to me... I froze but i wasn't scared, i felt an eerie yet close connection to it, without a second thought i slowly turned my head and looked into the darkness and the most precious memory I could remember came to mind, i was with my parents as a baby about or less than a year old we were in the river fully naked, my father jumping off the tallest rock in all his primordial glory, i asked my mom later about that and she was shocked i could remember that... Then i jumped memories to the harshest pain i had ever received as a child, i was in preschool, 4 years old, i had some homework where i had to draw some pine trees, my mom didn't know any better, she couldn't see the brilliance in my curiosity, the forethought in my effort to make the work easier for me, she punished me by whipping me with the cable from the iron, i had welts all over my legs, i fell to the ground into a fetal position from the agony and shock, i always remembered this but not like that day, it's as if was there in bed with fever for a week all over again... I then understood my anger, i saw myself walking away in tears from the angle of a mirror, i closed my eyes and stepped through the mirror and onto my shadow, embracing myself, i asked if I could trust the next actions that followed, the room went silent and my thoughts were clear...
Omg, I’m sorry to hear what your mum did to you.
Those were the awful days of over whipping to a non human point. I thought you were going to say you drew a naked picture of your dad jumping off tree limb to the water. Millions of us have been brutalized for years. I really do believe it also helped us to question intent and are better people for it, regardless of others evil. ❤❤❤
Wasn't till I was older that my mom told me she was hit as well, and my grandparents were all hit, and it was this chain that they carried to the present and I had to break it.
I am trying to recover from infective endocarditis, a deadly heart infection. I was in the ICU with a pickline straight into my heart. It was very hard. I had what people call a near death experience.
It was extremely spiritual. Since ive been out I noticed many synchronizitues. Then i read Jung's take on this phenomenon and it lined up perfectly. Now im no longer afraid to delft deep into believing this life has much more to it than we notice.
The more and more you face it, the more and more it slips out naturally, and the more more it slips out naturally the more confident you can feel as you’ve faced it, so you’re unafraid to face it again
Thanks. Jung wrote about "the unconscious," not "the unconsciousness." Also, he would have disagreed that owning the shadow is part of his philosophy. He always insisted that he was an empirical psychologist. We might not be convinced of that (I'm not), but that was how he held it.
Thank you for explaining this complex subject in a simple, easy to under way. Also, most appreciated, for providing actionable ideas for how to change ourselves.
I found it necessary to first love and then accept my shadow before I could understand those inner processes most deeply.
The shadow self is a personality that you prefer to avoid! Hide it because it’s not the best…accepting it doesn’t make you a bad person …looking in the mirror helps to find yourself consciously! Analyze a trait that you’re not happy about …being greedy is one! Good behaviors can come out of those behaviors work on liking yourself first!
Carl Jung is a Saviour For Introverts😁
Amen to that.
Thank you, Jung explained for dummies like myself.
meeting the shadow holds so much importance; this point is so powerful. we often like ease and dislike the sensation of feeling we're anything less than the self image we believe we are, yet acknowledging fully all parts of ourselves, beyond ideas of 'good' & 'bad', is key!!
@Aaron Wolfenbarger I see you are a copy-paste troll who is off their meds.
A massive thank you for this great video. I watched some videos where they said, that you have to accept your shadow without saying that you have to/ and can change it in the next step. God bless you🙏🏻
What a wonderfully structured and dissected way of explaining shadow work! Bravo!
I am amazed by this knowledge. My process started last year under some circumstances, and I only learned about Jung a few weeks ago. My first shadow was exactly the one in the example: greed. Since I became aware of this, I have much more freedom when handling my money.
Had these tools for years. Then quit walking the walk. I am now back to not looking at just the holes in my heart. I now just look at the whole heart, loving it enough to make it stronger.
I'm already pretty good at the self-own.
I know how to own myself. When someone mocks me for being sad and single, I go: "well, at least I don't have a job!"
I didn’t expect the Masterworks information at the end of the video nor did I appreciate it.
