Carl Jung's Warning: Why You Must Confront Your Shadow Self?

[@OakantseMpenyu]

I knew something was missing in my own existence until i read Carl Jung's work❤

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

One great way for shadow work is to write poetry to explore it. When you write poetry you can bypass the ego. You can use active imagination, a Jungian concept, to do this. A Little Book on the Human Shadow by American poet Robert Bly is a good book to read for this. I'm currently writing a video script on it, will record and release it this year.

[@tsetsoangelov6455]

Thx mate will try and get the book.

[@virtueorvice]

Understanding and dealing with shadow demands a lot of psychic and physical energy. It is usually the most talented individuals that have the thickest shadows.

[@stevemalecki7431]

Wonderful precise explanation on this important subject. I just started shadow work and although I want others to join in I didn’t have the tool to introduce the technique until now. I shared the video with many friends and family….lets see what happens!

[@gracesanity6314]

" What we dont know about ourselves, does hurt us"

[@janettelancaster8895]

Thank you. Most enlightening and insightful.

[@bumman117]

Yo so glad this came across my page. Good video man.

[@themodernawakenedperspecti4457]

I love Carl Jung, he was so amazing. I plan to buy some of his books and read more about his work over this winter.

[@juliacarl584]

Start with Memories Dreams and Reflection.

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

​@@juliacarl584I came here to write this. I would also advise getting into Freud and Adler to help contextualize Jung. Jung is brilliant, but it's helpful to come to his work more critically.

[@N0C3RA]

@@nathanhassallpoetry…and also, psychoanalysis in general. Object-relation theory and development of neurosis is essential to understating HOW to integrate…the dirty work no one wants to mention when researching Jung and confronting the Shadow/Shadow Work.

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

​@@N0C3RATrue enough! One of the downwind problems of Jung is the watering down of his concepts into New Age spirituality. Shadow work has become some strange buzz term, too, and is often barely understood. The term doesn't help, as shadow implies dark and then implies evil. But we know it's not that: it's repressed qualities, not easily accessible to the ego. It can be personal, familial, relational, cultural, and more. Integration, as you brought up, is a key aspect. If you become aware of something you, in the words of Rilke, "must change your life." Otherwise you're playing with shadow ideas without confronting what's there. It's only wisdom if backed up by action and integrated. I think Jung attracts people who are intuitive (like me), but intuition isn't enough. If we are to follow Jung's example, he was a deeply learned man, making his own myth (and suggesting, like in Man and His Symbols, that we do the same). We've got to bring in the rational and intellectual and we it to the instinctual, intuitive, and other imaginative faculties. Jung is also a gateway. Examine the sources. Alchemy, for example, has been enriched by Jung's interpretation, but his interpretation is how you'd expect him to interpret it: as psychological projection. There's a whole history to the Great Art that we're not getting into the guts of if we read Jung and leave thinking his interpretation is the truth. It's a flashlight, sure, but the dark around the beam requires that we investigate further.

[@juliacarl584]

@@nathanhassallpoetry Too right.... While working on my BA I took Theories of Personality. The best class I ever took... Although that was years ago, and now all that I remember of it is Jung, Freud, and Maslow.

[@Andreorlov607]

Our shadow is part of our inner world never to be forgotten ✅

[@JavierChriste]

the shadow work is hard. After 20 years trying to push myself with terapy and meds to do better with myself.... i dont see an end. I have to guess why things are just the way they are, like wars going on, people projecting but, i am that person too, so as long as we, collectively dont try to find an answer, to a better world, i guess that we will just wander in earth until we get there, a world of peace and justice and loving.

[@arshaddurrani3885]

Jung enlightens.Thanks

[@anonymouslyphantomwarrior6787]

I'm not merely fighting shadows, I'm also fighting chaos and darkness that's trying to possess me

[@johnnyc8775]

Informative and true. It's unfortunate that modern political correctness fosters this more than any other time in history.

[@juliacarl584]

Love this although Jung is pronounced Yung because in German J is pronounced Y.

[@russv.winkle8764]

Yeah

[@SD7productions]

i killed myself today… for second life replay

[@domkelly1972]

What difference does it really make in a world where nobody knows what is going on. Control only makes sense if the rules are the same for everyone and clearly they are not. Certain groups do whatever they want and there is never any accountability. So controlling yourself may make you feel like you have some sort of balance but it could just be making you more malleable for the real controllers. In the end it's controlling yourself for who? Who benefits by you exercising control over yourself in a specific way. What if the controllers require you to control your shadow so Jung is promoted as some genius .. people then walking around under self control.

[@bojanangjeleski138]

How about your personal development, health, sanity, your family. Jung doesn't say's you need to control your shadow but to make it conscious so it will lose the power over you. Actually the controllers are exploiting the suppressed shadow, people that are easier to be triggered are the ones who are mostly susceptible to mind control.

[@sajjadshojai6217]

better use 'tune' instead of 'control'. You can tune your mind when you discover an automatic maladaptic response. Furthermore there is no absolute authority in brain that controls our behavior, it's just feed back abd feed forward loops. So yes, don't try to control your behavior, try to tune it!

[@fauvecorrigan1233]

They can't do whatever they want. They use fear, gaslighting, misinformation and propaganda while creating economic and cultural uncertainty to confuse people into a state of indifference. Their greatest fear is a mass of people filled with self love standing in their own power. When people are no longer afraid, they have no power. As long as the shadow rules over the individual and society they have the power. It's all been inverted. Everything down to our language which influences how we think. We have so much work to do.

[@ides-xn3wt]

🤔 ok, time to unload the shadow .......

[@dalina5643]

I appreciate boys don’t cry ex. But what about women?

[@helenekrenchel9411]

Might be my shadow...😉 but pls the man´s name is pronounced Jung not Djung. From the European shadow worker.

[@Iamnickdude09]

Jung like “jug” lol

[@jeffwhite2511]

Who is Gung?? Is this AI??

[@moveordievision]

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[@equallegal8324]

Jung is a German name pronounced with a Y sound not a J sound.

[@Locococco1]

AI video?

[@mellochord]

It certainly feels that way.

[@donvanevery3235]

This very notion of confronting these lower aspects, is why other forms of therapy don't or won't work.. as they s8mply pit one thought against another and so just replace cycles with other less destructive cycles

[@janel342]

tried it have you?

[@bsure4]

Things that go bump in the night bs. the Shadow is a comic book charter.

[@BugsWisely]

My shadow is light.

[@nathanhassallpoetry]

Write inside the dark and the light may then find you.

[@gracesanity6314]

And dark.