Make it Conscious - Inner Work Exercises

Max Chegwyn
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The Make it Conscious sister podcast, Inner Work Exercises, is your space for guided practice in active imagination, which Marie-Louise von Franz called the most powerful tool in Jungian psychology. You will also find shadow work, meditation, and emotional integration exercises. Hope and strength to you in the work. Max

  1. 3d ago

    Producing Insight | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    One of the key purposes of active imagination is producing insight — into ourselves, into why we do what we do, into what caused our situation, and how what we're doing now might affect our lives in the future. This is a vital part of any inner work or adult development process. But there's a challenge, because producing insight is a contradiction in terms. How can you produce insight into yourself? You can't. That's why we need to engage with the unconscious, which contains all the seeds of our development. It's not so much that you produce insight as that you create the conditions, the openness and the intention, that allow insight to simply happen. 🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ 🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/ Active imagination is the technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents and facilitating genuine psychological transformation. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Core Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8d 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 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093

    Producing Insight | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

  2. Jul 11

    Connect with the Unconscious: Active Imagination Exercise | Three-Step Method | Core Practice Series

    Today I'm going to be sharing more with you about the basic framework of this technique — this three-step approach to active imagination practice that you can use on a daily or regular basis, today the third step: bringing content into the imagination and connecting with it. 🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ 🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/ This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Core Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8d 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 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093

    Connect with the Unconscious: Active Imagination Exercise | Three-Step Method | Core Practice Series

  3. Jul 4

    Thought, Feeling, or Image? Noting What Appears | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    Continuing through the three-step basic technique for active imagination that you can do on a regular, even daily basis — watch your mind, note what appears, and connect with it in the imagination. This exercise focuses on that second step, noting. 🔔 Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/ 🌿 Not ready to book a call? Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment and start your journey with MiC: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. ---------- 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 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093

    Thought, Feeling, or Image? Noting What Appears | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

  4. Jun 27

    Watch Your Mind: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung | Core Active Imagination Series

    In this exercise we focus on the first of three steps in this active imagination technique — watching the mind. Using the breath as a canvas, we turn the mind back on itself rather than remaining lost in the natural flow of discursive thought. This is the foundation of the practice: simple, repeatable, and available no matter what's going on for you. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔔 Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/ 🌿 Not ready to book a call? Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment and start your journey with MiC: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ ---------- 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 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093

    Watch Your Mind: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung | Core Active Imagination Series

  5. Jun 20

    An Introduction to Active Imagination: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung's Method | Core Series

    Active imagination is a technique developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who described the conscious mind — the ego — as like a cork in an ocean, to illustrate the vastness of the unconscious relative to what we're aware of. In this exercise, we engage with the unconscious directly using a simple three-step method you can use on a daily basis. The unconscious mind is a vital part of who we are, containing the seeds of meaningful development — and yet it's something many of us have a fear of, or simply don't know how to work with. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔔 Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/ ---------- 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 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093

    An Introduction to Active Imagination: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung's Method | Core Series

  6. Jun 13

    Shadow Through Others' Words | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method

    In this exercise, we're going to be working with the shadow. The shadow is everything we don't like about ourselves that we also hide from conscious awareness, and it exists for good reason. We have to take a stance in life, and any time we do that, something else must be left out. But if there's anywhere that our shadow gets revealed, it's often in our relationships with other people. Some of the best opportunities to understand our shadow are in conflict with others, in falling outs, in the feedback that was actually given to us explicitly by other people. In this exercise we're going to be relaxing some of those defences that may have served a purpose at times and using conflict as a mirror for shadow material. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/ ---------- 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 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093

    Shadow Through Others' Words | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method

  7. Jun 6

    Working with Anger | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Shadow Work Exercise

    In this exercise we're going to be working with anger. Anger is one of the most misunderstood emotions across virtually every tradition — religious, therapeutic, cultural. This is quite simply because most do not differentiate between conscious and unconscious anger, or at least having a conscious relationship to anger or not. As Alan Watts once said, "The idea that there are no wrong feelings is an immensely threatening one to people who are afraid to feel." Anger gets treated as the problem when actually it's the relationship to anger that is the problem. Just like every other emotion, anger exists for a reason. It is a signal. It has intelligence. It often knows something before the rest of you does. 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. Coaching with Max: Book a free 30-minute Perspectives Call: https://calendly.com/makeitconscious/30min ---------- 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

    Working with Anger | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Shadow Work Exercise

  8. May 30

    Transforming Conflict: Guided Active Imagination | Shadow Work Exercise

    In this exercise, we're working with conflict — interpersonal conflict. This is a good exercise to do if you've had a conflict recently, especially one with an emotional charge that lingered and where you know there's something more to uncover about yourself and the situation. Interpersonal conflict is one of the best windows into understanding ourselves and our own minds. But whatever self-knowledge conflict has to offer, you often cannot think your way to all of it. A direct encounter with unconscious content produces what thinking alone cannot. And when it comes to conflict this can get tricky, because the ego has a real stake in it. There's also the opposite trap: assuming it's all projection, or all your own mind creating it. The goal is to see clearly, and that means being willing to look in both directions — at the inner and the outer shadow work. 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

    Transforming Conflict: Guided Active Imagination | Shadow Work Exercise
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The Make it Conscious sister podcast, Inner Work Exercises, is your space for guided practice in active imagination, which Marie-Louise von Franz called the most powerful tool in Jungian psychology. You will also find shadow work, meditation, and emotional integration exercises. Hope and strength to you in the work. Max

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