These videos are pure gold. Thank you.
Wowww ❤❤❤thank you… for making it so interesting… I do this but I wasn’t aware that it was said by Jung
Hey I don’t think 10000 ads breaks was enough, maybe next time make it 20000
We all want to believe that we have no faults! Becoming aware of characteristics in others that annoy us in their behavior or words is the best way to look inside of our "perfect" selves...then ask if we have similar characteristics. Uncovering all that we deny in ourselves is a good beginning to understanding who we are, inside.
This is exceptionally well considered, conceived, and presented. I have been both an unofficial and official student of psychology for most of my adult life. I am a retired teacher of English Literature and Academic Writing, and my "subject position" during my graduate work was "psychoanalytic literary criticism." As a result, I have read all or most of the major works of Freud, Jung, Adler, Kristeva, Klein, Winnicot, and others. As often happens, I read these works as part of my "professional training," but I was also reading these works for my own, very personal reasons. My response to my simultaneously and intermittently traumatic and neglectful childhood was to "escape" into my mind. Logic and reason are obviously infinitely more "stable" than the very "unstable" emotional roller coaster that was my primary home. As a kid, I just read a lot of books, mostly comic books and then novels that were narratives of various and sundry "heroes" on their own "heroes journeys." Obviously, I am also a huge fan of Joseph Campbell. : ) As an adult, I read a lot of psychology, philosophy, mythology and other "non-fiction" that was an intellectual attempt to understand the "fiction" that I so enjoyed. The problem with this approach is that intellectual endeavors are aspects of cognitive functioning, which is only one aspect of a "whole person." If you are wondering why I put fiction and non-fiction in quotes, my committee and dissertation chair often argued that Freud cannot be read as hard science. Every ostensibly scientific account ever written by Freud was in actuality a "narrative" conceived and written by him. All of his accounts of "hysterical women," like Dora, for example, are both "science" and "fiction." Don't get me wrong, though, I respect and appreciate Freud immensely. I believe that he quite literally "shifted a paradigm" with his conception of "ego" and the whole "personality structure." Like the rest of us, Freud could not escape his own "historicity," i.e , the time and place when and where he was born and "conditioned." Dude was just too much of a thoroughgoing Victorian. I mean, is "everything" about sex? Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. Hah! : ) Queen Victoria was pregnant 14 times, which means that she could not be seen in public for the majority of those 14 years. An upper-class Victorian woman would want to hide her pregnancy because it would call attention to the "sex act," as though everyone arrives here by stork or something. : ) Anyway, to return to the matter at hand, Jung had to part ways with Freud at some point because he realized that other aspects of our humanity must also include the "collective unconscious," those things that are written into our bodies in the evolutionary process. Darwin was also a Victorian. Go figure. : ) Finally, while Freudian "talk therapy" can be incredibly valuable and has been a very important part of my own "healing process," it can also be a dead end. You can spend years walking in small, purposeful circles and not make much "progress," which is what Doctors Besel Van der Kolk and Gabor Mate discovered. The former's book The Body Keeps the Score has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for years with good reason. "Trauma" is a new field of exploration and understanding that rightly puts "cognitive functioning" in its place. Imagination and creativity and reason and love and friendship and beauty are all potentially wonderful aspects of the human experience, but if the "body" in which the "brain" is housed does not feel safe and secure in the "here and now" because of things that happened "back in the day," all that "fancy" cognition is utterly useless. In a battle between "body" and "mind," body will win every, single time. The body is primarily interested in its own survival and will destroy all of the "best laid plans" of your mind in a flash if it feels unsafe or threatened in any way. This is what makes Jung's work and "shadow work" in particular so important. The "unconscious" stuff we carry can and often does "make or break" us as much if not more than the "conscious" stuff we create, ideate, imagine, etc. This is why, as you say here, "deciding" to "be good" or whatever is futile. To grow, you must acknowledge the dark, unconscious things lurking below the surface of what "you" think of as "you" and "make friends" with it, so it does not destroy "your life." You laid this out here in very specific, practical, pragmatic terms. Kudos for that, and thank you. I am going to share this with my therapist when I meet with her next week. : )
I just wanted to thank you for your reflection on the video, I literally just discovered that we have a side that's called a "Shadow", I spent writing every piece of info in my notebook, the whole idea is actually really scary, the fact that for us to move forward we have to tackle such traits instead of jumping to a solution is quite terrifying, because quite frankly I've been doing this my whole life, just jumping to solutions without trying to understand the origin of such reaction or such trait, I appreciate the fact that you took your time to write your comment because it helped me a lot as well, hope you have a great year, so happy new year!
