Make it Conscious - Inner Work Exercises

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Welcome to the Make it Conscious sister podcast - Inner Work Exercises, your space for guided practices designed to help you engage with the unconscious mind and deepen your relationship with it. Here will find extended versions of the exercises published on the Make it Conscious YouTube channel, including Jungian active imagination, meditation, shadow work and emotional integration practices. Hope and Strength to you on your journey of self-discovery.

  1. The Moon: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    5 DAYS AGO

    The Moon: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    For most of human history, the moon was the only source of light after dark, reflecting back the sun's light. It gave humans a sense of time — the word "month" comes directly from the same root as "moon" — and there is evidence to suggest that humans have been tracking its cycles for at least 30,000 years. The moon is probably the most universal symbol of the feminine, its phases mirroring the female menstrual cycle. In this exercise, we're going to come to know this symbol more intimately and allow whatever insight needs to come to the surface. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises, premium packs and shadow work courses available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    14 min
  2. Working with Fear | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method

    28 MAR

    Working with Fear | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method

    In this exercise, we're going to be working with fear. As Carl Jung famously said, "where the fear, there is your task!" Working with fear is a very important part of the individuation journey, and in adult development more generally. There is little growth without confronting fear at some point or another. Often what makes fear so challenging is more about how our mind is relating to it than the fear itself. Fear is coaxed and encouraged in large part by our own minds, and our avoidance of it feeds it. In this exercise, we use active imagination to gently confront fear: not to eliminate it exactly, but to transform it, understand it better, and let it point the way to whatever you need to do as part of your development. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    18 min
  3. What is Coming Alive in You? | Jungian Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    21 MAR

    What is Coming Alive in You? | Jungian Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    In this exercise, there's no need to decide ahead of time what you'd like to work with. It's appropriate for when you aren't sure quite how you're feeling, or you know there's something that is bothering you but you can't quite get a handle on it. Instead, we ask the question 'what is coming alive in me that is calling for my attention,' and let the unconscious present the seed for the active imagination exercise itself. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    16 min
  4. Honouring the Unconscious | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    14 MAR

    Honouring the Unconscious | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    In this active imagination exercise, there's a particular focus on how to engage with the unconscious effectively. In active imagination practice, one of two things can happen. Either there's a tendency to try and control the experience a bit too much — the ego gets too involved and the unconscious takes a back seat, producing what it already wants to create, and you come away having not really learned much about what the unconscious has to say. On the other hand, if you're not involved enough, the experience can seem fragmented, busy, chaotic — showing up more as noise than something coherent and useful. The sweet spot is in the middle, and this exercise guides you in finding it. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    15 min
  5. The Mountain: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    7 MAR

    The Mountain: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    In almost every tradition, the gods are placed on the mountains - Olympus, Sinai, Fuji. The mountain is where heaven meets earth. In alchemy, the mountain is considered the source of prima materia, containing the raw materials needed for transformation. The ascent of a mountain gives you perspective, expansion, maybe a fleeting peak experience - it literally involves rising up above the earth, but it also means becoming more exposed and losing all of your usual supports and lifelines. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    18 min
  6. The Cave: Symbolic Investigation | Guided Active Imagination Exercise

    28 FEB

    The Cave: Symbolic Investigation | Guided Active Imagination Exercise

    In today's exercise, we're going to be investigating the symbol of the cave. Caves form a profound part of our collective psyche. Long before we had temples or structures of our own, humans were entering caves. The oldest known art on Earth was made deep inside caves. To enter a cave is literally to go inwards, to go beneath the surface — making it a very useful symbol to work with as a way to facilitate a deeper inquiry during this practice. As Joseph Campbell reportedly said: "The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for." This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    18 min
  7. The Ocean: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    21 FEB

    The Ocean: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    In this active imagination exercise, we investigate the symbol of the ocean. Oceans are possibly the most potent natural symbol of the unconscious mind available to us. Water, when it shows up in visions and dreams, very often represents the unconscious. Some liken the ocean and the psyche to visible and invisible forms of the same reality. We came from the ocean biologically and ancestrally, and both the psyche and the ocean contain impenetrable depths, have their own rhythms, and are affected by the tides of natural cycles. Carl Jung likened the ego to a cork floating on the surface of the ocean that is the psyche, which gives some sense of the magnitude of the unconscious mind. Jung himself once wrote: "Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of living creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming." This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    18 min
  8. The Forest: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    14 FEB

    The Forest: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    In this active imagination exercise, we investigate the symbol of the forest. Forests continue to play a vital role in our lives. Much of Europe was once dominated by forest. Today, the Amazon Rainforest is believed to contain around 10% of all the world's species. Forests are often associated with the unconscious itself - they contain many unknown elements, and you never quite know what you're going to discover. They are places of loneliness, healing, and continuous growth and decay. Jung himself once wrote: "The forest has a mysterious impenetrability. Things suddenly appear and disappear, and there are no paths. Anything is possible." This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw Free Resources: Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook - https://makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits/ The Cult Recovery Guide - https://makeitconscious.com/freeguide/ More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    17 min
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Welcome to the Make it Conscious sister podcast - Inner Work Exercises, your space for guided practices designed to help you engage with the unconscious mind and deepen your relationship with it. Here will find extended versions of the exercises published on the Make it Conscious YouTube channel, including Jungian active imagination, meditation, shadow work and emotional integration practices. Hope and Strength to you on your journey of self-discovery.

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