@@yehiaraouf4404 Thank you for your kind words, and good luck on your "Hero's Journey." All heroes discover at the end of their journeys that the destination was always inside and that "the point" was the journey itself. The metaphorical dragons that we seem to slay on the outside are actually "monsters" inside of us that are brought up and out as we "progress," which is why Jung's "shadow work" is of such vital importance. It is impossible to outrun things that are inside of you, which I would know because I tried and failed. Assuming you actually want to learn and and grow, failure can be one of your most valuable tools. But to learn the important lessons failure has to teach, you must be willing to learn from your mistakes, which means being willing to acknowledge that you have made a mistake, taking responsibility for it, and letting it change you for the better. All heroes are different people when and if they arrive at their destinations. I have no idea who said this, but it is very true that "wherever you go, there you are." Denial and resistance are extremely effective coping mechanisms to survive the "original scene" in which we are conditioned, but it is ineffective and even "dangerous" to apply them to "demons" that are inside of "you." I agree with Dr. Mate that merely surviving is not really living. I consider mere survival just "sucking air" that would be better served sustaining something that is actually alive. Our unconscious impulses are mechanistic, and I for one have read enough science fiction books to know that I would rather be a human than settle for being a machine, even if many humans are little more than robots themselves. To become the hero of your own life, you have to question the narrative that was handed to you by your parents or caretakers and become the author of your own story. While I agree that the prospect of facing one's own demons that turn out to be nothing more or less than the truth of one's heart about the "original scene" can be quite daunting, formidable, and otherwise "scary," the alternative is unacceptable to me. Heroes journeys usually begin with the hero being literally or figuratively "orphaned" because seeing the "truth" of the narrative that was handed to you will usually mean FIGURATIVELY "killing your parents." Your original caretakers quite literally "interpret the world" for you when you are young. Growing up means looking around and figuring out for yourself whether everything they said about the world was true or not. Finally, I have the great fortune of living in Hawaii. Have you ever seen a palm tree blowing in the wind? They do not break because they bend, and each "storm" that they "weather" actually makes them stronger. Good luck, and take care. Aloha. : )
@@kimberknutson831 I owe a lot really, I was really having a bad day, I for one believe in destiny, it's funny because I was destined to come here and watch the video I was destined to read your comment and feel inspired, i'm forever grateful because you helped me even more now and helped broaden my horizions, good luck to you too, thanks. Much respect and love from the other side of the world. (Egypt)
@@yehiaraouf4404 I do not believe in accidents, but I do believe in miracles. Egypt, huh? Cool. I would love to visit there at some point for a variety of reasons. Good luck and take care. : )
Really excellent, Kimber. Thank you.
I've always been an admirer of Jung and this video, of course, does not fully encompass his teaching. I've had Jungian therapy with an analyst and this was very beneficial to me. I can also understand why Jung is generally derided in Academia, in its hubris and flight from the unconscious.
I think that Jung needs to be complemented more by teachers such as Krishnamurti and especially Eckhart Tolle -who really gets to the heart of the matter in his book, The Power of Now and his youtubes on the Net.
Thank you so much for this. I have been looking for a youtube guide on gow to integrate my shadow for a long time now❤
Thank you! This is very well done for such a short video. Some of your viewers might be very enlightened by the series of short books of Robert A. Johnson, the Jungian psychologist who wrote "Owning Your Own Shadow," "He," "She," "We," "Contentment," "Transformation," among many other easy-yet-informative reads.
And yet others who don't find the Jungian Shadow concepts so easy to work with might very well benefit from the extensive personality types called Enneagrams. A search of the word will reveal many great websites to get going on it. It would be terrific if this channel could make a video introducing the subject.
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''I am a human, and nothing human is allien to me.'' I guess this African proverb that a friend of mine has told me could be a good summary.
Not allowing ourselves to be manipulated is the goal of all this.
“Everyone has in him something of the criminal, the genius, and the saint. We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.
For the sake of mental stability and even physiological health, the unconscious and the conscious must be integrally connected and thus move on parallel lines. If they are split apart or “dissociated,” psychological disturbance follows.
For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point of breaking out openly but whose views and behavior, for all their appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors.
The present day shows with appalling clarity how little able people are to let the other man’s argument count, although this capacity is a fundamental and indispensable condition for any human community.
Everyone who proposes to come to terms with himself must reckon with this basic problem. For, to the degree that he does not admit the validity of the other person, he denies the “other” within himself the right to exist-and vice versa. The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.
By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.
Moderns consider themselves wholly rational, unemotional, scientific, and atheistic. Where earlier humanity had realized its unconscious through religion, moderns dismiss both religion and the unconscious as prescientific delusions. Instead, moderns proudly identify themselves with their ego and thereby boast of their omnipotence. . . . there is, after all, no harsher bitterness than that of a person who is his own worst enemy. Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate
It is, unfortunately, only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption. I can therefore see it only as a delusion when the Churches try - as they apparently do - to rope the individual into some social organization and reduce him to a condition of diminished responsibility, instead of raising him out of the torpid, mindless mass and making clear to him that he is the one important factor and that the salvation of the world consists in the salvation of the individual soul.
The critical philosophy of science became as it were negatively metaphysical--in other words, materialistic--on the basis of an error of judgement; matter was assumed to be a tangible and recognizable reality. Yet this is a thoroughly metaphysical concept hypostatized by uncritical minds. Matter is an hypothesis. When you say "matter," you are really creating a symbol for something unknown, which may just as well be "spirit" or anything else; it may even be God.
There are no longer any gods whom we can invoke to help us. The great religions of the world suffer from increasing anemia, because the helpful numina have fled from the woods, rivers, and mountains, and from animals, and the god-men have disappeared underground into the unconscious. There we fool ourselves that they lead an ignominious existence among the relics of our past.
Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People call faith the true religious experience, but they do not stop to consider that actually it is a secondary phenomenon arising form the fact that something happened to us in the first place which instilled pistis into us - that is, trust and loyalty.
Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbor, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas. The worst of it is that he is quite right. All one’s neighbors are in the grip of some uncontrolled and uncontrollable fear, just like oneself.
Naturally, society has an indisputable right to protect itself against arrant subjectivisms, but, in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes - it is just this banding together and the resultant extinction of the individual personality that makes it succumb so readily to a dictator.
A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hand of a single madman.
Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous. People go on blithely organizing and believing in the remedy of mass action, without the least consciousness of the fact that the most powerful organizations can be maintained only by the greatest ruthlessness of their leaders and the cheapest of slogans.
Our age has shifted all emphasis to the here and now, and thus brought about a demonization of man and his world. The phenomenon of dictators and all the misery they have wrought springs from the fact that man has been robbed of transcendence by the shortsightedness of the super-intellectuals. Like them, he has fallen a victim to unconsciousness.
But man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness, nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.
The thread by which our fate hangs is wearing thin. Not nature, but the "genius of mankind,” has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. This is simply another façon de parler for what John called the “wrath of God".
Therefore the individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil, as it is posed today, has need, first and foremost, of self-knowledge, that is, the utmost possible knowledge of his own wholeness.
He must know relentlessly how much good he can do, and what crimes he is capable of, and must beware of regarding the one as real and the other as illusion. Both are elements within his nature, and both are bound to come to light in him, should he wish-as he ought-to live without self-deception or self-delusion.
There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.
The future of mankind depends very much upon the recognition of the shadow. Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior."
C.G. Jung
Brilliant! Simply brilliant.
Hey, what is this from? Is it in a book somewhere?
That was good! Which book is that from?
@@craig6t it's from, "The Combined Works of C.G. Jung".
@@chuckheppner4384 Hey, thanks!
My ex husband was a narcistic psychopath.
His therapist was pushing him that this is OK, he can bully and lie and hurt and beat anyone and hide his income from the family, put it in secret bank account, leave anybody in illness and instead of helping go and have fun.
Really great summary. I feel like I can master my shadow it could be a huge change.
It sounds very good and very meaningful. I've heard many stories shared from this channel that are very interesting and profound
Greatest day of my life, I realized I was only ever competing with myself.
Thank you for the great video. Meeting my shadow has brought me here 🤗
The coworker could really, really be annoying. Suppressing your anger at him could be bad for your health. Projection is overdone, some things are just facts .
Don't you also have to remember that the shadow is also collective? If you can accept you own dark thoughts or instincts doesn't that also lead to recognition of the social darkness?
I have a lot of Jung's books in my library and actually read them. The great psychologists are people one ponders for the rest of one's life.
The scariest part of accepting my own shadow is I start to realize I learned a lot of value judgments about social life. I start to question them. Should I start to accept the shadow of the greater world? Civilizations talk to themselves all the time and everybody listens in on all sorts of conversation whether they realize it or not. There is a lot of media in our lives. We listen to and experience it's shadow too. Isn't some of my own shadow part of the world I live in as well? Defining "a good person" isn't that easy. .
What do riots and civil disturbances, mass murders and crime sprees say about the society's shadow? Can society say to itself we'll just have to learn to live with them but it's "all good"?? We have a lot of people who have deep questions about have a good society is. I'm one of them. "It's all good" never seems quite accurate. Jung said, Children like "nice", but adults look for "good". Not his exact words.
I keep bumping into Emily Dickenson's "empress". and realize i am working on my own inner government. But when it comes to making practical judgment calls, what civilization does more intrusively and regularly than any less complex and less dense form of society, I know I don't have the knowledge to do that very for long. Certainly not alone.
Has anyone ever heard the story or quote that Saint Simon, the utopian writer, is supposed to have said: a man is made up of over 1500 specialists? I can't find this in books or online. I love to see his list. Could you ever call them archetypes? He seems to describe a situation like a nobleman at his levee being put together in the morning by his specialists and working him all day. Why kings and the god of the bible call themselves "we"?
I don't think I have more than a handful and i don't know any of their names?
Paul Rosa: thanks very much for sharing your thoughts. It is clear you do actually read the books on your shelves 😁🤗
I have not heard of this list of 1500 specialists, but it should be easy enough to make one, no?
If there is no shadow, that won't be any bright spots -everything will be dull and gray. Recognize your shadows and integrate them into every day living, is an ongoing task. Thanks to Carl Jung and Philosophies for Life, you make us constantly improve.
I needed this..Thankyou
Amazing video and thanks for sharing. I would like to advise on one thing though which you have said towards the end when you started to line up some of the benefits of shadow work. In my opinion, it has to be completely self-motivated act which comes from the realization of how accepting and working with your so-called negative traits can give you a more balanced, more wholesome life experience. So then, suggesting that a person should be avoiding the judgement of others isn't healthy or focused on becoming a more integrated person. Meaning that the intent of doing shadow work will come from a place of fear. Fear of rejection, unacceptance and judgement. Truth is that people judge you whether you are 'good' or 'bad' so I personally believe it's not an incentive a person should focus on when doing shadow work. Many do not know the energetical part of shadow work which is that by acceptance and integration you gain your personal power (which you call confidence) back, and that is LIFECHANGING. The real motivation is: if you want to shift your life at large on each and every area of your life then have a real curiosity in getting to know your wonderful self. It will pay off, greatly. Thanks!
I second that. First ofall, nobody has to "be" anything for anyone else. Everybody is going through their own thing and their life will show them personally what they can CHOOSE (!) to do, what would be better for them (and if it makes them feel better authentically, it will benefit those around them). Therefor I found it helpful to accept that thee is a paradox - in a way nobody is allowed to truly judge and force-change anyone, yet - judgement is hella important to get through life. Yet being aware that we are complete the way we are, that we are not fundamentally wrong or lacking (a belief which starts the whole mess in the first place), that we are all going through life, shaped by experiences and here for our very own unique purpose. We do not live for anyone else, yet the universe has this in built mechanism of making most things alright as soon as we are able to feel SAFE. (Loved, accepted, nourished, home).
🎉WoW...love how you ❤️ introduce a problem AND give a proven scientific solution...We'll done🎉🎉I love Jung😍😍
I've always been an admirer of Jung and this video, of course, does not fully encompass his teaching. I have had therapy with a Jungian analyst which was very beneficial to me. I can also understand why Jung is generally derided in Academia, with its hubris and flight from the unconscious. I think Jung needs to be complemented by teachers, such as Krishnamurti -and especially Eckhart Tolle, in his book The Power of Now and his youtubes on the Net.
Fear is projected by the teacher who's telling you not to fear as the teacher denies the same own taught fear.teaching others to deny.
So grateful for Jung.
The scariest thing you can do is fully accept yourself.(-CJ) Looking at your own humanity, your less desirable traits, can free you from isolation. You are not alone in having such (socially constructed) flaws. They were interjected on us all. And once you own these, you can understand how you belong in a world that clearly fails childhood idealism. You can re-integrate socially. You can laugh at what you used to avoid...the truth. And perhaps, spare your children from such indoctrination.
Citibank and Goldman Sachs are the sources you site? More like the Shadows of the financial world, parasites on 99% of us.
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Religion is valid when it inspires you (and/or others) to feel supported, uplifted, and hopeful.
An angry and illogical rant indicates that (perceived) needs have gone unfulfilled. When this goes on for long enough humans become frustrated and desperate. People distort/deflect/project their circumstance onto others as a coping mechanism (to dissociate from their internal conflict/pain).
Focusing aggression on obtaining relief/fulfilling needs is healthy. Focusing aggression on projection (the self recognized in others), deflection ("I don't need help, you do!"), or distortion ("God wants it this way") results in disease.
If you are hungry, chew your food carefully for better absorption of its nutrients. Don't shout insults at the restaurant window and then start licking the glass.
thanks so much for making this video. it helps me allot to understand and heal myself.
Brilliantly explained. Blessings!
What evil lurks in the hearts of men only the Shadow knows.
We are all human beings apparently, even the serial killers, pedophiles, psychopaths etc. Humans are capable of doing good and bad things
@wackocheese could you elaborate on that. I read that good & bad or good & evil if you want to use that word are human concepts that don't exist in the animal world. But in the conventional sense they do exist. I guess other animals behave out of instinct, they behave according to their nature. And doing what is natural being in harmony with nature, being in tune with the laws of nature is in some sense good and beyond good & evil in the conventional human sense of good and evil. But we humans appear in some sense on the whole to have become alienated from nature. A Japanese man said don't go against nature or you will basically become unstuck. But most of us appear to be living lives, doing things which aren't natural and this is having negative consequences on our health and the environment. But also we as human beings can't just vent our anger and frustrations, we can't just go around attacking other people or killing people because we are angry or frustrated or whatever. We can't force our urges upon other people or just take what we want. And even the Buddha aledgedly said that in Buddhism they have precepts, not commandments. Apparently these are translated as training precepts which are tools to help cultivate the mind cultivate mindfulness and other qualities. But again aledgedly the Buddha also said if you break any of these precepts you can just renew your determination to keep them and continue with the practice. But he also said if you break any of the precepts you will have to face the consequences of your actions. So if you murder someone or rape someone etc etc you will most likely end up facing whatever punishment is the law in your country or the country in which you committed the crime and the mental effects of your actions. Of course if you break a minor precept the consequences will be minimal and you can just continue with the practice
Hope this is better than the last one . Last one felt biased by your own beliefs
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Hey guys, just a suggestion - use an (audio) de-esser, some sound are a bit sharp when listened to at a loud volume (e.g. outside). Other than that great videos.
Thank you so very much for those enlightening videos ❤❤
Interesting material. Thank you! Have you got any cooperation with School of life? For a moment I thought it was their channel.:-)
When one thinks they have executed a sick burn but it backfires
Simply makes your show easy to understand for your uneducated people Like me
Thank You ☺️ Thank You 🙏 Thank You ❤️
This is wonderfully explained
Honestly I think I do too much shadow work cos i self deprecate mhself all the time and am hyperaware of my flaws
i don’t think that’s how that works… shadow work is acknowledgement, not shame, and it’s used not only for awareness but action and change
Shadow and persona. Lovely and respectible😊
*Neither the human body, nor the human entity, can Own anything, as they are just part of a STORY, "LIFE The Real Self" is observing !*
*It is ONLY the 'Adversary' dwelling in the human entity, that desires Ownership, because it can't own anything !*
Thanks!
You’re insecure about your voice? Interesting. Your voice is distinct and memorable, that’s how I identify your videos. You could be a documentary narrator.
All of his philosophy is great but I prefer using CBT to understand the same concepts.
Such analysis can be indeed very helpful but strong reaction can also come from fear of being hurt or from the accumulated , repetitive negative situation, etc. And it may come as an instinctual response of the interplay between our senses and our neurological wiring. Our actions and reactions are at times a result of our own shadow side and at times an effect of the impact of our environment. Knowing ourself would require to distinguish one from the other and than to work with it . We can only change ourselves ,we can not change the others. However ,we usually have few options to resolve these problems too.
You really explained the Shadow in a very easy way ,, thanks
Oh, do yourselves a big favor and read Kimber Knutson's comments below. She expresses these ideas beautifully and cogently. Michael
This video didn't have a "don't hug me I'm scared" vibe until you mentioned your voice insecurities
Thanks.
Being loud…. And arrogant aren’t traits I wish to have. But then again I don’t do it. So maybe if I start being loud and arrogant I’ll see a difference
Just be honest with yourself. That’s all. A lot of that shadow talk just confuses people.
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Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really enjoyed the video. It was helpful.. thank you. 🙏🏻
Congrats on 1m subs
I agree with Canoe Doc! Michael
Interesting topic, a few misspelled words in there though.
Love u bro❤
As a 12 year small time investor, i would suggest to never invest your wealth, left over money, in anything that has a value unrelated to basic necessities or something that you cannot hold... I have only invested in things that they can only pry away from the cold grip of my rigor mortised hand... Things that collect and store energy which you can use at your will...
I made a large painting about Jung recently)) I am an artist
my thing- if you tend to be lazy-- be busy all the time???? f- that. you can rest too....do what needs to be done instead of procrastinating and after stuff is done then you can relax all you want.
Amazing 👏 book .
I'm sure it was a simple mistake but the book is actually titled "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections".
I enjoyed the video as a whole though, keep up the good content! 😁
@@tonispark5626 It's about Carl Jung's biography.. Or we can say his journal.
‘You don’t know the power of the Dark side!’
Carl Jung never deny Sigmund Freud as this video says
It can be much more complicated that taht !
Learned my Lot!
I enjoyed this one. Thanks.
Umm...Jung himself stressed that he was not a philosopher but strictly a psychologist. You got it wrong in your tag line and in your content.
How to overcome fear?
Excelente !!!